The Jack-Boot, exalted (BM 1868,0808.4173)

Satire on the elevation of Lord Bute and his supposed favouritism towards his Scottish countrymen. Bute emerges from a boot decorated with the Garter star and the green riband of the Order of the Thistle that stands on a dais in front of a disconsolate British lion, bags of money lie on the step below; the Duke of Nivernois, French ambassador, pulls back one side of the canopy above the dais, delighting in the poor situation of the English. Bute holds a whip in one hand and with the other throws coins towards a group of obsequious Scotsmen on the right. On the left, English politicians are driven off by a Scot wielding his broadsword; one probably intended for Pitt, says "I saw how it would be and retir'd in due Time", another, older man, probably Newcastle, says "I have bad Adieu to all but my God & my King"; another Englishman kneels before Bute asking, "Be not Vain because I kneel, 'tis not to thee, but to a Supremem Power." 1762
Etching with hand-colouring