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Seven Years' War, 1756-1763

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  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
  • A jack-boot stands on top of a truncated obelisk enclosed within a triangular gibbet from which hang a fox and a goose from garlands; representing the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Etching, 1763.
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    Peace arriving in Britain at the end of the Seven Years War. Etching by J.S. Miller and engraving by Cole, 1763.

    Miller, John, 1715-1790? | Date: [1764] | Reference: 2871155i
    Part of: Oxford almanacks
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    A jack-boot stands on top of a truncated obelisk enclosed within a triangular gibbet from which hang a fox and a goose from garlands; representing the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Etching, 1763.

    | Date: [Feb 10 1763] | Reference: 581173i
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    The manning of the British Navy during the Seven Years' War / Stephen F. Gradish.

    Gradish, Stephen F. (Stephen Francis), 1937-1974. | Date: [1980], ©1980
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    The Treaty of Paris: the King-at-arms with decrescent moons on his tabard sits on a horse with the ears of an ass surrounded by grotesque attendants. Engraving by Patchpeace, 1763.

    Patchpeace. | Date: [March 22 1763] | Reference: 581172i
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    A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.

    Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809 | Date: [1762] | Reference: 12163i
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