[France and England, or, A prospect of a peace]

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[France and England, or, A prospect of a peace]
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sheet: 133 x 138 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2613
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[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1763]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Library's copy is a fragment, consisting of the left hand half of the design only, closely trimmed to image with loss of all caption and marginal text.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Tho' crest-fallen at present the Spanairds [sic] and France, confess they are beaten by England stout lance ...

Summary: 

Satire on the consequences of the Peace of Paris and Lord Bute's disdain for those who had fought. Two compartments: on the left, a Spaniard and a Frenchman discuss their certain prospects of renewing war with Britain in the near future; beyond ships lie ready to sail and soldiers march beneath a flag; on the right, a sailor threatens a gentleman with a pistol claiming, "I may as well risk hanging for something as I have been shott for nothing and I cannot star[v]e" to which the gentleman replies, "This is always The consequence of peache in England, we neglect those in Peace that were our Bulwarks in War", and a one-legged soldier begs from a man who states "I am valet de chamber to Lord B[ut]e & have lear[ne]d from him to encourage no beggars, but my own country[men]"; beyond, a Scotsman hangs a man on a gallows and ships lie by the shore their sails struck. Cf. British Museum online catalog.

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