The statue, or the adoration of the wise-men of the west, British Cartoon Print
Summary
Print shows Dr. W. Scott on a pedestal, he is wearing clerical robes, a crown fashioned from tobacco leaves, and holding a branch from an apple tree in his right hand and a picture of the tax stamp; around the pedestal are standing Mr. Wedderburn, the Earl of Halifax, Lord Sandwich (Jemmy Twitcher), George Grenville, the Duke of Bedford, and Sir Fletcher Norton. The wife of a weaver wearing ragged dress, with her two children, kneels at the base of the pedestal.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4141
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 625.
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