The Duumvirate (BM 1868,0808.9764)

Satire suggesting an allegiance of William Pitt and Lord Bute with oval portraits of the two men (after William Hoare and Allan Ramsay) joined by a snake biting its tail on which is lettered an adapatation of the Stuart motto, "Nemo Nos Impune Lacessit"; above is a second motto, "Duo Juncti in Uno" with two clasped hands. A quotation from Deuteronomy ("O that they were wise, that they Understood this, that they would Consider their latter end", XXXII.29) refers to the scene below, an execution on Tower Hill (presumably that of the "Rebel Lords" of the 1745 Rebellion, Lords Balmerino and Kilmarnock, beheaded on 18 August 1746, or Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, 9 April 1747).
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