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The new country dance, as danced at C****, July the 30th 1766, British Cartoon Print

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The new country dance, as danced at C****, July the 30th 1766, British Cartoon Print

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Print shows a number of prominent figures in a line dancing, above the dancers is John Wilkes riding behind a witch on a broom, he is defecating on Lord Bute; other dancers include the Prince of Wales, William Pitt (the Earl of Chatham), a Native American woman representing America, the devil dancing with Henry Fox (Lord Holland), Charles Townsend, the Earl of Northington, George III playing the fiddle, the Earl of Rockingham, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl Temple, Frank Hayman, and the Earl of Winchelsea. Includes 32 lines of verse in 8 stanzas which end with the refrain "Doodle doodle doo".

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4147
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. 627.

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