Satire on Archbald, Earl of Ilay (later 3rd Duke of Argyll), a prominent supporter of Robert Walpole. He is shown as an elderly man, wearing glasses, stamping his foot and gesticulating in anger; a Scottish gardener in a tartan coat and holding a thistle stands open-mouthed, to the left; to the right a black footman offers the Earl a telescope. Behind are avenues of a grand formal garden between high hedges revealing distant views of the tower of Kingston Church, a gibbet on Hownslow Heath (where travellers were notoriously at risk from highwaymen) and a water tower. Two columns of verse beneath.
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<p>Print made by: George Bickham the Younger
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<dl><dd>After: William Hogarth (formerly attributed to)</dd></dl></div>
circa 1741 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1741-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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