863021 Broad Bottoms, 1745 (etching) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Frontispiece to "An Address of Thanks to the Broad-Bottoms, for the Good Things they have done, and the Evil Things they have not done, Since their Elevation . ." Sir John Hynde Cotton, 3rd baronet (Tory politician and Jacobite, c.1686-1752) in the centre (with a backside of legendary size) accepted a position in the 1744-5 \'broad-bottomed\' coalition Tory/Whig government, caricatured for failing to keep promises and defecating on assses carrying various tax burdens. ); English, out of copyright.