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2.
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.06.04.07
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young gentleman with a riding crop, a macaroni, stands before a money-lender leaning on a table, his hands on a bag of gold coins. The young man offers a packet of papers wrapped with a ribbon to the older man as he glances up from his task of count...
- Alternative Title:
- Avarice and dissipation
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Avarice, Distress, Usury, and Dandies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Avarice & dissipation [graphic].
3.
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.06.04.14
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- One man clutches a wine-bottle, looking with a sideways grin at another who bends towards it smiling with expectant greed
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Avarice, Smiling, and Wishing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Desire with hope [graphic].
4.
- Creator:
- Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, attributed name
- Published / Created:
- July 8, 1790.
- Call Number:
- 790.07.08.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a large room French aristocrats crowd across a table from Pitt who is taking money while handing a pen to the man opposite who holds a crown in his left arm as he throws coins toward Pitt's grasping hand. Above Pitt stands George III behind podium,...
- Alternative Title:
- English coronet auction by King, Pitt & Co., or, Comfort for the late French noblesse and Comfort for the late French noblesse
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., France, and France.
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Refugees, History, Avarice, Auctions, Corruption, Crowds, Crowns, and Nobility
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > English coronet auction by K-, P- & Co., or, Comfort for the late French noblesse [graphic]
5.
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1735]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 735.00.00.16+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A loose plagiary (reversed) after Hogarth's first plate in the Rake's Progress series; the interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a bag of coin...
- Description:
- Title from verses below image. Verses (in four columns, each with six lines) continue: " ... And thou hast left graceless son to wast thy fund of ill got stores .... plate, gloves and hoarded cash descend."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
- Subject (Topic):
- Avarice, Corruption, Interiors, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Farewell Old Gripe! they work is done ... [graphic].
6.
- Published / Created:
- Novr. 9, 1799.
- Call Number:
- 799.11.09.02++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A caricature of the new Lord Mayor of London: Harvey Combe stands centered in a hall, surrounded by a desperate looking group of people both rich and poor, who kneel and beg. A skeletal man (butcher?) holds a knife in one hand and a scroll in the othe...
- Alternative Title:
- New tenants at a mansion house
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Sold by all the printsellers in London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Combe, Harvey Christian, 1752-1818 and Glyn, Richard Carr, Sir, 1755-1838
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Avarice, Pleading (Begging), Butchers, Kicking, Poor persons, Interiors, Cats, Dogs, Putti, and Spiders
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hospitality kicking avarice out of doors, or, New tenants at a mansion house [graphic].
7.
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.06.04.21
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A clergyman, with a rampturous look on his face, sits in a chair, a book opened in his hands, as a bag of gold spills onto the table in front of him. Next to him in another chair a bearded man, with horns in his curly hair, long whiskers and fangs pro...
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Avarice, Clergy, and Devil
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hypocrisy [graphic].
8.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 May 1787]
- Call Number:
- 787.05.29.01.1++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, dressed as an old woman, the Queen, and the Prince of Wales in a fool's cap decorated with his three feathers, are seated around a basin perched on the laps of the King and Queen, marked "John Bull's Blood" and filled with gold coins. All ...
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 29th, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
- Subject (Topic):
- Avarice and Gluttony
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Monstrous craws at a new coalition feast [graphic].
9.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 May 1787] and [not before 1804]
- Call Number:
- 787.05.29.01.2++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, dressed as an old woman, the Queen, and the Prince of Wales in a fool's cap decorated with his three feathers, are seated around a basin perched on the laps of the King and Queen, marked "John Bull's Blood" and filled with gold coins. All ...
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Pubd May 29th, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
- Subject (Topic):
- Avarice and Gluttony
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Monstrous craws at a new coalition feast [graphic].
10.
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 30th 1819.
- Call Number:
- 819.04.30.02+
- Collection Title:
- V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the center of the image is a large bag, overflowing with loaves and fishes. It is drawn with eyes, nose, and mouth which register apprehension as it looks to the right. Its two sides are being pulled in opposite directions: on the left, it is pulle...
- Alternative Title:
- Pastors versus flocks in the matter of loaves & fishes
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London, and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Parliament. and Church of England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Salaries, etc, Salaries, pensions, etc, Avarice, Fish, and Sheep
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Pull devil, pull baker!, or, Pastors versus flocks in the matter of loaves & fishes!! "Is it meet that we should take the bread from our children & cast it unto dogs"?!! / [graphic]
