Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized / Subject Heading: Lotteries

1.
All in one day, 4 £20,000, Octr. 5th ... : a great variety of numbers are selling by Hazard & Co

Published / Created:: [approximately 1825]
Call Number:: File 66 825 Al416
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text and still image
Alternative Title:: All in one day, four £20,000, October 5th
Description:: Title from text within woodcut illustration; remainder of title from letterpress text beneath illustration., Woodcut illustration of a hot air ballloon with two flag-waving gentlemen seated in the basket. The flag to the left reads "No blanks"; the flag to the right, "All money.", Printed in red and blue ink., and Mounted to: 25 x 18 cm. With a sticker in upper left corner with blue crayon annotation "11-". For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):: Lotteries
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > All in one day, 4 £20,000, Octr. 5th ... : a great variety of numbers are selling by Hazard & Co., the contractors, 93, Royal Exchange; 26 Cornhill; 324 Oxford-St., who sold three £20,000 last lottery

2.
Bad news [graphic].

Published / Created:: [ 26 November 1783]
Call Number:: 783.11.26.01
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: A miserable, angry-looking tailor stands in the middle of his dilapidated workshop. His wig is turned sideways on his head, his empty pockets turned wrong side out, and his stockings undone. Between his feet on the floor lies a large lottery ticket signed "Blank." The tools of his trade are scattered on the workbench and on the floor, including his trade guild tankard. On the wall to the right hangs an advertisement referring to the bubble lottery of 1698, on the left a broadside ridiculing Mongolfier's hot air balloon ascent earlier in the year. Below it lies a credit note from a baker
Description:: Title from caption etched above image., Publication information from a copy in the Peel Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First of two images etched on the same plate and published as one print., Possibly after Ramberg's painting, Bad news., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Imperfect: original print includes two images. Publication line trimmed., and Mounted to 29 x 19 cm.
Publisher:: Publish'd Novr. 26, 1783, by Jno. Russell, Bond Street, Bath
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Tailors, Tailor shops, Lotteries, Poverty, and Interiors
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Bad news [graphic].

3.
Bowyer's History of England Lottery. : Price of the tickets three guineas each; which are now

Creator:: Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834
Published / Created:: [1807?]
Call Number:: File 66 807 B786+
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: text
Description:: Tipped on to modern leaf at gutter. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: Robert Bowyer and T. Bensley, printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):: Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834.
Subject (Topic):: Lotteries and Publishers and publishing
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Bowyer's History of England Lottery. : Price of the tickets three guineas each; which are now selling at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, and at Mr. Bowter's office for the city, no. 73, Cornhill ...

4.
Good news [graphic].

Published / Created:: [26 November 1783]
Call Number:: 783.11.26.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An elated cobbler skips joyfully in his dilapidated workshop waving his wig with one hand and a "10000" pound lottery ticket with the other. The tools of his trade are scattered on the floor
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of publication line., Publication information from another impression in the Peel Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library., Second of two images etched on the same plate and published as one print., Possibly after Ramberg's painting, Good news., Imperfect: original print includes two images. Publication line trimmed., and Mounted to 29 x 19 cm.
Publisher:: Publish'd Novr. 26, 1783, by Jno. Russell, Bond Street, Bath
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Shoemakers, Lotteries, Poverty, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Good news [graphic].

5.
Grand prize of £40,000! Not two blanks to a prize, and double chances for the same money. : Lottery

Published / Created:: [1807]
Call Number:: File 66 807 G751
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: text
Alternative Title:: Lottery, on a new plan, begins drawing October 20, 1807
Description:: Caption title., Handbill with details of the lottery and the supplementary draw., "Tickets and shares are on sale at J. Warner's Licensed Lottery Office ... ."--Bottom of sheet., and Name and address of "Mrs. Scott" added in ink on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):: Lotteries
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Grand prize of £40,000! Not two blanks to a prize, and double chances for the same money. : Lottery, on a new plan, begins drawing October 20, 1807

6.
I. Calculator, Esqr. aetat 24, the celebrated conjuror. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [30 August 1776]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Design in an oval depicts John Molesworth holding a wand seated at a wooden table and wearing a conical hat and dressing gown. He points towards lottery wheels from which 2 small boys wearing paper crowns observe him. Molesworth is saying "Eo, Meo, and Areo, stick close my boys and let me have all the capital prizes in my calculation." Before him on the table are ink bottle and quill, several books, including one entitled Calculations and another Conjurations, together with The life of Duncan Campbel, deaf & dumb fortune-teller. Molesworth in 1774 authored Proofs of the reality and truth of lottery calculations
Description:: Title etched below image., Dedication etched below title: This plate is humbly inscribed to all keeper's of lottery offices by their humble servt. A.B., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 25.0 x 17.7 cm, on sheet 28.1 x 22.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 1 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs, Augt. 30th, 1776, by A.B., London
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Molesworth, John
Subject (Topic):: Lotteries, Frauds, Hats, and Magicians
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > I. Calculator, Esqr. aetat 24, the celebrated conjuror. [graphic]

7.
Joy with tranquility [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [21 January 1800]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 7
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A brewer (left) accepts a note for five thousand [pounds] from a young man in profile (right). Three lines of text below image: "This passion is represented by a philosophical brewer, who having gained a considerable prize in the lottery, receives it with the most perfect composure -- a useful lesson for those persons who are too apt to be over elated at an unexpected change of fortune."
Description:: Title and plate number etched above image., "No. 8.", Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):: Occupations and Lotteries
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Joy with tranquility [graphic]

8.
Lottery puffs with Twelfth Night characters engraved by George Cruikshank

Creator:: J. & J. Sivewright (Firm)
Published / Created:: [December 1819?]
Call Number:: Drawer 819.12.00.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text and still image
Abstract:: Twenty-four letterpress and engraved lottery puffs uncut on one sheet. Each puff includes engravings of Twelfth night character by George Cruikshank and an 8-line poem
Description:: Title supplied by cataloger., On each lottery puff: Lottery begins drawing 12th January, 1820., and Includes puff numbers 1347-1370: John Bull, Sukey Salmon, Alderman Turtle, Queen, Tabby Turnip, Billy Bantam, Polly Pigface, Molly Maid, Toby Fillpot, The Grand Turk, Colly Calf-head, John Dory, Pomposa Pine-apple, Doughy Upper-crust, Dolly Dumpling, Timothy Tun-Belly, Simon Sheepface, King, Cissy Cowslip, Letty Lambkin, Dame Partlett, Kitty Cabbage, Giddy Goosecap, Solomon Sirloin.
Publisher:: J. & J. Sivewright ... 37, Cornhill, 11, Holburn, 38 Haymarket, 141, Oxford-St
Subject (Geographic):: England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):: Lotteries, Marketing, Advertising, Caricatures and cartoons, and Animals in human situations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Lottery puffs with Twelfth Night characters engraved by George Cruikshank

9.
Remember! This is the very last lottery but one in England! : Six £21,000! All in one day, 3rd May

Published / Created:: [1824]
Call Number:: File 66 824 R386
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text and still image
Description:: Caption title., Printed handbill; with woodcut illustrations of "matchstick men" in four panels (with letterpress captions below) on the third line and on the fourth line a hand with a finger pointing to text "Six £21.000! All in the one day , 3rd May.", "Bish is the contractor, No. 4, Cornhill, and No. 9, Charing Cross, who sold and shared the very last drawing, 1st March, 7,340 Class A £20,000, 10,004 Class B £20,000.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):: Lotteries
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Remember! This is the very last lottery but one in England! : Six £21,000! All in one day, 3rd May