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Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 March 1788]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Thurlow, in his Chancellor's wig and gown, wades waist-deep in the sea, advancing towards the spectator. On his shoulders sits Hastings, in oriental dress, holding in each arm a large money-bag inscribed '£4.000.000'. Thurlow scowls; Hastings has a s...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 1st, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: India.
Subject (Name):: Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Subject (Topic):: Corruption and Dead persons
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Blood on thunder fording the Red Sea [graphic].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1810?]
Call Number:: 810.00.00.85
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A man stands in a room holding a caduceus decorated comic mask, saying ''When I do stare, see how the subjects quacke'." He is surrounded with bills and a bag of coins on the table, both suggesting corruption. At sign hanging from the table reads "Ale...
Alternative Title:: Managerial puff!!
Description:: Title from text above and below image.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: People associated with arts, entertainment & sports, Caduceus, and Corruption
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > New drop scene, or, A managerial puff!! - Cunning Isaac! [graphic].

Published / Created:: [October 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: British caricature showing bishop and other men around table toasting to looking out for themselves, regardless of justice. The Prince Regent? of England arises saying, "By holy Paul--shadows to night have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, th...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Published October 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
Subject (Topic):: Corruption, Politics & government, Politicians, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Toasting, and Beds
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Richard coeur de diable!! [graphic].

Published / Created:: [22 April 1809]
Call Number:: 53 C599 S809
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Mrs. Clarke auctions commissions from a rostrum to a crowd of bidders, while the Duke of York acts as her clerk. All are unconscious of a net in which they are enclosed, and with which the Devil flies off into flames (right). Mrs. Clarke (right), in ...
Alternative Title:: Celebrated Clarke, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Pubd. 22nd April 1809 by J.H. Warl, London
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):: Political corruption, History, Sex, Political aspects, Corruption, Military officers, British, Auctions, Nets, and Devil
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The celebrated Clark, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [16 April 1783]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Charles Fox, with a fox's head and tail and an expression of delight, holds open the top of a large sack almost completely filled with coins. Opposite him, Lord North, standing on a substantially diminished pile of coins, carefully adds another shovel...
Alternative Title:: Coal-heavers
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 16th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):: Corruption, Coins, Obesity, Bags, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The cole-heavers [graphic].

Published / Created:: [10 January 1821]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print shows personifications of Europe, Africa, America, and Asia pointing their fingers at a blushing Britannia paying penance for corruption atop a stool of repentence along with Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel; King George IV; Robert B...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Published Jany. 10, 1821, by W. Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Westminster Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Britannia (Symbolic character), Symbols, Corruption, Punishment devices, Punishment & torture, Politicians, Embarassment, Bowls (Tableware), and Drinking vessels
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The stool of repentance; the scorn of the world!! [graphic].

Creator:: Riepenhausen, Ernst Ludwig, 1765-1840
Published / Created:: [not before 1787]
Call Number:: Hogarth 787.00.00.40 Box 115
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: Plate lettered in the top center 'F': Reverse copies of details of three men and one woman, after characters on the left edge under the flag in Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered; 1. A man smoking a pipe (upside-...
Description:: Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):: Corruption, Couples, Kissing, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Groups from "Four prints of an election. Plate I." An election entertainment. F] [graphic].