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1.
"Improvement in weights & measures", or, Sir John Seeclear discovering [the] ballance of [the

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1798]
Call Number:
798.12.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Sinclair, tall and thin, stands full-face, holding up in his right hand a balance (steelyard, or stilliard) inscribed 'Vive le Egalité'. A large British flag at the right end of the beam much outweighs a bunch of objects at the other; three documents: [1] 'Navy of England to be retaind viz: 50000 Seamen & half a Dozen Ships of War - 500000 Sailors to be sent to plant Potatoes.' [2] '10 000 heavy reasons for giving the Enemy a fair chance of getting out of their Ports.' [3] 'Advantages of cold oeconomy'. Below these are bunches of turnips, carrots, a cabbage, the whole terminating in a pendent bonnet-rouge. Sinclair is fashionably dressed, wearing a hat, half-boots, ill-fitting coat, and overcoat almost to the ankles. On a heavily draped writing-table (right) are three large volumes: 'Improvements in the Art of Political Dunging and Pursuits of Agriculture.' A paper: 'The Apostate Laird - a Parliamentary Romance - together with Loss of the Agricultural Arm' Chair. On the wall (right) is a picture of three pigs feeding at a trough of 'Democratic Verbosity'; this is 'Pigs Meat: or new method of feeding the Swinish Multitude' [see BMSat 8500, &c.]. Beside it is a placard: 'Table of Weights & Measures laid down upon the true democratic Principle of the Stilliards of Egalité'. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
"Improvement in weights and measures" and Sir John Seeclear discovering the ballance of the British flag
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Scales -- Flags: British flag -- Food: vegetables -- Bonnet rouge -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Writing materials: inkstand., Watermark: 1794 J Whatman., and Subject identified in contemporary hand below title.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "Improvement in weights & measures", or, Sir John Seeclear discovering [the] ballance of [the] British flag [graphic]

2.
- sforzata e vinta / d'indi bevèo più lagrime che vino [graphic]

Creator:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
Decr. 20th, 1779.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B28 804
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Alboin and Rosmunda; the queen on the right, refusing to drink wine from a cup made from her father's skull, which the king holds on the left; three female courtiers, two soldiers, two child servants watching them; gothic windows in background; after Cipriani."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Alboin et Rosmunda
Description:
Title from image., Added title from Calabi and de Vesme: Alboin et Rosmunda., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 52 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > - sforzata e vinta / d'indi bevèo più lagrime che vino [graphic]

3.
4 paire for a shilling, Holland socks Achetez des chaussons = Chi uuol scapini d'Holanda / [graphic] =

Creator:
Tempest, Pierce, 1653-1717, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1733]
Call Number:
Quarto 75 L328 733
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Four pair for a shilling, Holland socks, Achetez des chaussons, and Chi uuol scapini d'Holanda
Description:
Title engraved in English, French, and Italian below image., Tempest also possibly the printmaker. See Hindley, C. History of the cries of London, ancient and modern., 'ML' in M. Lauron forms a monogram., Imprint from title page., No. 44 bound in: The cryes of the city of London. London : Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, 1733., and Numbered on verso in contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate
Subject (Topic):
Street vendors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > 4 paire for a shilling, Holland socks Achetez des chaussons = Chi uuol scapini d'Holanda / [graphic] =

4.
A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the - Revolution Society [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 July 1791]
Call Number:
791.07.23.01++ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" [see BMSat 7892]. On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned, see BMSats 4223-4226.) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility, cf. BMSat 7652). On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance". On the wall above Foxs head is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral; from the façade emerge the heads of three pigs feeding from a trough. This is 'A Pig's-Stye \ a View from Hackney' (an allusion to Priestley's congregation at the Gravel Pit chapel. Hackney, where he had succeeded Price)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 23d, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the - Revolution Society [graphic].

5.
A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the - Revolution Society [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 July 1791]
Call Number:
791.07.23.01++ Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" [see BMSat 7892]. On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned, see BMSats 4223-4226.) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility, cf. BMSat 7652). On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance". On the wall above Foxs head is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral; from the façade emerge the heads of three pigs feeding from a trough. This is 'A Pig's-Stye \ a View from Hackney' (an allusion to Priestley's congregation at the Gravel Pit chapel. Hackney, where he had succeeded Price)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., 1 print : etching, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 280 x 496 mm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges, and two holes have been cut from sheet and repaired., Added in contemporary hand in lower right of sheet: These are the Friends of the Constitution., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 23d, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the - Revolution Society [graphic].

6.
A Scot's opera [graphic]

Creator:
Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1732?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Hogarth shows Sganarelle coming up behind his wife, who is admiring a miniature portrati of a young man which she had innocently discovered on the ground. Sganarelle is making the cuckold's sign with his right hand over his head
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Date based on other work by Van der Gucht., Quotation from book I, line 203 of Virgil's Aeneid etched below image: Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. Virg., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Scots opera / 171., and On page 52 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, City & town life, Couples, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A Scot's opera [graphic]

7.
A bed matt or a door matt Achetez des nates = Chi uuol storioli da letto / [graphic] =

Creator:
Tempest, Pierce, 1653-1717, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1733]
Call Number:
Quarto 75 L328 733
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Achetez des nates and Chi uuol storioli da letto
Description:
Title engraved in English, French, and Italian below image., Tempest also possibly the printmaker. See Hindley, C. History of the cries of London, ancient and modern., 'ML' in M. Lauron forms a monogram., Imprint from title page., No. 6 bound in: The cryes of the city of London. London : Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, 1733., and Numbered on verso in contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate
Subject (Topic):
Street vendors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A bed matt or a door matt Achetez des nates = Chi uuol storioli da letto / [graphic] =

8.
A brace of blackguards [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 June 1789]
Call Number:
789.06.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three men in a tavern with three pictures on the wall with images of pugilists, a portrait of Buckhorse and two images of fights. The one man has his head on the table, presumably passed out and asleep. The other man sits in a chair looking out at the viewer, a club in his hand and a dog at his feet. The third man stands behind him, his fists postitioned ready for a bout, although he holds a smoking pipe in his left hand. On the mantel are glasses and flasks of liquor
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Manuscript notion identifies the seated man as "Morland the artist" and the man standing behind him as "Rowlandson"., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., For a description of the reissue or alternate version of this design from 1812, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 230., Temporary local subject terms: Tankards -- Pictures amplifying subjects: 3 prints of pugilists., and Identifications of the two figures added in ink in a contemporary hand -- Morland and Rowlandson; secondary border line around design also added in ink.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay on the Steine, Brighthelmstone
Subject (Name):
Morland, George, 1763-1804 and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Subject (Topic):
Artists, British, Boxing, Chairs, Dogs, Drinking vessels, Fireplaces, Pipes (Smoking), Sports posters, Tables, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A brace of blackguards [graphic]

9.
A brass pott or an iron pott to mend Rabiller les poelles les marmites & les chaudrons = Concia

Creator:
Tempest, Pierce, 1653-1717, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1733]
Call Number:
Quarto 75 L328 733
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Rabiller les poelles, les marmites, et les chaudrons and Concia caldare, candelieri, e padelle
Description:
Title engraved in English, French, and Italian below image., Tempest also possibly the printmaker. See Hindley, C. History of the cries of London, ancient and modern., 'ML' in M. Lauron forms a monogram., Imprint from title page., No. 54 bound in: The cryes of the city of London. London : Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, 1733., and Numbered on verso in contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate
Subject (Topic):
Street vendors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A brass pott or an iron pott to mend Rabiller les poelles les marmites & les chaudrons = Concia caldare candelieri e padelle / [graphic] =

10.
A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts

Creator:
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774, auctioneer, publisher
Published / Created:
[1755]
Call Number:
125 L278 755 3/11
Image Count:
172
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Priced., Signatures: A-B⁴., The seller was the physician and antiquarian Dr. Richard Mead, 1673-1754. This sale appears to be the English version of the second part of an earlier sale of the Museum Meadianum, which was printed in Latin.--Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques., MED,HSL 17th cent: Bound with the author's A catalogue of pictures, London, 1755., BAC: British Art Center copy annotated in pen and ink with prices for all lots. Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Bound in contemporary smooth calf. Bound with Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. London, 1754., and With extensive ms. notes recording prices paid throughout. Title pages are ruled in red.
Publisher:
Abraham Langford
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, Great Britain, and England.
Subject (Name):
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Art auctions, Art, Private collections, Decorative arts, Prices, Private libraries, and House furnishings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid

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