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1.
A word to the wise, or, Billy unmasked [graphic].

Published / Created:
[23 April 1784]
Call Number:
784.04.23.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Billy unmasked
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark partially cutting off imprint statement., Temporary local subject terms: Navy: ships -- Slaves -- French style fetters -- Fox's policies, 1784 -- Songs: 'Rule Britannia' -- Magna Charta -- Masks -- Elections: Westminster, 1784 -- Dungeons -- Wooden shoes -- Swords -- Chains -- Allusion to George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with initials G R., and Mounted to 27 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, April 23, 1784, by H. Mc Phail, N [68 High Holborn]
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A word to the wise, or, Billy unmasked [graphic].

2.
British balloon and D- aerial yacht [graphic].

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
Decr. 13th, 1784.
Call Number:
784.12.13.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
British balloon and Devonshire aerial yacht
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of imprint statement., Printmaker and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of text below the image, followed by four lines of verses., Temporary local subject terms: Hot air balloons -- Bipartite masks: Fox on both sides -- Allusion to East India Bill, 1783 -- Boats -- Flags -- Burlesqued coats of arms: Devonshire -- Frenchmen: Petit-maitres -- Spy-glasses -- Cuckolds., Partial watermark in center of left side of sheet., and Mounted to 38 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act direts [sic], by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1748-1811, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > British balloon and D- aerial yacht [graphic].

3.
Carlo Khan's triumphal entry into St. Stephen's Chapel [graphic]

Creator:
Collings, Samuel, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1784]
Call Number:
784.05.18.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of the House of Commons. The Duchess of Devonshire carries Fox on her shoulders; she looks round at the 'rabble' who follow her, headed by a little chimney-sweep, using his brush and shovel to beat a tune. She says, "When I take a thing in hand I always succeed". Her hair is decorated with a fox's brush. Fox in his orator's attitude, right fist clenched and held out, hat held out in his left hand, says, "I could never have got in without your Grace's assistance". Behind the chimneysweep is (?) Sam House in a shirt and breeches which are unfastened at the knee; he holds up on a pole a chemise or shift inscribed 'All sorts of Shifts made by C. J. Fox', saying, "This is the Devonshire method of introducing Members - Carlo for ever". Behind is a man with a lighted torch or link, saying, 'Sir Cecil has got the Devonshire Cholic'. A band of butchers play on marrow-bones and cleavers; one of them says, "She is a devilish fine Carcass - fine Meat!" On a pole is the cap of Liberty together with a fox's brush and a petticoat. In the background (right) the Speaker, in his chair behind the table with the mace, &c, and clerks are freely sketched: a sea of heads behind indicates the members."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Published after May 17, 1784. See British Museum catalogue v. 6, no. 6588., Watermark in center of sheet., and Mounted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Princes, Standards (Identifying artifacts), Elephants, Trumpets, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Carlo Khan's triumphal entry into St. Stephen's Chapel [graphic]

4.
Catlap for ever, or, The smuggler's downfall [graphic].

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
[9 July 1784]
Call Number:
784.07.09.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Smuggler's downfall
Description:
Reissue by Hannah Humphrey with original imprint burnished from plate., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. Cf. No. 6634., Temporary local subject terms: East India House: exterior -- Taxes: reduction of tea tax -- Taxes: beginning of commutation tax -- Leadenhall Street, London -- Allusion to monopoly -- Birds: spurred game-cock -- Tea chests -- Expressions of speech: cat-lap., and Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 9, 1784, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, and Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Catlap for ever, or, The smuggler's downfall [graphic].

5.
Doctor Barnacle driving a load of Spittalfields weavers to poll for Westminster [graphic]

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 6, 1784.
Call Number:
784.05.06.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Westminster electors carted to polls -- 'Spittalfields weavers' -- Medal of the Westminster Justices of the Peace -- Ass-drawn carts -- Election favors -- Election flags -- Scrutiny -- Signs: Sign-posts -- Kelly, Justice of the Peace, fl. 1784., and Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, Morris, Charles, 1745-1838, Cartwright, John, 1740-1824, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Pharmacists, and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Doctor Barnacle driving a load of Spittalfields weavers to poll for Westminster [graphic]

6.
Grand Irish air balloon [graphic]

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
Octr. 7th, 1784.
Call Number:
784.10.07.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of text below title., Temporary local subject terms: Hot air balloons -- Boats -- Cannons -- Apothecary's pestle and mortar -- Hibernia (Symbolic character) -- Fights; duels -- Expressions of speech: 'Neck or nothing' -- Allusion to the American War of Independence -- Allusion to Fox-North Coalition, 1783 -- Spy-glasses -- Devil -- Clergy: Jesuits., and Partial watermark center left side of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act direct, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Grand Irish air balloon [graphic]

7.
Her +++++ carrying a plumper for Charly [graphic].

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 30, 1784.
Call Number:
784.04.30.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Duchess of Devonshire (left) carries a fat butcher (right), both her arms round his waist, his right arm is round her waist, their faces are in profile looking at each other. She says, "I'll try all measures to bring the matter to a proper Issue"; he says, "Oh! - who can withstand such charms". She wears a large hat trimmed with a 'Fox' favour, laurel branch, and four fox's brushes inscribed respectively, 'Love and \ Liberty \ Delicacy and \ Decorum'. A crudely drawn hand on a signpost (right) points with a thumb 'To Covent Garden'. Behind the Duchess (left) is the corner of a building inscribed 'Newport Market'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Her Grace carrying a plumper for Charly
Description:
Title etched below image., Watermark (partial) right side of sheet: J Whatman., and Mounted to 32 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, for the proprieter [sic], by T. Bun, St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Political elections, Butchers, and Signs (Notices)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Her +++++ carrying a plumper for Charly [graphic].

8.
Lord Mayor's day, or, Filling the glutton's balloon [graphic]

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 9th, 1784.
Call Number:
784.11.09.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Filling the glutton's balloon
Description:
Title from item., Lewis Walpole Library copy: Publication year altered in ink to 1785, perhaps for reissue that year. Cf. British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Lord Mayor's Day -- Livery companies: Curriers' Company -- Aldermen of Farringdon -- Arms: City of London -- Arms: turtle -- Domestic service: cooks -- Waiters -- Male costume: alderman's furred livery gown and tie-wig -- Food: turtle soup -- Wine -- Ice-pudding -- Dishes: plates -- Sauce-boats -- Glass wine bottles -- Furniture: armchair -- Kitchin, Henry, d. 1786.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Brown
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lord Mayor's day, or, Filling the glutton's balloon [graphic]

9.
Mrs. Cathne. Zephyr the celebrated fan vender [graphic].

Published / Created:
30 June 1784.
Call Number:
784.06.30.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Catherine Zephyr the celebrated fan vender
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Zephyr, Catherine -- Trades: fan vendors -- Fans -- Female costume: fan vendors., and Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis and J. Kool.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Cathne. Zephyr the celebrated fan vender [graphic].

10.
Pro bono publico the political cluster in terrorem / [graphic]

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
June 25th, 1784.
Call Number:
784.06.25.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A conventional vine-branch ascends the left side of the design, then turns at right angles; from it hangs a symmetrical cluster of heads or masks of Fox and his supporters with closed eyes; the stalk attaching it to the branch is inscribed 'Ripe Fruit for Old Nick'. The central and largest head is that of Fox. On the left and right and slightly lower are the heads of North and Burke; these three are larger than the remaining heads. Between them and beneath Fox's chin are Keppel (left), and (right) perhaps Jack Lee. The apex of the cluster, between the stalk and Fox, is Lord Derby looking downwards. Flanking him, in profile, are Lord Stormont (left) and Lord John Cavendish (right)-Below Stormont and above North is the Duke of Portland, in profile to the left. Below Cavendish and above Burke is an unidentified profile having some resemblance to Carlisle. The lowest point of the cluster is the mask of Sam House. Between this and the heads of North and Burke on each side are two small profiles: below North (left) that of Hall the apothecary, and between Hall and House the hideous profile of the Westminster Justice (? Kelly), see BMSat 6575, &c.; below Burke (right) that of the Earl of Surrey, and between Surrey and House that of Powys. On the ground at the foot of the vine-branch and beneath the cluster is a pile of objects inscribed 'Trophies'. In the foreground (left) is a pair of crutches inscribed 'Patriotic Props'. In the centre of the base of the pile are (left) a fox's brush inscribed 'Euphorbium' (an allusion to the 'sneezing-bag' thrown at Fox, see BMSat 6426, &c.) and (right) a mask of the faces of Fox and North inscribed 'Coalition' imitated from 'The Mask by Sayers', see BMSat 6234. On the extreme left is a document inscribed 'Œconomy (but the word scored through) 24,000l. Pr Annum'; against it lie a pair of spectacles, emblems of Burke and the meagre results of his Bill of Economical Reform (cf. BMSat 5657). On the extreme right is a pestle (inscribed 'Capricum, Capricum') and mortar and another pair of spectacles, emblems of Hall the apothecary. Beside the pestle is a document inscribed 'Receipt Tax', an unpopular measure of the Coalition (see BMSat 6243, &c.) which was dropped by Pitt; a flag inscribed 'July 27th', a gibe at Keppel's conduct at the Battle of Ushant in 1778 (see BMSat 5992, &c); a paper inscribed 'American War', a gibe at North. In the centre, lying against the fox's brush, is a document inscribed 'India Bill' (see BMSat 6271, &c.) and an open book inscribed 'Platonic Love'. The three remaining trophies, at the summit of the pile, are a weaver's shuttle inscribed 'Weavers', to insinuate that Fox had bribed Spitalfields weavers to vote for him, see BMSat 6575, &c.; a laurel branch, emblem of victory in the Westminster Election; and a butcher's cleaver inscribed 'Westminster Election', emblem of the butchers canvassed by the Duchess of Devonshire"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Political cluster in terrorem
Description:
Title from caption below image: Political cluster in terrorem, Text at top of image: Pro bono publico., and Temporary local subject terms: Bipartite masks: Fox and North -- Coalitions: Allusion to Fox-North Coalition, 1783 -- Apothecary's mortar and pestle -- Cleavers -- Allusion to canvassing butchers -- Taxes: Allusion to Receipt tax -- Allusion to 'sneezing bag' thrown at Fox, 12 February, 1784 -- Allusion to East India Bill, 1783 -- Allusion to Burke's bill on economical reform -- Allusion to American War -- Flags: allusion to the Battle of Ushant, 27 July, 1778 -- Allusion to Spittalfields weavers.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Crutches, Eyeglasses, Gallows, and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Pro bono publico the political cluster in terrorem / [graphic]