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2.
A scene in the park [graphic].

Published / Created:
[9 July 1780]
Call Number:
780.07.09.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a group of fashionably-dresed people inspect a military encampment and a cannon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub accg. to act July 9 1780 by M Darly 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Cannons, and Flags
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A scene in the park [graphic].

3.
A vieu [sic] of Plymouth [graphic].

Published / Created:
May 4, 1780, accg. to act.
Call Number:
780.05.04.02.1 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A raree-show man (right) is exhibiting his peep-show, in a box inscribed "A Vieu of Plymouth", to Lord Amherst, in profile to the right, who stoops down, his hands on his knees, to look through one of the two round holes. The showman says, "There you...
Alternative Title:
Vieu of Plymouth and View of Plymouth
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. by M. Darly (39) Strand
Subject (Name):
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797 and Great Britain. Board of Ordnance.
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, and Peepshows
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A vieu [sic] of Plymouth [graphic].

4.
Abraham Cowley [graphic]

Creator:
Hall, John, 1739-1797, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1780?]
Call Number:
SH Contents H175 no. 1 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Abraham Cowley [graphic]

5.
Association, or, Public virtue displayed in a contrasted view [graphic]

Creator:
S., J., printmaker
Published / Created:
published as the act directs 15 Feby 1780.
Call Number:
780.02.15.02+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Several scenes combined in one design. The Associations of various counties to present petitions and form committees to demand reforms are represented in the upper right portion of the plate: A procession of men walks (right to left), their leader ho...
Alternative Title:
Public virtue displayed in a contrasted view
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Danl. Wilson at No. 20 Portugal Street Lincolns Inn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Savile, George, Sir, 1726-1784., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., Gordon, George, Lord, 1751-1793., and Neptune (Roman deity),
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Politics and government, Britannia (Symbolic character), Petitions, and Dragons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Association, or, Public virtue displayed in a contrasted view [graphic]

6.
At James Wheeleys Paper Hanging Warehouse wholesale retail & for exportation; at No. 25 Aldersgate

Published / Created:
[approximately 1780?]
Call Number:
File 66 780 At862
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionable family looks at a roll of wallpaper that the shop clerk is displaying to them. The shop owner jestures to the elaborately decorated pattern on the roll. Another clerk behind the counter looks on as he rolls another bolt
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
James Wheeleys Paper Hanging Warehouse
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Stores, Retail, Wallpaper, Families, Interiors, Shopping, Stores & shops, and Wallpapers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At James Wheeleys Paper Hanging Warehouse wholesale retail & for exportation; at No. 25 Aldersgate Street London are manufactured & sold all sorts of emboss'd chints & common papers for rooms ... [graphic]

7.
Beating up for recruits [graphic]

Published / Created:
[approximately 1780?]
Call Number:
780.00.00.46
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Outside a country tavern, a recruiting officer with a sword in his right hand holds up a purse in his left, facing right before 4 grotesquely drawn long-haired yokels who grin foolishly at the prospect. Behind the officer stands a drummer wearing a gr...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Recruiting & enlistment, Military uniforms, British, Hats, Drums, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beating up for recruits [graphic]

8.
Britania seated in a triumphant car with Neptune, supports a medallion of King Geo. III. Attendant

Creator:
Collyer, Joseph, 1748-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[18 March 1780]
Call Number:
780.03.18.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Allegory, a chariot bearing Neptune and Britannia to right, attended by nymphs and decorated with oval portraits; landscape format"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Britannia seated in a triumphant car with Neptune, supports a medallion of King Geo. III ... and Frontispiece to the fifth volume, engraved for Hervey's Naval History
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published March 18th, 1780, by J. Bew, Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):
Poseidon (Greek deity), and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820,
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Chariots, and Portraits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Britania seated in a triumphant car with Neptune, supports a medallion of King Geo. III. Attendant sea nymphs bear portraits of some of the most eminent naval commanders in the glorious war of 1756 [graphic]

9.
Chatham's ghost, or, A peep into futurity [graphic].

Published / Created:
[16 May 1780]
Call Number:
780.05.16.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"George III (left), seated in a chair, is being shown by the ghost of Chatham a procession of figures walking towards a pit (right) inscribed "Chaos". Chatham wears pseudo-classical draperies, a tie-wig crowned with a laurel wreath, and is surrounded ...
Alternative Title:
Peep into futurity
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs May 16, 1780, by W. Wells, No. 132 opposite Salisbury Court Fleet Street London
Subject (Geographic):
Netherlands.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788., and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Demons, Crowns, and Thrones
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Chatham's ghost, or, A peep into futurity [graphic].

10.
De'Estaing at spa, or, The French admiral in all his glory [graphic]

Creator:
Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1780]
Call Number:
780.00.00.99+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The Count sits in a large chair, a basket of frogs on the floor between his wide-spread legs; he wears a powdered wig under his hat, his uniform, a gold cross on a black ribbon around his neck, high black boots with spurs, and sword at his waist. He i...
Alternative Title:
French admiral in all his glory
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Estaing, Charles Henri, comte d', 1729-1794
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign participation, French, Frogs, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > De'Estaing at spa, or, The French admiral in all his glory [graphic]

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