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Published / Created:: [1756]
Call Number:: 756.00.00.86
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Address of partners Darly & Edwards in 1756. See DNB entry for Matthew Darly., Plate numbered '41' in upper right corner., Nine lines of text below title: Beloved by the bravest of people, justly admire by all ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 17 x 16 cm.
Publisher:: To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760,
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Optimus Britons behold the best of kings. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [14 August 1756]
Call Number:: 756.08.14.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on Admiral Byng; Byng, in fetters, is visited by the ghost of his father, the naval hero George Byng, Viscount Torrington, who harangues him in verse; on a table are books lettered "Spanish Armada" and "Matthews and Lestock"; on the wall behind the figures are two pictures, one in which Byng addresses the Duke of Newcastle, "Pray your Grace let me be sent", and the other in which a figure of Justice points to a mob carrying an effigy of Byng, labelled "I Could not Fight", towards a gallows at the foot of which lies a sheet of paper lettered, "Gazetta B[yng']s Letter Lyes and Nonsence"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image, above verses., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two columns of verse below title: Oh, thou whose timid cow'ring heart, by low born fear's betray'd ..., Temporary local subject terms: Personfications: figure of Justice., Watermark: Fleur-de-lis., and Mounted to 35 x 40 cm.
Publisher:: Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Aug. 14, 1756, by J. Smith at Hogarth's Head, Cheapside
Subject (Name):: Byng, John, 1704-1757 and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):: Ghosts, Shackles, Justice, Gallows, and Effigies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The apparition [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1756]
Call Number:: 756.11.00.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Barrington suggesting that their conduct of the war is influenced by, respectively, corruption and incompetence, with reference here to the disgrace of General Fowke and Admiral Byng."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Discard
Description:: Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four columns of verse below image: I've heard of times (pray God defend us, we're not so good but he may mend us) ..., Temporary local subject terms: Naval uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Literature: Shakespeare., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Byng, John, 1704-1757, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):: Britannia (Symbolic character), Military uniforms, British, Thrones, and Eagles
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The dis-card [graphic].

Creator:: Cole, Benjamin, 1696 or 7-1783, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1756?]
Call Number:: Topos L847 no. 120+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: East prospect of the abbey of St. Peter & of the parish church of St. Margaret, Westminster
Description:: Title from text below image. and Questionable date of publication from manuscript annotation in pencil at bottom on sheet.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England, London., and London (England)
Subject (Name):: Westminster Abbey, and St. Margaret's Church (Westminster, London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Churches and Abbeys
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The east prospect of the abby of St. Peter & of the parish church of St. Margaret, Westminster [graphic]

Creator:: Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1756]
Call Number:: 33 10B v.7 Copy 4
Collection Title:: After page 50. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Illustration from Don Quixote
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Cervantes S. The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated ... by Charles Jarvis ... London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], 1756., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number from lower right and complete loss of volume and page numbers from lower left., Plate numbered "65" in lower right corner., Folded to 21.6 x 15.5 cm., and Tipped in after page 50 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Edwards, E. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England. London : Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby [etc.], 1808.
Publisher:: J. and R. Tonson etc.
Subject (Name):: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616., Quixote, Don (Fictitious character),, and Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character),
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Resurrection of Altisidora] [graphic]

Creator:: Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1756]
Call Number:: 33 10B v.7 Copy 4
Collection Title:: After page 50. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Illustration from Don Quixote
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Cervantes S. The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated ... by Charles Jarvis ... London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], 1756., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number from lower right and partial loss of volume and page numbers from lower left., Plate numbered "12" in lower right corner., "Vol. 1, p. 97 "--Lower left corner., Folded to 23.3 x 16.7 cm., and Bound in after page 50 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Edwards, E. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England. London : Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby [etc.], 1808.
Publisher:: J. and R. Tonson etc.
Subject (Name):: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616., Quixote, Don (Fictitious character),, and Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character),
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Sancho examines the mouth of Don Quixote] [graphic]