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28. The overflowing of the pitt [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the act directs, 25th June 1771.
- Call Number:
- 771.06.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., One line of text below title: Oh had we staid & said our pray'rs at home. Pope's Rape of the Lock., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Drury Lane Theatre -- Riots: Wilkites vs. ministerialists, Drury Lane Theatre, March 3, 1770 -- Tickets sellers -- Ticket offices -- Lighting: lanterns -- Canes: tasselled canes -- Ministerialists -- Wilkites -- Playbills -- Propaganda -- Altered quotation from Rape of the lock, iv, 160, by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Allusion to Much ado about nothing by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Literature: Allusion to The ladies frolick by James Dance (James Love) (1722-1774) -- Allusion to A word to the wise by Hugh Kelly (1739-1777)? -- Allusion to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham ( 1708-1778) -- Allusion to David Garrick (1717-1779)., and Watermark: Fleur-de-lys.
- Publisher:
- Printed for S. Sledge, Printseller in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The overflowing of the pitt [graphic]
29. The politician [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the act directs, 2d May 1771.
- Call Number:
- 771.05.02.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdresser -- Hairdresser's implements: curling tongs -- Furniture: secretaire -- Busts: Oliver Cromwell's bust -- Side chairs -- Pictures amplifying subject: Don Quixote attacking a windmill -- Maps: wall map of Iberian Peninsula -- Wall map of British Isles -- Map of Falkland Islands -- Politics: relations with Spain -- Dispute over Falkland Islands -- House of Commons: Speaker's warrant -- Allusion to Norton Fletcher, 1716-1789 -- Allusion to Brass Crosby, 1725-1793, Lord Mayor of London, 1771 -- Allusion to Sir Philip Francis, 1740-1818, suspected to be Junius -- Literature: allusion to Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, 1547-1616 -- Eyeglasses.
- Publisher:
- Printed for S. Sledge, Printseller in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
- Subject (Name):
- North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The politician [graphic]
30. The well fed English constable [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 October 1771]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 26. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. Page 11. New London spy
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man in profile showing his enormous belly, holding a stick and with two dogs slavering at a dead fowl in his pocket."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., State without plate number. Cf. No. 4641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Food: fowl -- T. Guttle., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 34.8 x 24.2 cm, folded to 31 x 24.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 49 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Octr. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, engraver, No. 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Dogs, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The well fed English constable [graphic]
31. The well fed English constable [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 October 1771]
- Call Number:
- 771.10.01.03+ Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 26. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. Page 11. New London spy
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man in profile showing his enormous belly, holding a stick and with two dogs slavering at a dead fowl in his pocket."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., State without plate number. Cf. No. 4641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Food: fowl -- T. Guttle., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Octr. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, engraver, No. 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Dogs, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The well fed English constable [graphic]
32. The well fed English constable [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 October 1771]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 26. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. Page 11. New London spy
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man in profile showing his enormous belly, holding a stick and with two dogs slavering at a dead fowl in his pocket."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., State without plate number. Cf. No. 4641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Food: fowl -- T. Guttle., On leaf 26., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.4 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Octr. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, engraver, No. 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Dogs, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The well fed English constable [graphic]
33. Venus of Medicis [graphic]
- Creator:
- Thornthwaite, J., 1740?- printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1771 and 1795]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication based on printmaker's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 140 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Aphrodite (Greek deity),
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical antiquities and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Venus of Medicis [graphic]
34. William Beckford Esquire, twice Lord Mayor his speech to His Majesty King George the IIId on the 23d of May 1770 / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 29th May 1771.
- Call Number:
- Babb-Beckford no. 14++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of William Beckford, from his monument in the Guildhall; whole length, standing, looking to the left, wearing fur trimmed robes and garter chain; seated by his feet to the left is a female personification of the City of London weeping, and on the right the figure of Trade & Commerce shown slouching with head bowed; the statue stands on a large pedestal with long inscription addressed "Most Gracious Sovereign".
- Description:
- Title from text etched on the pedestal in image., Dedication etched at bottom of plate, above imprint: Humbly inscribed by permission to the Right Honble. Brass Crosby Esqr. Lord Mayor, the Worshipfull Court of Alderman, the Sheriffs & the Common Councilmen of the City of London by their much obliged humble servt. Jno. Smith., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left edge., and William Beckford: Sugar merchant with estates in Jamaica. Member of Parliament; Lord Mayor of London; supporter of Wilkes. Father of William Thomas Beckford, the author of "Vathek", to whom he left £1,000,000.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Jno. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Beckford, William, 1709-1770,
- Subject (Topic):
- Monuments & memorials and Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > William Beckford Esquire, twice Lord Mayor his speech to His Majesty King George the IIId on the 23d of May 1770 / [graphic]
