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1.
A late Lord Mayor of London from the marble statue of Mr. Moore lately exhibited in Pall Mall

Published / Created:
[1772]
Call Number:
772.00.00.54
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: June 21, 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., and Temporary local subject terms: Statues: statue of William Beckford by John Francis Moore, 1772 -- Speeches: reference to Beckford's speech in the House of Commons, November 1766 -- Male dress: alderman's robes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A late Lord Mayor of London from the marble statue of Mr. Moore lately exhibited in Pall Mall. [graphic]

2.
The India directors in the suds [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1772]
Call Number:
772.00.00.49
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The administrators of the East India Company are confronted with the image of East Indian merchants. A letter of apology lies at the feet of the one director who stands up in fright, his chair overturned behind him
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate from: Town and country magazine, v. 4, supplement (1772), page 705., Illustration to dialogue: The directors in the suds, or, The Jaghire dismayed at the ghosts of the black merchants., and Placement instructions above image: Vol. IV ; No. XXXIX.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Colebrooke, George, Sir, 1729-1809, Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774, and East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Administration, East Indians, Merchants, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The India directors in the suds [graphic].

3.
The Genius of the London Magazine unmasking the Times [graphic].

Creator:
Bonnor, Thomas, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1772]
Call Number:
772.01.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece from: London magazine, or Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London: Printed by C. Ackers, for J. Wilford ... v. 41(1772)., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: London Magazine -- Personifications: Times -- Harlequin -- London: city arms., This impression trimmed within plate mark. Plate was cut into two between image and title resulting in loss of the first part of the title and the statement of responsibility, then pasted together on another sheet., and Mounted to 21 x 14 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Genius of the London Magazine unmasking the Times [graphic].

4.
[Hibernia in distress] [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1772]
Call Number:
772.01.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Hibernia lies on the ground with her harp broken. On a table (left) are two money bags, one full and labelled "Exchequer", the other decorated with the Irish harp and almost empty. Into this Lord North is plunging his hand while an African with outstretched hand says: "Don't forget poor Mungo my good Ld N------h". A man in hat and laced coat is trampling on Hibernia, saying to a bystander: "Sr George we must keep her down". Sir George [Macartney] answers: "Ay my Ld T------d. [Townshend] and exert ourselves or she will be too Strong for us"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from the index to the magazine. See British Museum catalogue., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to the article, The history of the late Parliament in Ireland, published in the London Magazine, v. 41 (1772)., Plate from: London magazine, or Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed by C. Ackers, v. 41 (1772), page 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Hibernia -- Bags of money -- Reference to the Exchequer's Office -- Reference to the Irish revenues -- Harlequin -- Blacks: politicians as blacks -- Musical instruments -- Furniture.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806, and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807
Subject (Topic):
Money, Lyres, and Tables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Hibernia in distress] [graphic].

5.
The young cub attended by [the] clerks of [the] Ad----l-ty at Ar--rs in the kitchen whilst the

Published / Created:
[1 February 1772]
Call Number:
772.02.01.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Young cub attended by the clerks of the Admiralty at Arthurs
Description:
Title from text below image., Publication place and date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to a letter describing Charles James Fox's gambling proclivities while in the post of the Lord of the Admiralty., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 28., and Temporary local subject terms: Clubs: Arthur's -- Domestic service: scullion boy -- Reference to the Lord of Admiralty -- Admiralty clerks -- Reference to Hoyle.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Chickens, Clerks, Cooks, Dogs, Food, Foxes, Gambling, Kitchens, Servants, and Tableware
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The young cub attended by [the] clerks of [the] Ad----l-ty at Ar--rs in the kitchen whilst the French cook & scullion boy laugh at him [graphic].

6.
Troops fording a brook [graphic]

Published / Created:
25 Jany. 1772.
Call Number:
772.01.25.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item. and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Grenadiers -- River crossing -- Buildings: cottage -- Dogs.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Troops fording a brook [graphic]

7.
The D--g-r Queen riding poor D--m--k [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1772]
Call Number:
772.02.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A skimmington procession : on a sorry-looking horse a man and woman sit astride, back to back; the woman, richly dressed, sits in front, her skirts pushed back to show breeches. In her right. hand is a pistol, in her left. a sword. The man holds a distaff. The procession is headed by a man (r.) holding aloft on a pole a petticoat and a pair of horns. Behind him walks a man beating a drum. Behind the horse is a woman carrying a broom over her shoulder and a woman blowing a horn. A spectator points and jeers, another walks with folded arms."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dowager Queen riding poor Denmark
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to a description of the palace revolution in Denmark in 1772., and Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 56.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway, 1749-1808 and Caroline Mathilde, Queen, consort of Christian VII, King of Denmark, 1751-1775
Subject (Topic):
Adultery and Parades & processions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The D--g-r Queen riding poor D--m--k [graphic].

8.
A ladies maid purchasing a leek [graphic]

Creator:
Caldwall, James, 1739-1819, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1772]
Call Number:
772.03.01.01.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., Publication date of the state published by Smith and Sayer. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, no. 4603., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: street vendor -- Food: vegetables -- Domestic service: lady's maid -- Containers: large basket., and Watermark: Strasburg lily, mostly trimmed.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A ladies maid purchasing a leek [graphic]

9.
The macaroni cauldron [graphic].

Published / Created:
[9 March 1772]
Call Number:
772.03.09.01+
Collection Title:
Leaf 15. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a macaroni standing and throwing dice on a table around which five men wearing pointed hats with eye-shades in front are seated."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state and Eight lines of text from the Epilogue to The Grecian Daughter etched on the table cover within image: Bubble, bubble, yoil and trouble, Passions burn, And bets are double! ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Printseller's announcement in lower left corner of plate: To be had with many other Macaronies pubd. by MDarly (39) Strand., Eight lines of verse from Epilogue to the Grecian daughter in two columns on either side of title: Some muffled, like the witches in Macbeth, brood o'er the magic circle, pale as death! ..., For a variant state with plate number "17" etched in upper left corner, see no. 4829 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Club and toupee wigs -- Gamblers' hats -- Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland (1745-1774) -- Allusion to anti-gambling legislation -- Literature: Allusion to Macbeth -- Literature: Allusion to and quotation from the Epilogue to The Grecian daughter, by Arthur Murphy (1727-1805)., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act March 9, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Wigs, Gambling, Hats, Furniture, and Chairs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The macaroni cauldron [graphic].

10.
The allemande dance [graphic]

Creator:
Caldwall, James, 1739-1819, printmaker
Published / Created:
published as the act directs, 20 March 1772.
Call Number:
772.03.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the center of a panelled ballroom, a couple dance together, an older man standing behind his younger, pretty partner holds her outstretched hands by the finger-tips. She looks serious; he leers towards her. On each side of the room seated elderly spectators are in conversation pointing to, or looking at, the dancers. On the right a fiddler and a flute-player in a small musician's gallery play to the dancers and spectators below. Lighted candles are in carved sconces on the wall
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside & R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Couples, Dance, Evening gowns, Musicians, Sconces, and Spectators
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The allemande dance [graphic]

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