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1. A good story [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1780?]
- Call Number:
- 780.00.00.12
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item. and Publication date conjectured from content.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by R. Sayer ... , No. 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Eating & drinking and Smoking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A good story [graphic].
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. and Sheet trimmed.
- 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 see Cannons without Carriages and Carriages without Cannons. There you see Generals without Orders there you see &c. &c." The show-box is supported on trestles. Amherst is in general's uniform, wearing the ribbon of the Bath. Behind him, partly cut off by the left margin of the print, stands a Grenadier at attention, holding a musket; he watches the general with a grin. Beneath the design is engraved: "Col Mushrooms Compts to Lord Am------t recommends this cheap but Satisfactory mode of viewing distant Garrisons hopes his Lordship has received the Golden Pippins a few of them are for his Secretary.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Vieu of Plymouth and View of Plymouth
- Description:
- Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- 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., Engraved after a miniature by Zincke which was done after a painting by Peter Lely., Date supplied by cataloger., and Text etched within border surrounding circular image: Hôc juvenem egregium praestanti munere donat. Virg.
- 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 holding a standard with the arms of the county inscribed "County of York 30 Decr 1779" (the date of the meeting at which it was agreed to present a petition and prepare a plan for an Association to secure reform). He holds a paper inscribed "Petition" and says, "Virtue & Fortitude shall Guide us". Representatives of the other petitioning and associating counties follow, with the appropriate dates on labels issuing from their mouths: ...". The last man carries an ensign flag on which is inscribed "London Newcastle upon Tyne Bristol Westminster &c. &c. &c." Beneath the procession is engraved "Immortal Gods! What Honor waits the men who save their Country from impending Ruin." The leader is probably intended for Sir George Savile. On the left George III is seated in his closet; a young man stands before him addressing, not the king, but an imaginary audience, saying, "The only Patriot His Power is too Confined". This is perhaps intended for Lord George Gordon's private interview with the King on 27 Jan. 1780; ... . Outside the door of the royal closet and facing the petitioners is a monster with wings and three heads, breathing fire. In the lower right, ... Britannia sits on a ruinous stone pedestal which is being further undermined by a female figure with a forked tail and the legs of a satyr; she is applying a lever to its base saying, "And shall not I, Corruption is my name, Undermine the British Constitution". Lord North attacks the pedestal with a pickaxe, saying, "I will assist you Sister in the same Design". Bute, in Highland dress with the Garter ribbon and star, flourishes a broadsword, while he takes from Britannia the staff and cap of Liberty; he says, "Away wi ye to the Deel Where is your Liberty now". Britannia, holding her shield and 'Magna Carta', says to the marching petitioners above her head, "Tis you alone my Friends who can revive my Drooping Hopes & save me from Distraction". Behind Britannia (left) and in a glory of rays stands a man inscribed "Chatham" with outstretched arms, saying "O Cleanse Yon Augean Stable". He points towards the design beneath the king's closet. This represents the House of Commons (left); the Speaker in his chair, members seated on each side of a table. It is seen through two pillars, up one (right) climbs an alligator, round the other is a serpent with a branch of apples in its mouth. Above is inscribed "Ruled by Powerful Influence". A procession of members walks (left to right) from the House up a path leading to the door of the king's closet above. They carry scrolls inscribed "25 000"; "5000"; "£40,000"; "15,000 £10,000, £50 000". One says, "Secure in the Enjoyment of Places Pensions & Emoluments of Office we fear not the Clamour of Yorkshire Clodpoles"; another says, "God help the Rich the Poor can beg". Their leader carries an "Address of Thanks". Beneath this gang of ministerialists a mythological figure leaning against an anchor and a gushing water-conduit (? Neptune) says,"Is there not some Chosen Curses, ... Public Treasure Wasted in Corrupting the Morals of the People". He is saying, "No New Taxes but a Retrenchment of Public Expences.""--British Museum online catalogue
- 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 Street London are manufactured & sold all sorts of emboss'd chints & common papers for rooms ... [graphic]
- 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. and Date from dealer's catalog.
- 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 grenadier's cap. In the far distance is a horse-drawn covered wagon
- Description:
- Title from item. and Date from British Museum online catalogue.
- 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 sea nymphs bear portraits of some of the most eminent naval commanders in the glorious war of 1756 [graphic]
- 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. and Plate from: Hervey, F. The naval history of Great Britain: from the earliest times to the rising of the Parliament in 1779 ... London : W. Adlard, for J. Bew, 1779.
- 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 by a glory of rays. He holds up a circular glass to the king, who looks through it with an expression of alarm. On the back of the king's chair is a crown surmounted by a weathercock which points to the South, probably to indicate that North's power is over, cf. BMSat 5659. Under his feet are torn county petitions, and an open book, "Lock on Government". The petitions are those of York, Westminster, Middlesex, Hampshire, Surrey. There is also the design of the façade of a building inscribed, "The Elevation of [a] Baby House". The leaders of the procession, who are on the brink of the pit, are the kings of France and Spain. A devil (right) with wings, horns, and a long barbed tail, points into the pit. Behind the two kings come North and Sandwich. North holds a rolled document inscribed "Taxes". Under his arm is a large money-bag with a gaping hole in it, by which is an open book or paper inscribed "New Way to pay old Debts, A Farce by Boreas" (Massinger's comedy had recently been revived at Drury Lane). On his right Sandwich walks with his arms folded, a paper under his arm is inscribed "Catches & Glees Mr Arne" (Arne (1710-78), the musical composer, is generally styled Dr; Sandwich was "the soul of the Catch Club", see BMSat 5342). From his pocket protrude papers, one inscribed "Greenwich Hospital", in allusion to the scandal caused by Captain Baillie's exposure of abuses there, see BMSat 5548. The other is inscribed "Love & Madness"; this is the title of a series of fictitious letters recently published purporting to be the correspondence of Hackman and Martha Ray, Sandwich's mistress, see BMSat 5540, &c, but really by Herbert Croft. See Walpole, 'Letters', xi. 139-40,13 Mar. 1780. Behind come Mansfield, in judge's wig and robes, and Bute in Highland dress, both with expressions of despair; they are being hurried along by a man with the face of a fiend who has seized Mansfield by the arm and Bute by the shoulders. Beside them walks a Dutchman, his hands in his breeches pockets, being propelled from behind by a devil, significant of the unpopularity of the Dutch Republic,"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Peep into futurity
- Description:
- Title from item. and Trimmed within plate line.
- 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].
