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28. The treaty of commerce, or New coalition
- Published / Created:
- [26 February 1787]
- Call Number:
- 787.02.26.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- New coalition
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Commercial treaty with France, 1786 -- Puns: Artist's and engraver's names -- Allusion to the Massacre, St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572 -- Eating English food -- Drinking French wine -- Allusion to French faith, or the virtuous individual., Watermark in center of sheet: J. Whatman., and Mounted to 28.5 x 43 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub'd Feby. 26, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The treaty of commerce, or New coalition
29. The village ale-house [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grozer, J. (Joseph), printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 April 1787]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 53. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Interior scene in a tavern, at left a woman rasies a large tankard to her lips, the man sitting near her with his hand around her waist, another customer sitting beside them encourages her to take a drink, a cigar(?) in his hand, behind a woman bends down to tend to the fire, across the room at right a patron sits reading from a newspaper, a smartly dressed man with a lantern(?) in hand standing beside him, another in labourers clothes leans on the back of his chair at right; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: verse: No more the farmer's news, the barbers tale, no more, the woodman's ballad shall prevail, no more the smith his duskey brow shall clear, relax his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear; the host himself, no longer shall be found, carefull to see the mantling bliss go round; nor the coy maid, half willing to be press'd, shall kiss the cup, and pass it to the rest. Goldsmith., Illustration to Oliver Goldsmith's poem 'The deserted village'., and Mounted on page 53 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Published April 7th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, and Newspapers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The village ale-house [graphic]
30. Tithes in kind [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1787]
- Call Number:
- 787.03.16.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A pretty young girl with long hair under a huge mob cap sits on the knees of a fat clergyman who in turn sits astride a cart made from a cask of ale marked 'October'. One of the wheels of this cart is labelled "Cheshire"; the cart is being pulled by a sow whose three babies are suckling her. The clergyman is kissing the girl and holding a glass in his right hand. A devil stands on the back of the cask looking over the clergyman's head and the tip of his tail is in the glass. A signpost to the right reads "To the Bottom". A boar follows the cart at a distance. In the distant background on the left is a church
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- 1787 Published by Boyne & Walker, March 16 Gr. Turnstile
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy and Tithes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tithes in kind [graphic].
31. Turtle & venison in high perfection [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Aug. 30, 1787.
- Call Number:
- 787.08.30.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Turtle and venison in high perfection
- Description:
- Title from item., Verse below title: Divide me like a bribe-buck, each a haunch, Shakespeare., Sheet trimmed to thread margins of plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation: Shakespeare -- Obese man -- Warts., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. for the proprietor by W. Moore, No. 48 New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Turtle & venison in high perfection [graphic].
32. [The repose] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Pettit, John, active 1780-1790, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 April 1787]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 62. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young man in a cap sitting on a basket, smoking a pipe, a tankard in his hand, resting on his crossed legs, his right arm draped over the back of a chair at left, his hat fallen on the ground beside; circular design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Description:
- Title from later state., Early state, before addition of title and before alterations to publication year and publisher's street address in imprint. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.440., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 62 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Title written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: The repose.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs April 7th, 1787, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs, Baskets, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The repose] [graphic]
