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1. A new posture in Aretine's Manner. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [1748]
- Call Number:
- 748.00.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire on Pietro Aretino's (1492-1556) Aretino, the author many licentious poems
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker identified from the address in the imprint., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: Giving a loose to all the joys of love, / The wanton pair new postures seek to prove ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: music room -- Reference to postures -- Reference to Damon, fl. 387 BC -- Music sheets -- Harpsichord -- Violin -- Female dress: slippers, ca. 1748 -- Gilt pier table -- Furnishings: gilt mirror -- Gilt wall bracket and shelf -- Furniture: couch with paw feet -- Dishes: china bowl -- Sex: copulation., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
- Publisher:
- 1748, according to Act of Parliam't, Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
- Subject (Topic):
- Musicians and Musical instruments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new posture in Aretine's Manner. [graphic]
2. A view of the great fire works on account of [the] general peace exhibiting the curious piece of architecture erected on that occasion ... [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 3, 1748.
- Call Number:
- Topos L847 no. 31+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- View of the great fireworks on account of [the] general peace
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Text below title: This elegant piece of architecture is 410 long & 105 feet high, is embellish'd with statues of Justice, Prudence, Fortitude ..., and Sheet numbered "130" in ink in upper right corner.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Tho. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., and London (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Fireworks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view of the great fire works on account of [the] general peace exhibiting the curious piece of architecture erected on that occasion ... [graphic]
3. Frances Dutchess of Suffolk and her husband Adrian Stokes Esqr [graphic]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1748]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Double portrait of Frances Brandon and Adrian Stokes; she on the left, holding a glove in her right hand on a cushion, touching her necklace with the other, he on the right, holding his gloves to his chest in his left hand; with a cartouche on the base of the plinth forming the lower part of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state and "One of nine plates Vertue engraved of 'Historical Portraitures' (see Alexander nos. 854-857, 921-924 and 954), from copies he made after paintings relating to the Tudor family, issued in three parts: the first four were published in 1743 and advertised in his 1751 catalogue at £1.11s.6d; the second four were published in 1748 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £1.1s; the last print was published in 1750 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £7.7s. They were all republished as a set by the Society of Antiquaries in 1776, together with Vertue's notes on the pictures which he presented to the Society and plate numbers."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
- Alternative Title:
- Frances Duchess of Suffolk and her husband Adrian Stokes Esqr
- Description:
- Title engraved within cartouche below image., Published by George Vertue; see Alexander, page 223., Three lines of text below image, on either side of cartouche containing title: This Noble Lady was eldest daughter of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary the French Queen his Dutchess; she was married to Henry Grey Marquess of Dorset and Duke of Suffolk &c. the mother of Lady Jane Grey who was proclaimed Queen., "From an original in the cabinet of the Honble. Horace Walpole Junr. Esqr."--Lower left corner of plate., "Most humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient servant G. Vertue"--Lower right corner of plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate republished in 1776 with added plate number by the Society of Antiquaries of London. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Y,5.142., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 219., Mounted on page 126 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- George Vertue
- Subject (Name):
- Suffolk, Frances Brandon Grey, Duchess of, 1517-1559,, Stokes, Adrian, 1519-1585,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Frances Dutchess of Suffolk and her husband Adrian Stokes Esqr [graphic]
4. Ironmongers Hall with a view of Fenchurch Street L'Hotel des Ferronniers dans la Rue de Fenchurch a Londres / [graphic] =
- Creator:
- Bowles, Thomas, -1767, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1748 and 1750]
- Call Number:
- Topos L847 no. 40+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View along Fenchurch Street; the hall on the right; carts, carriages and pedestrians in street"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Hotel des Ferronniers dans la Rue de Fenchurch a Londres
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., and Watermark: Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, John Bowles in Cornhil [sic], and R. Sayer in Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Guilds and Streets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ironmongers Hall with a view of Fenchurch Street L'Hotel des Ferronniers dans la Rue de Fenchurch a Londres / [graphic] =
5. Jaco-independo-rebello-plaido [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- Febr. [the] 13th, 1747 [that is, 27 June 1748?]
- Call Number:
- 748.02.13.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Second state of British Museum catalogue no. 2856., "Price 6d"--Lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Independent Electors of Westminster -- Trades: butcher -- M. Trompée -- Nicknames: Count Newport -- Nicknames: Cout Neuf Puerto -- Navy: sailors -- Beverages: taplash -- Scots -- Buildings: Westminster Hall -- Elections: Westminster elections, June 1747 -- Demons: demon with halter and axe -- Emblems: constable's staff -- Clerks -- Outdoord scenes: New Palace Yard -- Lascar -- Nicknames: Trott Plaid (Henry Fielding) -- Rebels -- Jacobites..
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Morgan, David Thomas, ca. 1695-1746, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754, and Warren, Peter, Sir, 1703-1752
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Jaco-independo-rebello-plaido [graphic]
6. Locusts [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1748]
- Call Number:
- 748.00.00.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of eight locusts is gathered in the foreground; each is numbered and identified in the key below image. A long procession of other locusts in the background is walking on Whitehall by the Banqueting House to Holbein's Gate, while a swarm of more locusts descends on the Banqueting House. Some of them landed on the trees leaving them denuded
- Description:
- Title from item., Text below title: And [the] Locusts rested in all [the] Coasts of Egypt ..., Key below image, in four columns: 1. Found at St. James's; 2. found in Staffordshire; 3. found in Bloomsbury; 4. found in Lincolns Innfields; 5. the fellon to the fourth; 6. a female locust found at Yarmouth; 7. found near Huntingon; 8. found in Worcestershire., and Watermarks: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Whitehall (London, England), Banqueting House (London, England), and Holbein's Gate (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Locusts [graphic].
7. Quackery unmask'd, or, Empiricism display'd dedicated to Doctor Chiron riding master to Achilles and Aescupalius physician extraordinary to the dead. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliamt, 1748.
- Call Number:
- 748.05.17.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Empiricism display'd, Quackery unmasked, and Empiricism displayed
- Description:
- Title from item., Publisher's name from address in imprint., Publisher's announcement following imprint: & 100 more., Quotation from Ovid's Metamorphoses below image: In nova fert animis mutatas dicere formas corpora. Dii [sic] cœptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis. Oivd, Met. Lib. 1., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Thus modern empiricks are taught the art, By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part ..., Temporary local subject terms: Lecture Halls -- Quackery -- Quacks: 'Baron Schwanberg' -- 'G. West' -- 'Dr. Rock' -- Edmund Neeler, 'Carpenter Hamersmith' -- Medicine: quack pills -- Quack powders -- Medical implements: reference to clyster pipe -- Birds: crows -- Owl -- Animals: dogs -- Ass -- Sheep -- Horse -- Skulls., and Watermark: countermark IV.
- Publisher:
- Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Gardern
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Quackery unmask'd, or, Empiricism display'd dedicated to Doctor Chiron riding master to Achilles and Aescupalius physician extraordinary to the dead. [graphic]
8. Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publishd December [the] 8th 1748.
- Call Number:
- 748.12.08.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- The White Horse of Hanover -- British territorial concessions: Cape Breton to France.
- Publisher:
- Publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377, Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422, Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Cathcart, Charles Schaw Cathcart, Lord, 1721-1776, Sussex, George Augustus Yelverton, Earl of, 1727-1758, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, Devil, Hostages, Military uniforms, British, National emblems, and Hanoverian
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis [graphic].
9. The congress of brutes [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1748]
- Call Number:
- 748.05.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire of the Congress and Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle with references to Silesia and Gibraltar and the territorial concessions made by the British, specifically relinguishing Capr Breton to France. Here the European powers are represented as beasts: France is depicted as a crowing cock; England as lion; Holland as boar; Genoa as dog; Prussia as wolf; Spain as leopard; Germany as griffin; Austria as eagle; and the Duchy of Lorraine as dog
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 10., Watermark: Pro patria., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Europe
- Subject (Topic):
- Foreign relations, Politics and government, Animals in human situations, Roosters, Lions, Boars, Dogs, Wolves, Eagles, Leopards, and Griffins
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The congress of brutes [graphic].
