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1.
A French officer setting off for the post house at Boulon [graphic]

Published / Created:
[10 May 1779]
Call Number:
779.05.10.01.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., First state, without artist's name on plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs May 10, 1779 by W. Richardson No. 68 High Holborn
Subject (Topic):
Military officers and French
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A French officer setting off for the post house at Boulon [graphic]

2.
A meeting of city politician's [graphic].

Published / Created:
[30 July 1779]
Call Number:
779.07.30.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Men seated round a table, drinking, smoking, and reading newspapers. On the right. an artisan, wearing a flat cap and apron, drinks from a tankard while he reads 'The Morning Post'. Next him a man in back view reads 'The Daily Adver[tiser]', a monkey sitting on his shoulder, pulls the string-like queue of his ill-made wig. Next (l.), an elderly man in an arm-chair, wearing spectacles and a cap, holds up his hand as if to demand attention; he reads 'The London Chronicle', on which is inscribed "It is reputed that nixt [sic] sessions of Parliament, there will be a tax laid upon horn'd Cattle"; his neighbours listen to the news with expressions of consternation. The farther side of the table is crowded; one man reads 'The Evening Post', another the 'London Gazette', on which is inscribed "Extract of a Letter from America". Beneath the design is engraved: "With staring Eye, & Open Ear, Each Cobling, Horned, City seer, Swallow's down Politics with Beer. Neglects his Family & Calling. To enter into Party Brawling. Gets Drunk & Swears - the Nation's falling."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published July 30th, 1779, by WRichardson, No. 68 High Holborn
Subject (Topic):
Newspapers, Political parties, and Meetings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A meeting of city politician's [graphic].

3.
A view from Constitution Hill anno 1735 / [graphic]

Creator:
Scott, Edmund, approximately 1746-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 June 1779]
Call Number:
Folio 75 L847 750
Collection Title:
Leaf 63. London and its environs about 1750.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View in Green Park as it appeared in 1735, looking towards Westminster Abbey, only one of its towers completed, with Buckingham House before it became a royal residence at mid-distance on the right; a cow being milked in foreground to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Antiquarian repertory. London : Printed for the proprietors and sold by F. Blyth [etc.], 1775-1784, v. 3., Mounted to 24 x 37 cm., Leaf 63 in an album of views of London and its vicinity., and Pencil annotation on mounting sheet, in a later hand: Before the towers of West. Abbey were finished.
Publisher:
Published 1st June 1779 by Richd. Godfrey, No. 120 Long Acre
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Green Park (London, England),
Subject (Name):
Westminster Abbey, and Buckingham Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Cows
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A view from Constitution Hill anno 1735 / [graphic]

4.
A visit to the camp [graphic]

Published / Created:
[ca. 1779?]
Call Number:
Bunbury 779.12.01.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A version of British Museum satire no. 4765, in reverse. A narrow design with les sky and slightly less ground. Half of the dog on the left is cut off in the design. Two soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. The civilian gentleman have walking sticks tucked under their arms, and one carries a quizzing glass. The short, stout lady wears a large hooded cloak and carries a large umbrella
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Staffs (Sticks), Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A visit to the camp [graphic]

5.
Apothecaries, taylors, &c. conquering France and Spain [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 September 1779]
Call Number:
779.09.29.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A scene of disorder; men sitting and standing round a circular table; they are smoking, gesticulating and drinking. A very fat man, seated on the farther side of the table, wearing a hat and smoking, his hands folded, says,"we want men of Activity". His neighbour, also smoking, adds "To destroy all their Looms". The next man (left), clenching his fists, says, "Blood & Guts, what are we all about - our Armys are grazing in Idleness, like a Flock of Sheep till they die of the Rot - I'd send them to Slaughter all the Cattle on the Enemy's Coast & make the Papist Scoundrells keep a long Lent of it". A man (right) holding up a foaming tankard, says "Old England will never be conquer'd while we can Brew such Drink as this". A barber, a comb stuck in his hair, an implement for curling hair protruding from his pocket, leans back in his chair, saying, "We're all in the Suds - I could shew them a way to lower their French Toupees". On his right stands the figure of 'Prattle' (Atkinson of Pall Mall), as in BMSat 5603 but in reverse. He is saying, "Beg your Pardon my Dr Sir, meant no Offence my Dr Mr Tallow - too much Love & Respect - your Perfectly in the Right - of the same Opinion of my Led & I - they'll never Invade us as you say & my Lud Chatter observed to me the other Night at Lady Carbuncles". He is addressing a stout man standing on the left of the table, who flourishes a stick in his right hand while with a blow from his fist he overturns a punch-bowl, having upset a tankard, a lemon, and a number of wineglasses which are falling to the ground. He says "Dont Talk to me of your Dukes & your Lords, I'm a True Born Englishman, & dont care for Nobody not I - they dare not invade us - Damme they dare not - you Glister Pipe, you pitiful Plaister Spreader You------". A dog barks at him. A thin and rather ragged-looking man on his right, his hands in his breeches pockets, says "Invade us - Damme, what can Soup Meager do against Beef & Plumb Pudding"; a pair of scissors projecting from his coat-pocket shows that he is a tailor; his stockings are ungartered and his shoes are unbuckled. On the extreme left an elderly man with a tie-wig and wearing a hat and pince-nez, sits in a chair reading a newspaper; he holds up a hand in dismay saying, "All's lost". Behind stands a waiter, his napkin under his arm, saying "Dr Prattle says right - I'll go over to the Opposition and never drink another Pot with my Lords Footman". Hats are hung up on the wall, and a bracket-clock shows that it is one o'clock."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Apothecaries, tailors, &c. conquering France and Spain and Apothecaries, tailors, conquering France and Spain
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint. Imprint from British Museum catalogue., and Attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sept. 29th, 1779, by W. Humphrey
Subject (Topic):
Meetings and Eating & drinking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Apothecaries, taylors, &c. conquering France and Spain [graphic].

6.
Bombardinian conferring upon state affairs with one in office. [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1779?]
Call Number:
779.00.00.04+ Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Another and probably later version of BMSat 5606; the two men have labels coming from their mouths containing words, and are more correctly drawn. The house on the right. is a more important building and its door has a plate inscribed "Lieut: Genl Bombardi. . N° 40". Grey Cooper stands at a different angle, showing more than his profile, his forefinger is laid against his cheek. He is saying "Then - My Led and I - his Ledship introduced the Affair you and I know of". Sir R. Hamilton (Bombardinian) answers "Hum-Aye-Mum". The same quotation from Churchill is engraved under the title. An inscription etched in the lower right. corner has been obliterated, the last words seem to resemble "J. Sayers."."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker, publisher, and publication date from British Museum catalogue., One line of verse below title: "Important blanks in Natures mighty roll." Churchill., Traces of text burnished from plate in lower right corner of the image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Robert Hamilton, 4th Bt., d. 1786 (Bombardinian) -- Mythology: Temple of Fame on Parnassus -- Military uniforms: Lt. General, 40th Regiment of Foot -- Scandals: Sir Robert Hamilton, 1779 -- Dogs -- Cradles -- Orders: Order of the Thistle -- Literature: quotation from Charles Churchill, 1731-1764 -- Fame, with wreath and trumpet -- Bundles: childbed linens -- Documents -- Altars., and 1 print on laid paper: etching ; plate mark 34 x 25.8 cm., on sheet 39 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Sold at No. 227 Strand [i.e. William Humphrey]
Subject (Name):
Cooper, Grey, Sir, approximately 1726-1801
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bombardinian conferring upon state affairs with one in office. [graphic]

7.
Bombardinian conferring upon state affairs with one in office. [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1779?]
Call Number:
779.00.00.04+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Another and probably later version of BMSat 5606; the two men have labels coming from their mouths containing words, and are more correctly drawn. The house on the right. is a more important building and its door has a plate inscribed "Lieut: Genl Bombardi. . N° 40". Grey Cooper stands at a different angle, showing more than his profile, his forefinger is laid against his cheek. He is saying "Then - My Led and I - his Ledship introduced the Affair you and I know of". Sir R. Hamilton (Bombardinian) answers "Hum-Aye-Mum". The same quotation from Churchill is engraved under the title. An inscription etched in the lower right. corner has been obliterated, the last words seem to resemble "J. Sayers."."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker, publisher, and publication date from British Museum catalogue., One line of verse below title: "Important blanks in Natures mighty roll." Churchill., Traces of text burnished from plate in lower right corner of the image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Robert Hamilton, 4th Bt., d. 1786 (Bombardinian) -- Mythology: Temple of Fame on Parnassus -- Military uniforms: Lt. General, 40th Regiment of Foot -- Scandals: Sir Robert Hamilton, 1779 -- Dogs -- Cradles -- Orders: Order of the Thistle -- Literature: quotation from Charles Churchill, 1731-1764 -- Fame, with wreath and trumpet -- Bundles: childbed linens -- Documents -- Altars., Matted to 48 x 39 cm., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Sold at No. 227 Strand [i.e. William Humphrey]
Subject (Name):
Cooper, Grey, Sir, approximately 1726-1801
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bombardinian conferring upon state affairs with one in office. [graphic]

8.
Coxheath ho! [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 3d July 1779.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 93. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a large lady riding side-saddle on a nag, followed by a man on horseback accompanied by a dog.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in publication date is etched backward., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Warley ho!, Temporary local subject terms: Military., Mounted on page 93 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.3 x 31.1 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Dogs, and Traffic signs & signals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Coxheath ho! [graphic]

9.
Coxheath ho! [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 3d July 1779.
Call Number:
Bunbury 779.07.03.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 93. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a large lady riding side-saddle on a nag, followed by a man on horseback accompanied by a dog.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in publication date is etched backward., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Warley ho!, Temporary local subject terms: Military., and Mounted on modern secondary support.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Dogs, and Traffic signs & signals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Coxheath ho! [graphic]

10.
Damn Mambrino [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1779]
Call Number:
Bunbury 777.00.00.03.3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Later state, with the name of the racehorse in the title changed from "Bucephalus" to "Mambrino." Cf. no. 4730 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Date of publication based on curator's comments in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.91., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Watermark: V.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Damn Mambrino [graphic]

11.
Evelina [graphic]

Creator:
Walker, William, 1729-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 24, 1779.
Call Number:
779.11.24.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Probable book illustration to Fanny Burney's Evelina.
Publisher:
T. Lowndes
Subject (Name):
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Evelina [graphic]

12.
Hercules & Omphale in the Carlo Maratt room at Houghton / [graphic]

Creator:
Michel, Jean-Baptiste, 1748-1804, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1779]
Call Number:
Drawer 779.05.01.06
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Hercules and Omphale
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 3 i. long., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate VII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Venus & Cupid.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1779, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hercules & Omphale in the Carlo Maratt room at Houghton / [graphic]

14.
Miss Martha Ray [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1 May 1779]
Call Number:
523 H11 779cj
Collection Title:
Frontispiece. Case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance with the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Martha Ray; bust length, looking to left; in oval, with scene of her street murder beneath; illustration to unknown publication."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miss Martha Reay
Description:
Title from text in image., Bound in as frontispiece in an extra-illustrated copy of: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statment from bottom edge., and Mounted to 21.1 x 12.8 cm
Publisher:
Published 1st of May 1779 by Fielding & Walker, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Name):
Reay, Martha,
Subject (Topic):
Victims of crimes and Homicides
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Martha Ray [graphic].

15.
Miss Ray who was murdered April 7th 1779 / [graphic]

Creator:
Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 May 1779]
Call Number:
Portraits R288 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Martha Reay seated three-quarter length to right holding a book with musical notation, her head in three-quarter profile, her right elbow leaning on book with lettered on spine label "Jepih", on slab at left; against a backdrop of trees, with vista to the right
Alternative Title:
Miss Reay
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published May 24th 1779 by V. Green, No. 29 Newman Street, Oxford Street, & at No. 52 Strand and Chez les Frères Torre, marchands d'estampes
Subject (Name):
Reay, Martha,
Subject (Topic):
Women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Ray who was murdered April 7th 1779 / [graphic]

18.
Mrs. W-r Lord L-. [graphic]

Published / Created:
Decr 1, 1779.
Call Number:
779.12.01.04 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Margaret Woffington, Earl of Loudon, and Lord L
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed., and Subjects of the prints dentified as Earl of Loudon and Margaret Woffington. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published by A. Hamilton Junr ...
Subject (Name):
Loudon, John Campbell, Earl of, 1705-1782. and Woffington, Margaret, -1760.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. W-r Lord L-. [graphic]

19.
Paddy on horse-back [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 March 1779]
Call Number:
779.03.04.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An Irishman seated on a bull which is galloping across open country towards London, seen in the distance on the right., St. Paul's being visible. He wears a short jacket and ragged knee-breeches, his legs and feet are bare. His hair is dishevelled and he is urging on the bull with his hat, which is raised in his right hand. He sits facing the animal's tail, which he holds in his left hand. From his saddle-bag appear books: "St Pat . ." and "New System of Fortune Hunting"; a paper hangs out of it inscribed with a list of ladies with fortunes, beginning "Lady Mary Rotten Rump St James Square 30,000£". A sack inscribed "Potatoes" is tied to the bull in front of the saddle. A milestone shows that it is "IIII Miles from [London]".--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Paddy on horseback
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker and place of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 4th, 1779, by W. Humphrey
Subject (Topic):
Irish, Horses, and Ethnic stereotypes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Paddy on horse-back [graphic].

20.
Politeness [graphic].

Published / Created:
[ca. 1779]
Call Number:
779.12.08.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A more elaborate version of British Museum satire no. 5611 drawn with more freedom. A joint of beef hangs on the wall behind John Bull; a bundle of frogs behind the Frenchman. The Frenchman holds an open snuff-box instead of a bowl of soup; a laced hat is under his arm; he wears a bag-wig. John Bull's tankard is inscribed "John Bull the Buttock of Beef. . ." Beneath the design is etched: "With Porter Roast Beef & Plumb Pudding well cram'd, Jack English declares that Monsr may be D------d. The Soup Meagre Frenchman such Language dont suit, So he Grins Indignation & calls him a Brute.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Approximate date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Another publication line, "Pubd. by J. Aitken, No. 14 Castle Street, London," has been nearly obliterated at bottom of plate by several etched lines forming the lower border., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by H. Humphrey, St. James Street
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), National characteristics, English, and National characteristics, French
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Politeness [graphic].