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1.
The capricious marchioness The boisterous lover. [graphic]

Published / Created:
Feb. 1, 1779.
Call Number:
779.02.01.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Bust-length portraits of a woman to the left and a man to the right, each in an oval with bow above
Alternative Title:
Boisterous lover
Description:
Title etched below images.
Publisher:
Published by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The capricious marchioness The boisterous lover. [graphic]

2.
Politeness [graphic].

Published / Created:
[ca. 1779]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
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., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 20.0 x 27.4 cm, on sheet 22.0 x 29.6 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman 1811., and Mounted on leaf 5 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. by H. Humphrey, St. James Street
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), National characteristics, English, and National characteristics, French
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Politeness [graphic].

3.
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].

4.
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]

5.
Price's cut glass manufactory, Sherrard Street, St. James's from Mr. Parker's, Fleet Street

Creator:
Lockington, John, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1779?]
Call Number:
66 800 C69
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from pencil annotation on impression in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,66.42., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Publisher:
John Price
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Glass manufacture and Urns
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Price's cut glass manufactory, Sherrard Street, St. James's from Mr. Parker's, Fleet Street / [graphic]

6.
Weddell, jeweller, Hyde Street, Bloomsbury [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1779?]
Call Number:
66 800 C69
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from pencil annotation on impression in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,67.230, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "No. 32" engraved at top of image; "Jewels set in [the] most elegant taste" engraved within banner below numbering., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Publisher:
Weddell
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Jewelers and Putti
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Weddell, jeweller, Hyde Street, Bloomsbury [graphic]

7.
The Revd. James Hackman [graphic]

Creator:
Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 24, 1779.
Call Number:
523 H11 779cj
Collection Title:
Before frontispiece. Case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of James Hackman, half-length, in an oval, in profile to the right, dressed in a dark frockcoat over his waistcoat, his hair curled and powdered and with a black patch on his forehead."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Reverend James Hackman
Description:
Title etched below image., Frontispiece to: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance with the late Miss Martha Reay. London : Printed for G. Kearsly, near Serjeants-Inn, Fleet-street, 1779., Leaf before frontispiece, in an extra-illustrated copy of: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman ..., and Originally issued as the frontispiece, this plate is separated from the title page here by another plate (a portrait of Martha Reay) that was inserted into this copy.
Publisher:
Published by G. Kearsly in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Hackman, James, 1752-1779,
Subject (Topic):
Criminals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Revd. James Hackman [graphic]

8.
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]

9.
William Crotch [graphic]

Creator:
Fittler, James, 1758-1835, printmaker
Published / Created:
[12 May 1779]
Call Number:
Portraits C951 no.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the infant musical genius William Crotch; aged 3, half length, full face; holding music sheet; wearing feathered hat; oval on pedastal with musical ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text on pedestal within image., Two lines of biographical information beneath image: This celebrated child who discover'd extraordinary talents for music during the third year of his age, was born at Norwich July 5th, 1775., Dedication at bottom of plate: To Sir Harbord Harbord Bt. L.L.D. this plate is by permission most humbly inscribed by his faithful and obedient servant, Isabella Crotch., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament May 12th, 1779, by Mrs. Crotch, near St. James's Street, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Crotch, William, 1775-1847,
Subject (Topic):
Gifted children and Musicians
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > William Crotch [graphic]

10.
Ruins of the abbey of St. Edmund at Bury [graphic]

Creator:
Godfrey, Richard Bernard, approximately 1728- printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1779]
Call Number:
Topos Su946 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1779, by Richd. Godfrey, No. 120 Long Acre
Subject (Geographic):
England and Suffolk.
Subject (Topic):
Ruins and Abbeys
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ruins of the abbey of St. Edmund at Bury [graphic]

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