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1. "An angel gliding on a sun-beam into Paradice," Milton [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [11 October 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.10.11.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mrs. Schwellenberg, enormously fat and heavily laden, supported by small wings, floats or falls head foremost down a broad slanting ray, which extends from a sun with a crown in its centre in the upper right corner of the print and stretches across the sea to a castellated town flying a flag inscribed 'Hanover'. Half only of the crown and sun is visible. Her massive legs terminate in tiny feet. In her arms are two large money-bags, labelled 'Pr Ann.' and '£1000000'. Her bulging pocket hangs downwards, a rosary and cross hanging from it."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Angel gliding on a sunbeam into Paradise
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of quoted text below title: "Down thither, prone in flight, lo Schwelly speeds, & with her brings the gems and spoils of Heav'n.", Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Angels -- Sunbeams -- Bags of money -- Rosaries -- House of Hanover -- Crowns -- Allusion to George III -- Allusion to Queen Charlotte -- Literature: altered quotation from John Milton's (1608-1674) Paradise Lost., and Watermark: S. Lay.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Octr. 11th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "An angel gliding on a sun-beam into Paradice," Milton [graphic].
2. "Oh! that this too too solid flesh would melt" [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 March 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.03.20.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A very short and corpulent woman stands full face, her handkerchief is raised towards her face as if to mop it, her left arm is clasped by a man of similar proportions, who kneels in profile to the left, looking up at her with a pained expression."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text in lower right corner below image: Design'd for the Shakespeare Gallery., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Parody on Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery -- Obesity.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 20th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Oh! that this too too solid flesh would melt" [graphic].
3. "Patience on a monument" engrav'd from a modern antique in the possession of the General. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [19 September 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.09.19.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The design simulates a pyramidal monument in bas relief against a stone wall, supported on short Corinthian pilasters between which is an inscription. On the face of the pyramid Lady Cecilia Johnston, is seated in profile to the right on a round close-stool. She is thin and witch-like, her chin is support by her left hand, the elbow resting on her knee. In her right hand is a torn paper inscribed 'Tranquility'. Behind the stool stands a little cupid holding his nose; in his left hand is a torch, reversed. On the ground (right) are bones and two skulls which gaze at Lady Cecilia. Beneath is the inscription: "By Patience, minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low; Patience the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm: Patience can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please, This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Husbands ears, confind the sound." Vide St Cecilias Day."--British Museum online catalogue and The allusions are to St. Cecilia (died 177) and to Cecilla's husband General James Johnston. Also allusion to Shakespeare's Othello, iv.2.61-3 and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, ii.4.111
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 34 x 24 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Septr. 19th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817 and Johnston, James Lesslie, 1697 or 1698-1789.
- Subject (Topic):
- Defecation, Monuments & memorials, Putti, and Skull & crossbones
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Patience on a monument" engrav'd from a modern antique in the possession of the General. [graphic]
4. "The accusing spirit which flew up to heavens chancery with the oath blush'd as he gave it in, and the recording angel as he "wrote it down dropt a tear upon the word and blotted it out for ever". [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 April 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.04.08.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Recording Angel sits full face in the upper part of the design, writing at a long scroll, which rests on a small but very solid rectangular table supported on billowing clouds. He is a sulky-faced naked child, with wide-spread wings and wearing a nightcap. A large tear falls from his right eye. The Accusing Spirit, a bald-headed, elderly man, his face blotched with drink, with wings and wearing a long robe, in profile to the right, holds up to the Angel a paper inscribed "He shall not dye by xxx". The winged heads of a man and woman, poised on the claws of birds of prey, rest on clouds in the upper left corner of the design; he regards her insinuatingly, she grins back. A cherub's winged head flies behind the Accusing Spirit. Rays of light fall diagonally from the right on the Recording Angel. Billowing clouds complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Text below title: Dedicated (without permission) to the Revd. Mr. Peters.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 8th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Peters, Matthew William, 1741 or 1742-1814.
- Subject (Topic):
- Angels, Putti, and Scrolls (Visual works)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "The accusing spirit which flew up to heavens chancery with the oath blush'd as he gave it in, and the recording angel as he "wrote it down dropt a tear upon the word and blotted it out for ever". [graphic]
5. "The rights of man, or, Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 May 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.05.23.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A grotesquely caricatured, thin and ragged Tom Paine, dressed as a tailor with huge scissors hanging from his pants, kneels before a gigantic crown; he uses a tape measure to determine its dimensions. He wears a French-style hat with a cockade inscribed "vive la liberty". He ruminates on his task,a satire on the first part of his Rights of man
- Alternative Title:
- Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., At top of design: Humbly dedicated to the Jacobine clubs of France and England by Common Sense. "These are your gods, O, Israel!", Plate shows signs of reworking; 'the' following 'Tommy Paine' in title etched twice, with the repeated word on the second line of title scored through and mostly burnished from plate., and Mounted to 43 x 29 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 23th [sic], 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, and Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
- Subject (Topic):
- Symbols, Tailors, and Tailoring
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "The rights of man, or, Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches [graphic].
6. A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the - Revolution Society [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 July 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.07.23.01++ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" [see BMSat 7892]. On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned, see BMSats 4223-4226.) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility, cf. BMSat 7652). On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance". On the wall above Foxs head is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral; from the façade emerge the heads of three pigs feeding from a trough. This is 'A Pig's-Stye \ a View from Hackney' (an allusion to Priestley's congregation at the Gravel Pit chapel. Hackney, where he had succeeded Price)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 23d, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the - Revolution Society [graphic].
7. A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the - Revolution Society [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 July 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.07.23.01++ Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" [see BMSat 7892]. On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned, see BMSats 4223-4226.) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility, cf. BMSat 7652). On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance". On the wall above Foxs head is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral; from the façade emerge the heads of three pigs feeding from a trough. This is 'A Pig's-Stye \ a View from Hackney' (an allusion to Priestley's congregation at the Gravel Pit chapel. Hackney, where he had succeeded Price)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., 1 print : etching, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 280 x 496 mm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges, and two holes have been cut from sheet and repaired., Added in contemporary hand in lower right of sheet: These are the Friends of the Constitution., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 23d, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the - Revolution Society [graphic].
8. A beau 1700 A beau 1791. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [22 November 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.11.22.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Two superimposed prints connected at the top edge by a paper hinge. The face of the print on top (Beau 1700) has been cut out to show the face of Beau 1791. Each is fashionably dressed in the respective styles of the period
- Alternative Title:
- Beau 1791
- Description:
- Title engraved above images., Sheets trimmed mostly within plate mark., Two lines of verse below Beau 1700: Then the full flaxen wig, spread o'er the shoulders ..., Two lines of verse below Beau 1791: But now the whole's revers'd -- each fop appears ..., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Novr. 22, 1791, by C. Fourdrinier, Junr., Charing Cross
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dandies, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A beau 1700 A beau 1791. [graphic]
9. A beau 1700 A beau 1791. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [22 November 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.11.22.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Two superimposed prints connected at the top edge by a paper hinge. The face of the print on top (Beau 1700) has been cut out to show the face of Beau 1791. Each is fashionably dressed in the respective styles of the period
- Alternative Title:
- Beau 1791
- Description:
- Title engraved above images., Sheets trimmed mostly within plate mark., Two lines of verse below Beau 1700: Then the full flaxen wig, spread o'er the shoulders ..., Two lines of verse below Beau 1791: But now the whole's revers'd -- each fop appears ..., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Novr. 22, 1791, by C. Fourdrinier, Junr., Charing Cross
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dandies, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A beau 1700 A beau 1791. [graphic]
