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1. A disunion, or, The family compact disturbed [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [26 February 1791]
Call Number:: 791.02.26.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Family compact disturbed
Description:: Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Bourbon Family Compact treaty, 15 August 1761 -- Berkeley Square: Lansdowne House -- Joseph Jekyll, M.P., as a monkey -- John Morris, M.P., as a bear -- Bears -- Monkeys., Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below., and Mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. Feb. 26, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
Subject (Topic):: Great Britain, Politics and government, and Trained animals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A disunion, or, The family compact disturbed [graphic]

2. A modest address to a certain great assembly

Published / Created:: [1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text and still image
Description:: Title from text in letterpress., Text consists of verses in praise of Canning for his loyalty to the Queen., "The following address was composed by a nobleman who resides near Guildford, Surrey--not the noble lord, who declared the bill of pains and penalties ought to have been thrown out, but had not the courage to vote against it. The noble author of the address was one who was unable to take his seat, from indisposition.", The illustration, with the etched title "A Canning address" (with the "u" of "Cunning" scored through and an "a" etched above), is an unsigned etching of George Canning speaking a eulogy of and bowing to Queen Caroline., "Price one shilling.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Printed on wove paper with watermark: Fellows 1817., Mounted on leaf 93 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Canning" and "Caroline" identified in ink below image. Blanks within the printed verses have been completed in ink, spelling out all of the censored names and words; the note "Canning resigd. Dec. 1820" has been written beside the first occurrence of his name in the first column.
Publisher:: Printed and published by S.W. Fores, 41, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Canning, George, 1770-1827., and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
Subject (Topic):: Political satire, English, Politics and government, Queens, Politicians, and Bowing
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A modest address to a certain great assembly

3. An English hobby horse, or, Who pays the piper? [graphic].

Published / Created:: [11 May 1791]
Call Number:: 791.05.11.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A bull (John Bull) in profile to the right sinks, snorting with distress, under the weight of five persons. The foremost, astride the animal s neck, is the Emperor Leopold; he holds the legs of Catherine II, a stout virago, who sits on his shoulders, brandishing her orb and sceptre. She says, "Where's all your boasting now my old Bull! by St George I knew I could bring you upon your knees! ay, and before I have done riding you I'll make you knock under." Behind Leopold sits George III, saying, "Don't mind, don't mind, don't mind [a parody of the King's manner of conversation], he'll soon recover, It's all sham, his stumbling". Frederick William of Prussia sits behind George III, wearing regimentals with jack-boots. Behind him sits a fat Dutchman (Holland) smoking a pipe. Behind, and on the left, is a group of three persons on a smaller scale. Pitt, in profile to the left, seizes by the collar a lean and ragged British citizen (John Bull), saying, "No grumbling, you rascal! You must pay the Piper to be sure. What the devil, surely you couldn't expect the great folks that represent you to contribute a shilling! Besides you are a damn'd saucy fellow, master Bull, and you must be tam'd." Bull answers, "Tam'd: why, good God, Sir, I have scarcely a morsel of bread to eat, and even the Small Beer is Tax'd above my purchase!" On the extreme left a lean man kneels, blowing a trumpet and looking up at Pitt; he is perhaps an ironical representation of Fame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Who pays the piper?
Description:: Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title, imprint and publisher's advertisement. Title and publication information from British Museum catalogue., Attributed to H.W., i.e., either Henry Wigstead or William Holland, in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Russian Armament -- Bulls -- Crowns -- Scepters -- Walking staves -- Musicians: pipers -- Musical instruments: pipes -- Smoking pipes -- Holland.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 11, 1791, by Willm Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1747-1792, Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character), Great Britain, and Politics and government
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An English hobby horse, or, Who pays the piper? [graphic].

4. Malagrida driving post [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [16 March 1792]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 3
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A carriage (right) drives at a gallop towards the gateway of St. James's Palace; Lord Lansdowne, in peer's robes, puts his head out of the window to call to the coachman, who is lashing the pair of horses: "Drive you dog! drive! - now, or never! - aha the Coast is clearing!------drive! drive! you dog!" He has a sly smile. The carriage is decorated with coronets, and on the door is the beehive crest of Lord Lansdowne and the motto 'Ut Ap[es] Geometriam'. The coachman and three footmen who stand behind have enormous feather-trimmed cocked hats in the French fashion, with bag-wigs. Running behind the carriage with outstretched arms are: Fox, saying, "Stop! stop! - & take me in, - Stop!"; Sheridan saying, "And me too! stop", and (very small) M. A. Taylor, saying, "And me". In the background a similar carriage is driving yet more rapidly out of the Palace gateway; the tiny figures are recognizable: Dundas, the coachman, has dropped the reins, the horses are running away; Pitt, terror-stricken, puts his arms through the windows. Both look up at a dove with an olive-branch which flies over their heads towards the gateway. In the background are part of the Palace and the houses at the SW. corner of St. James's Street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from item., Year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: coaches -- London: St. James's Palace -- Domestic service: footmen -- Coachmen -- Pavement -- Symbols: dove with an olive-branch -- Nicknames: Shelburne as Malagrida -- Allusion to Gabriel Malagrida, 1689-1761., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 39.8 cm., Preceding imprint statement is "1792," written in ink in a contemporary hand., and Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:: Pub. March 16th by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Name):: Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834
Subject (Topic):: Great Britain and Politics and government
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Malagrida driving post [graphic]

5. Malagrida driving post [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [16 March 1792]
Call Number:: 792.03.16.03.1+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A carriage (right) drives at a gallop towards the gateway of St. James's Palace; Lord Lansdowne, in peer's robes, puts his head out of the window to call to the coachman, who is lashing the pair of horses: "Drive you dog! drive! - now, or never! - aha the Coast is clearing!------drive! drive! you dog!" He has a sly smile. The carriage is decorated with coronets, and on the door is the beehive crest of Lord Lansdowne and the motto 'Ut Ap[es] Geometriam'. The coachman and three footmen who stand behind have enormous feather-trimmed cocked hats in the French fashion, with bag-wigs. Running behind the carriage with outstretched arms are: Fox, saying, "Stop! stop! - & take me in, - Stop!"; Sheridan saying, "And me too! stop", and (very small) M. A. Taylor, saying, "And me". In the background a similar carriage is driving yet more rapidly out of the Palace gateway; the tiny figures are recognizable: Dundas, the coachman, has dropped the reins, the horses are running away; Pitt, terror-stricken, puts his arms through the windows. Both look up at a dove with an olive-branch which flies over their heads towards the gateway. In the background are part of the Palace and the houses at the SW. corner of St. James's Street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from item., Year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: coaches -- London: St. James's Palace -- Domestic service: footmen -- Coachmen -- Pavement -- Symbols: dove with an olive-branch -- Nicknames: Shelburne as Malagrida -- Allusion to Gabriel Malagrida, 1689-1761., Mounted to 33 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:: Pub. March 16th by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Name):: Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834
Subject (Topic):: Great Britain and Politics and government
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Malagrida driving post [graphic]

6. Old nursing song in imitation of Dean Swift. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [approximately November 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Heading to a broadside printed in two columns. The King, a whiskered child, sits on the floor of a nursery and plays with Sidmouth, who sits in a chair. Around them on the floor lie toys, along with papers inscribed "Bill of Pains," "Bergami Blister," and "Loyal Ads." A fireplace is seen in the background on the left, above which hangs a portrait of "Mrs. Q." Through a window on the right a street sign "To St. Pauls" is visible
Description:: Title printed in letterpress below image., Date from manuscript annotations below image and in lower right corner of sheet., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Twelve stanzas of verse in two columns below title, printed in letterpress: Here the Q---n goes up, up, up, Up towards a crown, oh ..., Publisher's advertisement below imprint: And may be had at all caricature shops. N.B. Just published, price 1s. - The contented peers, or King's own., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 19 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Sidmouth" and "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image, under which duplicate identifications are written in pencil. Date "abt. Nov. 1820" added in ink below plate mark; date "Nov. 1820" written in lower right corner of sheet.
Publisher:: Printed for and published by Langham, 3, Red Lion Street, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Quentin, Georgina.
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Political satire, English, Nurseries (Rooms & spaces), Children, Toys, Fireplaces, and Windows
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Old nursing song in imitation of Dean Swift. [graphic]

7. Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" vide a troubled conscience / [graphic]

Creator:: Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1868?]
Call Number:: 868.00.00.02 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's chair. Burke holds in his hands a crucifix and crown and balances on his head a copy of his book "Reflections on the revolution in France". Two books lay on the floor-- "Treatise on the ill effects of Order & governance in Society" and "Sermon preached Novr. 4, 1789 ... before the Revolution Society."
Alternative Title:: Atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations"
Description:: Title from caption below image., Plate from: Caricature history of the Georges ... / by Thomas Wright .... London : J.C. Hotten, [1868], p. 452., Reduced copy of a print with the same title by Gillray, published by H. Humphrey in 1790. See no. 7686 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Figure of Richard Price identified by ms. note in pencil below image.
Publisher:: J.C. Hotten?
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):: Sermons, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, Crowns, Crucifixes, Ghosts, and Studies (Rooms)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" vide a troubled conscience / [graphic]

8. Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" vide a troubled conscience. [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [3 December 1790]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's chair. Burke holds in his hands a crucifix and crown and balances on his head a copy of his book "Reflections on the revolution in France". Two books lay on the floor-- "Treatise on the ill effects of Order & governance in Society" and "Sermon preached Novr. 4, 1789 ... before the Revolution Society."
Alternative Title:: Atheistical revolutionist disturbed in his midnight calculations
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.6 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 27.2 x 37.7 cm., Sheet trimmed to / within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 60 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:: Pubd. Decr. 3d, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):: Sermons, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, Crowns, Crucifixes, Ghosts, and Studies (Rooms)
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" vide a troubled conscience. [graphic]

9. Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" vide a troubled conscience. [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [3 December 1790]
Call Number:: 790.12.03.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's chair. Burke holds in his hands a crucifix and crown and balances on his head a copy of his book "Reflections on the revolution in France". Two books lay on the floor-- "Treatise on the ill effects of Order & governance in Society" and "Sermon preached Novr. 4, 1789 ... before the Revolution Society."
Alternative Title:: Atheistical revolutionist disturbed in his midnight calculations
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield.
Publisher:: Pubd. Decr. 3d, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):: Sermons, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, Crowns, Crucifixes, Ghosts, and Studies (Rooms)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" vide a troubled conscience. [graphic]