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1.
A scene in The careless husband [graphic]

Creator:
Faber, John, 1695?-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to the act of Parliament 1739.
Call Number:
739.00.00.08+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: The careless husband by Colley Cibber, 1671-1757., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A scene in The careless husband [graphic]

2.
Due famosi antiquari Stosch, Sabatini [graphic]

Creator:
Pond, Arthur, 1701-1758, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1739?]
Call Number:
739.00.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men, an elegantly dressed gentleman in curled wig, ruffles at his wrists, and a sword, and a man in a long robe with a belt well below his waist, stand facing each other. Each is holding a small object to his eye and peering at it. The objects are probably a ring and a medallion
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Antiquarians -- Italian male costume -- Julien Sabbatini, 1684-1767., Watermark: initials W F., and Matted to 62 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Stosch, Philipp von, Baron, 1691-1757, and Sabatini, Marcantonio, 1637-1724,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Due famosi antiquari Stosch, Sabatini [graphic]

3.
Enthusiasm display'd, or, The Moor-Fields congregation [graphic]

Creator:
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 August 1739]
Call Number:
739.08.20.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Moor-Fields Congregation, Moorfields Congregation, and Enthusiasm displayed
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "P. 6 p."--Following imprint., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns on either side of title: Once in an age, that pest of common sense, enthusiasm, revives his old pretence ..., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Hypocrisy -- Personifications: two-faced Deceit -- Personifications: Folly -- Masks -- Pens: quill -- Inkbottle -- Tavern signs: fox -- Birds: woodcocks -- Kitchen utensils -- Wooden legs -- Dishes: tankard -- Wine glasses -- Wine bottles -- Rosaries -- Purses -- Fool's rattle -- Fool's cap -- Dogs -- Monkeys -- Wheelbarrows -- Trades: bookseller -- Booksellers: Huton -- Methodist clergy -- Literature: The journal of a voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia by George Whitefield., and Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 31 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
August 20, 1739 publish'd by C. Corbett according to [the] late actt [sic] P.
Subject (Name):
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660, Fox, George, 1624-1691, and Knox, John, approximately 1514-1572
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Enthusiasm display'd, or, The Moor-Fields congregation [graphic]

4.
The European race heat IIId. anno dom. MDCCXXXIX [graphic]

Creator:
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd April the 9th 1739 according to the late act.
Call Number:
739.04.09.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
European race heat third anno domini 1739
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides and bottom., One line of quotation from Bible below title: Behold the former things are come to pass ... Isaiah the 42, verse the 9., Temporary local subject terms: Maps: Spanish West Indies -- Naval uniforms: sailor -- Personifications: Trade -- Port Mahon -- America -- Bible: quotation from Isaiah, 42.9 -- Don Thomas Geraldino., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 and Keene, Benjamin, Sir, 1697-1757
Subject (Topic):
Treaty of Pardo
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The European race heat IIId. anno dom. MDCCXXXIX [graphic]

5.
The naked truth [graphic].

Published / Created:
[23 June 1739]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The two images show the two sides of a medal. On the one side Oliver Cromwell is shown in profile, a laurel wreath on his head. On the other side Britannia sits as a man(Cromwell) with a bare posterior kneels at her feet, his head in her lap. In the background two men greet each other. Enscribed around the image: Retire toi l'honneur appartient au roy mon maistre Louis le Grand. The verses below refer to C--d--l, V-- H--- and W--- who are most likely to be a Cardinal[?], Van Hoye, and Robert Walpole
Description:
Title engraved between the two medallions., Four stanzas of four lines each engraved below image: Britannia's isle like Fortune's wheel, in politiciks does daily reel ..., Lewis Walpole Library 739.00.00.42: Figures identified in mss. annotations as Cardinal, Van Hoye and Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 88 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 18.6 x 26.3 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Published according to an act of Parlt. the 23rd day of June 1739, f.i.c. by John Brett
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The naked truth [graphic].

6.
The naked truth [graphic].

Published / Created:
[23 June 1739]
Call Number:
739.06.23.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The two images show the two sides of a medal. On the one side Oliver Cromwell is shown in profile, a laurel wreath on his head. On the other side Britannia sits as a man(Cromwell) with a bare posterior kneels at her feet, his head in her lap. In the background two men greet each other. Enscribed around the image: Retire toi l'honneur appartient au roy mon maistre Louis le Grand. The verses below refer to C--d--l, V-- H--- and W--- who are most likely to be a Cardinal[?], Van Hoye, and Robert Walpole
Description:
Title engraved between the two medallions., Four stanzas of four lines each engraved below image: Britannia's isle like Fortune's wheel, in politiciks does daily reel ..., Lewis Walpole Library 739.00.00.42: Figures identified in mss. annotations as Cardinal, Van Hoye and Walpole., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published according to an act of Parlt. the 23rd day of June 1739, f.i.c. by John Brett
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The naked truth [graphic].

7.
The naked truth [graphic].

Published / Created:
[23 June 1739]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The two images show the two sides of a medal. On the one side Oliver Cromwell is shown in profile, a laurel wreath on his head. On the other side Britannia sits as a man(Cromwell) with a bare posterior kneels at her feet, his head in her lap. In the background two men greet each other. Enscribed around the image: Retire toi l'honneur appartient au roy mon maistre Louis le Grand. The verses below refer to C--d--l, V-- H--- and W--- who are most likely to be a Cardinal[?], Van Hoye, and Robert Walpole
Description:
Title engraved between the two medallions., Four stanzas of four lines each engraved below image: Britannia's isle like Fortune's wheel, in politiciks does daily reel ..., Lewis Walpole Library 739.00.00.42: Figures identified in mss. annotations as Cardinal, Van Hoye and Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 108 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., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 19.5 x 26.8 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published according to an act of Parlt. the 23rd day of June 1739, f.i.c. by John Brett
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The naked truth [graphic].

8.
The states in a lethargy awake, awake! the Philistines are upon you / [graphic]

Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, 15 Jany 1739.
Call Number:
739.01.15.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on French pressure on the Dutch to remain neutral in the war of Jenkins Ear. A curtain is drawn back, to right, to reveal a bare room in which Cardinal Fleury sits in a high backed chair rocking a cradle in which sleeps the lion of the United Provinces. Three dogs bark trying to rouse the lion. Four lines of verse below quoting Fleury's lullaby."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: Hush a by baby, lull a by baby by, Sings Cardinal Fox, our dear friend & ally ..., Mounted to 33 x 45 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Sold by the printsellers and publishers of London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The states in a lethargy awake, awake! the Philistines are upon you / [graphic]