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37.
The political libertines, or, Motion upon motion [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1741?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 C2 738
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Motion upon motion
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Where may be had [the] original Reason., Fourteen stanzas of verse in five columns below image: All ye friends to merry ditty, Pray attend and I will fitt ye ..., Another state, with imprint and printseller's announcement partially burnished from plate. Cf. No. 2490 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Motions: motion for dismissal of Sir Robert Walpole -- Mottoes: Pro Patria Mori -- Conventions: allusion to the Pardo Convention, 1739 -- Emblems: Commonwealth as a coach -- Fairs: allusion to Bolingbroke's fair -- Buildings: Exchequer -- Signs: signboard -- Clergy: bishop -- Vehicles: coach -- Preferments -- Bills: place bill -- Bills: pension bill -- Emblems: France as a French ape -- Newspapers -- Allusion to Barcelona -- Literature: allusion to Vindication of the miracles, by Richard Smalbroke, 1672-1741 -- Speeches: allusion to Gage's speech against registering of seamen, December 1740 -- Animals: Viscount Bolingbroke as a bull -- Animals: Cardinal Fleury as a fox., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
Sold by G. Bickham [...]
Subject (Name):
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 and Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The political libertines, or, Motion upon motion [graphic].

38.
The political libertines, or, Motion upon motion [graphic].

Published / Created:
1741.
Call Number:
741.03.07.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Motion upon motion
Description:
Title from item., Possibly by Bickham., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Where may be had [the] original Reason., Fifteen stanzas of verse in five columns below image: All ye friends to merry ditty, Pray attend and I will fitt ye ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Motion for dismissal of Sir Robert Walpole -- Mottoes: Pro Patria Mori -- Conventions: allusion to the Pardo Convention, 1739 -- Emblems: Commonwealth as a coach -- Fairs: allusion to Bolingbroke's fair -- Buildings: Exchequer -- Signs: signboard -- Clergy: bishop -- Vehicles: coach -- Preferments -- Bills: place bill -- Pension bill -- France as a French ape -- Newspapers -- Allusion to Barcelona -- Literature: allusion to Vindication of the miracles, by Richard Smalbroke, 1672-1741 -- Speeches: allusion to Gage's speech against registering of seamen, December 1740 -- Animals: Viscount Bolingbroke as a bull -- Cardinal Fleury as a fox.
Publisher:
Sold by G. Bickham at the Black Moors Head, Exeter Change, by authority
Subject (Name):
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 and Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The political libertines, or, Motion upon motion [graphic].

39.
The protest

Published / Created:
[1741]
Call Number:
741.04.07.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched at top of plate above image., A satire against Walpole. See Foxon., Verse: "Who be de noble lady dere ..."., Letterpress broadside poem printed, illustrated with hand-colored etching at top of sheet (plate mark 21.3 x 32.2 cm.)., Lewis Walpole Library 741.04.07.01+: Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: White Hall -- Buildings: Treasury -- Personifications: Justice -- Britannia (Symbolic character)., and Unidentified watermark.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, April the 7th 1741, and sold by J. Tinney, at the Golden Lion, in Fleet-Street, and at the print and pamphlet-shops
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The protest

40.
The reason

Published / Created:
[1741]
Call Number:
741.03.02.01.2+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Dated in lower left corner of plate: March [the] 2 1740., 'Price six pence.', Letterpress broadside poem printed, illustrated with etching (plate mark 20.8 x 32.8 cm) at top of sheet, Verse - "Who be dat de box do sit on?"., An engraved cartoon, with verses, in answer to the print "The motion.", Against Walpole., Watermark: watermark and countermark., Tentatively attributed on verso to George Bickham by the curator., and 1 print on laid paper : etching ; plate mark 20.8 x 32.7 cm., on sheet 32 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster-Row, 1741. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743., Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743., and Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The reason

41.
The triumph of Iustice [graphic]

Published / Created:
[December 1741?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 C2 738
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satyr in the character of Time, holding a hour-glass and scythe, reclines on top a sarcophagus. On the front is a medallion of Sir Robert Walpole. On either side Lord Sundon and Sir C. Wager are shown weeping. In the clouds above amid angels sits the Prince of Wales holding a bludgeon in one hand and pointing to a figure (Mr. Edwin). The Prince is accompanied by the figure of Justice holding a set of scales
Alternative Title:
Triumph of Justice
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., "Engrav'd according to act of Parliament.", Dedication at top of image: To the independent electors of Westminster., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Sundon, William Clayton, Baron, 1671-1752, and Wager, Charles, Sir, 1666-1743
Subject (Topic):
Elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The triumph of Iustice [graphic]

42.
Truth and moderation

Published / Created:
published April the 21 1741.
Call Number:
741.04.21.01+
Image Count:
1
Description:
Letterpress broadside poem illustrated with a hand-colored etching at top of sheet (plate mark 20 x 31.8 cm.)., Publication date from plate., Ten stanzas of song, separated with ornamental borders, below image: Midst home-bred feuds and foreign nurtur'd jars ... Signed: C.P.G., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Despair -- Personifications: Rage -- Personifications: Folly., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
Sold by John King in the Poultry, John Tinney at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street, and at the print and pamphlet shops
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Truth and moderation

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