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1.
An answer [to] the [Devil] [graphic]

Creator:
Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1877]
Call Number:
762.00.00.05
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Answer to the Devil
Description:
Title from item., An engraved letter in the form of a rebus., Printmaker from another impression, published in Kay's Original portraits., Original publication date in Stephens: 1762., Plate from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2, Appendix, additional plate no. 358., Sheet partially trimmed to plate mark., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: to by a toe, Devil by a half-length figure of a devil., and Temporary local subject terms: Devil.
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Lawrence, Sir, ca. 1710-1781
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > An answer [to] the [Devil] [graphic]

2.
Within [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
762.09.00.13.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date from book for which the plate was published., Plate numbered '37' in lower right corner., Six lines of verse below title: See here the State turn'd upside down / The bonnet triumphs o'er ..., Plate from: The 2nd volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the years 1762 and 63. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., Cf. No. 3877 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Treasury -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Seven Years War: reference to Newfoundland - -Military uniforms: Scotch uniforms -- Scots., and Mounted to 27 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Within [graphic].

3.
Without [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
762.09.00.13.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date from book for which the plate was published., Plate numbered '36' in lower right corner., Six lines of verse below title: With shame o Britons here behold sly Sawney pocketing your gold ..., Plate from: The 2nd vol. of The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the years 1762 and 63. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., Cf. No. 3877 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Whitehall (Treasury Building) -- Vehicles: cart -- Sland: coal (cole), i.e., money -- Sentry -- Scots., and Mounted to 27 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Without [graphic].

4.
[The times]. [Plate II] [graphic]

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1762 or 1763]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A companion to Plate I, the firefighters have become gardeners and the water flows onto the trees in pots that surround the statue of Henry VIII, royal steams of benevolence. Lord Bute is the head gardener
Alternative Title:
Pl. 2
Description:
Title etched below image., Date, publisher, and state as described by Paulson., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Plate II. Ms. note beneath image: Times, Plate 2; proof taken during the life-time of Hogarth., Ms. note in ink on square of paper mounted below in Steevens's hand: This second part of The times (for and impression of which the late Lord Exeter paid Mrs. Hogarth ten guineas, the money to be returned if she published the plate) is every way inferior to the first. Since the death of Mrs. Hogarth, it is become the property of the Boydells., and On page 193 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Cities & towns, and Gardens
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The times]. [Plate II] [graphic]

5.
The evacuations [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
762.12.00.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Reduced and reversed copy of: The evacuations, or, An emetic for Old England glorys. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '44' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Outdoor stage: mountebank's stage -- Arms of the City of London -- Emblems: spear and cap of Liberty -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Personifications: France as an ape -- Shields: Britannia's shield with Scotch thistle and Cross of St. Andrew's -- Emblems: Scotch thistle -- Medical: clyster pipe -- Dutchmen -- Spaniards., and Mounted to 25 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792,, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Medical equipment & supplies, Quacks, and Vomiting
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The evacuations [graphic].

6.
The flying machine from Edinburgh in one day, perform'd by Moggy Mackensie at [the] Thistle and

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
762.09.25.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satire of a witch carrying two Scotsmen on a broomstick from Edinburgh to London, the thistle being an emblemic reference to Scotland and the crown, to England. The coat of arms engraved at top of image with quote from Hopkins Junr. on left and Joel Chap. 2, Ver. 3. The title is a reference to Fingal by James MacPherson
Description:
Title etched below image., Reduced and reversed copy of: The flying machine from Edinburgh in one day, perform'd by Moggy Mackensie at the Thistle and Crown. See British Museum catalogue., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. ... [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., and Mounted to 32 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Witches and Brooms & brushes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The flying machine from Edinburgh in one day, perform'd by Moggy Mackensie at [the] Thistle and Crown [graphic].

7.
The kitchen metamorphos'd [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
762.00.00.23
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Kitchen metamorphosed
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '7' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ..., for the year 1762. [London, 1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Gardening: watering can -- Furniture: kitchen table -- Flowers -- Food: fish -- Kitchen equipment: spits., and Mounted to 27 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782 and Spencer, Charles, Lord, 1740-1820
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Cooking utensils, Cooks, Dogs, Fireplaces, and Kitchens
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The kitchen metamorphos'd [graphic].

8.
John Bull's kitchen furniture selling by auction [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
762.00.00.10
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., First state, without plate no. Cf. No. 3991 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: Auctions: furniture auction -- Auctioneers -- Auctioneer's clerk -- Kitchen oeconomy, 1762 -- Fireplaces: kitchen fireplaces -- Utensils: kettle -- Utensils: spits -- Interiors: royal kitchen -- Sticks: wands -- Emblems: thistle (Scotland) -- Trades: cooks -- Clergy: chaplain., and Mounted to 32 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Bull's kitchen furniture selling by auction [graphic].

9.
A rum letter to a rum duke on a rum occasion [graphic]

Published / Created:
[September 1762]
Call Number:
762.09.00.38+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A hieroglyphic letter, addressed to the Duke of Bedford on his appointment as Ambassador to France in 1762
Description:
An engraved letter in form of rebus (plate mark 12.9 x 23.9 cm.) printed in bistre, except for the bottom line "You are desired to carry hay ever with you for your horses," which is printed in black letterpress., Title from etched text at top of plate., Printed on the same sheet as: The peace-botchers: a new satyrical, politcal medley ... by a disconsolate Englishman. [London, 1762]., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: reference to land tax -- Reference to Lord Bute., and Mounted to 39 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern in Fleet Street, and to be had at all the booksellers and print shops in London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A rum letter to a rum duke on a rum occasion [graphic]

10.
Credulity, superstition and fanaticism a medley / [graphic]

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act directs March [the] 15th 1762.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 83. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a chapel with an impassioned preacher inspiring his listeners; considerably altered from the earlier state known as "Enthusiasm Delineated", for instance, by the substitution of representations of the Cock Lane Ghost (a topical reference to a fraud of 1762) for the figures of Christ, the removal of the barking dog, and the introduction of rabbits emerging from the skirts of the woman swooning on the floor in allusion to Mary Toft, the Rabbit Woman of Godlaming"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Enthusiasm delineated
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson. Reworking of Enthusiasm delineated., With caption: "Believe not every Spirit; but try the Spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the World. 1. John. Ch.4. V.1"., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 43.2 x 32.8 cm, on sheet 56 x 42 cm., Plate 83 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works., and Formerly identified as Paulson state 2.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763, Villiers, George, 1690-1748., and Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
Subject (Topic):
Christianity, Superstition, Demonology, Demons, Ghosts, Rabbits, Witches, Sleeping, and Supervisors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Credulity, superstition and fanaticism a medley / [graphic]

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