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1. A new posture in Aretine's Manner. [graphic]

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher
Published / Created:: [1748]
Call Number:: 748.00.00.03
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A satire on Pietro Aretino's (1492-1556) Aretino, the author many licentious poems
Description:: Title from item., Printmaker identified from the address in the imprint., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: Giving a loose to all the joys of love, / The wanton pair new postures seek to prove ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: music room -- Reference to postures -- Reference to Damon, fl. 387 BC -- Music sheets -- Harpsichord -- Violin -- Female dress: slippers, ca. 1748 -- Gilt pier table -- Furnishings: gilt mirror -- Gilt wall bracket and shelf -- Furniture: couch with paw feet -- Dishes: china bowl -- Sex: copulation., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:: 1748, according to Act of Parliam't, Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Topic):: Musicians and Musical instruments
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A new posture in Aretine's Manner. [graphic]

2. Jaco-independo-rebello-plaido [graphic]

Published / Created:: Febr. [the] 13th, 1747 [that is, 27 June 1748?]
Call Number:: 748.02.13.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Second state of British Museum catalogue no. 2856., "Price 6d"--Lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Independent Electors of Westminster -- Trades: butcher -- M. Trompée -- Nicknames: Count Newport -- Nicknames: Cout Neuf Puerto -- Navy: sailors -- Beverages: taplash -- Scots -- Buildings: Westminster Hall -- Elections: Westminster elections, June 1747 -- Demons: demon with halter and axe -- Emblems: constable's staff -- Clerks -- Outdoord scenes: New Palace Yard -- Lascar -- Nicknames: Trott Plaid (Henry Fielding) -- Rebels -- Jacobites..
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Morgan, David Thomas, ca. 1695-1746, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754, and Warren, Peter, Sir, 1703-1752
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Jaco-independo-rebello-plaido [graphic]

3. John Bristow, engine-maker, to all His Majesty's forts, garrisons, dock-yards and other public offices belonging to His Majesty's Royal Navy ...

Published / Created:: [not before 1748]
Call Number:: File 66 748 J65+++
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: Letterpress broadside with a hand-colored etched and engraved header illustrating the use of a fire-engine at the site of the Cornhill fire, which occurred on 25 March 1748
Description:: Caption title from letterpress text. and Annotations on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Fire engines and Fire extinction
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > John Bristow, engine-maker, to all His Majesty's forts, garrisons, dock-yards and other public offices belonging to His Majesty's Royal Navy ...

4. Locusts [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1748]
Call Number:: 748.00.00.01 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A group of eight locusts is gathered in the foreground; each is numbered and identified in the key below image. A long procession of other locusts in the background is walking on Whitehall by the Banqueting House to Holbein's Gate, while a swarm of more locusts descends on the Banqueting House. Some of them landed on the trees leaving them denuded
Description:: Title from item., Text below title: And [the] Locusts rested in all [the] Coasts of Egypt ..., Key below image, in four columns: 1. Found at St. James's; 2. found in Staffordshire; 3. found in Bloomsbury; 4. found in Lincolns Innfields; 5. the fellon to the fourth; 6. a female locust found at Yarmouth; 7. found near Huntingon; 8. found in Worcestershire., and Watermarks: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Whitehall (London, England), Banqueting House (London, England), and Holbein's Gate (London, England)
Subject (Name):: William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Locusts [graphic].

5. Quackery unmask'd, or, Empiricism display'd dedicated to Doctor Chiron riding master to Achilles and Aescupalius physician extraordinary to the dead. [graphic]

Published / Created:: according to act of Parliamt, 1748.
Call Number:: 748.05.17.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Empiricism display'd, Quackery unmasked, and Empiricism displayed
Description:: Title from item., Publisher's name from address in imprint., Publisher's announcement following imprint: & 100 more., Quotation from Ovid's Metamorphoses below image: In nova fert animis mutatas dicere formas corpora. Dii [sic] cœptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis. Oivd, Met. Lib. 1., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Thus modern empiricks are taught the art, By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part ..., Temporary local subject terms: Lecture Halls -- Quackery -- Quacks: 'Baron Schwanberg' -- 'G. West' -- 'Dr. Rock' -- Edmund Neeler, 'Carpenter Hamersmith' -- Medicine: quack pills -- Quack powders -- Medical implements: reference to clyster pipe -- Birds: crows -- Owl -- Animals: dogs -- Ass -- Sheep -- Horse -- Skulls., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:: Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Gardern
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Quackery unmask'd, or, Empiricism display'd dedicated to Doctor Chiron riding master to Achilles and Aescupalius physician extraordinary to the dead. [graphic]

6. The Revd. Mr. Ric. Derby, Minister of Poole, & Vicar of Hilton, Dorset [graphic].

Published / Created:: [not after 1748]
Call Number:: Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text and still image
Description:: Title from item., Date based on Richard Derby's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 148 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Publisher:: Richard Derby
Subject (Name):: Derby, Richard, -1748.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Revd. Mr. Ric. Derby, Minister of Poole, & Vicar of Hilton, Dorset [graphic].

7. The congress of brutes [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1748]
Call Number:: 748.05.00.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A satire of the Congress and Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle with references to Silesia and Gibraltar and the territorial concessions made by the British, specifically relinguishing Capr Breton to France. Here the European powers are represented as beasts: France is depicted as a crowing cock; England as lion; Holland as boar; Genoa as dog; Prussia as wolf; Spain as leopard; Germany as griffin; Austria as eagle; and the Duchy of Lorraine as dog
Description:: Title engraved above image., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 10., Watermark: Pro patria., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and Europe
Subject (Topic):: Foreign relations, Politics and government, Animals in human situations, Roosters, Lions, Boars, Dogs, Wolves, Eagles, Leopards, and Griffins
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The congress of brutes [graphic].

8. The grumbler 1748 [graphic]

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1748]
Call Number:: 748.00.00.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A gentleman wtih an angry, disappointed look on his face sits at a table in a coffeehouse filling his pipe with tobacco. On the table is a sugar bowl, a drinking glass, and a sugar basin. Below the design is engraved in two lines: You grumbled at the war; Here is a P-----ce for you, and be d----d to you
Description:: Title engraved above image., Attributed to Hogarth., Publisher identified from address: George Bickham., Two lines of text below image: You grumbled at the war; here is a p-----ce for you and be d----d to you., Earlier state, with different year in title and without the initial "B" forming a monogram with the "H" in printmaker's name, and without a third line in the caption below image. Cf. No. 3921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: Strasburg lily (partially cut off at top) with initials L V G below.
Publisher:: Sold in May's Buildings, according to act of Parliamt
Subject (Topic):: Coffeehouses, Complaining, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The grumbler 1748 [graphic]

9. The preliminary congress [graphic].

Published / Created:: according to act, 1748.
Call Number:: 748.06.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Publisher's name from address in imprint., Temporary local subject terms: Treaties: Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748 -- Fences: stile -- British territorial concessions: concession of Cape Breton to France -- British territorial concessions: threat of concession of Gibraltar to Spain., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:: Sold in May's Buildings, Covt. Gardern
Subject (Name):: Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746, Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia, 1701-1773, and William IV, Prince of Orange, 1711-1751
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The preliminary congress [graphic].