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1. A tit bit for a Cossack, or, The Platoff prize, for the head of Buonaparte [graphic]
- Creator:
- Elmes, William, active 1797-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Jany. 4th 1813.
- Call Number:
- 813.01.04.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The daughter of Count Platoff stands full face, erect, dashing, and alluring, on a snowy mound. Her right hand supports a spear from which floats a banner inscribed: 'I General Count Platoff. promise to give my Daughter in Marriage and 2000 Rubles - to any Cossack, Russian, Prusian, German, Sweede, Turk, John Bull, Sauny Bull Paddy Bull or any other Bull, who shall bring Me the Head of Little Bony dead or a live.' She wears fur-trimmed cap with a long hussar-bag, long high-waisted fur-bordered pelisse, with a cape, fur-trimmed boots, and large ear-rings. The words 'Hih "ho" for a Husband' issue from closed and smiling lips. With her left hand she points behind her to the right and to the little figure of Napoleon on skates, wearing a large plumed bicorne, and brandishing his sabre; he deserts his snow-bound army, saying, "O" ho" bygare I had best be Off." He strides past the heads of soldiers emerging from snow, together with bayonets, and a French flag; behind him the French army marches in close ranks, with one eagle and one flag. On the left is another column of tiny soldiers indicated by heads, bayonets, an eagle, and flags. In the clouds, airborne as in No. 11992 (British Museum catalogue), are two bands of galloping Cossacks, one (right) seems about to swoop down on Napoleon. Heavy clouds frame slanting rays which make a background for Platoff's daughter. At her feet are two money--bags both inscribed '1,000 Rubles', which disgorge coins. Behind them a kneeling Cupid aims his bow towards the 'cloud of Cossacks' on the left."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Tit-bit for a Cossack and Platoff prize, for the head of Buonaparte
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate of publication etched following date., Plate numbered in upper right corner: 184., and A satire on Napoleon in Russia.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia.
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Platov, Matveĭ Ivanovich, graf, 1751-1818.
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Campaigns of 1813-1814, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Cupid, Armies, British, Russian, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tit bit for a Cossack, or, The Platoff prize, for the head of Buonaparte [graphic]
2. Culloden Battle fought April 16, 1746 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, May 8, 1746.
- Call Number:
- 42 W67 852B
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, opposite page 472. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched within banner at top of lower image., Design in two parts on two separate plates, with a portrait of William Augustus at top and a scene of the Battle of Culloden within a cartouche at bottom., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 22 x 14 cm., and Bound in opposite page 472 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Williams, R.F. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries. London : Colburn & Co., 1852.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765,
- Subject (Topic):
- Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Campaigns & battles, Armies, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Culloden Battle fought April 16, 1746 [graphic].
3. Rendezvous of distribution Birds eye view of Camp Convalescent, near Alexandria, VA. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1864].
- Call Number:
- Print20033
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Date and place of publication from item., Below publisher's statement: Deutsche und englische Buchdruckerei, lithographische Anstalt und Verlegshandlung., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, U.S.A.; Camp Convalescent, Alexandria.
- Publisher:
- Charles Magnus' New York Printing Establishment. Offices: 12 Frankfort St., New York, and 520 7th St., Washington., D.C. and Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1864 by Charles Magnus in the Clerks Office of the Southern District of New York
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States and Alexandria (Va.).
- Subject (Topic):
- Military hospitals, Barracks, Soldiers, Military camps, Flags, Armies, Railroad trains, Tents, Horses, History, and Hospitals
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Rendezvous of distribution Birds eye view of Camp Convalescent, near Alexandria, VA. [graphic]
4. Rolla's address to the Peruvian army [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- July 12th, 1799.
- Call Number:
- 799.07.12.05++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt (caricatured), dressed as Rolla, addresses a group of chieftains (left); the ranks of the Peruvian army with erect spears watch from the background. Below the (printed) title is printed Rolla's patriotic speech from 'Pizarro', II. ii, beginning 'My brave Associates', 'and ... we serve a Monarch whom we love . . .' (see British Museum Satires No. 9436). He stands with both arms outstretched, head turned in profile to the left, pointing rhetorically across the sea to the Spaniards, whom Sheridan (in this speech) equates with French republicans, and who are here represented by the Foxites. The Peruvians wear feathered head-dresses and feather kilts in the manner of Red Indians, except Dundas, who wears tartan and feathered head-dress. Dundas (caricatured) sits on the ground holding bow and shield, and looking with cunning scepticism at Pitt; he is the only one of the ministerial group of five who can be identified, though others may be presumed to be Grenville, Portland, and Windham."--British Museum online catalogue and From the printed British Museum catalogue: "(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) The Foxites, who 'fight for power, for plunder and extended rule', and follow 'an Adventurer whom they fear', all wear or carry bonnets-rouges and have tricolour flags, one inscribed 'Libertas'. They are small comic figures headed by Fox, who urges them towards the water. The others (left to right) are Lauderdale with a flag, Derby with a shield, Bedford wearing a jockey cap, Erskine in wig and gown, Norfolk holding his Earl Marshal's staff, Tierney holding pistols (see BMSat 9218, &c), Burdett, and two unidentified figures. For Pizarro see BMSat 9396, &c. The scene is burlesqued and altered from the play, where it takes place in the Temple of the Sun. The patriotic speech of Rolla (cf. BMSat 9436) made the fortune of the play and was reprinted as a broadside or placard in 1803, see BMSat 9397."
- Description:
- Title from letterpress text above image., Watermark: 1794., and Matted to 51 x 61 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834., Windham, William, 1750-1810., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
- Subject (Topic):
- Public speaking, Armies, Peruvian, Headdresses, Shields, and Spears
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Rolla's address to the Peruvian army [graphic].
5. The last good night of the valiant Johnny Armstrong: shewing, how Johnny Armstrong, and his eight-score men fought a desperate and bloody battle with the Scottish king at Edinburgh city: and how he and all his valiant men were slain. To an excellent north country tune
- Published / Created:
- [1775?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Johnny Armstrong's last goodnight
- Description:
- Verse - "Is there never a man in all Scotland,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the first and second as well as the third and fourth columns are separated by plain rules., Mounted on leaf 61. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Scotland
- Subject (Name):
- Armstrong, John, d. 1528
- Subject (Topic):
- Broadsides, Ballads, English, War, Battle casualties, Soldiers, Armies, and History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The last good night of the valiant Johnny Armstrong: shewing, how Johnny Armstrong, and his eight-score men fought a desperate and bloody battle with the Scottish king at Edinburgh city: and how he and all his valiant men were slain. To an excellent north country tune
