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12.
- Published / Created:
- [1757]
- Call Number:
- 757.03.14.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Publisher from address in imprint., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Coats of arms -- Slang: cole, i.e., money -- Emblems: figure of Justice -- Emblems: fool's cap dated 1745 -- Executioners -- Corks -- Trades: fishwoman., and Mounted to 29 x 46 cm.
- Publisher:
- To be had at the Golden Acorn, opposite Hungerford Market, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590, Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596, Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598, and Ketch, Jack, -1686
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Now and then [graphic].
13.
- Published / Created:
- [4 November 1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.11.04.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Plate numbered '43' in upper right corner., Fifteen lines of verse in rebus below image: No soon[er] came [I] un[to] [sticks] / [but] quite convinc'd of [all] our tricks ..., The following words within the quoted verse are represented by a rebus: 'er' in sooner by an ear, I by an eye, 'to' in unto by a toe, sticks by a bunch of sticks, but by a butt, all by an awl., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 17 x 23 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act Novr. 4th, 1756, by Edwards & Darly facing Hungerford, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Byng, John, 1704-1757 and Henley, John, 1692-1756
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Orator Humbug to Admiral Bungy [graphic].
14.
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.05.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., 'Pr. 6d'--Lower right corner., Three columns of verse below image: That B--g is an admiral all the world knows ... The last four lines of verse are a quotation from Hudibras., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: cabin on Ramillies (admiral's ship) -- Naval uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Guns: cannons -- Literature: quotation from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680 -- Captain Arthur Gardiner --2nd Earl of Effingham -- Captain Parry -- Captain John Amherst -- Captain Baird -- Captain Noel., and Removed from Minto Wilson mat.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Byng, John, 1704-1757, Bertie, Robert, Lord, 1721-1782, and Cornwallis, Edward, 1713-1776
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Council of War in 1756 [graphic].
15.
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.06 .1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the ineffective conduct of the Seven Years' War. The British lion has lost a foot labelled 'Minorca' and the French cock is tearing up the Union flag; two Frenchman discuss their aim to acquire British colonies in North America as well. The Lord Mayor of London and aldermen deliver a petition for an inquiry into the loss of Minorca and are met with evasive responses from courtiers or ministers; Hanoverian mercenaries are confronted by three countrymen who complain at the absence of a local militia which they blame on landowners' fear for their game ('hares & partridges'). On the left, Admiral Byng, in fetters, addresses his court martial."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Voice of the public for an enquiry into the loss of Minorca ... and English Lion dismembered
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Following imprint: Sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the Batlle of Minorca, 20 May 1756 -- Reference to Oswego and Nova Scotia -- British Lion -- Military uniforms: Hanoverians -- Naval uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Sllingsby Bethell, Lord Mayor of London., and Mounted to 34 x 47 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Byng, John, 1704-1757
- Subject (Topic):
- Flags, British, Lions, Military uniforms, and Roosters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The English Lion dismember'd, or, The voice of the public for an enquiry into the loss of Minorca with Adl. B--g's plea before his examiners [graphic].
16.
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.06.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the ineffective conduct of the Seven Years' War. The British lion has lost a foot labelled 'Minorca' and the French cock is tearing up the Union flag; two Frenchman discuss their aim to acquire British colonies in North America as well. The Lord Mayor of London and aldermen deliver a petition for an inquiry into the loss of Minorca and are met with evasive responses from courtiers or ministers; Hanoverian mercenaries are confronted by three countrymen who complain at the absence of a local militia which they blame on landowners' fear for their game ('hares & partridges'). On the left, Admiral Byng, in fetters, addresses his court martial."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Voice of the public for an enquiry into the loss of Minorca and English Lion dismembered
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date from British Museum catalogue., Following imprint: Sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the Battle of Minorca, 20 May 1756 -- Reference to Oswego and Nova Scotia -- British Lion -- Military uniforms: Hanoverians -- Naval uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Sllingsby Bethell, Lord Mayor of London.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Byng, John, 1704-1757
- Subject (Topic):
- Flags, British, Lions, Military uniforms, and Roosters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The English Lion dismember'd, or, The voice of the public for an enquiry into the loss of Minorca with Adl. B--g's plea before his examiners [graphic].
17.
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 34. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the ineffective conduct of the Seven Years' War. The British lion has lost a foot labelled 'Minorca' and the French cock is tearing up the Union flag; two Frenchman discuss their aim to acquire British colonies in North America as well. The Lord Mayor of London and aldermen deliver a petition for an inquiry into the loss of Minorca and are met with evasive responses from courtiers or ministers; Hanoverian mercenaries are confronted by three countrymen who complain at the absence of a local militia which they blame on landowners' fear for their game ('hares & partridges'). On the left, Admiral Byng, in fetters, addresses his court martial."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- English Lion dismembered and Voice of the public for an enquiry into the loss of Minorca
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 3547 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published in 1756; see British Museum catalogue., "Sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster"--Following imprint., and On leaf 34 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- Byng, John, 1704-1757
- Subject (Topic):
- Flags, British, Lions, Roosters, Petitions, and Shackles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The English Lion dismember'd, or, The voice of the public for an enquiry into the loss of Minorca, with Adl. B--g's plea before his examiners [graphic].
18.
- Published / Created:
- [9 September 1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.09.09.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Soldiers' uniforms -- General Evening Post -- Bills & petitions: address from the City of London on the loss of Minorca -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Henry VIII, 2.353-59 -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet i.5.9 -- Reference to Greenwich., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sepr. 9, 1756, to be had at the Lyon near St. Paul's
- Subject (Name):
- Byng, John, 1704-1757, Torrington, George Byng, Viscount, 1663-1733, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
- Subject (Topic):
- Soldiers, British, Military uniforms, Newspapers, and Devil
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Greenwich farce as acted by a renowned admiral and other great personages. [graphic]
19.
- Published / Created:
- [14 August 1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.08.14.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Admiral Byng; Byng, in fetters, is visited by the ghost of his father, the naval hero George Byng, Viscount Torrington, who harangues him in verse; on a table are books lettered "Spanish Armada" and "Matthews and Lestock"; on the wall behind the figures are two pictures, one in which Byng addresses the Duke of Newcastle, "Pray your Grace let me be sent", and the other in which a figure of Justice points to a mob carrying an effigy of Byng, labelled "I Could not Fight", towards a gallows at the foot of which lies a sheet of paper lettered, "Gazetta B[yng']s Letter Lyes and Nonsence"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image, above verses., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two columns of verse below title: Oh, thou whose timid cow'ring heart, by low born fear's betray'd ..., Temporary local subject terms: Personfications: figure of Justice., Watermark: Fleur-de-lis., and Mounted to 35 x 40 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Aug. 14, 1756, by J. Smith at Hogarth's Head, Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Byng, John, 1704-1757 and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
- Subject (Topic):
- Ghosts, Shackles, Justice, Gallows, and Effigies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The apparition [graphic].
20.
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption above image., Plate numbered '81' in upper left corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756, 1757, 1758, and 1759. In a series of ... prints. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1760?]., and Reduced and reversed copy of No. 3467 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Mahón (Spain)
- Subject (Name):
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Byng, John, 1704-1757
- Subject (Topic):
- History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The auction 1756 [graphic].
