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1. A skit on Britain [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1741]
- Call Number:
- 741.00.00.06.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Four designs enclosed by scrolls, with six lines of verse inscribed below two top and bottom left design, and eight lines of verse inscribed below bottom right design
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker supplied by curator., George Bickham identified as the publisher from address in imprint., 'Price 1s.', and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Hospital for Foundlings -- Castles -- Ships: ships shelling shoreline fortifications -- Ships: ships for sale, with brooms at mastheads -- Placemen -- Broad-bottoms -- Bills: excise tax, 1741 -- Guns: cannon -- Birds: doves -- Flags -- Masks: mask with dagger -- Churches: St. Paul's -- Savoyards -- Sun: eclipse -- Moon -- Treaties -- Webs: spider web -- Symbols: hands of Providence -- Wars: war with Spain, 1739 -- Animals: wolf -- Animals: cat -- Animals: mice -- Heads: grotesque head -- Emblems: German eagle -- Personifications: Holland as an infant in cradle holding heraldic arrows -- Emblematic representations: English and French dogs pouncing on Spanish dogs -- Personifications: hand-tied Justice -- Emblems: French fox -- Devil holding scroll -- Devil laughing -- Devil flying kite -- Devil fishing -- Maps: Cartegna -- Maps: England -- Maps: Havana -- Maps: capture of Porto Bello, November 22, 1739 -- Joseph Edward, Count Gage, 1678?-1753?
- Publisher:
- Sold at [the] Blackmoors Head against Surry Street in [the] Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A skit on Britain [graphic]
2. A skit on Britain [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1741]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C2 738
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Four designs enclosed by scrolls, with six lines of verse inscribed below two top and bottom left design, and eight lines of verse inscribed below bottom right design
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker supplied by curator., George Bickham identified as the publisher from address in imprint., 'Price 1s.', Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Hospital for Foundlings -- Castles -- Ships: ships shelling shoreline fortifications -- Ships: ships for sale, with brooms at mastheads -- Placemen -- Broad-bottoms -- Bills: excise tax, 1741 -- Guns: cannon -- Birds: doves -- Flags -- Masks: mask with dagger -- Churches: St. Paul's -- Savoyards -- Sun: eclipse -- Moon -- Treaties -- Webs: spider web -- Symbols: hands of Providence -- Wars: war with Spain, 1739 -- Animals: wolf -- Animals: cat -- Animals: mice -- Heads: grotesque head -- Emblems: German eagle -- Personifications: Holland as an infant in cradle holding heraldic arrows -- Emblematic representations: English and French dogs pouncing on Spanish dogs -- Personifications: hand-tied Justice -- Emblems: French fox -- Devil holding scroll -- Devil laughing -- Devil flying kite -- Devil fishing -- Maps: Cartegna -- Maps: England -- Maps: Havana -- Maps: capture of Porto Bello, November 22, 1739 -- Joseph Edward, Count Gage, 1678?-1753?, and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
- Publisher:
- Sold at [the] Blackmoors Head against Surry Street in [the] Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A skit on Britain [graphic]
3. Briton's association against the Pope's bulls [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Octr. 21, 1745.
- Call Number:
- 745.10.21.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image: I Perkin young and bold, my father me has sent here ..., Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Weapons: espontoons -- Military uniforms -- Cardinal -- Playing cards: Nine of Diamonds (Curse of Scotland)., and Watermark: countermark IV.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Tweed River (Scotland and England),
- Subject (Name):
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Tencin, Pierre Guérin de, 1679-1758, and Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland),
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Neptune, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Bulls, Devil, and Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Briton's association against the Pope's bulls [graphic].
4. Carolus Walliae Princeps &c., &c., &c. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Wille, Johann Georg, 1715-1808, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1748]
- Call Number:
- Portraits C475 no. 1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, half-length, turned to right; in armour, with insignia of the Order of the Garter; in trompe l'oeil masonry border"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text in image., Date from British Museum online catalogue., Place of publication surmised from printmaker's place of activity., and Numbered in manuscript in lower left corner: "No 91."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788,
- Subject (Topic):
- Princes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Carolus Walliae Princeps &c., &c., &c. [graphic]
5. How happy could I be with either were t'other dear charmer away Beg. Op. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1747]
- Call Number:
- 747.03.00.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved within image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin ... , 1732- , v. 16 (1747), March issue, on one sheet with British Museum catalogue no. 2817., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from The Beggar's opera by John Gay, 1685-1732., and Window mounted to 23 x 31 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788,, MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790,, and Cameron, Jenny.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > How happy could I be with either were t'other dear charmer away Beg. Op. [graphic]
6. Long live His most excellent Britannic Majesty King George the Third, or, Down with the devil, pope, French King and Pretender [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- October 25, 1760.
- Call Number:
- 760.10.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Down with the devil, pope, French King and Pretender
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Another George has fled this weeping ball , being summon'd hence by Heavens mighty call ..., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Satan -- Popes -- Angels -- Emblems: scales of justice., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Clement XIII, Pope, 1693-1769, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Long live His most excellent Britannic Majesty King George the Third, or, Down with the devil, pope, French King and Pretender [graphic].
7. Miss Flora MacDonald one of the most numerous clans in the Highlands of Scotland / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Johnson, active 18th century, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1747]
- Call Number:
- Portraits M135 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Portrait, three-quarter length seated slightly facing right, looking towards the viewer over shoulder, left hand holding a lock of her long hair, holding an oval portrait of Prince Charles Edward, wearing a tartan shawl, with a landscape background
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Verse following title: She seems not won, yet won she is at length, In loves war, women use but half their strength., and Scottish Jacobite heroine who helped Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, to escape from Scotland after his defeat in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745-46; married Allan Macdonald of Kingsburgh.
- Publisher:
- George Bickham?
- Subject (Name):
- MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790 and Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788
- Subject (Topic):
- Women and Scottish
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Flora MacDonald one of the most numerous clans in the Highlands of Scotland / [graphic]
8. Scotch female gallantry [graphic]
- Creator:
- Canot, Pierre Charles, 1710-1777, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, 8th January 1745-6.
- Call Number:
- 746.01.08.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption above image., Six stanzas of verse in three columns below image: To Edinburgh Charley came, and set the Scottish nymphs on flame ..., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Furniture: curtained bed -- Stools -- Furnishings: carpets -- Portraits -- Lighting: hanging lamp -- Scots -- Orders: star and ribbon of the Order of the Garter -- Allusion to papacy -- Reference to the Duke of Cumberland -- Hats: plumed hats., and Mounted to 25 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Scotch female gallantry [graphic]
9. The Highlanders medley, or, The Duke triumphant [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, 1746.
- Call Number:
- 746.00.00.25+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A montage of images with the portrait of the Duke of Cumberland in the center. The theme is the defeat of the Young Pretender at the Battle of Culloden. In the upper left corner is an image of a broadside ballad, 'A Loyal Song', sung by Mr. Beard at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Over it is superimposed a playing card of Jack of clubs in Scottish dress looking wistfully towards the Duke. Below, partially under the Duke's portait is an image of the Devil drawing the Scots caught in his net towards a hill on top of which stands the 'triple tree', i.e., the gallows, decorated with a royal crown at each corner. Beneath this image is another, showing the British cavalry, well equipped and healthy, pursuing the Scots on bony horses. Partially covering that image, at the bottom of the plate, is a smaller, allegorical representation of Britannia and Liberty pointing to a beehive and a temple of Concord. The last image, in top right of plate, shows the British army marching in a parade. Eight lines of verse, enclosed in a vignette, below the medley, begin as follows: Britons, behold the Royal Youth, 'tis he who fights your battles , sets your country free ...
- Alternative Title:
- Duke triumphant
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Tentatively attributed to George Bickham the elder in an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6d.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Matted to 61 x 49 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 and Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746, and Scots
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Highlanders medley, or, The Duke triumphant [graphic].
