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2.
Hints towards a change of ministry respectfully submitted to the consideration of the ladies of

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 February 1797]
Call Number:
797.02.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Ten ladies, arranged in two rows, with numbers referring to notes etched beneath the design, their proposed offices etched above their heads. ... '(1) First Lady of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.' The 'Duc - ss of Gor-n' (Pitt's friend), wearing a tartan drapery, sits at a writing-table. Facing her, with outstretched right arm, is '(2) President of the Council and Duc-ss of Ric-nd.' '(3) Lady High Chancellor is the Coun-ss of Buc-s-e', very short and fat, in wig and gown and holding the purse of the Great Seal. Facing her is '(4) Chamberlain', who is 'Margr-ne of Ans-h', wearing a coronet and feathers, and holding a long wand of office. '(5) Mistress of the Horse' holding a whip is 'Lady Arc-r.' '(6) First Lady of the Admiralty' is 'Mrs Jo-n', with her arms folded, in profile to the right, as if playing the part of Priscilla Hoyden in 'The Romp', see British Museum Satires No. 6875, but wearing a naval cocked hat, emblem of her liaison with the Duke of Clarence, see British Museum Satires No. 9009. Facing her is '(7) Secretary of War & Capn of the Guards, La-y Wa-ce' (sister of No. 1); she wears a military cocked hat and coat with epaulettes, her hands placed truculently on her hips. (Her friendship with Dumouriez is perhaps hinted at.) '(8) Mistress of the Buck Hounds', is 'March-ss of Sa-ry', thin and weatherbeaten, holding two hounds on a leash, '(9) Ranger of Hyde Park', is 'La-y La-e' (wife of Sir John Lade) wearing a riding-habit and holding a riding-switch. '(10) Post Mistress General and Inspector of Mis-sent Letters' is 'La-y Je-y'. She sits at a round table on which are many letters and appliances for opening and re-sealing them, including a spirit-lamp inscribed 'Hot water'. She holds a lighted candle and peers through spectacles at a sealed letter."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and With illegible monogram, perhaps a collector's mark, written in brown ink in lower margin.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 1st, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St. ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gordon, Jane Gordon, Duchess of, 1748-1812, Richmond, Mary, Duchess of, 1740-1796, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Craven, Elizabeth, 1750-1828, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Lady Wallace, -1803, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Lade, Letitia, Lady, -1825, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Nobility, and Women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hints towards a change of ministry respectfully submitted to the consideration of the ladies of Great Britain. [graphic]

3.
[Her Serene Highness the Margravine of Anspach] [graphic].

Creator:
Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1826]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait, seated, hair up with a strand of pearls; embracing a boy in the lower right who grasps at her waist
Description:
Title from lettered state., Printmaker and artist from text beneath title on lettered state: Engraved by H. Meyer, from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the possession of the Earl of Egremont., Proof before letters. For a lettered state with the imprint "London, Published by Henry Colburn, Jany. 1826", see Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Print Room) accession number: EP V 266.2., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 152 (leaf numbered '198' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Henry Colburn
Subject (Name):
Craven, Elizabeth, 1750-1828,
Subject (Topic):
Dramatists
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Her Serene Highness the Margravine of Anspach] [graphic].

4.
[Lady Elizabeth Craven] [art original]

Creator:
Mundare, artist
Published / Created:
[not before 1778]
Call Number:
335 R
Collection Title:
Page 4 after The press at Strawberry Hill to ... the Duke of Clarence. Poems - Strawberry-Hill
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statements of responsibility written in pencil below image; the artist Mundare is unidentified., Copy of a portrait by Romney, which was commissioned by Horace Walpole in 1778 and kept in the Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill. See: Kidson, A. George Romney: a complete catalogue of his paintings. New Haven : Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2015., Mounted below is a separate sheet (10.0 x 14.7 cm) containing eight lines of verse, in Thomas Kirgate's hand, beneath the heading: Written on the back of Lady Craven's picture, by Lord Orford., and Mounted on page 4 after The press at Strawberry Hill to ... the Duke of Clarence, in a volume with the binder's title: Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Subject (Name):
Craven, Elizabeth, 1750-1828,, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Lady Elizabeth Craven] [art original]