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1. D [graphic].
- Creator:
- Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1820.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 9. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three fat, bedizened women (? Ladies Hertford, Conyngham, &c.), dance in a ring, holding hands. The background is a curtain hanging in festoons. P. 5: D, for the Devils, with infamy fraught, Who first gave the Archer this cowardly thought ... The Archer had venom enough in his reach, But found the most potent exude from the Leech ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- D, for the devils, with infamy fraught, who first gave the archer this cowardly thought ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 9 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Leach, John, 1760-1834., Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, and Rosco.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > D [graphic].
2. The countryman's dream of coalescing virtue and vice [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 20th 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.03.20.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Thomas Powys, sleeping in a chair on the left, and Charles Marsham, with a tankard, two of the country gentlemen urging the union between Fox and Pitt, preside over a maypole dance in front of the "St. Albans" tavern, their meeting place. The maypole is decorated with a sleeping head of George III. Dancers include members of the Coalition cabinet, pictured with devil's horns: Charles Fox, with a fox's body, Burke, dressed as a Jesuit, and the Duke of Portland, and members of the preceding cabinet, pictured with haloes: Lord Thurlow, in a judge's robe, a smiling Lord Shelburne, and the Duke of Richmond. They are watched on the left by the "nurse North," with horns, holding baby Pitt, with a halo, and on the right, by the Prince of Wales, dancing to his own tune he is playing on a pipe and a drum
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800., and Romney, Charles Marsham, Earl of, 1744-1811.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Taverns (Inns), May poles, Dance, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The countryman's dream of coalescing virtue and vice [graphic]
