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1. A May Day garland for 1820 [graphic].

Published / Created:: [May 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Ministers and others, holding hands, caper in a ring round a pole to which are symmetrically attached the decollated heads of the Cato Street conspirators executed on 1 May, see British Museum Satires No. 13707, &c. Between Sidmouth and the smiling Castlereagh is a man wearing a black mask, and with a blood-stained knife in his mouth, perhaps one of the two who turned King's evidence. On the right, taking Castlereagh's left hand, is the Attorney-General, Gifford, grinning diabolically. Holding Sidmouth's left hand is Vansittart (in his gown). Facing these two are Canning and Chief Justice Abbott in his robes. Four others are poorly characterized. They dance to a fiddle played by Edwards who sits on a grassy mound (right), with an empty gibbet behind his head. He says: "Dance away my Friends, I have been the cause of all this fun by your Help and Money. "Edwards the Instigator!!!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with two other prints) on leaf 9 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and With figures of "Sidmouth", "Londonderry", and "Gifford" identified in pencil below, the first two on mounting leaf and the last one in lower margin of print. Typed extract of twelve lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:: Pubd. May 1820 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Abbott, Charles, Baron Tenterden, 1762-1832, and Edwards, George, 1788-1843
Subject (Topic):: Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, Politicians, May poles, Dance, Decapitations, Heads (Anatomy), Criminals, Masks, Knives, and Violins
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A May Day garland for 1820 [graphic].

2. A democrat [graphic]

Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 September 1791]
Call Number:: 791.09.02.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A French patriot, wearing a cocked hat with large tricolor cockage, rests his hand on a bludgeon; from his pocket issues the "Rights of Man. Paine". In the background a noose dangles from a lamppost on which is fixed a bleeding head"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 26 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. Septr. 2, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N.3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Name):: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):: Decapitations, History, Gallows, Nooses, and Street lights
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A democrat [graphic]

3. A funiral [sic] ticket for Lord Lovet [graphic].

Published / Created:: accordg. to act of Parlt., March 19, 1747.
Call Number:: 747.03.19.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A satire on King Louis XV of France accusing him of treachery showing him sitting on a throne under a canopy, his crown is held over his head by Pride on his left, a peacock in front of her, and two-faced Treachery on his right, behind whom the devil flies waving a firebrand and a Jesuit stands holding up a candle and scroll lettered “Persecution”. The king wears a black mask and the costume of a Roman general, a cloth adorned with fleur-de-lis round his legs and his sandaled feet rest on two books lettered “T[reatie]s”, a paper with the same lettering lies beside these and an open book. An obsequious courtier, a chain round his ankle attached to a book, kneels at the king’s feet as the king hands him a yoke. On the king’s other side another elegant courtier, his ankle chained to a log, exclaims “Oh! Wh(a)t a great Monarch”, a scene of “The [St Bartholomew's Day] massacre of Paris” hangs on the curtain behind the king. To the left of the canopy is an obelisk bearing the image of a weeping “Europa” with her bull and above this a medallion of the “Cat & monkey”. Around the obelisk are a Spaniard holding a rosary and kneeling in prayer before a statue, a Genoese man and a Bavarian (identified in the verses below); at their feet are the words “Here we stand for ye Glory of France”. In the sky above the Eye of Providence looks down on a pair of scales in which the British lion outweighs the French fleur-de-lis. On the right demon is about to hang Justice as a Cardinal (Tencin?) holds up a cross; beside this a man wearing a wig wooden shoes sits astride a braying donkey waves his hat and cries “Vive le Roy”. At the bottom are three scenes: [at left] three men “Burning of Treaties” and the “Pr[agmati]c S[anctio]n”; ... ; [at right] scenes of executions, torture, a village burning and a monk leading a band of troops while another holding up a cross says “one K[in]g one R[e]l[igio]n”). "--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition
Alternative Title:: Funiral ticket for Lord Lovet and Funeral ticket for Lord Lovat
Description:: Title from item., Publisher identified from address., 'Price 6d.'--Following imprint., An earlier state of the plate was used by D. Fournier on Feb. 14, 1747 to illustrate a broadside entitled "The glory of France"; see no. 2849 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3. In addition to the added title and altered imprint statement, this later state also differs in the replacement the previous image of a custom house and ships in the bottom center with a new image of Simon Lord Lovat in a chair, with women to the left of him and severed heads to the right., Temporary local subject terms: France: Louis XV masked and dressed as a Roman -- Burning of treaties -- Literature: Jean de la Fontaine, Fables, ii, 143: The monkey and the cat -- Hand of Justice -- Personifications: Persecution -- Pride as a peacock -- Winged Death -- Two-faced Deceipt -- Europa -- Pictures amplifying subject: massacre of Paris -- Beheaded heads -- Eye of Providence -- Torch-bearing demon -- Animals: ass -- Yoke -- Whip -- Torture rack -- Reference to Leaden Hall -- Reference to Westminster Hall -- Wooden shoes -- Emblems: lion -- Balance -- French crown -- Tickets: invitation to an execution., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
Publisher:: Publish'd in May's Buildings
Subject (Name):: Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667?-1747, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, and Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774
Subject (Topic):: Jacobites, Treaties, Justice, Priests, Decapitations, Crowns, Monuments & memorials, Thrones, Scales, Gallows, and Demons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A funiral [sic] ticket for Lord Lovet [graphic].

4. A tragical ballad of the unfortunate loves of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor : together with the downfal of the brown girl

Published / Created:: [between 1754 and 1783]
Call Number:: Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image and text
Alternative Title:: Tragical ballad, of the unfortunate love of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor
Description:: In three columns with the title above the first two; a woodcut is in middle of the second column; imprint is below the third column; the columns are not separated by rules., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Verse begins: "Lord Thomas he was a bold forester,"., Mounted on leaf 72. 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:: Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Ballads, English, Man-woman relationships, Murder, Suicide, Courtship, Betrayal, Decapitations, Dead persons, and Daggers & swords
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A tragical ballad of the unfortunate loves of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor : together with the downfal of the brown girl

5. After the invasion the levée en masse, or, Britons strike home. [graphic]

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [6 August 1803]
Call Number:: 802.08.06.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Three volunteers or militiamen, three-quarter length figures, exult at the head of Bonaparte which one of them (right) holds up on a pitchfork, saying, "Here he is Exalted my Lads 24 Hours after Landing." The head is in profile to the left, the sharp well-cut features contrast with those of the chubby yokels. The centre figure, holding out his hat, says, turning to the left: "Why Harkee, d'ye zee, I never liked Soldiering afore, but some how or other when I though [sic] of our Sal the bearns, the poor pigs, the Cows and the Geese, why I could have killed the whole Army my own Self." He wears a smock with the crossed straps of a cartouche-box. The third man (left) in regimentals, but round-shouldered and unsoldierly, says: "Dang my Buttons if that beant the Head of that Rogue Boney - I told our Squire this Morning, what do you think say's I the Lads of our Village can't cut up a Regiment of them French Mounsheers, and as soon as the Lasses had given us a Kiss for good luck I could have sworn we should do it and so we have." All three have hats turned up with favours and oak-twigs, the favours being inscribed respectively (left to right): 'Hearts of Oak'; 'Britons never will be Slaves', and 'We'll fight and We'll Conquer again and again'. In the spaces between these foreground figures is seen a distant encounter between English horse and foot and French invaders, who are being driven into the sea, on which are flat-bottomed boats, all on a very small scale. Two women search French corpses; one says: "why this is poor finding I have emtied the pocketts of a score and only found one head of garlic 9 onions & a parcel of pill Boxes." Cf. British Museum Satires No. 8145."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Levée en masse, or, Britons strike home and Britons strike home
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement below image, in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom.
Publisher:: Pub. Augt. 6th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Soldiers, British, French, Militias, Pitchforks, Heads (Anatomy), Decapitations, and War casualties
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > After the invasion the levée en masse, or, Britons strike home. [graphic]

6. Brissot's visit to his friend Lord Leveller [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 March 1794]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 60. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A headless Brissot, with his right arm stretched forward and his head under his left arm, runs toward Lord Lauderdale who is sitting on a rocking horse. Lauderdale turns back his head on a snake-like neck to look in surprise at his guillotined friend. From Brissot's neck cavity issues a warning "To lead the crowd midst faction's storm, I rode your hobby horse Reform, And found my arts prevail,Till other Lev'llers ruled the mob, And then I lost my seat and nob, Take warning L........." The rockers of the horse are inscribed "Reform" and move over a document with an attached seal, titled "Nolumus leges Angliae mutari."
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 79 with one other print.
Publisher:: Pubd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Brissot de Warville, J.-P. 1754-1793 (Jacques-Pierre), and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):: Hobby horses, Decapitations, and Politics and government
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Brissot's visit to his friend Lord Leveller [graphic]

7. Brissot's visit to his friend Lord Leveller [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 March 1794]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Leaf 60. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A headless Brissot, with his right arm stretched forward and his head under his left arm, runs toward Lord Lauderdale who is sitting on a rocking horse. Lauderdale turns back his head on a snake-like neck to look in surprise at his guillotined friend. From Brissot's neck cavity issues a warning "To lead the crowd midst faction's storm, I rode your hobby horse Reform, And found my arts prevail,Till other Lev'llers ruled the mob, And then I lost my seat and nob, Take warning L........." The rockers of the horse are inscribed "Reform" and move over a document with an attached seal, titled "Nolumus leges Angliae mutari."
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 29 x 23.8 cm, on sheet 31.7 x 25.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 60 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:: Pubd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Brissot de Warville, J.-P. 1754-1793 (Jacques-Pierre), and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):: Hobby horses, Decapitations, and Politics and government
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Brissot's visit to his friend Lord Leveller [graphic]

8. Brissot's visit to his friend Lord Leveller [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 March 1794]
Call Number:: 794.03.17.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:: Leaf 60. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A headless Brissot, with his right arm stretched forward and his head under his left arm, runs toward Lord Lauderdale who is sitting on a rocking horse. Lauderdale turns back his head on a snake-like neck to look in surprise at his guillotined friend. From Brissot's neck cavity issues a warning "To lead the crowd midst faction's storm, I rode your hobby horse Reform, And found my arts prevail,Till other Lev'llers ruled the mob, And then I lost my seat and nob, Take warning L........." The rockers of the horse are inscribed "Reform" and move over a document with an attached seal, titled "Nolumus leges Angliae mutari."
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 42 x 35 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Brissot de Warville, J.-P. 1754-1793 (Jacques-Pierre), and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):: Hobby horses, Decapitations, and Politics and government
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Brissot's visit to his friend Lord Leveller [graphic]

9. Changez moi cette tête [graphic].

Published / Created:: [19 January 1784]
Call Number:: 784.01.19.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on the changing fashions for women, with women in a shop buying new heads, backsides, legs etc."--British Museum online catalogue and Interior of a crowded shop, with shelves of elaborately-coiffed human heads. A sword lies on the floor, evidently having been employed to behead a lady who stands having her new head put in place by a shop assistant. Next to her is another lady having her head struck off by a man wielding mallet and chisel. On the far right a tall lady appears to be shopping for false bosoms and derrières. The doors to the shop bear signs "Avis au public: Têtes a changer." With 18 lines of French verse below design
Description:: Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Pubd. by H. Humphrey, Jany. 19, 1784 No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Topic):: Hairstyles, Decapitations, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Changez moi cette tête [graphic].