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1. Aquila Hapsburghiensis [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [publish'd 27th May 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.05.27.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satirical armorial ridiculing Lord Denbigh's claim to descend from the Habsburg family
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Artist identified as 'Lord de Ferrars' in the British Museum catalogue., Publication date from contemporary manuscript note in lower left margin: Publish'd 27th May 1780., Four lines of text in Latin below title: Monstrum, horrendum informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum. Quale portentum neque militaris, aaunia in latis alit esculetis, nee jubae tellus generat, &c. &c., and Dedication etched at bottom of plate: Humbly dedicated to Garter King at Arms and all other the officers of the College of Arms, London.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Denbigh, Basil Fielding, Earl of, 1719-1800.
- Subject (Topic):
- Coats of arms and Eagles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Aquila Hapsburghiensis [graphic].
2. Wonders wonders wonders & wonders dedicated to the wonderfull wonderfull wonderer. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [9 November 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.11.09.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Five pairs of implacable enemies are shown in the act of reconciliation. Britannia and America clasp hands on the left; behind them the Duke of Richmond takes the hand of Parson Bate ; in the center foreground Fox (with a fox's head) brings together Shelburne and Lord Denbigh, the latter having the body of a dog; behind them are Sir Hugh Palliser and Admiral Keppel, and on the far right John Wilkes and George III shake hands
- Alternative Title:
- Wonders wonders wonders and wonders
- Description:
- Title from item. and See no. 6162 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5 for another print with the same title, on a similar theme.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs Novr. 9, 1782 by I. Langham print coulerer No. 84 Dorset Street Salisbury Court Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Denbigh, Basil Fielding, Earl of, 1719-1800, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Dudley, H. Bate Sir, 1745-1824 (Henry Bate),, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, and Palliser, Hugh, Sir, 1723-1796
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Shaking hands, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Wonders wonders wonders & wonders dedicated to the wonderfull wonderfull wonderer. [graphic]
