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- Published / Created:
- [October 1794]
- Call Number:
- 794.10.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The convicted traitor Robert Watt sits on an open sled being pulled by a horse through a city square. A man in a hat, perhaps the executioner, sits across from him holding an axe. Soldiers escort the sled through the crowd. In the distance on the right, a man stands on a platform outside the upper floor of a building and readies a noose
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: Exshaw's Gentleman's and London magazine. Dublin : J. Exshaw, October 1794., and Sheet mutilated along bottom edge with slight loss of text.
- Publisher:
- J. Exshaw
- Subject (Geographic):
- Edinburgh (Scotland)
- Subject (Name):
- Watt, Robert, -1794.
- Subject (Topic):
- Criminals, Executions, Plazas, and Sleds & sleighs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Execution of Robert Watt for high treason, at Edinburgh Octr. 15th 1794 [graphic].
3.
- Creator:
- Bowles, George, 1732-1817
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 47
- Image Count:
- 129
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a description of summer tours, in the author's phaeton, through England, Wales, and Scotland, both alone and accompanied by family members. Each journey begins and ends in Wanstead; along the way, the author records the quality of the roads; houses he visits; and the names of significant inhabitants. In Llangollen, he admires the library of Miss Ponsonby and Miss Butler; in Aberystwyth, he describes the sea and the bathing procedures of women there. In Edinburgh, he writes approvingly of a Presbyterian service he attends but complains of the dark taverns, "and the Stair Cases are nasty & very dark when perhaps your room is 3 or 4 stories high." He visits several factories in Birmingham, including Mr Bolton's, whose factory produces ormolu, silver plate, boxes, and buttons; and Mr Clay's, "who has a Patent for making paper pannels for Coaches tea boards &c." The volume also includes several charts listing mileages from Wanstead to the author's various destinations
- Description:
- George Bowles (1732-1817) of Wanstead Grove, Essex, and Burford House, Salop, was High Sheriff of Essex in 1785. He died unmarried and left Wanstead Grove to his niece, Anne Rushout, whose bookplate is pasted into the volume., In English., Pasted in on flyleaf: envelope front addressed to "The Lady Rushout"; with Windsor postal stamp; 1-penny postage; and a drawing of a black figure playing tennis., Bookplate of Honorable Anne Rushout., Marbled endpapers., and Binding: full calf. Printed on spine: Travels.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Aberystwyth (Wales), Birmingham (England), Edinburgh (Scotland), and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Bowles, George, 1732-1817.
- Subject (Topic):
- Gentry, Conduct of life, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Travels, 1773 Jul 17-1797 Aug 24.
4.
- Published / Created:
- [1805]
- Call Number:
- 805.00.00.51
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- John Porteous, Captain of the Edinburgh City Guard, being attacked by a mob in the streets. Porteous resists as two men hold a rope around his neck; a third man holds him from behind. Additional rioters, some holding torches, are seen in the shadows of buildings in the background
- Alternative Title:
- George the Second
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from that of the volume in which the illustration appears., Seven lines of letterpress text below image: The populace assembled in different bodies about ten o'clock at night. ... They broke open the prison doors, dragged Porteus from thence to the place of execution ..., and Illustration from: Smollett, T. The History of England from the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II. London : J. Wallis, 1805, volume 3, opposite page 281.
- Publisher:
- J. Wallis
- Subject (Geographic):
- Edinburgh (Scotland)
- Subject (Name):
- Porteous, John, -1736.
- Subject (Topic):
- Criminals, Crowds, and Riots
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Porteous dragged to the place of execution] [graphic].
