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1.
Excise in triumph [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1733]
Call Number:
733.03.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., 2nd state with variant verse, as described in British Museum catalogue., One line of text below image burnished from plate., Four lines of verse below image: The grenadier seems such a furious blade ..., Key to persons, emblems and buildings within image on either side of verse., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Trade -- Emblem of trade -- Westminster Hall -- St. James's Palace -- British lion -- Unicorns -- Wooden shoes: reference to slogan: No slavery, no excise, no wooden shoes -- Grenadiers -- Bills: excise -- Taxes: excise -- Standing armies -- Military uniforms: grenadier guards -- 'Interest.', and Imperfect, trimmed to design with loss of publication information and plate number.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Excise in triumph [graphic].

2.
The scheme disappointed A fruitless sacrifice. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1733]
Call Number:
733.04.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Fruitless sacrifice
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two designs, side by side, within a border containing seventeen smaller designs., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to 'Carus', fl. 1733 -- Allusion to William Arnall, ca. 1700-1736 -- Nicknames: W. Arnall as 'Francis Walsingham' or 'Mother Osborne' -- Allusion to James Pitt, fl. 1733 -- Nicknames: J. Pitt as 'Fr. Osborne' or 'Mother Osborne' -- Hand of Providence -- Newspapers: allusion to The daily gazeteer -- Journals: Prompter -- Mythology: Acteon as a stag -- Imperial princes as a naked boy -- Implements of torture -- Maps: Naples and Sicily -- Figure of Rome as a nun -- Figure of Germany -- Figure of Scotland -- Britannia -- Shields -- Magna Charta -- Nuns -- Altars -- Pyramids -- Defeat of the excise scheme -- Devils -- Coins -- Dragons -- Harpies -- Mottoes -- Houghton Hall -- Slogans: liberty and property -- Navy: fleet of ships -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis on globe -- Ropes: halter -- Allusion to the sinking fund -- Treaties: Hanover -- Treaties: Seville and Vienna -- Spithead expedition -- Fasces -- Sir Robert Walpole's mistresses as Harpies -- Headsman's axe -- British lion tied by heels -- Sir Robert Walpole as a serpent -- Sir Robert Walpole's French policy, 1733 -- English commerce foundering -- Writing fools -- Unobtainable justice -- Scales tipped by the judge -- Gibbets -- Executions -- Hanged traitors., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Walpole, Maria, Lady, 1701 or 1702-1738, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, and Norfolk, Edward Howard, Duke of, 1686-1777
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The scheme disappointed A fruitless sacrifice. [graphic]