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21.
The peace offering [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1749]
Call Number:
749.01.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The King of France is seated on his throne in front of the tent surmounted by a large fleur-de-lis. His feet rest on the head of the British Lion whom he is pushing to the ground. Two guards with pikes stand on either side of him. He is pointing with his scepter to two kneeling men in peers' coronets who have hooks in their noses and are led on a string by another man, probably Lord Sandwich, British negotiator at Aix-la-Chapelle. The two peers are probably the Earl of Sussex and Baron Cathcart, offered as hostages at the time of signing the Treaty. They carry scrolls and a fishnet with three fishes in it, probably alluding to the fisheries of Cape Breton. The scrolls convey promises to wear French cambric, as well as surrender of newly discovered coal mines. A fortress with breached walls is visible in the background. On the right, sits Britannia weeping. Behind her, three men, probably English merchants, express their disappointment with the terms of the Treaty. A scroll in the upper right corner, above a ship on turbulent seas, lists the concessions made by English negotiators
Description:
Title from caption above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of text below image: [The] Gods! Is is possible are these the brave E--- [i.e., Englishmen] who so lately professed 'emselves in such strong terms to be my friends! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Pro patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Cathcart, Charles Schaw Cathcart, Lord, 1721-1776, Sussex, George Augustus Yelverton, Earl of, 1727-1758, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The peace offering [graphic].

22.
The arrest at the Compter a song. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1749?]
Call Number:
749.00.00.27+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man with his hands clasped in supplication, is seized on one side by a burly turnkey and on the other by a man wearing in a Kevenhuller hat and armed with a cudgel. A third man tries to hit the prisoner on the head with a long cudgel. A fourth man, standing near the turnkey, threatens a boy and a woman who both kneel facing the prisoner whie a little girl in front of the woman stretches her arms towards her. On the far left, a well dressed man points to the scene with his left hand, his right hand resting on his hip. To his right is an entrance to a building with a lamp in the shape of an acorn hanging above the door. On the opposite side is another building with old-fashioned casement windows with diamond panes, or possibly bars, on upper floors and modern square paned windows on the ground floor. Over the door, in lieu of a lantern, hangs a bunch of grapes. The two buildings are connected in the background by a wall with a gate with heavy grill through which two men are peeking into the courtyard. On the wall above the grill are the Royal Arms, flanked by the arms of London and Westminster
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image: Welcome, welcome, brother debtor, As an old and hearty song ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Prisons: The Compter -- Turnkeys -- Hats: Kevenhuller -- Weapons: cudgel -- Arms: royal arms -- Arms: City of London -- Arms: City of Westminster -- Emblems: grapes hanging over the dooor -- Lighting: outdoor hanging lantern., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The arrest at the Compter a song. [graphic]

23.
The trusted servant [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1749?]
Call Number:
749.00.00.04
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of verse in Latin on left and English on right, separated with a decorative border: Effigiem servi si vis spectare probati, quisquis as hoec oculos pascat Image tuos ..., Copy, slightly reduced, with different background imagery and arms of William of Wykeham in upper left corner, of No. 3045 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Arms: William of Wykeham -- Arms: ?Wichester College -- Mottoes: Manners makyth man -- Reference to William of Wykeham, 1324-1404 -- Animals: boar -- Shovels -- Pitchforks -- Brooms -- Scrapers -- Shields: saucepan lid as a shield -- Padlocks -- Emblems: boar, partly human., and Probably a late 18th century restrike.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The trusted servant [graphic].

24.
The humours of the fleet [graphic].

Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, [not before 1764]
Call Number:
764.00.00.73+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title engraved below image., Later state, with new imprint statement, of a print published in 1749 by B. Dickinson. Cf. No. 3049 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Publication date inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764. Cf. Ian Maxted's London book trades, 1775-1800, page 25., "Price 6d."--Following imprint., Four columns of verse below title: Welcome, welcome, brother debtor, to this poor but merry place ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Prison courtyard -- Debtors -- Trades: goal-keeper -- Trades: prison cooks -- Games: racket -- Containers: broken pitcher -- Birds.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, next Chapter House in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Fleet Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Prisons, Courtyards, Prisoners, Crows, and Snakes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The humours of the fleet [graphic].

25.
A piece of antiquity painted on the wall adjoining to the kitchen of Winchester College which has

Published / Created:
published according to act of Parliament, 1749.
Call Number:
749.00.00.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Emblematic portrait of a trusty servant, with the head of a boar, padlocked lips and the tools of his profession."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Originally engraved by Mosley. See Pierpont Morgan Library Peel 0455, Peel III, 67., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Later state, with printmaker's name burnished from plate, reduction and lightening of horizontal background lines, and addition of marks outlining hills., Two columns of verse in Latin on left and English on right below title., Temporary local subject terms: Animals: boar -- Shovels -- Pitchforks -- Brooms -- Scrapers -- Shields: saucepan lid as a shield -- Padlocks -- Emblems: boar, partly human -- Borders: scrolls and flowers -- Reference to Winchester College., and Window mounted to 39 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A piece of antiquity painted on the wall adjoining to the kitchen of Winchester College which has long been preserved, &, as oft as occasion requires, is repair'd, wth [sic] the following Latin verses. [graphic]