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A true picture of the famous skreen describ'd in the Londn. journal no. 85 & multis alijs [graphic]

Creator:
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1721]
Call Number:
721.00.00.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Ten lines of verse in two columns titled "The advice" below image., Ten lines of description in one column in lower right of plate: A famous screen now to be sold to the best bidder ... .Londn. Journl. no. 89., Plate from: The London journal, 1721., and Temporary local subject terms: Maps: Antwerp -- South Sea Bubble -- The Duchess of Kendall.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Aislabie, John, 1670-1742 and Craggs, James, 1686-1721
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A true picture of the famous skreen describ'd in the Londn. journal no. 85 & multis alijs [graphic]

2.
Gulielmus Stukeley, M.D. Collegii Medicorum et Societatis Regiæ Londini Socius / [graphic]

Creator:
Smith, J. (John), 1652-1743, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1721]
Call Number:
Portraits St934 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place of publication from publisher's known place of activity., and In paper frame: 348 x 292 mm.
Publisher:
John Smith
Subject (Name):
Stukeley, William, 1687-1765,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Gulielmus Stukeley, M.D. Collegii Medicorum et Societatis Regiæ Londini Socius / [graphic]

3.
Lucipher's new row-barge [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1721]
Call Number:
721.05.13.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Lucifer's new row-barge
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Publication date in the British Museum catalogue: 13 May 1721., A copy, with added price statement, of no. 1714 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Eighteen lines of verse in three columns below image: Go on vile traytors! Glory in your sins, And grow profusely rich by wicked means ..., and 'Price. 6.d'--Lower right corner of plate.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lucipher's new row-barge [graphic].

4.
[Funeral ticket] [graphic].

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1721 and 1736]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Funeral ticket, with a scene of a funeral procession arrived at a church, the pall being drawn back, the parish clerk on the steps at left, a clergyman reading the exordium of the burial service at the head of the procession; the mourners following the coffin, a crowd of onlookers behind, one man clinging to a pillar to see above the others"--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson., Receipt text below image: You are desired to accompany [the] corps of [blank] from h[his/her] late dwelling in [blank] to [blank] on [blank] next at [blank] of the clock in the evening. Perform'd by Humphrey Drew, undertaker, in King-Street, Westminster., This impression has been cut, with loss of receipt area., Ms. note in Steevens's hand on page above print: Original. Note on mount below print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. P. 419 / Sold at Mr. Gulston's auction for £5.7.6., and On page 46 in volume 1. Plate mounted on sheet: 15.3 x 20.5 cm.
Publisher:
Humphrey Drew
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):
Funerals, Undertakers and undertaking, Crowds, and Funeral processions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Funeral ticket] [graphic].

5.
[The South Sea scheme] [graphic]

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1721]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Publication information inferred from 3rd state., Verses below image: See here [the] causes why in London, so many men are made, & undone .... Guess at the rest you find out more., "Price 1 shilling."--Lower right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss to text at bottom margin., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: South-Sea. In pencil below: See Nichol's book, 3d edit. p. 122., and On page 8 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Mrs. Chilcot and R. Caldwell?
Subject (Geographic):
Financial crises and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The South Sea scheme] [graphic]