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Creator:: Smith, James, fl. ca. 1749, printmaker
Published / Created:: publis'd [sic] according to act of Parliament, [1749?]
Call Number:: 749.08.12.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A suit of law fits me better than a suit of cloaths [graphic]

Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:: [5 April 1749]
Call Number:: Topos L847 no. 138++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A neo-classical façade with the royal arms at the top, three openings, the centre one arched, with a statue of Peace, Neptune and Mars below it, a double staircase leading up to it and a balustraded arcade extending to either side, ending in small lo...
Description:: Title from text above image.
Publisher:: G. Vertue
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Topic):: Fireworks
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A plan and elevation of the Royal Fire-Works to be performed in St. James's Park, April the 27th, 1949, on account of the general peace signed at Aix la Chapelle, Octr. 7, MDCCXLVIII [graphic]

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.
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]

Published / Created:: [1749]
Call Number:: Topos L847 no. 30+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "View in Green Park, the structure in question central in the view, Buckingham House beyond on the left, a few more buildings and rolling country side in the background, a number of fashionably dressed figures in foreground"--British Museum online cat...
Alternative Title:: Veüe perspective du batiment magnifique, erigé dans le Parc Verd pour le Feu f'Artifice Royal exhibé le 27 d'Avril 1749, sur l'occasion de le paix general
Description:: Title from caption below image.
Publisher:: Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Topic):: Parks and Fireworks
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A perspective view of the magnificent structure, erected in the Green Park for the Royal Fireworks exhibited the 27 of April 1749, on account of the general peace Veüe perspective du batiment magnifique, erigé dans le Parc Verd pour le Feu f'Artifice Royal exhibé le 27 d'Avril 1749, sur l'occasion de le paix general. [graphic] =

Published / Created:: [1749]
Call Number:: Topos L847 no. 29+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "View in St James's Park of the music gallery and pavillions erected for the fire work display, with a spiked fence surrounding the area, in foreground fashionably dressed figures stand next to a wooden fence looking across the park"--British Museum o...
Description:: Title from caption below image.
Publisher:: Printed according to act of Parliament, & sold by P. Brookes facing Southampton Street in the Strand, & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Topic):: Parks
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A perspective view of the building for the fireworks in the Green Park taken from the reservoir / [graphic]

Creator:: Booth, Thomas, active 1743-1746, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 November 1749]
Call Number:: 749.11.29.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "This engraving represents a circular building, with conical roof of tiles, shown in two sections, and partly in perspective. Within the building is a large wheel turned by a horse and giving motion to a considerable number of spindles, to which are a...
Description:: Title engraved below image.
Publisher:: Publish'd according to act of Parliament Novr. [the] 2, 1749, and sold by J. Dubois at [the] Golden Head [the] corner of Burleigh Street near Exeter Chanc[...]
Subject (Topic):: Horses, Shaving, Razor blades, Machinery, and Wigs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A perspective view and section of an engine propos'd to be built by subscription, which will shave sixty men in a minute, also oyl comb and powder their wigs [graphic]

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