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31.
Frontis-piss [graphic]

Creator:
Cave, François Morellon La, active approximately 1700-1766, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Hogarth's design for a frontispiece to a pamphlet against the Hutchinsonians; a witch sitting on top of a crescent moon, pissing a cascade onto the rocks far below, on which lies a bound copy of 'Hutchin', and drowning a group of rats, some of which are gnawing at a bound copy of 'Newton' and a telescope, Title etched below image., Date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Original., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: Given me by the Revd Dr. Gregory Sharpe, Master of the Temple., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand to the right: See ibid, p. 402., and On page 199 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Witches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Frontis-piss [graphic]

32.
Amicitia se stringa, il tutto e ̀in pace [graphic]

Creator:
Canale, Giuseppe, 1725-1802, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.00.00.105+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two fashionably-dressed men stand in profile facing each other in a conversation
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date from an unverified card catalog record., Plate numbered '4' in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress, ca. 1763? -- Hats: enormous tricorne hats -- Wigs: bag wigs., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials ICH below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Amicitia se stringa, il tutto e ̀in pace [graphic]

33.
Io l'ammiro pero ̀, sebben m'offende [graphic]

Creator:
Canale, Giuseppe, 1725-1802, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.00.00.106+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A short man on the left stands in profile, chapeau bras, pointing towards a very large man approaching him from the right
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Plate numbered '6' in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress, ca. 1763? -- Wigs: bag wigs., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials I C H below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Io l'ammiro pero ̀, sebben m'offende [graphic]

34.
Son diversi da ̀ nostri i suoi costumi [graphic]

Creator:
Canale, Giuseppe, 1725-1802, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.00.00.104+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A cross-looking man stands looking right, holding his walking stick and hat
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Plate numbered '3' in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Title is a quotation from Alessandro nell'Indie by Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials ICH.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Son diversi da ̀ nostri i suoi costumi [graphic]

35.
[William Pitt speaking in the House of Commons, Sir Charles Mordaunt and Mr. Edward Kynaston

Creator:
Campbell, Pryse, 1727-1768, artist, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.05.25.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
William Pitt, standing and speaking in the House of Commons, in profile to left, his right arm raised; his face is turned so no features are visible. Beyond him is Sir Charles Mordaunt seated, also in profile with a cocked hat; his mouth sunken as if he is toothless. In the foreground on also seated on bench is Mr Edward Kynaston also shown in profile with an enormous belly, eyes closed and mouth open in a snore
Description:
Title, printmaker, publisher and date from published state. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Proof before letters. Cf. No. 4097 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Watermark: countermark IV., and Window mounted to 25 x 30 cm., mounted again to 34 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
G. Bickham
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament. House of commons., Edward Kynaston, 1709-1772, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, Earl of, 1708-1779
Subject (Topic):
Politicans
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [William Pitt speaking in the House of Commons, Sir Charles Mordaunt and Mr. Edward Kynaston] [graphic].

36.
The bruiser, C. Churchill (once the Revd.!) in the character of a Russian Hercules, regaling

Creator:
Bell, A., printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, August 1, 1763.
Call Number:
Hogarth 763.00.00.62 Box 111
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A re-working of Hogarth's self-portrait of 1749 (Paulson 181); the artist has been replaced by a bear representing Charles Churchill wearing preaching bands and holding a tankard of beer in one paw and a knotty club in the other; the knots in the club are labelled 'Lye 1, Lye 2, Lye 3 ... Fallacy, Lye 10 ... ". The oval canvas rests on two books, on top is 'Great George Street : a list of the subscribers to the North Britons' and below 'A new way to pay old debts, a comedy by Massenger.' The dog Trump is urinating on a copy of Churchill's "Epistle to Hogarth". Leaning on the palette is a framed satirical print showing Hogarth himself (in a white hat) whipping a dancing bear (Churchill) and a monkey (John Wilkes) in front of a projected tomb for William Pitt from which a cannon fires at the dove of peace"--British Museum onlne catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text below title: "But he had a Club this Dragon to Drub, or he had ne'er don't I warrant ye.", "From the original print designed & engraved by Mr. Hogarth.", Copy of no. 4084 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and For a discussion of this image see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 215.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Bears, Dogs, and Caricatures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The bruiser, C. Churchill (once the Revd.!) in the character of a Russian Hercules, regaling himself after having kill'd the monster Caricatura that so sorely gall'd his virtuous friend the heaven born Wilkes / [graphic]

37.
A miserable cold place [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.00.00.11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption etched above image., One line of text below image: Alteration and oh-economy., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Copy of no. 4079-5 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: royal kitchens -- Cooks -- Scullion -- Clergy -- Scots -- Animals: cat -- Vermin: rats -- Cooking hearths -- Wind., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A miserable cold place [graphic].

38.
A new humourous medley : as it was performed on the evening after the proclamation of peace, at

Published / Created:
[22 March 1763]
Call Number:
763.03.22.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A broadside satirising the Peace Treaty with France, and the involvements of Lord Bute, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Lord Carteret, and William Pitt; with an etching showing four men sitting at a table with a punch bowl and candlesticks, drinking and smoking pipes; in the background four men standing. The song includes references to Sawney, Taffey, Paddy, and Will English, Scotch, Welsh, Irish, and English characters
Description:
Caption title in letterpress, below image, Imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and below letterpress, with loss of imprint., Below title: Adapted to proper tunes in the English, Irish, Welch and Scotch taste, inscribed to all true lovers of Old England., and Two columns of verse below title, comprising the text of the song, divided by a vertical line of ornamental floral type: "Recitative. 'Twas on that memorable Day, When thro' the streets, with loud Huzza! ...
Publisher:
Printed for J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet-Street ...
Subject (Name):
Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir, 1692-1749., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778.
Subject (Topic):
Treaty of Paris, Eating & drinking, and Tableware
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A new humourous medley : as it was performed on the evening after the proclamation of peace, at Sawney Mac Stewart's, the Thistle and Crown, in Great Britain

39.
A safe place [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.06.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of text below image: Moderation, moderation, wonderfull moderation ..., Temporary local subject terms: Prisons: the Tower -- Yeomen of the Guard -- British Lion -- Animals: dogs -- Allusion to Magna Charta -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Whips -- Laws: allusion to Habeas corpus -- Emblems: royal cipher., and Mounted to 31 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A safe place [graphic].

40.
A sequel to the Knights of Baythe, or, The one headed corporation [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.05.00.02+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
One headed corporation and Sequel to the Knights of Bath
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., "Price 1s.", Twelve lines of verse in three columns below image: See liberty's champions still loyal and true, Displaying the tricks of poor R-h and his crew ..., Temporary local subject terms: Corporation of Bath -- Aldermen of Bath -- Emblems: postman for the Master of the Cross-Posts -- Figure of Falstaff -- Devil -- Birds: raven -- Addresses: Ralph Allen's address in The gentleman's magazine, v.33, p.376-7 -- Inns: allusion to Greyhound Inn, Bath -- Expressions: 'adequate' -- Newspapers: allusion to The North Briton -- Clergy -- Grotesqueries -- Bible: quotation -- Tents -- John Saunders, 6th Bt. Sebright, 1725-1794 -- Abel Moysey, 1743-1831 -- Lewis Clutterbuck, d.1776 -- Ford, fl. 1763 -- Cooper, fl. 1763 -- Crook, fl. 1763 -- Master of the Cross-Posts of England -- Postmen., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Ligonier, John, 1680-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Allen, Ralph, 1694-1764, and Leake, James, -1764
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A sequel to the Knights of Baythe, or, The one headed corporation [graphic].

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