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51.
Canada, or, The Tower [graphic].

Published / Created:
[April 1763]
Call Number:
763.04.00.12+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Tower
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy of the print "Kaw Jack, have Canada or to the Tower", with a new title etched above image and the verses below image omitted. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Imps -- Pets: feeding stick for birds -- Literature: allusion to Ossian, by James MacPherson, 1736-1796 -- Allusion to Temora by James MacPherson, 1736-1796 -- Allusion to the governorship of Canada., and Mounted to 34 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Liberty cap, Bribery, and Money
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Canada, or, The Tower [graphic].

52.
Daniel in the lions den [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Title etched below image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy of No. 4030 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Wilkes's house -- Personifications: Fame -- Busts: bust of Lord Bute -- Reference to excise -- Reference to William Hogarth's The times, Plate I -- British Lion -- Newspapers: Auditor ; North Briton -- Reference to Magna Charta -- King's Messengers., and On page 296 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 11.3 x 15.4 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Tower of London (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
National emblems, Scottish, and Thrones
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Daniel in the lions den [graphic].

53.
Daniel in the lions den [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.04.29.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Title etched below image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy of No. 4030 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Wilkes's house -- Personifications: Fame -- Busts: bust of Lord Bute -- Reference to excise -- Reference to William Hogarth's The times, Plate I -- British Lion -- Newspapers: Auditor ; North Briton -- Reference to Magna Charta -- King's Messengers., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Tower of London (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
National emblems, Scottish, and Thrones
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Daniel in the lions den [graphic].

54.
Daniels dilivery [sic] [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.05.00.08
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Daniels delivery
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark in upper left corner only., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy, with abbreviated title, of no. 4055 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Wilkes's house -- Trials: the trial of John Wilkes, 1763 -- Personifications: Fame -- Reference to Chief Justice Pratt -- Reference to Serjeant Glynn -- Allusion to the Brazen Head -- Busts: bust of Lord Bute -- Emblems: Scotch thistle -- Reference to excise -- British Lion., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Egremont, Charles Wyndham, Earl of, 1710-1763, Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, and Westminster Hall (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Daniels dilivery [sic] [graphic].

55.
Excise [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.04.08.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Early state, without plate number, of no. 4027 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 8, 1763 -- Executions: hangings -- Gallows -- Effigies: Lord Bute's effigy -- Farmers -- Demons., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Excise [graphic].

56.
Excise a comical hieroglyphical epistle from [Beelzebub] to [Lord Bute]. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.04.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption., A letter in form of rebus., State without imprint, from: The Scots scourge ... London : Printed for J. Pridden, [1763]. Cf. British Museum Cat., no. 4012., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: Beelzebub by a demon, Lord Bute by his portrait., Temporary local subject terms: Devil -- Excise: cider tax., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Excise a comical hieroglyphical epistle from [Beelzebub] to [Lord Bute]. [graphic]

57.
Excise a-la-mode, or, Sawney's oeconomy : a new song to the tune of The old woman of Grimstone

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.03.28.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A broadside satirising Lord Bute, his Cider Excise scheme, and the Peace Treaty of Paris (1762); with an etching showing a podium with King George III seated on a throne, in front of him a group of men (aldermen) delivering a petition; on the right Lord Bute, dressed in tartan; with engraved speech bubbles and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in one column."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sawney's oeconomy and Sawney's economy
Description:
Caption title from song in letterpress printed below the plate., Above title: To the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London; To the glorious Opposition; and to the authors of the North Briton, this piece is humbly inscribed., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top., Eight stanzas of song below title: All the friends of the land, who corruption withstand, the Muse patriotic must prize ..., "(Price six-pence).", Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be had the Tyburn Interview., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 41 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Burd, in the Temple Exchange Passage, Fleet Street, and sold by all printsellers, &c. in London and Westminster
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Treaty of Paris, Taxes, and City council members
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Excise a-la-mode, or, Sawney's oeconomy : a new song to the tune of The old woman of Grimstone

58.
Famine [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1763]
Call Number:
763.00.00.15
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An emaciated man in rags and tartan shawl, without kilt, walks out of a cave on the right. He is barefoot and has a rag tied around his head. The landscape is that of the wild Scottish mountains, with misty moors. A small shack is visible on a hill in the background. Two emaciated sheep are near the cave
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date inferred from that of Charles Churchill's poem, The prophecy of famine : a Scots pastoral. London, 1763., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Sheep and Starvation
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Famine [graphic].

59.
France and England, or, A prospect of a peace [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.02.10.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Prospect of a peace
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Tho' crest-fallen at present the Spanairds [sic] and France, confess they are beaten by England stout lance ..., Temporary local subject terms: Fleets -- Gallows -- French -- Spaniards., and Window mounted to 24 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > France and England, or, A prospect of a peace [graphic].

60.
Gisbal and Bathsheba in the Hyperborean tale [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
762.05.00.21
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Lord Bute, his patronage of Scots in London and his alleged relationship with Princess Augusta. Bute, holding a large staff, and the Princess are enthroned declaring mutual love; beside the Princess a standard bearer holds 'The Trophy of Gisbal, Lord of Hebron', a petticoat in front of which hands a boot, the staff of which is surmounted by a Scotch bonnet with the Prince of Wales's feathers. They are encircled by ragged Scots inplaid who are described in the verses beneath naming them in mock-Biblical terms."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Plate numbered '33' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: thistle (Scotland) -- Literature: reference to Gisbal, an hyperborean tale ... -- Bible: reference to Bathsheba., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Thrones and Canopies
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Gisbal and Bathsheba in the Hyperborean tale [graphic].

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