"Portrait of (?)Polly Jones, or Kennedy, seen half-length to left with open book resting on table at left, resting on her right arm, eyes to front; wearing elaborate dress with lace frills, cape and cap, and a pearl necklace."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 2 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of parliament July 24th 1767 & sold by Ryland & Bryer at the Kings Arms in Cornhill
Political flight to the moon and Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Five columns of verse below image, titled, P- and Proteus: Mutatas dicere formas. Chousing [sic], cheating, chopping, changing ..., Temporary local subject terms: Kites -- Influence: Bute's influence -- Family compact -- Slang: "lame ducks", i.e., stockholders -- Slang: "Oliver", i.e., moon -- Prerogative -- Ministries: Pitt's ministry -- Mythology: Proteus., and Mounted to 38 x 56 cm. with Bowditch's notes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Martin, Samuel, -1788, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, and Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767
Plate showing side-by-side floor plans for two levels of Houghton Hall. The image on the left shows a floor plan of the main level of the house; the image on the right shows a floor plan of the attic level of the house
Alternative Title:
Plan du principal etage de Houghton dans Norfolk maison Robert Walpole Esqr. &c. and Plan of the attik story
Description:
Title in English for image on left is etched in lower left above scale bar; title in French for image on left is etched in lower left below scale bar. Title in English for image on right is etched in lower right above scale bar., Title in English for image on left continues: ... Chancellor of Exqr. and First Lord Comr. of his Majesty's Treasury. Erected anno 1723. Design'd by Colen Campbell Esqr. 1723., Date of publication from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Campbell, C. Vitruvius Britannicus or the British architect ... [London] : [publisher not identified], [1767?]., "P. 31, vol. 3d"--Upper left corner., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title for image on left, statements of responsibility, and volume and page numbering. Missing text supplied from a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 11 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Norfolk.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Houghton Hall (England)
Title from item., Two columns of verse below image: Hitherto .... I have perform'd. Not without wonder ... Samson Agonistes., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 1 (1767), p. 201., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Westminster Hall -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Personifications: Liberty -- Emblems: cap of liberty -- Emblems: anchor -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Reference to the Glorious Revolution -- Reference to the accession of the House of Brunswick -- Musical instruments: lyre -- Emblems: thunderbolts -- Bible: Samson destroying a temple -- Literature: quotation from Samson Agonistes by John Milton, 1608-1674, lines 1640-1659., and Mounted to 37 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, Hawke, Edward Hawke, Baron, 1705-1781, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768
Title etched at bottom of image., 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: Ministers deserting East India reform, December 9, 1766 -- Maps: map of East India -- Coalitions: Bute and Chatham -- Personifications: Popularity -- Reform of the East India Company as a windmill -- Mythology: Atlas -- Hercules -- Personifications: Folly as an East Indian -- Gout: gouty shoes -- East Indians -- Crutches -- Emblems: Dutch East India Company as a windmill., and Identification below title in contemporary hand: Ld. Chatham.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and East India Company.
"Satire on Lord Camden alleging that he had abandonned his liberal principles on becoming Lord Chancellor. Camden, on the left, in his Chancellor's robes is aghast at the appearance of the ghost of his former self when Lord Chief Justice. He holds out a book lettered, "Lex Temporis" and papers lie beside him referring to supposed corrupt practices, "Grants / Reversion / Irish Pensions / Patent of Peerage / Non obstante [licence from the Crown]", and a scroll falls in front of him lettered, "is but 40 days Slavery at outside", a reference to his support of an embargo on corn export for forty days; his mace and purse (lettered "Latent Power") lie on a bench draped with tartan together with a letter reading "... your A--s] & your mace in ye Kennel within a fortnight by G[od] / yours Tom Tilbury [Lord Northington, Camden's predecessor as Lord Chancellor]". Behind the Lord Chancellor is a chair with arms and legs made of boots, upholstered in tartan and with thistles around its back; an oval lportrait showing Lords Bute and Chatham is on the back with the motto "Arcades Ambo"(two of a kind); a boot and Pitt's crutch are tied together and resting ont he back of the chair; burning papers on the cair are lettered "Negabimus / Magna Farta" and "vendemus Justitiam". The ghost holds out a book lettered "Lex Terra"; a scroll falling in front of him reads "The liberty of an English Dw[e]l[ling] cannot be estimated" (a paraphrase of his statement against General Warrants in the John Wilkes case). William Beckford, Camden's former ally, is shown creeping under the bench saying "Hide me ye Sugar Casks", a reference to his wealth from sugar plantations in Jamaica. A row of portraits on the wall show from the left: Lord Northington, Judge Jeffreys, Beckford, Sec[re]t[ary Astley, Chatham, L[or]d S[-]d and William Scrogg[s]; in front of the portraits is a book shelf containing, "Filmer's Patriarcha / Argu[men]t for Ship Money / Judg[ment] ag[ain]s[t] Hamden / Froit Le Roy / Prerogatives Regli / Grotius English Law"."--British Museum online catalogue and Pictures amplifying subject: portraits of various officials
Alternative Title:
Apparition of a late patriot Chief Justice to a modern prerogative Cane
Description:
Title from caption below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate line with loss of last word in title. Title from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Northington, Robert Henley, Earl of, 1708?-1772
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Four lines of verse below image: Why man he doth bestride this narrow world like a colossus; and we petty ministers ..., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 1 (1767)., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Scourges -- Colossi: Colossus of Rhodes -- Emblems: goat as lust -- Snake as fraud -- Praying -- Gout -- Literature: paraphrased quotation from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, i.2., and Mounted to 37 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Scott, James, 1733-1814, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Title from item., Two lines of quote bertween images: O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! Deut. ch.32, ver.29., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 1 (1767)., Temporary local subject terms: Coalitons: Bute-Chatham coalition -- London: Tower Hill -- Executions: beheading -- Serpents -- Mottoes: Scotch Order of the Thistle: Nemo nos impune lacesset -- Bible: quotation from Deuteronomy, ch.32, v.29., and Window mounted to 22 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Plate showing two architectural representations of Houghton Hall, one above the other. The top image shows an elevation of the front of the house; the bottom image shows a floor plan of the building
Alternative Title:
General plan and Elevation general de Houghton dans le Comté de Norfolk maison de Robert Walpole Esqr. &c.
Description:
Titles in English and French for top image are etched below scale bar for that image; title in English for bottom image is etched above scale bar for that image., Title in English for top image continues: ... Chancellor of Exqr. and First Lord Comr. of his Majesty's Treasury, &c. Design'd by Colen Campbell Esqr. 1723., Date of publication from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Campbell, C. Vitruvius Britannicus or the British architect ... [London], [publisher not identified], [1767?]., "P. 29, vol. 3d" etched in upper left corner and "p. 30" etched in upper right corner., Imperfect; top image only is present, with bottom image and statements of responsibility having been trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 10 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., A second scale bar, trimmed from a different print, has been pasted in lower right corner of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Norfolk.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Houghton Hall (England)
Lame and blind beggar, Lawyer & the oyster, and Lawyer and the oyster
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date based on printer's business address. See Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., In lower left corner of plate: Price 6 pence., Two columns of verse below title: Two vagrants, as they hobbling stray pop on an oyster in their way ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Beggars -- Lawyers -- Law: lawyer's clients -- Male dress: legal robes -- Architectural details: windows -- Tablecloth -- Window curtain -- Food: oysters -- Writing implements: inkwell and quill -- Amputees -- Peg legs -- Blindness -- Medical: crutches., Imprint mostly burnished from plate., and Watermark: J Whatman.
