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1. Flooring of Mercury, or, Burning the oaks, a scene in Tom Quadrangle [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1824]
- Call Number:
- 824.05.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a courtyard of Christ Church (Oxford), undergraduates in cap and gown dance around a bonfire, fueled by doors, chairs, and tables carried from the surrounding buildings. Other students pull at ropes to drag a statute of Mercury towards the flames. From the windows on either side of the gateway students throw objects including a globe and a chamber pot, while another blows a trumpet. Groups of students dance wildly as they drink and riot
- Alternative Title:
- Burning the oaks, a scene in Tom Quadrangle
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published May 1, 1824 by Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance, Eating & drinking, Fire, Intoxication, Riots, Students, British, and Universities & colleges
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Flooring of Mercury, or, Burning the oaks, a scene in Tom Quadrangle [graphic]
2. Les animaux malades du tabac! Ça devait arriver depuis le temps que Monsieur fume au nid! / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Delestre, Philippe, artist
- Call Number:
- Poster0375
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title, publisher, and date from item., In right margin: Imp. Aire Graphique - Février 1994., In lower margin: Bureau national : 1, avenue Stephen Pichon - 75013 Paris., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- Ligue nationale contre le cancer and 1996
- Subject (Topic):
- Antismoking movement, Smoking, Birds, Nests, and Fire
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Les animaux malades du tabac! Ça devait arriver depuis le temps que Monsieur fume au nid! / [graphic]
3. Les animaux malades du tabac! Ça devait arriver depuis le temps que Monsieur fume au nid! / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Delestre, Philippe, artist
- Call Number:
- Poster0374
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title, publisher, and date from item., In right margin: Imp. Aire Graphique - Février 1994., In lower margin: Bureau national : 1, avenue Stephen Pichon - 75013 Paris., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- Ligue nationale contre le cancer and 1996
- Subject (Topic):
- Antismoking movement, Smoking, Birds, Nests, and Fire
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Les animaux malades du tabac! Ça devait arriver depuis le temps que Monsieur fume au nid! / [graphic]
4. The valley of the shadow of death [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 September 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.09.24.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Napoleon, advancing down a gently sloping causeway of rock which traverses water and flames, is halted by 'Leo Britannicus' who bounds savagely towards him. He drops a short chain attached to the nose of the 'Russian Bear', a huge white creature at his heels. He is beset on all sides by monsters, who emerge from a background of flame, smoke, and cloud, or from the water. Beside the British Lion is a little 'Sicilian Terrier', barking ferociously. Death, a skeleton-like corpse, rides a mule which dashes through the air towards Napoleon, snorting flame. He wears a Spanish hat and cloak, and holds up a flaming spear and an hour-glass whose sands have almost run out. The mule's trappings are inscribed 'True-Royal-Spanish-Breed'. Outstripping the mule, a savage 'Portuguese Wolf', with the end of a broken chain attached to his collar, leaps towards Napoleon. The heads and hulders of two melancholy French officers with their necks chained together emerge from clouds to address Napoleon; they say: "Remember Junot and Remember Dupont." Above these is the Pope's tiara, the apex of flames, emitting thunderbolts towards Napoleon, and inscribed 'Dreadful Descent of ye Roman Meteor' [cf. BMSat 10970]. Immediately above Napoleon is a crescent moon inscribed 'British-influence' enclosing the old (dark) moon, which is 'French Influence'. This forms the centre of a turban, and is surrounded with fiery clouds flanking the features of the Sultan, looking fiercely down at Napoleon. Blood drips from it. This is 'The Turkish New-Moon, Rising in Blood'. Beside it (right) the head and arms of a man raising an enormous sword above Napoleon emerge from swirling flames: The 'Spirit of Charles ye XII' [of Sweden 1682-1718]. On the r. a double-headed Habsburg eagle swoops towards Napoleon from clouds: "- The Imperial Eagle emerging from a Cloud." Its collar is inscribed 'German Eagle'. From the water beyond Napoleon's causeway, the 'Ditch of Styx', project the crown and hands of the drowning 'Rex Joseph'; he is immediately under the Spanish mule ridden by Death. The water on the nearer side of the causeway, in the foreground, is the 'Lethean Ditch'. From this (left) rats crawl towards Napoleon: "The Rhenish Confederation of Starved Rats, crawling out of the Mud [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10433]." Three frogs raise their heads from the ditch to spit: "Dutch-Frogs spitting out their spite." A rattle-snake spits venom, and shakes its tail: "- American Rattle-Snake shaking his Tail.-" On the right, standing on a rock, is a dilapidated eagle with clipped wings, and scanty feathers: "Prussian Scare-Crow attempting to Fly -.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.5 x 39.0 cm, on sheet 28.8 x 41.4 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Septr. 24th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844, Mustafa IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1779-1808, and Charles XII, King of Sweden, 1682-1718
- Subject (Topic):
- Peninsular War, 1807-1814, Monsters, Fire, Lions, Bears, and Eagles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The valley of the shadow of death [graphic]
5. A bundle of Guy Fawkes' [graphic].
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1833]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Group of Tories hanged over a fire stired up by rolls of papers representing corruption, orangism, tithes and plots; delighted men and politicians dancing and feeding the fire."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Three columns of verse below title: Remember, remember, good people, remember, these times of King Bill and the fifth of November ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., and No. 113.
- Publisher:
- Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606. and William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Hangings (Executions), Gallows, and Fire
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A bundle of Guy Fawkes' [graphic].
6. The great comet with its Whig-Radical tail of the nineteenth century [graphic].
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1833]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Ireland; a comet formed by Daniel O'Connell riding a broom at upper left, four lesser figures including Brougham (with a broom) seated behind him, light streaming behind; William IV as a spider at the top of the comet's stream; at lower right, figures burnt by the tail of the comet: Queen Adelaide and Tories including Wellington, Peel (dropping his rat-trap); an observer looking through a telescope at upper right; at lower left, across the water, an Irishman with a rake dancing for joy."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Text below title: It appears, "Non fumum ex fulgore sed ex fumo dare luco"., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., With the number "10", likely incomplete and missing the final digit, in brown ink in lower left portion of design., Mounted on blue paper backing; pasted on verso of mount is a small portrait engraved by J. Rogers that is trimmed in half, as well as another small engraved portrait that is complete: Mr. T. Cooke as Cohenberg / J. Kennerley delt. ; J. Rogers sculp., and No. 107.
- Publisher:
- Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Comets, Brooms & brushes, Telescopes, and Fire
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The great comet with its Whig-Radical tail of the nineteenth century [graphic].
7. A reward O, for non mi ricordo, or, The exaltation of my jockey & his brave confederates a new song - tune "Bartholomew Fair" / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [August 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Heading to a printed broadside in support of Queen Caroline, with a depiction of the Queen in the upper left, riding in a chariot pulled by a lion under a banner reading "Innocence and Triumph." The Italian witnesses against her are being led in chains to the gallows, the man at the back of the line remaking "This is past a joke O! Majocc"; a hangman smoking a pipe awaits them at the top of a ladder, noose in hand. Three figures with bags over their heads are already hanging, with a fourth hanged figure being fed by a devil with a pitchfork into the flaming mouth of a demon on the right, a "Green Bag" falling into the flames next to him. Another victim is skewered by a second devil standing inside the demon's mouth; the words "Milan Commission Receiving Office" are written amid the flames. A John Bull figure with a walking stick watches the scene from the right, remarking: "Well now if this h'ant a sight that pleases John Bull - Go & be hang'd to ye you Italian scoundels - come to swear an innocent womans life away." In the center foreground, a dog tears at a second "Green Bag" with its mouth
- Alternative Title:
- Exaltation of my jockey & his brave confederates and Exaltation of my jockey and his brave confederates
- Description:
- Title printed in letterpress below image., Remnants of etched title are visible beneath image, suggesting that the plate was originally larger and cut down at some point., Date of publication from manuscript note "Aug. 1820" in ink beneath lower right corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Song printed in letterpress in two columns below title, beginning with the line "Oh, there never was such times!" and ending "Here's the triumph of brave Caroline our Queen O.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., and Mounted on leaf 58 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820.
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Witnesses, Shackles, Chariots, Lions, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), Ladders, Devil, Demons, Fire, Bags, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A reward O, for non mi ricordo, or, The exaltation of my jockey & his brave confederates a new song - tune "Bartholomew Fair" / [graphic]
8. Disposing of the old stuff [graphic]
- Creator:
- Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 18, 1827.
- Call Number:
- 827.06.18.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Brougham, seated in profile to the right in a chair inscribed Place, makes a bonfire on the floor of documents and his Old Stuff gown. This he holds over the flames on a levelled broomstick, the broom being inscribed Treasury Broom. Under one foot is a paper inscribed Opposition. He says: I think I shall cut a dash with my new gown; so here goes for the old one--Silk against Stuff for any money. But this worn out concern stinks most damnably: tis true, a great deal of dirty work has been done in it and it was only stuff at first:--it now emits more smoke than flame; yet I can distinguish a magic picture through this volume of vapour. O, glorious precedence! "Tam venerabile erat praecedere" Juvl. The burning papers are: March of Intellect [see British Museum Satires No. 15178], Liberty [of the] Pres[s], Blacks, Catholic Emancipation, Mulatoes, Reform. The smoke from the fire is inscribed Independence, Patriotism, Public Charities, Vapour, Retrenchment. Behind him (left) his new gown hangs on a stand made of an upright which supports his new wig, and a cross-bar inscribed Treasury. The gown is Patent New Silk. Partly concealed by the smoke is the 'magic picture': Anticipation; the Purse of the Great Seal suspended above mace and sword. Below the picture is a big bag stuffed with Briefs."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 31 x 46 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by E. King, Chancery-Lane
- Subject (Name):
- Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
- Subject (Topic):
- Brooms & brushes, Fire, Smoke, Judges, Robes, Wigs, Ceremonial maces, Daggers & swords, and Bags
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Disposing of the old stuff [graphic]
9. Horror personified [graphic].
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 May 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.05.27.07 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A grotesque demon-like figure looks toward the viewer with terror in his huge eyes; his left thumb in his mouth. In front of him is a raging fire in a pot and a snake with a barbed tongue and sharp teeth who raises its head towards the demon's right arm. Below the pot are two lines: Let thy eyes, little saucers be, Frigthen all the world but me!
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Numbered 'Plate 5' in upper left corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Olio of good breeding. London : Printed for the author, [1797]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 27, 1797, by G.M. Woodward, Berners Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Demons, Fear, Fire, and Snakes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Horror personified [graphic].
