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11.
Balaam and his ass A whip for [the] horse, a bridle for [the] ass, & a rod for [the] fools back

Published / Created:
[1756]
Call Number:
756.00.00.43
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titles from items., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Two lines of verse below top design: The ass of Balaam through oppression spoke our Stone-Ase of oppression brings the yoke., Caption below center design: Absolute obedience my brethren ; murmering [sic] against your superiors is rebellion and consumate impudence., Caption below bottom design: Justice has leaden feet but iron claws., None of designs recorded in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Angels -- Asses -- Bible: nos. 22.21-35 -- Human body: mechanical human heart -- Money: bags of money -- Bellows -- British Lion -- Personifications: figure of Justice -- Balances -- Allusion to Gibraltar -- Treasury: Sinking Fund -- Battles: allusion to the Battle of Minorca, Port Mahon, 20 May 1756.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Balaam and his ass A whip for [the] horse, a bridle for [the] ass, & a rod for [the] fools back ; The ballance master. [graphic]

12.
Birdlime for bunglers, or, The French way of catching fools [graphic].

Published / Created:
Nov. 25 [1756]
Call Number:
756.11.00.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the corruption of Newcastle's government suggesting that it accepted French bribes; Byng, crushed by Hardwicke and Fox, is treated with some sympathy."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French way of catching fools and Oh! How are the mighty fallen?
Description:
Title etched above image., Year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Bribes -- Pictures amplifying subject: spider-web covered painting of Justice -- Emblems: French fleur-de-lis -- Gambling: EO table., Note by E. Truman filed with the print., and Mounted to 33 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Sold at the Star on Holborn Hill
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Byng, John, 1704-1757, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Birdlime for bunglers, or, The French way of catching fools [graphic].

13.
Byng return'd, or, The council of expedients [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1756]
Call Number:
756.07.31.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the ministerial changes and payments made to out-going ministers; Admiral Byng is shown in chains holding the dispatches referring to his withdrawal from action at Minorca; Earl Sandwich concerns himself only with opera and theatre."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Council of expedients and Byng returned
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse below image: The quacks of government who sate at the unregarded helm of the state ..., Temporary local subject terms: Trials: court-martial of Admiral Byng -- Reference to the Battle of Minorca, 20 May 1756 -- Fetters -- Literature: quotation from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., Watermark., and Mounted, for further information consult staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Minorca (Spain)
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
History, Shackles, and Scales
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Byng return'd, or, The council of expedients [graphic].

14.
Byng's ghost to the triumvirate [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1757]
Call Number:
757.03.00.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the affair of Admiral Byng, showing his ghost appearing to Newcastle, Anson and Hardwicke who are seen through a transparent screen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: One night to indulge their vile thoughts tete a tete ..., Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings -- Pictures amplifying subject: French rooster carrying off a map of Minorca -- Furniture., and Mounted to 30 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Byng, John, 1704-1757, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, and Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
Subject (Topic):
Ghosts, Chandeliers, Screens, and Chairs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Byng's ghost to the triumvirate [graphic].

15.
Exit unworthies. Enter worthies [graphic].

Published / Created:
[24 November 1756]
Call Number:
756.11.24.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Enter worthies
Description:
Titles etched above images., Plate numbered '51' in upper right corner., Two images on one plate, each with a title above the image., Six lines of verse under design: No more thy gracious mind perplex / The vulture now no more shall vex ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 13 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Novr. 24, 1756, by Darly and Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1720-1764, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Exit unworthies. Enter worthies [graphic].

16.
Hengist & Horsa [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1756]
Call Number:
756.00.00.58
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Hengist and Horsa
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Two columns of verse below image: A patient sick you see above, one that should claim the doctors love ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Hessian and Hanoverian mercenaries.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character) and Mercenaries (Soldiers)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hengist & Horsa [graphic].

17.
Hengist & Horsa [graphic].

Published / Created:
[2 October 1756]
Call Number:
756.10.02.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Hengist and Horsa
Description:
Title from item., Two columns of verse below image: A patient sick you see above, one that should claim the doctors love ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Plate numbered '28' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Diseases: cancer -- Medical procedures: operation -- Military: Hessian mercenaries -- Military: Hanoverian mercenaries -- Allusion to physicians., and Mounted to 19 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Oct. 2, 1756, by Edwards & Darly at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Shields, Spears, and Wounds & injuries
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hengist & Horsa [graphic].

18.
Magna est veritas et praevalebit [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1756]
Call Number:
756.10.00.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '30' in upper right corner., Two lines of verse below image: Aloft in air the loaded scale does mount ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 15 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by Edwards & Darly at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Magna est veritas et praevalebit [graphic].

19.
No more the snakes in sunshine bask ... [graphic].

Published / Created:
[4 December 1756]
Call Number:
756.12.04.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from first line of text. Series title and number etched in image., Plate numbered '53' in upper right corner., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: No more the snakes in sunshine bask, immerg'd the black insidious task ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 20 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Decr. 4, 1756, by Darly & Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > No more the snakes in sunshine bask ... [graphic].

20.
Null marriage [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1756]
Call Number:
756.00.00.88
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate numbered '26' in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Bills: the Marriage Act, 1756 -- Reference to France -- Reference to Lord Anson., and Mounted to 19 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Null marriage [graphic].