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1. A new Dunciad done with a view of [fixing] [the] fluctuating ideas of taste without preface or introduction. [graphic]

Creator:: Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1753]
Call Number:: Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: New Dunciad done with a view of the fluctuating ideas of taste and New Dunciad done with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste
Description:: Title etched above image. The word "fixing" in the title is deliberately scratched out by the artist; "[the]" represents the brevigraph sometimes mis-transcribed "ye"., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., A satire on Hogarth by Paul Sandby., and On page 291 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed: 18.6 x 22.3 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):: Harlequin (Fictitious character)
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2. A new Dunciad done with a view of [fixing] [the] fluctuating ideas of taste without preface or introduction. [graphic]

Creator:: Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1753]
Call Number:: 753.00.00.06
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: New Dunciad done with a view of the fluctuating ideas of taste and New Dunciad done with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste
Description:: Title etched above image. The word "fixing" in the title is deliberately scratched out by the artist; "[the]" represents the brevigraph sometimes mis-transcribed "ye"., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., and A satire on Hogarth by Paul Sandby.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):: Harlequin (Fictitious character)
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3. Great political magician giving the wand of power to his cunning harlequin [graphic]

Creator:: Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:: May 19, 1827.
Call Number:: 827.05.19.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "George IV, dressed as a magician, rises from the throne (right) to give a wooden sword to Canning, who is dressed as Harlequin. A clown (intended for Melville) turns his back on Canning and the King, to run off, registering anger and alarm. Wellington stands fiercely, with legs astride, both arms raised, holding his sword; he wears uniform with boots and cocked hat. On the left Eldon and Westmorland stand together, with flexed knees, registering senile dismay. The latter, dressed as Pantaloon, drops his crutch. The King, in a robe bordered with symbols (serpents, &c), has the curled wig and whiskers which he had discarded (cf. British Museum Satires No. 14637). He chants: Harlequin! the Gods above have now decreed That thou and all thy measures shall succeed. Fear not old El--n, nor that Pantaloon, West----d, the bold Duke, nor the Scotch Clown. Who e'er opposeth thee, thou by love shalt thrive; Thy Genius and my Cunning him shall drive To H--ll's abyss. Let virtue be thy guide-- This wand I give thee--stick it to thy side."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to: 33 x 48 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Westmorland, John Fane, Earl of, 1784-1859
Subject (Topic):: Harlequin (Fictitious character), Thrones, Magicians, Clowns, Military uniforms, Daggers & swords, and Crutches
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4. Harlekin en bombario in den rouw [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1720?]
Call Number:: 720.00.00.87+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title engraved above image., Earlier lettering burnished from plate and replaced with verse of this edition., Impressed on one sheet with three columns of letterpress., Four lines of verse in Dutch within design: De rouw van harlekin is droevig ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Bellows -- Mythology -- Symbols: Mercury's Caduceus -- Harlequin., Watermark., Title translation on verso of mount: Harlequin and Bombario in mourning., and Mounted to 45 x 33 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Law, John, 1671-1729
Subject (Topic):: South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Mercury, and Harlequin (Fictitious character)
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5. Harlequin Junior, or, The magic Cestus [graphic].

Published / Created:: [17 November 1784]
Call Number:: 784.11.17.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Magic Cestus
Description:: Title from item., Publication year erased and corrected in ink to '1770'. Dated by the repository from listing of the pantomime under this date and title in Schneider, Index to the London Stage, p. 390., Two rows of four frames, each with four lines of verses below the design., Below the verses in top left frame: Price 3d. Colour'd 6d., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Paris: Caisse d'Escompte -- Siege of Gibraltar -- America -- American bonds -- Battles: sea battle -- Grist mills -- Caves -- Rock of Gibraltar., and Countermark in center of sheet: IP MM.
Publisher:: Pubd. 17 Nov. 1770, by I. Strutt, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, E. Burns, No. 54, Tottenham Court Road, and E. Newberry, corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):: Harlequin (Fictitious character), Naval warfare, and Caves
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6. Harlequin and Mother Goose, or, The golden egg [graphic].

Published / Created:: [25 March 1807]
Call Number:: 807.03.25.01++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A writing sheet illustrated with scenes from Thomas Dibdin’s pantomime, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on Boxing Day 1806 and a few months before this sheet was issued. There were at least twelve different scenes in Dibdin’s work, from which nine were chosen to illustrate the borders of the sheet. Another illustration at the foot of the sheet shows a carriage and a wagon followed by soldiers on horseback on a bridge over a river
Alternative Title:: Golden egg
Description:: Title etched at top of plate. and Watermark and countermark: J. Whatman 1805. Lower right corner torn.
Publisher:: Publish'd March 25, 1807, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):: Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841.
Subject (Topic):: Harlequin (Fictitious character), Mother Goose, Actors, Fairy tales, Fools & jesters, Pantomimes, and Theatrical productions
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7. Harlequin skeleton [graphic].

Published / Created:: [23 March 1772]
Call Number:: 772.03.23.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Below imprint: 6d. plain, 1s. colour'd., Four images, each with six lines of verse below. A horizontal line bisects the design to make 8 compartments., Verse below first image from left: The royal chaser here you view, a monarch and a sportsman too ..., Verse below second image from left: The clown is ordered by his master to keep the house, oh! sad disaster ..., Verse below third image from left: Here Harlequin with Columbine is telling of his whole design ..., Verse below fourth image from left: The old man from his information the subject treats with speculation ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Columbine -- Pantaloon as a Turkish magician -- Chemical equipment -- Hunting horns, 1772 -- Tuning fork -- Turkish magician, 1772 -- Animals: stuffed animals., and Watermark: initials HB in circle.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs, Marh. [the] 23rd 1772 by Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):: Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790
Subject (Topic):: Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pantaloon (Fictitious character), Card games, Clowns, Hunting dogs, Lorgnettes, Magicians, Scientific equipment, Musical instruments, Skeletons, Mortars & pestles, and Hunters
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8. Polly & Lucy takeing off the restrictions vide Beggars opera / [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [March 1812]
Call Number:: 812.03.00.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Regent, as Macheath, wearing military uniform and heavily shackled, stands between Mrs. Fitzherbert, who kneels at his feet (left) removing his leg-irons, and Lady Hertford (right), who stands beside him taking the fetters from his wrists (inscribed 'Restri[ctions]'), He sings "How happy could I be with either." Mrs. Fitzherbert, a long rosary dangling from her waist, says: "The Benediction of His Holiness light on the Defender of Our Faith." Lady Hertford, sultana-like in a jewelled turban, says: "You heard of the Row & the Rowly Powly Song before Our house the Other Night?!!" Behind and on the right Eldon stands full-face between Perceval and McMahon, who face each other in profile. Perceval, in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, and holding a brief-bag, says: "The Greys won't move without their own Coachman tho the Brewer [Whitbread] has offerd his black to do the dirty Work." Eldon, in a huge wig, holds the Purse of the Great Seal; he says: "We must hire Jobs for the Night Work but we are Pro' Rogued." McMahon, in military uniform, has a number of ribbons and stars hanging over his arm; he says: "These Garters & Ribbonds are all returned." On the wall are two pictures: George Hanger, bestriding his pony (as in No. 8889) with a burly bailiff seated behind him, rides in the direction of a sign-post, with a noose hanging from it, pointing 'To the Kings Bench'. This is 'George & his Hanger On, takeing a ride together to a Lodging in Surry'. The other is Sheridan as Bacchus, but dressed as Harlequin (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9916), bestriding a cask of 'Old Sherry'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Polly & Lucy taking off the restrictions, Polly and Lucy takeing off the restrictions, and Polly and Lucy taking off the restrictions
Description:: Title etched below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:: Published March 1812 by J. Jonhston, 98 Cheapside
Subject (Name):: Gay, John, 1685-1732., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845., Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815., and Dionysus (Greek deity),
Subject (Topic):: Harlequin (Fictitious character), Military uniforms, British, Shackles, Religious articles, Turbans, Wigs, Bags, and Pictures
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9. The court of love, or, An election in the island of Borneo [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 November 1812]
Call Number:: Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Plate to the 'Scourge', iv, before p. 349. An illustration to 'Elections in the Isle of Borneo', pp. 349-55, relating a dream in which the Prince chooses his Ministers and Household officers according to their proficiency in adultery. A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 11899. The Regent is enthroned under a canopy in the centre of a long platform backed by the pillars of Carlton House. Below is the cobbled street, with passers-by and spectators whose heads are just below the platform, so that the figures are arranged in two tiers. The Regent's throne is on a triple dais; he puts one arm round the waist of Lady Hertford who sits on his knee, holding at arms' length a brimming goblet. She puts her right arm round his neck, and also supports herself by placing a finger on the branching antlers of her husband, who stands in his chamberlain's robes, and holding his wand of office, beside the dais, at which he points with a complacent grin. He says: "My gracious Master is personelly acquainted with my merits, they live in his bosom, & he will reward me, according to my Deserts." Lady Hertford wears a spiky crown, and her vast spherical breasts are divided by a jewel in the form of the Prince's feathers with his motto 'Ich Dien.' The drapery over the throne is centred by the crowned skull of a stag, with wide antlers; in its nostrils is a ring from which a birch-rod hangs above the Prince's head. A grinning demon, standing on the antlers, straddles across the crown, holding up the drapery. On the left of the throne the Duke of York, in uniform with cavalry boots, his hand on his sword, stands swaggeringly. A woman clutches his arm and whispers in his ear; beside them is a basket containing three infants and inscribed 'Mother Careys Chickin' [see British Museum Satires No. 11050]. He says: "I was turned out of the Office I now solicit because I was too fond of a married Woman [Mrs. Clarke, see British Museum Satires No. 11216, &c.] & could not live without commiting Adultery I claim therefore to be once more elevated to the Office of Commander in Cheif." Behind Lord Hertford (and a pendant to Mrs. Carey) stands an elderly posturing peer, wearing a star, his hands deprecatingly extended. He says: "As for business I never had a Headfor't but I have laid the Country under a Massy load of Obligations in other respects Adultery is my Motto so give me ******ship of the H-." Next (right) is a group of three: the Duke of Cumberland in outlandish Death's Head Hussar uniform holding a sabre with a notched blade and seemingly dripping blood, though not so coloured. He stands between two young women; one, holding his arm, brandishes a razor over her head, the other holds a paper called 'Nugent'. The Duke says: "Considering my Exploits you cannot do less than make me a Field Marshal." On the extreme right is the Duke of Clarence in admiral's uniform with trousers, pointing to a broken chamber-pot ('Jordan') decorated with a crown and containing seven children, two in uniform. Mrs. Jordan takes him affectionately by the arm. He points downwards, saying, "I have lived in Adultery with an actress 25 years & have a pretty Number of illegetimate Children. I hope you will make me an Admiral of the Fleets." On the extreme left McMahon, dwarfish and ugly, stoops over the edge of the platform, pouring coins from a bag marked 'P P' [reversed letters], for Privy Purse (or Pimp), into the apron of a hideous bawd who grins up at him. He says: "Let her be forty at least, plump & Sprightly." Next stands Lord Yarmouth, wearing a star, his hands in his pockets, scowling at a young woman who puts her hands on his shoulders; he says: "Confound my Wishers if Venus alias Fanny Anny [Fagniani] may not go to Juno----I'm Vice all over. Let me con tinue so." Next is a tall man wearing a long driving-coat with a star and a small rakish top-hat (? Lord Melbourne); one leg terminates in a cloven hoof. He stands between two disreputable women of the lowest St. Giles type, ragged and hideous, an arm across the shoulders of each; both offer him drink, one takes him by the chin. A third and younger woman sits on the ground at his feet, drinking from a bottle. He says: "As for me my Name is sufficient, I am known as the Paragon of Debauchery and I only claim to be the-s [Regent's] Confidential Friend." On the ground (left to right) are the bawd receiving money from McMahon, a ragged dustman with the curved shin-bones then known as 'cheese-cutters', a result of rickets; George Hanger, with his bludgeon under his arm (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8889, &c.), saying, "Hang her She's quite Drunk"; Augustus Barry, grotesquely thin and very rakish, with long coat, standing with widely splayed-out feet. These three stare up at the throne, Barry looking through an eye-glass. A ragged, sub-human creature picks Barry's pocket, taking a paper: 'A Sermon to be Preached at Cripple gate by Revd Honble A Newgate'. A blind beggar (? a sailor) walks with a stick, and a dog on a string, holding out his tattered hat. A Quaker-like figure stares up at the platform where the legs of the seated prostitute hang over its edge, as does a beggar boy with badly twisted legs. Next, a fashionably dressed man and woman shake hands, bending to stare into each other's face. He takes her left hand. His dress resembles that of the dandy of a few years later: shock of hair, exaggerated neck-cloth, hussar-pattern trousers, and long tail-coat. The centre figure in this lower row is John Bull looking up angrily over his shoulder at the prostitute, and pushing away to the right three young girls; he says to them: "Get away get away, if you go near the Platform you'll be ruined." His bull-dog looks pugnaciously up at the platform. A tall emaciated cavalry soldier speaks to a woman in a poke-bonnet, while a little ragged boy clasps the long horse-tail which hangs from his helmet. On the extreme right is Sheridan in (ragged) Harlequin's dress (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9916), moribund or drunk, supported between two top-booted bailiffs; one holds a writ and says "Poor fellow his Magic wand is broken." On the ground lies his wooden sword in two pieces, one inscribed 'M', the other 'P'; at his feet is a paper: 'Princely Promises'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Election in the island of Borneo
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 4 (October 1812), page 349., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted opposite page 318 (leaf numbered '143' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:: Published November 1st, 1812, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, Hertford, Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, Marquess of, 1777-1842, Melbourne, Peniston Lamb, Viscount, 1745-1828, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Barry, Augustus, Honble., 1773-1818, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Carlton House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Harlequin (Fictitious character), John Bull (Symbolic character), Dustmen, Thrones, Canopies, Columns, Adultery, Antlers, Cobblestone streets, Demons, Military uniforms, Baskets, Infants, Daggers & swords, Poor persons, Pickpockets, Beggars, Staffs (Sticks), Prostitutes, Soldiers, and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The court of love, or, An election in the island of Borneo [graphic]