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21.
Execution of Robert Watt for high treason, at Edinburgh Octr. 15th 1794 [graphic].

Published / Created:
[October 1794]
Call Number:
794.10.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The convicted traitor Robert Watt sits on an open sled being pulled by a horse through a city square. A man in a hat, perhaps the executioner, sits across from him holding an axe. Soldiers escort the sled through the crowd. In the distance on the right, a man stands on a platform outside the upper floor of a building and readies a noose
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: Exshaw's Gentleman's and London magazine. Dublin : J. Exshaw, October 1794., and Sheet mutilated along bottom edge with slight loss of text.
Publisher:
J. Exshaw
Subject (Geographic):
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Subject (Name):
Watt, Robert, -1794.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Executions, Plazas, and Sleds & sleighs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Execution of Robert Watt for high treason, at Edinburgh Octr. 15th 1794 [graphic].

22.
The school for scandal engraved for the Hibernia magazine / [graphic]

Creator:
Cooper, Richard, 1740-1814, engraver
Published / Created:
[1788?]
Call Number:
788.08.01.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Arranged in a semi-circular design, as for a fan., Variant state of no. 7440 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Women's costumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The school for scandal engraved for the Hibernia magazine / [graphic]

23.
Matrimonial speculation [graphic].

Creator:
Esdall, William, -1795, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1792]
Call Number:
792.10.01.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A strip design showing eight couples who contemplate marriage as the captions engraved above each couple explain
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate originally published by T. Walker in Hibernian magazine, ii, p. 193., Removed from extra-illustrated copy of History of the Fleet marriages., and Mounted on secondary support.
Publisher:
T. Walker
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, Marriage, Obesity, and Pregnant women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Matrimonial speculation [graphic].

24.
Love, honour & justice presenting to the Right Worshipful Grand Master of Ireland the Sentimental

Creator:
Ford, James, active 1778-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1792]
Call Number:
790.00.00.88
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Love, honour and justice presenting to the Right Worshipful Grand Master of Ireland ...
Description:
Title engraved below image., Frontispiece from: The sentimental and Masonic magazine., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Freemasonry -- Freemasons: Grand Master -- Emblems of freemasonry -- Justice (Symbolic character) -- Cupid.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Donoughmore, Richard Hely-Hutchinson, Earl of, 1756-1825,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Love, honour & justice presenting to the Right Worshipful Grand Master of Ireland the Sentimental & Masonic Magazine [graphic]

25.
Morven Hall in the days of other times [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1790?]
Call Number:
800.00.00.94
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young gentleman and lady dance in the center of a large hall in a grand country home surrounded by other young would-be dancers. The older guests sit in chairs and look on. They dance to music provided by a harpist
Description:
Title etched below image., Added in manuscript in lower right corner below design: B.C. 1790 delt., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted verse below title: "There did the harp the melting music of Erin shed its mellifluent notes.", Mounted on verso of: Plan of the citadel and forts of Antwerp and Dutch works. 1832. Lithographed by J. Netherclift, 54 Leic[este]r Sq. 3rd ed. With the French batteries., and Mounted to 25 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dance and Harps
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Morven Hall in the days of other times [graphic].

26.
Old Nauticus The fair american. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1788]
Call Number:
788.00.00.16 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames
Alternative Title:
Fair american
Description:
Each title engraved below image., Reissue by a different publisher of print originally intended for the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1787, vol. xix, p. 249., and Variant issue of No. 7412 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Publisher:
Published by T. Walker, No. 79 Dame Street
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Old Nauticus The fair american. [graphic]

27.
The propagation of a lie [graphic].

Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created:
[July 1788]
Call Number:
Bunbury 787.12.29.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist from print on which this design was based. See no. 7230 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate published in July 1788 issue of: Walker's Hibernian magazine, or Compendium of entertaining knowledge. [Dublin: Thomas Walker, 1785-1811]., Design consists of eighteen figures arranged in three rows, with a line of dialogue etched above each figure., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges.
Publisher:
Thomas Walker
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The propagation of a lie [graphic].

28.
The sentimental lover Alicia. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1788?]
Call Number:
786.00.00.82
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Mrs. Abington and Lord Shelburne, later Marquis of Lansdowne
Alternative Title:
Alicia
Description:
Joseph Walker succeeded his father Thomas Walker as publisher of ’Hibernian Magazine’ 1775-1805. See LC authority record for Thomas Walker., Probably from the Hibernian magazine, 1786. A copy of British Museum no. 5411 in reverse, originally published in Town and country magazine., and Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Walker, No. 79 Dame Street
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The sentimental lover Alicia. [graphic]

29.
The Irish adventuress The gallant sea captain. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1787]
Call Number:
787.00.00.16
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, used to illustrate Town and country magazine, xix, p. 249, an account of the captain of an East Indiaman who acquired a fortune and bought an estate in a western country ... His mistress was originally an Irish peasant who came to England as a harvester; she became a domestic servant with families of position and has married the landlord of an inn to whom the captain gives his custom
Description:
Title from item. and Variant state of No. 7197 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Publisher:
Publish'd by T. Walker, No. 79 Dame Street
Subject (Topic):
Couples and Ship captains
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Irish adventuress The gallant sea captain. [graphic]

30.
Going a going [graphic]

Creator:
Brocas, Henry, 1762-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1786]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young man, his arm around the waist of a coy young woman, whispers in her ear and gestures towards the cover of a wood at left, at the edge of which they stand; in the mid-distance at right, another man rides away from the wood, leading a riderless horse."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier print of which this is a copy
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Irish copy of a print by Rowlandson. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.10.207., and Mounted on leaf 18 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd by H. Brocas and sold at No. 32, New Buildings, Dame Street, Dublin
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Going a going [graphic]

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