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1. His Excellency the Marquess Wellesley, K.G. Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland &c. &c. &c. / [graphic]

Creator:: Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 February 1827]
Call Number:: Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, whole length, standing to right, looking to front, his right hand on his hip, holding plumed hat in the left, over a chair; wearing Garter robes and chain with George; sword and mace on cloth embroidered with coat of arms at left, fluted column and curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., "Proof"--Lower left corner of plate., Dedication etched beneath title: To His Most Gracious Majesty George the Fourth, King of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c. this engraving is humbly dedicated by His Majesty's faithful and devoted subject, Andrew Robertson., and Bound in opposite page 634 (leaf numbered '78' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:: Published 1st Feby. 1827, by Messrs. Colnaghi Son & Co., Pall Mall East, London; R. Milliken & J. Allen, Dublin
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britian.
Subject (Name):: Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, Marquess, 1760-1842, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830,
Subject (Topic):: Governors, British, Politicians, Robes, and Ceremonial maces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > His Excellency the Marquess Wellesley, K.G. Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland &c. &c. &c. / [graphic]

2. Evidence to character, being a portrait of a traitor by his friends & by himself [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1824 and 1827]
Call Number:: 798.10.01.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Folding plate (also issued separately) to 'Anti-Jacobin Review', i. 285, illustrating extracts from a pamphlet published by Wright: Considerable allowance to those who purchase Thousands and Tens of Thousands for distribution. A burlesque of the trial of O'Connor at Maidstone (22 May), parts of the court being hidden by the large labels which issue from the mouths of prisoner and witnesses. The presiding judge (Buller) looks down with horror at the witnesses, the other judges are hidden. O'Connor (not caricatured), wearing leg-irons, stands at the bar; his hands are clasped, and he bends forward in profile to the left, making a confession which, though condensed, does not differ substantially from that made by him, McNevin, and Emmet, and published in the Report of the Secret Committee made to the Irish House of Commons on 21 Aug. ('Lond. Chron.', 27 Aug.), ... 'I confess, that I became an United Irishman in 1796 & a Member of the National Executive, from 1796, to 1798. I knew the offer of French assistance was accepted at a meeting of the Executive in Summer 1796: I accompanied the Agent of the Executive (the late Lord Edward Fitzgerald) ...had an interview with General Hoche (who afterwards had the command of the expedition against Ireland) on which occasion every thing was settled between the parties with a view to the descent. ... "--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate from: Caricatures of Gillray, London, John Miller, [ca. 1824-1827], opposite page 17., and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
Publisher:: Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Geographic):: Ireland
Subject (Name):: O'Connor, Arthur, 1763-1852, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823
Subject (Topic):: Emblems, Judges, Justice, Nooses, Scales, Traitors, Trials, litigation, etc, Witnesses, History, and Politics and government
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Evidence to character, being a portrait of a traitor by his friends & by himself [graphic]

3. Monsr. Alexandre in The rogueries of Nicholas [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [22 January 1825]
Call Number:: 825.01.22.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A scene from a play: a soldier admired by a lady at her dressing table stands before a table of heads and ghosts, with an elderly couple to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Monsieur Alexandre in The rogueries of Nicholas
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 3s."--Below image in lower right., and Matted to 39 x 48 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. 22nd Jany. 1825 by Wm. Heath at the new Panorama, 15 Grafton St., Dublin, and Henry Heath, London
Subject (Name):: Alexandre, Nicholas Marie,
Subject (Topic):: Soldiers, Dressing tables, Ghosts, Nuns, and Theatrical productions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Monsr. Alexandre in The rogueries of Nicholas [graphic]

4. Assassination of Lord Kilwarden in Dublin [graphic].

Published / Created:: 1824.
Call Number:: 824.00.00.63
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from text within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 22 x 17 cm.
Publisher:: Published by J. Robins & Co., Albion Press, London
Subject (Geographic):: Ireland and Dublin.
Subject (Name):: Kilwarden, Arthur Wolfe, Viscount, 1739-1803
Subject (Topic):: Assassination, Assassinations, Judges, History, and Historical reenactments
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Assassination of Lord Kilwarden in Dublin [graphic].

5. A shew heifer going to Leinster Stable Yard [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1820]
Call Number:: 820.00.00.112
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Lord Leinster, personified as a rough Irish farmer, leads Queen Caroline by a rope around her neck. Leinster expounds: 'Dam me! no one but the D... shall stop her.' Another figure in the background, probably Bartolomeo Pergami, replies: 'Stop Nosey, let me feel that Heifer.'
Alternative Title:: Show heifer going to Leinster Stable Yard
Description:: Title etched below image., Date of publication from dealer's description., Text below title: Dedicated to the Farming Society of Ireland., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Pub. by McCleary, 21 Nassau Street
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Leinster, Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald, Duke of, 1791-1874, and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):: Adultery, Farmers, Nobility, and Rulers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A shew heifer going to Leinster Stable Yard [graphic].

6. The arrest a caution to the dandies, taken from a late real scene. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [1819 or 1820]
Call Number:: 819.00.00.41
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Probably a copy of an English print. A dandy (cf. No. 13029) stands on the pavement outside an open ground-floor sash-window, ogling two welcoming young women through a lorgnette, regardless of the bailiff who takes his shoulder and proffers a writ. A second dandy, in the background, seeing the bailiff, drops his cane and runs away terror-stricken. The dandy's costume is that of c. 1820. Below the title: 'The Dandy squinting through his glass, Surveys the Ladies as they pass, But still the Fribble lacks the wit To guard against the Bailiffs writ.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Publication date 1819 from unverified data from local card catalog record. George dates the print 1820., Four lines of verse below title: The dandy squinting through his glass surveys the ladies as they pass ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: W. Pickering & Co.
Publisher:: Published by J. Le Petit, 20 Capel St.
Subject (Topic):: Dandies and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The arrest a caution to the dandies, taken from a late real scene. [graphic]

7. Military dandies, or, Heroes of 1819 [graphic].

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1819]
Call Number:: 819.00.00.12+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Officers promenade, swaggering selfconsciously; three couples are arm-in-arm. One pair, one of whom is a lancer with a moustache, arrogantly stare at a taller and more dignified Life Guards officer wearing a huge curling plume on the crest of his helmet. All have small high waists with belts or sashes, bulging breasts, high collars, and stocks, narrow and sometimes tiny coat-tails, tight sleeves, high padded shoulders; usually a bush of hair projects from a fantastic shako or helmet. The two Life Guards officers have boots, wide at the top, reaching to the thigh. Two officers wear fantastically large plumed shakos. An officer in back view, (?) the Duke of York, wears the plumed hat of a field-marshal, and is arm-in-arm with a very tall thin officer"--British Museum online catalogue, description of S.W. Fores copy
Alternative Title:: Heroes of 1819
Description:: Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Possible reissue of print published by S.W. Fores., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. No. 13059 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Publisher:: Publish'd by J. Le Petit 20 Capel St.
Subject (Name):: Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):: Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, and Military uniforms
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Military dandies, or, Heroes of 1819 [graphic].

8. French fire-side [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1818?]
Call Number:: 818.00.00.16+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In a fashionable parlor, two well-dressed couples entertain each other. On the right a gentleman plays the violin as his companion sings; she holds sheet music in her hand as she faces the fireplace, her back to the viewer. The violinist stands on a sheet of paper on which is written "The downfall of Paris." Above the fireplace, over a mantel with piles of books, including a volume with Code Napoleon written on its spine, is a portrait of "Napoleon le-Grand" and on either side, landscape views of Elba and St. Helena. On the left an effeminate soldier with a medal that reads "Jena" (a reference to the 1806 victory?) offers a young lady plates of fruit and cookies. The side table beside them is laiddened with fruit, flowers, liquor, and cookies. A fluffy, white dog barks at her feet. Pairs of Cupids with arrows and with laurel wreaths decorate the wallpaper
Alternative Title:: French fireside
Description:: Title engraved below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Manuscript "8" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:: Publish'd by J. Le Petit, 20 Capel St., Dublin
Subject (Name):: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):: Couples, Dogs, Fireplaces, Floor coverings, Mantels, Parlors, Singing, and Violins
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > French fire-side [graphic].

9. The attack upon Lord Kilwarden in the late riot at Dublin [graphic]

Creator:: Taylor, J., printmaker
Published / Created:: October, 1816.
Call Number:: 816.10.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Lord Kilwarden is pulled from his carriage by angry rioters on a street in Dublin. The riots are armed with swords, long knives, and poles. An officer on horseback beats back a rioter with a whip as the Kilwarden's horses are restrained
Description:: Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Published by Nuttall, Fisher, & Dixon
Subject (Geographic):: Ireland
Subject (Name):: Kilwarden, Arthur Wolfe, Viscount, 1739-1803,
Subject (Topic):: History, Fighting, and Riots
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The attack upon Lord Kilwarden in the late riot at Dublin [graphic]