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1.
The female agent [graphic].

Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[March 1809]
Call Number:
809.03.00.05+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Heading to etched verses. Mrs. Clarke, seated on a dais, receives applicants for commissions who advance through a doorway (left). She sits on a drum, wearing a cocked hat and military sash over a white dress, and holds up a sword. A short fat soldie...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1809 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, Soldiers, British, Flags, Podiums, Daggers & swords, Hats, Staffs (Sticks), and Chimney sweeps
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The female agent [graphic].

2.
Chosen candidate [art original]

Creator:
Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1826]
Call Number:
Drawings L265 no. 2 Box D205
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A caricature on the prevalence of bribery during elections, most probably that of 1826. The successful liberal candidate stands on a platform before a cheering crowd and people waving from the windows of adjoining building. In the 'Committee Room' beh...
Description:
Title written in ink in bottom left corner of image, in an unidentified hand (possibly Theodore Lane's).
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, Elections, Cheering, Corruption, Crowds, Political elections, Politicians, and Signs (Notices)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Chosen candidate [art original]

3.
Rejected candidate [art original]

Creator:
Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1826]
Call Number:
Drawings L265 no. 1 Box D205
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A caricature on the prevalence of bribery during elections, most probably that of 1826. The distraught rejected candidate, shown full-length and facing left is red in the face and pulling at his hair. His election placard lies on the floor and two not...
Description:
Title written in ink in bottom right corner of image, in an unidentified hand (possibly Theodore Lane's).
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, Elections, Anger, Corruption, Crowds, Political elections, and Signs (Notices)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Rejected candidate [art original]

4.
The laughing audience Rehearsal of the Oratorio of Judith ; An emblematic print on the South Sea

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
August 1st 180[...]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 806
Collection Title:
Hogarth restored
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A single plate with Laughing audience in the upper left, Rehearsal of the Oratorio of Judith in the upper right, and An emblematic print on the South Sea below
Alternative Title:
Rehearsal of the Oratorio of Judith and Emblematic print on the South Sea
Description:
Titles engraved below images.
Publisher:
Published by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England, Scotland., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797., South Sea Company., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Food vendors, Laughter, Orchestras, Snuff, Theater audiences, Theaters, Elections, 1722, Membership, Quarantine, Law and legislation, Inheritance and succession, Naturalization, Political corruption, Elections, Bribery, Children, Clergy, Devil, Mirrors, Screens, and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The laughing audience Rehearsal of the Oratorio of Judith ; An emblematic print on the South Sea / [graphic]

5.
The chosen candidate [graphic].

Creator:
Day, William, 1797-1845, lithographer
Published / Created:
1st June 1829.
Call Number:
829.06.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published (for the proprietor) by James Bulcock, 17 Park Walk, Chelsea
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, Elections, Cheering, Corruption, Crowds, Political elections, Politicians, and Signs (Notices)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The chosen candidate [graphic].

6.
The rejected candidate [graphic]

Creator:
Day, William, 1797-1845, lithographer
Published / Created:
1st June [1829] and [1829]
Call Number:
829.06.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published (for the proprietor) by James Bulcock, 17 Park Walk, Chelsea and W. Day, lithog., 17 Gale Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, Elections, Anger, Corruption, Crowds, Political elections, and Signs (Notices)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The rejected candidate [graphic]

7.
Iohn Bull as Justice weighing a commander [graphic].

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 1809.
Call Number:
809.04.22.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull, blindfold, stands on a massive truncated pillar holding the beam of a pair of scales. In one scale (left), near the ground, Mrs. Clarke sits composedly among a mass of papers, holding one inscribed My dear Dearest Dearest Darling [see Brit...
Alternative Title:
John Bull as Justice weighing a commander
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Johnstone, 101 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Britannia (Symbolic character), Political corruption, History, Sex, Political aspects, Justice, Blindfolds, Scales, Columns, and Bishops
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Iohn Bull as Justice weighing a commander [graphic].

8.
The celebrated Clark, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop [graphic].

Published / Created:
[22 April 1809]
Call Number:
53 C599 S809
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Mrs. Clarke auctions commissions from a rostrum to a crowd of bidders, while the Duke of York acts as her clerk. All are unconscious of a net in which they are enclosed, and with which the Devil flies off into flames (right). Mrs. Clarke (right), in ...
Alternative Title:
Celebrated Clarke, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 22nd April 1809 by J.H. Warl, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, History, Sex, Political aspects, Corruption, Military officers, British, Auctions, Nets, and Devil
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The celebrated Clark, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop [graphic].

9.
The celebrated Clark, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop [graphic].

Published / Created:
[22 April 1809]
Call Number:
809.04.22.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Mrs. Clarke auctions commissions from a rostrum to a crowd of bidders, while the Duke of York acts as her clerk. All are unconscious of a net in which they are enclosed, and with which the Devil flies off into flames (right). Mrs. Clarke (right), in ...
Alternative Title:
Celebrated Clarke, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 22nd April 1809 by J.H. Warl, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, History, Sex, Political aspects, Corruption, Military officers, British, Auctions, Nets, and Devil
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The celebrated Clark, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop [graphic].

10.
The ghost of Eustace Budgel Esqr. to the *man in blue most humbly inscrib'd to His Royal Highness

Published / Created:
[1742]
Call Number:
742.00.00.10+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and noted music
Abstract:
"A broadside satirising Robert Walpole with an etching in two parts. In the left-hand scene Frederick, Prince of Wales, stands with the Duke of Argyll and other gentlemen, pointing to the left where George II embraces Britannia. In the foreground, the...
Description:
Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Printed for Eliza Haywood at Fame in the Piazza, Covent Garden, and sold by the printsellers and pamphlet shops of London and Westminster, according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
Cartagena (Colombia) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Budgell, Eustace, 1686-1737, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, Haddock, Nicholas, 1686-1746, Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530, Wentworth, Thomas, active 1741, and Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801,
Subject (Topic):
English West Indian Expedition, 1739-1742, History, Britannia (Symbolic character), Political corruption, Death (Personification), Bribery, Crowns, Decapitations, Ghosts, Justice, Putti, National emblems, British, French, Germany, and Spanish
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The ghost of Eustace Budgel Esqr. to the *man in blue most humbly inscrib'd to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales *see the Chinese Orphan, a tragedy for the reason of this term / [graphic]

11.
The ghost of Eustace Budgel Esqr. to the *man in blue most humbly inscrib'd to His Royal Highness

Published / Created:
[1742]
Call Number:
742.00.00.10++ Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and noted music
Abstract:
"A broadside satirising Robert Walpole with an etching in two parts. In the left-hand scene Frederick, Prince of Wales, stands with the Duke of Argyll and other gentlemen, pointing to the left where George II embraces Britannia. In the foreground, the...
Description:
Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Printed for Eliza Haywood at Fame in the Piazza, Covent Garden, and sold by the printsellers and pamphlet shops of London and Westminster, according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
Cartagena (Colombia) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Budgell, Eustace, 1686-1737, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, Haddock, Nicholas, 1686-1746, Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530, Wentworth, Thomas, active 1741, and Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801,
Subject (Topic):
English West Indian Expedition, 1739-1742, History, Britannia (Symbolic character), Political corruption, Death (Personification), Bribery, Crowns, Decapitations, Ghosts, Justice, Putti, National emblems, British, French, Germany, and Spanish
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The ghost of Eustace Budgel Esqr. to the *man in blue most humbly inscrib'd to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales *see the Chinese Orphan, a tragedy for the reason of this term / [graphic]

12.
The mountebank [graphic].

Published / Created:
published according to act 1762.
Call Number:
762.05.00.20
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A crowd of people, most wearing Scotch plaid, stand before a mountebank's stage, holding out their hands to the charlatan, a caricature of Lord Bute who holds bags of money. Behind him on the floor of the stage is a chest filled with more bags of mone...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, Patronage, Political, Crowds, Fools & jesters, and Quacks
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The mountebank [graphic].

13.
The prevailing candidate, or, The election carried by Bribery and the Devil [graphic].

Published / Created:
[March 1722?]
Call Number:
Kinnaird 75K(d) Box 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the general election of 1722 showing a grand room with two long windows and a pier glass between; to the left of this is a screen with seven folds. On the right three men, one holding a staff of office, can be discerned behind the screen re...
Alternative Title:
Election carried by bribery and the devil
Description:
Title from caption in ribbon above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Scotland., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
South Sea Company. and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1722, Membership, Quarantine, Law and legislation, Inheritance and succession, Naturalization, Political corruption, Elections, Bribery, Children, Clergy, Devil, Mirrors, Screens, and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The prevailing candidate, or, The election carried by Bribery and the Devil [graphic].

14.
The prevailing candidate, or, The election carried by Bribery and the Devil [graphic].

Published / Created:
[March 1722?]
Call Number:
722.03.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the general election of 1722 showing a grand room with two long windows and a pier glass between; to the left of this is a screen with seven folds. On the right three men, one holding a staff of office, can be discerned behind the screen re...
Alternative Title:
Election carried by bribery and the devil
Description:
Title from caption in ribbon above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Scotland., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
South Sea Company. and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1722, Membership, Quarantine, Law and legislation, Inheritance and succession, Naturalization, Political corruption, Elections, Bribery, Children, Clergy, Devil, Mirrors, Screens, and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The prevailing candidate, or, The election carried by Bribery and the Devil [graphic].

15.
Without from the London Evening Post of Saturday, June 11, 1757. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[17 June 1757]
Call Number:
757.06.17.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the upper right, beneath the French flag, French troops and Indians attack English settlers and burn their homes as signs of general social and political corruption are illustrated in the foreground; each scene is numbered and explained in the key ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 17, 1757, by T. Ewart at the Bee Hive near St. Martins Lane in the Strand
Subject (Geographic):
United States and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
Subject (Topic):
History, Political corruption, Backgammon, Clergy, Games, Pleading (Begging), and Starvation
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Without from the London Evening Post of Saturday, June 11, 1757. [graphic]

16.
Without from the London Gazette of Saturday, June 11, 1757. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[17 June 1757]
Call Number:
757.06.17.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the upper right, beneath the French flag, French troops and Indians attack English settlers and burn their homes as signs of general social and political corruption are illustrated in the foreground; each scene is numbered and explained in the key ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 17, 1757, by T. Ewart at the Bee Hive near St. Martins Lane in the Strand
Subject (Geographic):
United States and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
Subject (Topic):
History, Political corruption, Backgammon, Clergy, Games, Pleading (Begging), and Starvation
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Without from the London Gazette of Saturday, June 11, 1757. [graphic]