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1. A forcible entrance into Leadenhall-Street by Master Billy Declaratory upon a dun'd-ass [graphic].
- Creator:
- Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 April 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.04.24.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: East India House -- Declaratory Act., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 24, 1788 by Josa. Baldrey, No. 19 H. Holborn, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Rumbold, Thomas, Sir, 1736-1791, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Portraits, Impeachment, Taxation, Tax assessment, Justice, Donkeys, Stores & shops, Shutters, Lawyers, and Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A forcible entrance into Leadenhall-Street by Master Billy Declaratory upon a dun'd-ass [graphic].
2. Miss K-ghl-y The Shaftesbury nabob. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- Jan 1, 1775 [i.e. 1776]
- Call Number:
- 776.01.01.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Sir Thomas Rumbold, and his unidentified mistress. The woman is on the left numbered 34, with Rumbold's portrait on right numbered 35.
- Alternative Title:
- Shaftesbury nabob
- Description:
- Title from item., Corrected publication date from British Museum catalogue., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1775 p. 625.
- Publisher:
- Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. near St. John's Gate
- Subject (Name):
- Rumbold, Thomas, Sir, 1736-1791.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miss K-ghl-y The Shaftesbury nabob. [graphic]
3. The Shaftesbury nabob Miss K-y. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- 1776.
- Call Number:
- 776.00.00.34
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Sir Thomas Rumbold, and his unidentified mistress
- Alternative Title:
- Miss K-y
- Description:
- Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 404; T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian magazine, was located at Dame Street Dublin from 1770-1786., Probably from the Hibernian magazine, 1776. A reversed variant of no. 5344 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, originally published in Town and country magazine., and Wormed outside of plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs by T. Walker, 79 Dame Street
- Subject (Name):
- Rumbold, Thomas, Sir, 1736-1791,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Shaftesbury nabob Miss K-y. [graphic]
4. The nabob rumbled, or, A Lord Advocates amusement [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 January 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.01.21.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Sir Thomas Rumbold is depicted vomiting his ill-gotten wealth into a chamber pot decorated with a thistle. Kneeling beside it and embracing the chamber pot is Henry Dundas, Lord Advocate of Scotland who oversaw the prosecution of Rumbold in 1782-3. Rumbold's ankles are chained to two weights signed "Sureties," a reference to restriction on his leaving the country before the case was dropped in 1783. He is supported by his son, Captain Rumbold of 1st Life Guards, dressed in his regimentals and wearing a gorget. Behind them, an Englishman gallops on an elephant saddled with an enormous bag signed "Roupees." An Indian sitting behind him is holding a tall parasol above his head
- Alternative Title:
- Lord Advocates amusement
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text above upper left border: Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 1., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Text above upper left border has the date "1782" changed to "1783" in manuscript.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jan. 21, 1783, by E. D'Archery, St. James's Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Great Britain, and India.
- Subject (Name):
- Rumbold, Thomas, Sir, 1736-1791, Rumbold, Richard William, Captain, 1760-1786, and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
- Subject (Topic):
- Gorgets (Military insignia), Coins, Elephants, Vomiting, Chamber pots, Military uniforms, British, Clothing & dress, and Colonies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The nabob rumbled, or, A Lord Advocates amusement [graphic].
5. The nabob rumbled, or, A Lord Advocates amusement [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 January 1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 11. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Sir Thomas Rumbold is depicted vomiting his ill-gotten wealth into a chamber pot decorated with a thistle. Kneeling beside it and embracing the chamber pot is Henry Dundas, Lord Advocate of Scotland who oversaw the prosecution of Rumbold in 1782-3. Rumbold's ankles are chained to two weights signed "Sureties," a reference to restriction on his leaving the country before the case was dropped in 1783. He is supported by his son, Captain Rumbold of 1st Life Guards, dressed in his regimentals and wearing a gorget. Behind them, an Englishman gallops on an elephant saddled with an enormous bag signed "Roupees." An Indian sitting behind him is holding a tall parasol above his head
- Alternative Title:
- Lord Advocates amusement
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6169 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Text in upper left margin: Political characters & caracatures of 1783. No. 1., and On leaf 11 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jan. 21, 1783, by E. D'Archery, St. James's Street and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Great Britain, and India.
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Rumbold, Thomas, Sir, 1736-1791, Rumbold, Richard William, Captain, 1760-1786, and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
- Subject (Topic):
- Gorgets (Military insignia), Coins, Elephants, Vomiting, Chamber pots, Military uniforms, British, Clothing & dress, and Colonies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The nabob rumbled, or, A Lord Advocates amusement [graphic].
