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1. A recruit for Opposition from the temple of British worthies [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: 14th April 1795.
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Leaf 69. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Marquis of Buckingham, tall and bulky, stands against a measuring-post (left); Lord Derby, standing on a table, adjusts the horizontal bar to his head. Buckingham, wearing dark spectacles, stands without his shoes (which lie beside him), and holding his hat; he faces Fox, who is seated on a drum (right), and says: "To Pitt I made my Proposition But he rejected the Condition So I enlist with Opposition". He holds out to Fox a paper: 'Condition to be first Lord of the Admiralty'. Fox, taking the paper, scrutinizes it through a glass with a pleased smile. His drum is inscribed 'C F' and beside him is a spear from whose tasselled head hangs a placard: 'Watch Word Peace'. From the top of the measuring-post flies a flag of three horizontal stripes inscribed 'The Standard of Opposition.'"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Sixth of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition in 1795 ..."; see British Museum catalogue., For a variant state with plate number "6" etched in upper left corner, see no. 8641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- House of Commons: Recruits for the Opposition -- Slogans: "Watch word peace" -- Measuring posts -- Spectacles., Mounted on leaf 69 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and Watermark: 1805.
Publisher:: Published by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):: Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):: Measuring, Eyeglasses, Drums, Spears, and Flags
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A recruit for Opposition from the temple of British worthies [graphic]

2. Africa. America [graphic].

Published / Created:: [20 August 1807]
Call Number:: 807.08.20.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: On the left, standing in front of a thatched hut. "Africa" wears a plumed headdress and animal pelt and holds a spear in his left hand; in his right hand he holds a document inscribed "Slave Trade abolish'd 1806." On the right, "America" is Lady Liberty, wearing plumed headdress and cloak; she holds a standard with the Stars and Stripes, and gestures at a pedestal with portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. A snake curls around the pedestal. Between the two figures is a landscape with hills on either side of a river, and waterfall; a crocodile emerges from behind the figure of Africa
Alternative Title:: America
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Description based on an imperfect impression; imprint statement mostly erased from sheet.
Publisher:: Published Augt. 20, 1807 [by W.B. Walker ...?]
Subject (Geographic):: United States.
Subject (Name):: Washington, George, 1732-1799, and Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790,
Subject (Topic):: Indigenous peoples, Huts, Headdresses, Hides & skins, Spears, Slavery, Flags, Portraits, Waterfalls, Snakes, and Crocodiles
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Africa. America [graphic].

3. An officer and private of Russian Grenadiers [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1 August 1799]
Call Number:: 799.08.01.10+ Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom., Publication date erased from this impression and supplied in contemporary hand as 'Decr. 1, 1812'., One of the series of prints depicting Suvorov's Russian Army., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Prints and drawings lent to copy., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):: Bayonets, Flags, Russian, Forts & fortifications, Military uniforms, Rifles, and Spears
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An officer and private of Russian Grenadiers [graphic].

4. B [graphic].

Creator:: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1820.
Call Number:: Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 9. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The King runs towards the Pavilion, carrying a large bow and spear, with a shield on which are a bottle and glass. At his feet kneels a demon sharpening an arrow on a leech (see No. 13740). The Pavilion is a grinning Chinese figure, with a (smaller) dome and a large minaret; it is partly hidden by smoke from which a second demon looks out. P. 3: B, for the blunder displayed, when again He strove to inflict the excesses of pain, ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: B, for the blunder displayed, when again he strove to inflict the excesses of pain ...
Description:: Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 9 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Rosco., and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):: Demons, Worms, Spears, Bows (Weapons), Arrows, and Shields
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > B [graphic].

5. Blessed are the peace makers [graphic].

Published / Created:: [24 February 1783]
Call Number:: 783.02.24.02+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A Spaniard using his sword as a walking stick and capering with satisfaction, leads a procession along a country road to a building inscribed "Inquisition." He is followed by a happy looking Frenchman who pulls George III on a rope tied around the King's neck and through a gate made from two vertical spears with a third one tied horizontally on top. A lion is falling down from it while the unicorn tries to balance itself and the crown. The King is followed by Lord Shelburne (William Petty), mimicking both the royal posture and dress, and holding a rolled document signed 'Preliminaries." Their orderly progress is watched by a lean, simply dressed man holding in his right hand a scourge with many lashes and the word "America" between them. With his left, he pulls the rope tied around the neck of a boorish Dutchman, his hands stuck in his pockets, smoking a pipe
Alternative Title:: Blessed are the peacemakers
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: Pub. by E. Dashery [sic], Feby. 24 1783 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):: England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820. and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805.
Subject (Topic):: Dutch, French, Spanish, Ropes, Whips, Spears, Lions, Unicorns, Crowns, Marching, Clothing & dress, and Foreign relations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Blessed are the peace makers [graphic].

6. Brian Borholme King of Ireland [graphic].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1820]
Call Number:: 820.00.00.94
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A fanciful portrait of Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, in armor, seated on a rock holding a spear. His victory at Battle of Clontarf (1014) is said to have broken Viking control of Ireland, although Brian was killed in the battle
Description:: Title etched below image. and Approximate date of publication from dealer's description.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Ireland.
Subject (Name):: Brian, King of Ireland, 926-1014,
Subject (Topic):: Kings, Armor, and Spears
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Brian Borholme King of Ireland [graphic].

7. Death and the lady, or, The great messenger of mortality

Published / Created:: [between 1793 and 1796]
Call Number:: Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Alternative Title:: Great messenger of mortality
Description:: In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the imprint at foot of the third; the columns are separated by thick solid rules., Verse begins: "Fair lady lay your costly robes aside,", The verse earlier went under the title of 'The great messenger of mortality'., 'Death' precedes the first line., Imprint below third column., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118., Mounted on leaf 27. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:: Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41 Long-Lane, London
Subject (Topic):: Death, Grim Reaper (Symbolic character), Death (Personification), Hourglasses, and Spears
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Death and the lady, or, The great messenger of mortality

8. Dick the butcher & Smith the weaver seizing the Clerk of Chatham [graphic].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1800]
Call Number:: 800.00.00.18
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Dick the butcher and Smith the weaver seizing the Clerk of Chatham
Description:: Title from item., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of imprint., Copy of a print by J. Coles, published by Thomas Macklin in 1795, after a drawing by H.W. Bunbury., Six lines of text from the play in two columns below image: Smith. The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read / and cast accompt. Cade. O monstrous! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, iv.2 -- Street scenes -- Trades: Butchers -- Weavers -- Clerks -- Writing implements: Ink bottle on ribbon -- Weapons: Pikes -- Executions: Public hangings., and Watermark: CMD.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):: Axes, Spears, Hangings (Executions), and Gallows
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Dick the butcher & Smith the weaver seizing the Clerk of Chatham [graphic].

9. Emblems of human nature, or time's warning to all people

Published / Created:: [17--?]
Call Number:: Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Alternative Title:: Time's warning to all people
Description:: Text begins: "Young and old, rich and poor, male and female, to prepare for their latter end ..., Last line: Necessary for all Christian families who have the least regard for their future salvation to have in their houses., Three woodcuts depict personifications of death and the crucifixion of Jesus., Mounted on leaf 30. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:: s.n.
Subject (Topic):: Death, Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)., Death (Personification)., Crucifixions, Skeletons, Spears, Hourglasses, and Scythes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Emblems of human nature, or time's warning to all people