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1. "The rights of man, or, Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [23 May 1791]
Call Number:: 791.05.23.01 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A grotesquely caricatured, thin and ragged Tom Paine, dressed as a tailor with huge scissors hanging from his pants, kneels before a gigantic crown; he uses a tape measure to determine its dimensions. He wears a French-style hat with a cockade inscribed "vive la liberty". He ruminates on his task,a satire on the first part of his Rights of man
Alternative Title:: Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., At top of design: Humbly dedicated to the Jacobine clubs of France and England by Common Sense. "These are your gods, O, Israel!", Plate shows signs of reworking; 'the' following 'Tommy Paine' in title etched twice, with the repeated word on the second line of title scored through and mostly burnished from plate., and Mounted to 43 x 29 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 23th [sic], 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, and Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):: Symbols, Tailors, and Tailoring
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2. An exact copy of a bill for the sum of ten shillings & ten pence sent by a bricklayer to a gentleman for whom he had worked (the bricklayer could not write). [art original]

Published / Created:: [1840?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 37 Box D160
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A copy of an illiterate bricklayer's bill that was written with pictographs; the artist included a narrative description of its meaning below the image. The pictographs included three different sized stick-figures (two men and one boy), a four-square grid with three of the four squares filled with dots (three quarters of a day), two "Y" shaped symbols (hods of mortar), two "X" shaped symbols (10 shillings & 10 pence), and a sketch of a hanged man (a settled bill).
Description:: Title from text inscribed with black ink within image., Date from note inscribed with graphite pencil below image., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Symbols
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An exact copy of a bill for the sum of ten shillings & ten pence sent by a bricklayer to a gentleman for whom he had worked (the bricklayer could not write). [art original]

3. Elizabeth Sawyer executed in the year 1621 for witchcraft : from a rare print int eh collection of W. Beckford Esqr. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [6 February 1794]
Call Number:: 794.02.06.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Elizabeth Sawyer is shown full-length walking left with a divining rod in (Fate) pointing at her
Description:: Title engraved below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Symbols: finger of fate
Publisher:: Pubd. Feby 6, 1794, by I. Caulfield
Subject (Name):: Sawyer, Elizabeth, -1621,
Subject (Topic):: Divining rods, Symbols, and Witches
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Elizabeth Sawyer executed in the year 1621 for witchcraft : from a rare print int eh collection of W. Beckford Esqr. [graphic]

4. For the trial of Warren Ha[stings] seventh day / [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately February 1788]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 42. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Parodied by, or a parody of, British Museum Satires No. 7277. A design based on the tickets of admission to Westminster Hall, which bore the name and arms of Sir Peter Burrell, Deputy Great Chamberlain; [in right of his wife, Lady Priscilla Bertie, who with her sister was jointly hereditary Great Chamberlain of England] in the centre of the escutcheon were the arms of his wife: three battering-rams placed horizontally. The crest was an embowed arm holding an olive-branch. In place of the rams' heads of the battering-rams are the heads, in profile to the left, of Burke, frowning, of Fox, smiling, and of Francis with a fixed stare. The arm of the crest holds a scourge whose lashes terminate in scorpions and is inscribed 'Lex Parliamenti omnipotens'. Beneath the escutcheon is a motto on a scroll: 'Sub libertate Tyran' [sic] which replaces the original motto: 'Sub Libertate Quietem'. Two supporters have been added: Dexter, a weeping judge, his cap inscribed 'Common Law', holds a scroll whose words are scored through: '[Magna] Charta Judicium Parium aut Lex Terrae'. Sinister, Justice, looking up in terror at the scourge by which she is threatened, and dropping her scales. Beneath the escutcheon is a view in miniature of Westminster Hall showing clearly the Managers' box (left), in which Fox stands, violently declaiming; Burke sits next him frowning. A document inscribed 'First Article' hangs over the side of the box. The head of Hastings, a good profile portrait, is turned towards Fox; on the right, are his three counsel in back view. Behind them are the heads of the peers, wearing hats, and on each side the Commons (left) and the ladies (right) in the peeresses' seats. At the far end of the hall the throne with the Queen's box and the Prince of Wales s box are freely sketched. The foreground is decorated by branches of leaves (? olive) and an open book inscribed 'From Envy Hatred & Malice and all Uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: For the trial of Warren Ha : seventh day and Seventh day
Description:: Title etched within banner at top of image, the head of the figure of Justice obscuring the remaining letters of Hastings's name; "seventh day" etched along bottom of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 12.6 cm, on sheet 20.2 x 14.7 cm., and Mounted on verso of leaf 42 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Westminster Hall (London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Justice and Symbols
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > For the trial of Warren Ha[stings] seventh day / [graphic]

5. For the trial of Warren Ha[stings] seventh day / [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately February 1788]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 42. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Parodied by, or a parody of, British Museum Satires No. 7277. A design based on the tickets of admission to Westminster Hall, which bore the name and arms of Sir Peter Burrell, Deputy Great Chamberlain; [in right of his wife, Lady Priscilla Bertie, who with her sister was jointly hereditary Great Chamberlain of England] in the centre of the escutcheon were the arms of his wife: three battering-rams placed horizontally. The crest was an embowed arm holding an olive-branch. In place of the rams' heads of the battering-rams are the heads, in profile to the left, of Burke, frowning, of Fox, smiling, and of Francis with a fixed stare. The arm of the crest holds a scourge whose lashes terminate in scorpions and is inscribed 'Lex Parliamenti omnipotens'. Beneath the escutcheon is a motto on a scroll: 'Sub libertate Tyran' [sic] which replaces the original motto: 'Sub Libertate Quietem'. Two supporters have been added: Dexter, a weeping judge, his cap inscribed 'Common Law', holds a scroll whose words are scored through: '[Magna] Charta Judicium Parium aut Lex Terrae'. Sinister, Justice, looking up in terror at the scourge by which she is threatened, and dropping her scales. Beneath the escutcheon is a view in miniature of Westminster Hall showing clearly the Managers' box (left), in which Fox stands, violently declaiming; Burke sits next him frowning. A document inscribed 'First Article' hangs over the side of the box. The head of Hastings, a good profile portrait, is turned towards Fox; on the right, are his three counsel in back view. Behind them are the heads of the peers, wearing hats, and on each side the Commons (left) and the ladies (right) in the peeresses' seats. At the far end of the hall the throne with the Queen's box and the Prince of Wales s box are freely sketched. The foreground is decorated by branches of leaves (? olive) and an open book inscribed 'From Envy Hatred & Malice and all Uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: For the trial of Warren Ha : seventh day and Seventh day
Description:: Title etched within banner at top of image, the head of the figure of Justice obscuring the remaining letters of Hastings's name; "seventh day" etched along bottom of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 60 with three other prints.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Westminster Hall (London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Justice and Symbols
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > For the trial of Warren Ha[stings] seventh day / [graphic]

6. For the trial of Warren Ha[stings] seventh day / [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately February 1788]
Call Number:: 788.02.00.02 Impression 1
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 42. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Parodied by, or a parody of, British Museum Satires No. 7277. A design based on the tickets of admission to Westminster Hall, which bore the name and arms of Sir Peter Burrell, Deputy Great Chamberlain; [in right of his wife, Lady Priscilla Bertie, who with her sister was jointly hereditary Great Chamberlain of England] in the centre of the escutcheon were the arms of his wife: three battering-rams placed horizontally. The crest was an embowed arm holding an olive-branch. In place of the rams' heads of the battering-rams are the heads, in profile to the left, of Burke, frowning, of Fox, smiling, and of Francis with a fixed stare. The arm of the crest holds a scourge whose lashes terminate in scorpions and is inscribed 'Lex Parliamenti omnipotens'. Beneath the escutcheon is a motto on a scroll: 'Sub libertate Tyran' [sic] which replaces the original motto: 'Sub Libertate Quietem'. Two supporters have been added: Dexter, a weeping judge, his cap inscribed 'Common Law', holds a scroll whose words are scored through: '[Magna] Charta Judicium Parium aut Lex Terrae'. Sinister, Justice, looking up in terror at the scourge by which she is threatened, and dropping her scales. Beneath the escutcheon is a view in miniature of Westminster Hall showing clearly the Managers' box (left), in which Fox stands, violently declaiming; Burke sits next him frowning. A document inscribed 'First Article' hangs over the side of the box. The head of Hastings, a good profile portrait, is turned towards Fox; on the right, are his three counsel in back view. Behind them are the heads of the peers, wearing hats, and on each side the Commons (left) and the ladies (right) in the peeresses' seats. At the far end of the hall the throne with the Queen's box and the Prince of Wales s box are freely sketched. The foreground is decorated by branches of leaves (? olive) and an open book inscribed 'From Envy Hatred & Malice and all Uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: For the trial of Warren Ha : seventh day and Seventh day
Description:: Title etched within banner at top of image, the head of the figure of Justice obscuring the remaining letters of Hastings's name; "seventh day" etched along bottom of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Partial watermark upper left edge., and On verso, written in ink in a contemporary hand: Burlesque on the admission ticket to Hasting's trial. The three heads on the cannons are Burke, Fox, & Sheridan.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Westminster Hall (London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Justice and Symbols
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > For the trial of Warren Ha[stings] seventh day / [graphic]

7. The Brentford race for the Middlesex septennial plate [graphic]

Creator:: Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:: April 22d, 1784.
Call Number:: 784.04.22.08+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The candidates for Middlesex and their supporters race (right to left) to Brentford. The foremost rider is Wilkes on a horse wearing a royal crown (indicating George III); he holds up the cap of 'Liberty' on its staff. Half a length behind, and nearer the spectator, is Mainwaring, holding up a sword whose blade is inscribed 'Justice'. His horse's human head is blindfolded, in its mouth is a pair of scales; in one balance is 'Byng Dunston', in the other and heavier, 'Wilkes Manwaring'. The horse probably represents Justice, its rider was a well-known Middlesex Justice and chairman of the Middlesex Sessions. Behind Wilkes, his horse's head hidden, is a rider not identified, he has lost his stirrups and clutches his saddle with both hands. Behind these three and in the centre of the design is George Byng, the friend of Fox and the Prince of Wales, M.P. for Middlesex since 1780. He rides a pair of horses (representing the Coalition), standing with one foot on the saddle of each; the near horse has the head of Fox, the other that of North; the tail of the near horse is a fox's brush inscribed 'Grace'. The fore legs of the pair touch a paper inscribed 'Test'. Byng's whip is inscribed 'Coalition' and he is saying, "Spur them up behind Doctor, or I shall lose the race", addressing Hall, the Westminster apothecary, who rides like a hobby horse a pair of crutches tied with a ribbon; in place of a hat he wears a mortar inscribed 'All [sic] Blue and Buff'; he holds up his pestle as if it were a whip. Behind Byng, Jeffery Dunstan rides an ass with long ears and the head of Sam House; he looks round to address the Duchess of Devonshire who is the last of the cavalcade. The Duchess (right) rides astride, her bunched-up skirt showing spurred half-boots. Her horse has the head of the Earl of Surrey; she says, "Byng for ever - and may the Hearty Cock ever stand stout in our sarvice". Dunstan says, "Well said my Dutchess - Charly's Whipper-in for ever. Huzza". The Duchess wears a heavily trimmed hat in which is a large election favour and four fox's tails, each inscribed 'Byng'. On the extreme left is a sign-post pointing 'To Brentford'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 27 x 36 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, Middlesex (England), and England.
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Mainwaring, William, 1735-1821, Byng, George, ca. 1735-1789, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, House, Samuel, -1785, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):: Elections, 1784, Politics and government, Elections, Crutches, Donkeys, Hobby horses, Horse racing, Horses, Justice, Liberty cap, Pharmacists, Political elections, Scales, Symbols, and Traffic signs & signals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Brentford race for the Middlesex septennial plate [graphic]

8. The Queen and the dragon, a model for a new sovereign, for 1821 recommended to the Master of the Mint. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [January 1821]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In a large circle at center is Queen Caroline, dressed as Britannia and riding a horse that tramples a four-headed dragon lying on its back on the ground; the dragon has the human heads of the George IV and his ministers. The Queen, wearing armor and a helmet topped with a crown, shoves a long pike into the mouth of Liverpool; Castlereagh's head has been decapitated, Sidmouth's head has its eyes closed and seems to be unconscious, and the King's head looks on in horror. The border of the large circle reads "Carolina D.G. Britaniarum Regina" and a buckle at the bottom reveals it to be a belt. Four smaller circles in the corners of the design are labeled "Britannia," "Hibernia," "Cambria," and "Caledonia," and they contain symbols representing each region
Description:: Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Watermark: J. Whatman 1820., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 47 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Liverpool," "Geo. IV," "Londondery [sic]," and "Sidmouth" identified in ink below image; date "Jan. 1821" written in lower right corner.
Publisher:: Published January 1821 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):: Britannia (Symbolic character), Dragons, Horses, Pikes (Weapons), Armor, Crowns, and Symbols
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Queen and the dragon, a model for a new sovereign, for 1821 recommended to the Master of the Mint. [graphic]

9. The Unitarian arms [graphic].

Published / Created:: [14 July 1792]
Call Number:: 792.07.14.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Design in an oval. A burlesque coat of arms symbolizing the supposed character of the Unitarians represented by Priestley. After the title is engraved: 'Address'd to those Peaceable Subjects of this Kingdom who prefer the Present happy Constitution to that Anarchy & Bloodshed so Zealously sought for by these restless advocates for Priestly & Paine's Sophistical Tenets.' A printed explanation is attached to the print. The shield rests on a vulture which grasps in its beak and claws the motto: 'Under these Garbs do we act.' On a shaded (sable) ground a harpy suckles young harpies and holds up the cap of Liberty with a pendent banner on which is a crown surrounded by drops of blood. On a border round the shield are ten groups of ten intertwined serpents. The crest is the Devil and a number of fiends attacking a glory of rays surrounding a triangle, symbolizing the Trinity. The supporters are (dexter) Religion, a veiled woman holding a book and cross, her foot on a skull, and (sinister) Hypocrisy, a woman with the feet of a bird of prey, reading a book, and holding (concealed) a dagger with a notched blade; a trumpet is slung to her waist; a small wallet containing 'a bandelure' (see BMSat 7829) hangs from her neck in place of a cross. She tramples on a crown. She wears a ragged drapery, intended to suggest humility, over a rich garment. 14 July 1792."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Five lines of prose below title: Addressd to those peacable subjects of this Kingdom who prefer the present happy constitution to that anarchy & bloodshed so zealously sought for by these restless advocates for Priestly & Paine's sophistical tenets., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:: Pub. July 14, 1792, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.
Subject (Topic):: Harpies (Greek mythology), Dissenters, Religion, Unitarians, Coats of arms, Devil, Demons, Emblems, Liberty cap, Symbols, and Vultures
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Unitarian arms [graphic].