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1. Illustrations for The Universal songster

Creator:: Marshall, J. R., active 1820-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1825]
Call Number:: 75 C889 825
Image Count:: 25
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A collection of 20 proof states of the 27 prints after George Cruickshank used as illustrations for The Universal songster; or, Museum of mirth. Most are signed with Marshall's initials 'JRM', with two signed 'J.R. Marshall' and most identify the artist as 'G.C.' (i.e. George Cruikshank) or G. Cruikshank'. One print based on William Hogarth's "O the roast beef of Old England, &c." includes the attribution "From Hogarth by G.C."
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., The Universal songster; or, Museum of mirth was first issued by John Fairburn in weekly numbers beginning in 1825, and then shortly afterwards by Jones & Co.; see Cohn., Printed on india paper with three additional prints, all duplicate impressions on a different paper stock and all faulty. One duplicate plate is annotated in the top margin: "3 blocks by G. Ck. 9 blocks by RC. 1 block by [illegible]. Rimil 1863 r/m/. Out of Universal songster. Bone has the others.", Bound in calf gilt, all edges gilt; two auction records tipped on first blank., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Illustrations for The Universal songster

2. The courier [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1765]
Call Number:: 765.05.19.01.2+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A courier on horseback blows his horn as he approaches a small building with a sign board dangling from its post "Popularity, The Blown Bladder by W P". A bandaged foot (gouty) resting on a stool is sticking out the door; crutches resting against the side of the hovel. Behind the rider is a cushion with a royal crown, decorates with thistles labeled B-e (for Lord Bute) and M-d (for the Earl of Mansfield). Three young trees on the lower right represent the three British kingdoms. A quotation from Book II of Virgil's Aeneid in lower right corner of image
Description:: Title etched at top of image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Second state, as described in the British Museum catalogue, with the large cushion substituted for the public house behind the duke; It intended to express that Lords Bute and Mansfield though not in the cabinet, overshadowed the King., A satire intended to express that Lords Bute and Mansfield though not in the cabinet, overshadowed the King., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 23., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The courier [graphic].

3. The flying machine from Edinburgh in one day, perform'd by Moggy Mackensie at the Thistle and Crown [graphic].

Creator:: Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:: publish'd according to act of Parliamt., 1762.
Call Number:: 762.09.25.01.2+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Satire of a witch carrying two Scotsmen on a broomstick from Edinburgh to London, the thistle being an emblemic reference to Scotland and the crown, to England. The coat of arms engraved at top of image with quote from Hopkins Junr. on left and Joel Chap. 2, Ver. 3. The title is a reference to Fingal by James MacPherson
Description:: Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Price 6d.", Placement instructions in upper right corner: Brit. Antid. No. 24., Variant state, with placement line and publication date added, of No. 3859 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 21.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The flying machine from Edinburgh in one day, perform'd by Moggy Mackensie at the Thistle and Crown [graphic].

4. The fishermen [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1762]
Call Number:: 762.09.00.04 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched above image., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: August 1762., Below image: To the courteous readers of the Monitor, Briton, North Briton, & other political Quixotes, this print is humbly inscrib'd., "Price 6d.", Temporary local subject terms: Journals: The Patriot -- Signboards -- Emblems: Caduceus -- Buildings., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Beardmore, Arthur, d. 1771., Brühl, Heinrich, Graf von, 1700-1763., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):: Sedition, Newspapers, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Fishing nets
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The fishermen [graphic].

5. 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 money. A woman in a Welsh hat, the Princess of Wales, looks out from the curtains of a bed in the back of the stage and listens with pleasure. A tall quack (T. Smollet) wears a fool's cap, a hornbook hangs from his girdle, and the newspapers The Briton rolled under his arm; at his feet are other copies of The North Briton and The Monitor
Description:: Title etched below image., Numbered in upper right corner: "Brit. Antidote. Pl. 20.", Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 20., Bowditch's transcription of E. Truman's note on the mounting sheet; "Truman Sale 1906.", and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
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].

6. The French wolf in sheeps cloathing, or, Englands belle amis [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1758?]
Call Number:: 758.00.00.04 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on Samuel Touchet, a Manchester merchant and MP, who is said to importing French cloth to the detriment of the English textile trade. He is shown grasping the Golden Fleece, suspended from the ceiling, while £1200 worth of 'English Goods [are] Neglected' and £36000 per annum of 'French Goods [are] Promoted]; the Devil, dressed as a Frenchman, encourages Touchet and refers to 'Monsr. Belle Amy', i.e., the textile merchant William Bellamy."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: French wolf in sheep's clothing and Englands belle amis
Description:: Title etched above image., Date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse below image: Ev'n you your self to your own breast shall tell ..., Temporary local subject terms: Wool trade -- Satan -- Expression of speech: wolf in sheep's clothing -- Mythology: Golden Fleece., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 19., Watermark., and Mounted to 28 x 46 cm.
Publisher:: Leghorn invt. and print London ; reprinted at the Acorn Fleet Market, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):: Devil
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The French wolf in sheeps cloathing, or, Englands belle amis [graphic].

7. The indulgent care of the Roman Eagle display'd, or, An emblematic representation of the duty incumbent on a patriot prince and head of the Germanic body [graphic].

Published / Created:: [29 July 1757]
Call Number:: 757.07.29.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on the early stages of the Seven Years War with a map of the German states supported by the double-headed Imperial eagle; Louis XV seizes Alsace and Lorraine and Russian bears tear at Hungary and Moravia; on either side stand commentators uncluding the pope the Emperor and a figure represening Holland who express fears of French, Russian and Prussian ambitions. In the background, to left, the Prussian eagle is caged unable to defend Protestantism, and to right, a Frenchman attempts to lure the horse of Hanover to his side."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Emblematic representation of the duty incumbent on a patriot prince ... and Indulgent care of the Roman Eagle displayed
Description:: Title etched at top of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three columns of verse below image: Unhappy Germany, what woes are thine! E'en who shou'd most protect against thee joyn! ..., Temporary local subject terms: Wall map of Germany -- Emblems: double-headed German eagle -- Prussian eagle -- Russian bears -- Cages -- Personifications: figure of France -- Figure of Holland., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 18., and Mounted to 23 x 36 cm.
Publisher:: Published according to act of Parliament, July the 29, 1757 by T. Kitchin at the Star on Holborn Hill
Subject (Name):: Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1708-1765
Subject (Topic):: Maps, Eagles, Bears, and Birdcages
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The indulgent care of the Roman Eagle display'd, or, An emblematic representation of the duty incumbent on a patriot prince and head of the Germanic body [graphic].

8. 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 below the image. In the center a tower covered by a cloud, obscuring all but a crown, orb and scepter. Two counselors with goose heads standing gossiping, and two bishops play backgammon and drink spirits (wine?), one sits on a chair made from a bible and the other sits on am overturned model of a church. Two noblemen rob a countryman as he sleeps in his chair. Two senators count their bribes, one hiding the money in his 'pension'. The decline in manufacturing (trade) is symbolized by the idle loom, covered with cobwebs and labeled "To be sold cheape". A thin, starving seaman begs while behind him two common folk stand idly with their hands in their pockets. In the upper left, soldiers in uniform lounge around their military encampment, beside rows of tents and cannons. In the distance, lines of ships stand idle at sea
Description:: Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Following imprint: "Price six pence.", Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 17., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials LVG below., Mounted to 32 x 48 cm., and 'Gazette' in title erased from this impression; 'Evening' written in contemporary hand.
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]

9. The crab tree, or, The epilogue to the recruiting serjeant [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1757]
Call Number:: 757.04.00.08
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on the partiality of the king and of Newcastle's ministry for Hanover at the expense of Britain. The orchards of England have been stripped and boats loaded with apples are being rowed across the channel to Hanover where the king and his ministers are tending a single crab apple tree. In the foreground the horse of Hanover, now well-fed thanks to British support, produces "fine manure for the Crab Tree", in the form of coins, caught in his mitre by a bishop. In the distance, Bubb Doddington buries Britannia beside a church on which the weather vane is the Hanoverian horse to the delight of a passing French ship."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Epilogue to the recruiting serjeant
Description:: Title etched above image., Publisher Matthias Darly identified from address and date., Temporary local subject terms: Hanover -- Emblems: the white horse of Hanover -- Fruit: apples -- British Lion., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 16., Watermark: countermark I V., and Mounted to 34 x 45 cm.
Publisher:: To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford Strand & facing Little Suffolk Street, Hedge Lane
Subject (Name):: William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762, and Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The crab tree, or, The epilogue to the recruiting serjeant [graphic].