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1. The collector of the poll-tax murder'd by Wat Tyler [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hall, John, 1739-1797, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Septr. 1798.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 812 B68
- Collection Title:
- Plate [56] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England; Tyler in his smithy, holding a hammer in his right hand and raising his arm to strike the tax collector standing at left, who reaches greedily towards him, another collector behind him carrying a bag labelled 'poll tax / three groa[ts]'; a woman stands between the two men, attempting to hold back the tax collector; further angry people in the background, a snarling dog between Tyler's legs."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Collector of the poll tax murdered by Wat Tyler
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [56] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
- Subject (Name):
- Tyler, Wat, -1381,
- Subject (Topic):
- Homicides, Poll taxes, Hammers, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The collector of the poll-tax murder'd by Wat Tyler [graphic]
2. The tomb's of the worthies [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [27 March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.27.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Inside a church, Burke and Sheridan, in mourning clothes, cry next to the tomb on which rest the bodies of Lord North and Charles Fox, with a fox's head. Fox's eye is open and alert, his tongue hanging from the mouth. Above their heads, a crossbeam resting on two columns and inscribed, "The true reward [of] such virtues," forms a gallows with two nooses hanging from it. In the background are the tombs of Jonathan Wilde, a corrupted thieftaker, and Jemmy Twitcher, a character in The beggar's opera, and nicknames of, respectively, Sir Robert Walpole and the Earl of Sandwich; and of Walter Tyler, leader of the peasant uprising in 1381
- Alternative Title:
- Tombs of the worthies
- Description:
- Title from item., "Price one shilling.", and Mounted to 29 x 42 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd March 27, 1784, as the act directs, by M. Smith & sold at No. 46, in Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Wild, Jonathan, 1682?-1725., and Tyler, Wat, -1381.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Nooses, and Mourning clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The tomb's of the worthies [graphic].
