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1.
Merit rewarded, or, Truth triumphant against the reapers being a most beautiful contrast [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
761.10.07.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Truth triumphant against the reapers being a most beautiful contrast
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 'Price 6d'., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: William Pitt the Elder's resignation, 1761 -- Personifications: Fame -- Medallions --Pensions -- Trades: sailors -- Frenchmen -- Spaniards -- British Lion -- Emblems: gallic cock -- Money: bribes -- Addresses: William Pitt's letter to William Beckford, 1761., Watermark: Vryheyt on the right side of sheet; counternark on the left., and Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
J. Britton
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bussy, François de, 1699-1780, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Devils, and Thrones
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Merit rewarded, or, Truth triumphant against the reapers being a most beautiful contrast [graphic]

2.
The Windsor apparition, or, The knight of the blazing star : a song

Published / Created:
[1762]
Call Number:
762.09.00.21
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Knight of the blazing star
Description:
Following imprint: Price six pence., Letterpress broadside poem with an etching at top of sheet (plate mark 11.7 x 17.7 cm.)., Ten stanzas of a song printed in two columns separated with a decorative border: Ye patriots of Albion, vouchsafe your attention, to a wonderful tale I shall presently mention ..., A song - "Ye patriots of Albion, vouchsafe your attention"., On J. Stuart 3d Earl of Bute's investiture with the Order of the Garter., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Windsor, Chapter House -- Orders: Order of the Garter -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Watermark: Vryheyt.
Publisher:
Sold by the printsellers of London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Windsor apparition, or, The knight of the blazing star : a song

3.
The ballance, or, The American's triumphant [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1766]
Call Number:
766.03.18.10
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
American's triumphant and Balance
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Following imprint: Price sixpence., Explanation of numbers applied to persons and objects in the print added below image., Earlier state without plate number. Cf. No. 4143 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Royal Exchange -- See-saws -- Laws & statutes: repeal of the Stamp Act -- Personifications: America as a native man -- Mythology: Minerva -- Mythology: Mercury -- Ships -- Commerce: bales of merchandise -- Reference to the fall of the Rockingham Administration -- Devil -- Gout -- Medical: crutch., and Watermark: Vryheyt.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The ballance, or, The American's triumphant [graphic].

4.
The d-kes exchanged, or, Sc---h hobby horses [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.02.10.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sc---h hobby horses, Scotch hobby horses, and Dukes exchanged
Description:
Title from item., Thirty-two lines of verse in four columns below image: Come and listen to my ditty de song de tune is very pretty ..., Variant state, with verse below image, of No. 4001 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Treaties: Treaty of Utrecht -- Castle: Dover Castle -- Emblems: boot as Lord Bute -- Emblems: thistle -- Animals: fox -- Devil -- Balances -- Hobby horses -- Birds: hawk -- Bribery -- Military uniforms: sentry -- Buildings: church steeple -- Wars: galeons representing war with Spain, 1762 -- Calais -- Songs -- Allusion to James Wolfe, 1727-1759., Watermark: Vryheyt., and Mounted to 33 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Hawke, Edward Hawke, Baron, 1705-1781, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Bussy, François de, 1699-1780
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The d-kes exchanged, or, Sc---h hobby horses [graphic].

5.
The funeral procession of Anti Sejanus [graphic].

Published / Created:
[13 March 1766]
Call Number:
766.03.13.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from advertisement in The public advertiser. See no. 4127 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Three columns of text below image describing the procession: Last night the body of that poor politician Anti-Sejanus was privately interred in the criminal vault in St. Sepulchre's Churchyard ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Processions: funeral procession -- Reference to the Rev. James Scott, 1733-1814, pseud. Anti-Sejanus -- Literature: reference to Sejanus by Ben Jonson, 1572-1637 -- Reference to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, "Jemmy Twitcher" -- Cattle drivers -- Vehicle: horse cart -- Reference to Sir John Fielding -- Buildings: gate with clock., Watermark: Vryheyt on the right, with countermark L V G on the left., and Mounted to 30 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The funeral procession of Anti Sejanus [graphic].

6.
The great financier, or, British oeconomy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765 [graphic].

Published / Created:
approximately 1765]
Call Number:
766.08.00.06
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.4371., A reduced copy of no. 4128 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate engraved for: The British Antidote or Scot's Scourge. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Economy -- Law: taxation without representation -- Ships: ships for sale (with brooms at masthead) -- Prisons -- Personifications: America as a native man -- Newfoundland: reference to the Newfoundland fisheries -- Frenchmen -- Spaniards -- Reference to Havana -- Reference to Guadeloupe -- Reference to Philippines -- Money: colonial dollars -- General Warrants -- Lighting: save-all -- Excisemen: Stamp men -- Reference to the dismissal of Henry Seymour Conway, 1721-1795., Mounted to 34 x 44 cm., and Watermark: Vryheyt.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 and Grenville, George, 1712-1770
Subject (Topic):
Gout and Britannia (Symbolic character)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The great financier, or, British oeconomy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765 [graphic].

7.
[Scenes from everyday life] [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1740?]
Call Number:
740.00.00.36
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consists of 4 strips of figures engaged in various activities. Row 1: A dairy maid milking a cow; a mother and child beside a crib; a couple conversing; a musician with flute and drum; two women and a man around a tea table with a maid making tea. Row 2: A couple conversing; a man in stocks getting whipped; a woman with a basket on her head behind a lady with a fan; a boy with a book beside a cobbler, a dog at his feet; a hunter on horseback with a hunting dog. Row 3: An artist painting a portrait of a woman; an old woman seated with a boy at her feet, learning to read; two men; a man with a horn and dancing dog; a Scot in tartan looking at a woman with a yoke on her shoulders support two pails. Row 4: A trainer with a performing bear and dog; a vendor with an urn; a woman with a cart of apples; a boy with a toy hoop; a woman feeding her hogs and piglet as a boy looks on.
Description:
Title devised by curator., Imprint burnished from plate., Dated by costume., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Vryheyt.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Occupations, Trainged animals, and Stocks (Punishment).
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Scenes from everyday life] [graphic].