A large, full-face portrait of Sir Robert Walpole yawning violently
Description:
Title engraved below image., Fourteen lines of verse in two columns below title: More he had said, but yawn'd. All nature nods: What mortal can resist the yawn of gods? ... Dunciad., For a similar print. Cf. No. 2607 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
Octor. 11th 1743, publish'd by G. Bickham in May's Buildings
"Satire on Henry Pelham and his allegiance to Robert Walpole, showing after his death him crossing the Styx to encounter Walpole, Wolsey, Judge Jeffreys and Machiavelli."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
His arrival at his country retirement and reception
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top and bottom., and Temporary local subject terms: Hell -- Bills: reference to the Jew Naturalization Bill, 1753.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527, and Jeffreys, George Jeffreys, Baron, 1644 or 5-1689
"Satire on Robert Walpole showing him as a colossal figure at the entrance to St James's Palce bending forward with his naked backside exposed for an ambitious young man to kiss; another man holds a petition and bowls a hoop lettered, "Wealth", "Pride", "Vanity", "Folly", "Luxury", "Want", "Dependance", "Servility", "Venality", "Corruption" and "Prostitution", through Walpole's legs towards an arcade whose arches are labelled, "Saint [James's P]alace", "The Treasury", "The Exchequer" and "The Admiralty"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Way to preferment
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in minor loss of text., Four lines of text below image: And Henry the King made unto himself a great idol ... Chronicle of the Kings, page 51., Bowditch's ms. annotations at bottom of sheet., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
"A broadside satirising seven politicians; with an etching showing a garden with seven statues on plinths in a semi-circle, depicting from left to right Lord Bolingbroke, the Earl of Orford (Sir Robert Walpole), Earl Cholmondeley, the Earl of Bath (William Pulteney), the Earl of Stair, William Pitt (the Elder, Earl of Chatham), and Henry Pelham; with engraved title and inscriptions, and letterpress title and text in three columns."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Collection of modern statues and caracters [sic]
Description:
Caption title in letterpress below image., Sheet trimmed within etching's plate mark on sides and top resulting in loss of caption title., and Mounted to 40 x 31 cm., mounted again to 42 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1703-1770, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Stair, John Dalrymple, Earl of, 1673-1747, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '19' in upper right corner., Twelve lines of verse in rebus below image: W[hen] [fox] l[i]ke [dog]s infest th[e]s poor land ..., and Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer ... London, 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Title from item., Plate numbered '19' at top., Twelve lines of verse in rebus below image: W[hen] [foxe]s l[i]ke [dog]s infest th[i]s poor land ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Eye glass., and Mounted to 17 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Oct. 1, 1756, by Edwards & Darly at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Title from caption etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three columns of verse below image: News, news, Britons, news is arriv'd by this packet, just brought by a devil in flame colour'd jacket ..., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 1763 -- Excise: Cyder Act -- Mythology: Underworld -- Charon -- Cerberus -- River Styx -- Furies -- Animals: reptiles -- Literature: reference to Sejanus by Ben Jonson, 1572-1637., and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm., mounted again to 38 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530, Brühl, Heinrich, Graf von, 1700-1763, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., Four columns of quotation below image and on either side of title: This fortress built by Nature for her self, against infection and the hand of War ... Shakespears [sic] K. Richard 2d., Temporary local subject terms: Spanish flag -- English flag -- British lion -- Ploughs -- English merchants as slaves -- Male costume: Spanish captain -- Whips -- Spanish War of 1738 -- Pirates: Guarda Costas -- Robert Jenkins, fl. 1731-1738 -- Captain Fandino, fl. 1738 (cut off Jenkins's ear)., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
"Satire on the king and government concerning the employment of Hanoverian troops in England. A cart loaded with Hanoverian turnips is drawn from the right by three horses into the parade ground behind the Treasury.On the left, in front of the leading horse, stands John Perceval, his coat labelled "Deceivall" and holding a paper lettered, "Independant", saying, "In my popular station". Facing him, the bulky figure of William Pulteney, holding a driver's whip and a handful of turnips, says, "Honest Friend S[an]d[y]s rejoyce & sing here's H[anove]r T[urni]p will now come again Ho"; Robert Walpole stands on the other side of the horses saying, "Ha S[an]d[y]s you've a short reign". The man standing on the shafts of the cart calling out, "Stop Boy they shall buy th'all" is apparently identifiable as Samuel Sandys, now Chancellor of the Exchequer; Amalia von Wallmoden sits on the turnips saying, "Thank you Sr for ye Honr. you've done me & yor. Man Will", presumably a reference to Pulteney. Behind the horses stand two other men, evidently Treasury officials, one, holding Treasury tallies, says "Let me be S[and]y[s] I'm not squeamish", the other saying "Ill make a round sum"; the king leans over a balcony of the Treasury brandishing a broom and saying "Pay for ye whole S[an]d[y]s I'll sweep the T[reasu]ry clean". On a wall in the background are pasted "S[an]d[y]s Speeches, a halfpeny a Peice" concerning the Place Bill, the Motion to enquire into the conduct of Walpole and the Triennial Act 1743; a ballad seller sits on the ground beside them. The Hanoverian cavalry enters from the right, led by a commander carrying the standard with the white horse of Hanover, and followed by mounted bandsmen, including a kettle drummer and a trumpeter. One Hanoverian remarks, "For us 260" in reference to the number of members of parliament who voted to retain the troops. In the foreground an Englishman kneels on the ground grasping a bunch of turnips and saying, "By G[o]d these Turnips are dear"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hanover turnip man come again
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 5., Subjects identified by numbers placed below the print on mounting sheet and explained in the key in upper right. Summary of the description in the British Museum Catalogue follows below the key., Mounted to 32 x 46 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, 1711-1770, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
"Satire on the king and government concerning the employment of Hanoverian troops in England. A cart loaded with Hanoverian turnips is drawn from the right by three horses into the parade ground behind the Treasury.On the left, in front of the leading horse, stands John Perceval, his coat labelled "Deceivall" and holding a paper lettered, "Independant", saying, "In my popular station". Facing him, the bulky figure of William Pulteney, holding a driver's whip and a handful of turnips, says, "Honest Friend S[an]d[y]s rejoyce & sing here's H[anove]r T[urni]p will now come again Ho"; Robert Walpole stands on the other side of the horses saying, "Ha S[an]d[y]s you've a short reign". The man standing on the shafts of the cart calling out, "Stop Boy they shall buy th'all" is apparently identifiable as Samuel Sandys, now Chancellor of the Exchequer; Amalia von Wallmoden sits on the turnips saying, "Thank you Sr for ye Honr. you've done me & yor. Man Will", presumably a reference to Pulteney. Behind the horses stand two other men, evidently Treasury officials, one, holding Treasury tallies, says "Let me be S[and]y[s] I'm not squeamish", the other saying "Ill make a round sum"; the king leans over a balcony of the Treasury brandishing a broom and saying "Pay for ye whole S[an]d[y]s I'll sweep the T[reasu]ry clean". On a wall in the background are pasted "S[an]d[y]s Speeches, a halfpeny a Peice" concerning the Place Bill, the Motion to enquire into the conduct of Walpole and the Triennial Act 1743; a ballad seller sits on the ground beside them. The Hanoverian cavalry enters from the right, led by a commander carrying the standard with the white horse of Hanover, and followed by mounted bandsmen, including a kettle drummer and a trumpeter. One Hanoverian remarks, "For us 260" in reference to the number of members of parliament who voted to retain the troops. In the foreground an Englishman kneels on the ground grasping a bunch of turnips and saying, "By G[o]d these Turnips are dear"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hanover turnip man come again
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, 1711-1770, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
