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1. "Two pair of portraits" presented to all the unbiased electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke / [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 December 1798]
Call Number:: 798.12.01.02 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Horne Tooke, not caricatured, sits at an easel on which are juxtaposed two canvases, three-quarter length [Horne Tooke described his portraits as 'not whole lengths, and left for some younger hand hereafter to finish . . .', p. 7.] portraits of Fox (Ieft) and Pitt (right); he holds palette and brushes, but looks over his right shoulder at the spectator, saying: ""Which two of them will you chuse \ "to hang up inyour Cabinets; \ "the Pitts, or the Foxes? - \ "Where, on your Conscience, \ "should the other two be hanged?" [Op. cit., final words.] Fox's left hand rests on a pedestal inscribed 'Deceit', on which the head of a fox holding a mask is just discernible. Pitt's right hand rests on a similar but rather higher pedestal inscribed 'Truth'; Truth's head and a hand holding a mirror are just discernible. Their expressions support the two inscriptions. From the painter's pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Sketches of Patriotic Views - a Pension, a Mouth Stopper a Place.' On the ground, resting against a table, is the other pair of portraits, juxtaposed, Lord Holland (left) and Chatham (right), bust portraits, in peer's robes, the family likenesses to their sons, especially in the case of the Foxes, being stressed. Each holds a document: Holland, 'Unaccounted Millions' (he had been styled the public defaulter of unaccounted millions in the City petition of 1769, see BMSat 4296, &c, and cf. BMSat 8622); Chatham, 'Rewards of a Grateful Nation'. On the table is a portfolio of 'Studies from French Masters' from which protrude sketches inscribed 'From Robertspierre, from Tallien, from Marat'. (Cf. BMSat 8437, &c.) The wall, which forms a background, is covered with prints, &c. (left to right): [1] (partly visible) a dagger about to be plunged into a prostrate figure, inscribed '3d Sept [1792]', see BMSat 8122. [2] 'A Sketch for an English Directory', four members of the London Corresponding Society (see BMSat 9189, &c.) seated at a table, the chairman a butcher holding a frothing tankard. (The figures are not quite the grotesque denizens of the underworld represented in BMSat 9202.) [3] A framed half length portrait of Wilkes, squinting violently and clasping two large money-bags: 'Mr Chamberlain Wilkes ci-devant', 'Wilkes & Liberty' (see BMSat 6568); it is labelled: 'The Effect in this Picture to be copied as exact as possible'. [4] A profile in silhouette: 'Shadow of the Abbe Seyes' (see BMSat 9509). [5] A framed picture: 'view of the Windmill at Wimbleton' (from Horne Tooke's house, near Caesar's Camp). The two upper sails are 'Divinity' and 'Politicks', the lower 'Treason' and 'Atheism'. [6] A placard: 'just publish'd The Art of Political Painting, extracted from the works of the most celebrated Jacobin Professors - Pro bono publico.' [7] A bust of 'Machiavel', looking reflectively towards Horne Tooke. [8] Part of a landscape with a small house: 'Parsonage of Brentford' (cf. BMSat 4866, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1798, v.1, opp. p. 574., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: painter's studio -- Paiting materials -- Paintings: portraits -- Busts -- Placards -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Windmills -- Containers: flagon -- Chamberpots -- Reference to Robespierre -- Reference to Tallien -- Reference to Marat., and Mounted to 31 x 35 cm.
Publisher:: Publishd. December 1s [sic], 1798, by J. Wright, Piccadilly, for [the] Anti Jacobin review
Subject (Name):: Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Machiavelli, Bernardo, ca. 1426-1500, and London Corresponding Society.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > "Two pair of portraits" presented to all the unbiased electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke / [graphic]

2. "Two pair of portraits" presented to all the unbiased electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke / [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 December 1798]
Call Number:: 798.12.01.02 Impression 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Horne Tooke, not caricatured, sits at an easel on which are juxtaposed two canvases, three-quarter length [Horne Tooke described his portraits as 'not whole lengths, and left for some younger hand hereafter to finish . . .', p. 7.] portraits of Fox (Ieft) and Pitt (right); he holds palette and brushes, but looks over his right shoulder at the spectator, saying: ""Which two of them will you chuse \ "to hang up inyour Cabinets; \ "the Pitts, or the Foxes? - \ "Where, on your Conscience, \ "should the other two be hanged?" [Op. cit., final words.] Fox's left hand rests on a pedestal inscribed 'Deceit', on which the head of a fox holding a mask is just discernible. Pitt's right hand rests on a similar but rather higher pedestal inscribed 'Truth'; Truth's head and a hand holding a mirror are just discernible. Their expressions support the two inscriptions. From the painter's pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Sketches of Patriotic Views - a Pension, a Mouth Stopper a Place.' On the ground, resting against a table, is the other pair of portraits, juxtaposed, Lord Holland (left) and Chatham (right), bust portraits, in peer's robes, the family likenesses to their sons, especially in the case of the Foxes, being stressed. Each holds a document: Holland, 'Unaccounted Millions' (he had been styled the public defaulter of unaccounted millions in the City petition of 1769, see BMSat 4296, &c, and cf. BMSat 8622); Chatham, 'Rewards of a Grateful Nation'. On the table is a portfolio of 'Studies from French Masters' from which protrude sketches inscribed 'From Robertspierre, from Tallien, from Marat'. (Cf. BMSat 8437, &c.) The wall, which forms a background, is covered with prints, &c. (left to right): [1] (partly visible) a dagger about to be plunged into a prostrate figure, inscribed '3d Sept [1792]', see BMSat 8122. [2] 'A Sketch for an English Directory', four members of the London Corresponding Society (see BMSat 9189, &c.) seated at a table, the chairman a butcher holding a frothing tankard. (The figures are not quite the grotesque denizens of the underworld represented in BMSat 9202.) [3] A framed half length portrait of Wilkes, squinting violently and clasping two large money-bags: 'Mr Chamberlain Wilkes ci-devant', 'Wilkes & Liberty' (see BMSat 6568); it is labelled: 'The Effect in this Picture to be copied as exact as possible'. [4] A profile in silhouette: 'Shadow of the Abbe Seyes' (see BMSat 9509). [5] A framed picture: 'view of the Windmill at Wimbleton' (from Horne Tooke's house, near Caesar's Camp). The two upper sails are 'Divinity' and 'Politicks', the lower 'Treason' and 'Atheism'. [6] A placard: 'just publish'd The Art of Political Painting, extracted from the works of the most celebrated Jacobin Professors - Pro bono publico.' [7] A bust of 'Machiavel', looking reflectively towards Horne Tooke. [8] Part of a landscape with a small house: 'Parsonage of Brentford' (cf. BMSat 4866, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1798, v.1, opp. p. 574., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: painter's studio -- Paiting materials -- Paintings: portraits -- Busts -- Placards -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Windmills -- Containers: flagon -- Chamberpots -- Reference to Robespierre -- Reference to Tallien -- Reference to Marat., 1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.4 x 26.2 cm., on sheet 25 x 36 cm., and Watermark: 1798.
Publisher:: Publishd. December 1s [sic], 1798, by J. Wright, Piccadilly, for [the] Anti Jacobin review
Subject (Name):: Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Machiavelli, Bernardo, ca. 1426-1500, and London Corresponding Society.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > "Two pair of portraits" presented to all the unbiased electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke / [graphic]

3. "Two pair of portraits" presented to all the unbiased electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke / [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1824 and 1827]
Call Number:: 798.12.01.03
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Plate from: Caricatures of Gillray, London, John Miller, [ca. 1824-1827], opp. p. 65., Date of publication inferred from John Miller's entry in London Publishers and Printers, by Philip A.H. Brown (London, British Library, 1982)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: painter's studio -- Painting materials -- Portraits -- Busts -- Placards -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Windmills -- Containers: flagon -- Chamberpots -- Reference to Robespierre -- Reference to Tallien -- Reference to Marat.
Publisher:: Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Name):: Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Machiavelli, Bernardo, approximately 1426-1500, and London Corresponding Society.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > "Two pair of portraits" presented to all the unbiased electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke / [graphic]

4. A confab on the event of a late election [graphic].

Published / Created:: [July 1771]
Call Number:: 771.06.00.11
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Politics -- London elections: sheriff - Symbols: tartan as window curtain., and Mounted to 15 x 21 cm., mounted again to 22 x 31 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A confab on the event of a late election [graphic].

5. A perspective and political view of the timber-yard at L-e [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1769]
Call Number:: 769.04.00.02 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Perspective and political view of the timber-yard at Limehouse
Description:: Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1769), p. 145., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: reference to Brentford elections -- Magna Charta -- Bill of Rights -- Mills: sawyer's frame -- Tools: saw -- Buildings: sawmill -- Timber-yards -- Lawyers -- Charles Dingley, d. 1769., and Mounted to 31 x 37 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A perspective and political view of the timber-yard at L-e [graphic].

6. A safe place [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1763]
Call Number:: 763.06.00.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of text below image: Moderation, moderation, wonderfull moderation ..., Temporary local subject terms: Prisons: the Tower -- Yeomen of the Guard -- British Lion -- Animals: dogs -- Allusion to Magna Charta -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Whips -- Laws: allusion to Habeas corpus -- Emblems: royal cipher., and Mounted to 31 x 39 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A safe place [graphic].

7. A scene at St. Ja---'s, or, The courtiers attempting to bridle the tongue of the late worthy Lord Mayor [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1770]
Call Number:: 770.12.00.04 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Courtiers attempting to bridle the tongue of the late worthy Lord Mayor and Scene at St. James's
Description:: Title from item., Publication date in Stephens: May 30, 1770., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 266., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: St. James's Palace, Reception Room -- Bridles -- Whips -- Female dress: watch -- Ellis Welbore, Baron Mendip, 1713-1792 -- James Townshend, 1737-1787., and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Pomfret, George Fermor, Earl of, 1722-1785, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A scene at St. Ja---'s, or, The courtiers attempting to bridle the tongue of the late worthy Lord Mayor [graphic].

8. A sequel to the Knights of Baythe, or, The one headed corporation [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1763]
Call Number:: 763.05.00.02+ Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: One headed corporation and Sequel to the Knights of Bath
Description:: Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., "Price 1s.", Twelve lines of verse in three columns below image: See liberty's champions still loyal and true, Displaying the tricks of poor R-h and his crew ..., Temporary local subject terms: Corporation of Bath -- Aldermen of Bath -- Emblems: postman for the Master of the Cross-Posts -- Figure of Falstaff -- Devil -- Birds: raven -- Addresses: Ralph Allen's address in The gentleman's magazine, v.33, p.376-7 -- Inns: allusion to Greyhound Inn, Bath -- Expressions: 'adequate' -- Newspapers: allusion to The North Briton -- Clergy -- Grotesqueries -- Bible: quotation -- Tents -- John Saunders, 6th Bt. Sebright, 1725-1794 -- Abel Moysey, 1743-1831 -- Lewis Clutterbuck, d.1776 -- Ford, fl. 1763 -- Cooper, fl. 1763 -- Crook, fl. 1763 -- Master of the Cross-Posts of England -- Postmen., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Ligonier, John, 1680-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Allen, Ralph, 1694-1764, and Leake, James, -1764
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A sequel to the Knights of Baythe, or, The one headed corporation [graphic].

9. Arms of liberty and slavery [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1768]
Call Number:: 768.07.00.04 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Description:: Title in letterpress above image., Publication place and date from date of letter., Letter from John Wilkes below image in letterpress: To the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the County of Middlesex. Signed John Wilkes, King's-Bench Prison, Saturday, June 18, 1768., Letter signed and dated: John Wilkes, King's-Bench Prison, Saturday, June 18, 1768., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: lion -- Emblems: cap of liberty -- Emblems: rod of Maintenance -- Emblems: thistle -- Emblems: snake., and Mounted to 37 x 35 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Glynn, John, 1722-1779
Subject (Topic):: Devil
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Arms of liberty and slavery [graphic].