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1.
A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, esq; now Lord Anson

Creator:
Walter, Richard, 1716?-1785
Published / Created:
1767
Call Number:
Ecd +740Wf
Image Count:
4
Description:
"Lord Anson ... appears to have entrusted to Robins for revision the account of the voyage which had been compiled from the journals by ... Richard Walter. There has been considerable dispute as to whether Robins or Walter wrote the book ... It seems probable that Robins revised and edited the work."--Dict. nat. biog., v. 48, p. 435.
Publisher:
T. Osborne [etc.],
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762 and Robins, Benjamin, 1707-1751
Subject (Topic):
Voyages around the world
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, esq; now Lord Anson, commander in chief of a squadron of His Majesty's ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-seas. Compiled from his papers and materials, by Richard Walter ... Illustrated with forty-two copperplates.

2.
Britannia in distress under a tott'ring fabrick with cumberous load [graphic].

Creator:
Walker, Anthony, 1726-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1756]
Call Number:
756.00.00.87.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Britannia in distress under a tottering fabric
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified by Richard T. Godfrey, Dec. 13, 1979., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Trade as a caryatide -- Personifications: Public credit as a caryatide -- Subsidies., and Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Britannia in distress under a tott'ring fabrick with cumberous load [graphic].

3.
A new terrestrial globe [cartographic material]

Creator:
Hill, Nathaniel, 1708-1768
Published / Created:
1754.
Call Number:
Globe 45
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
cartographic three dimensional form
Description:
BEIN Globe 45: From the library of Stephen F. Gates. Accompanied by display plate., Terrestrial pocket globe showing the tracks of Anson's voyage, 1740-1744. Australia is drawn according to the Dutch discoveries and named New Holland., and Wooden spherical case in two parts covered with black sharkskin and lined with celestial maps of the northern and southern sky.
Publisher:
N. Hill?
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762 and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.
Subject (Topic):
Travel and Maps
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A new terrestrial globe [cartographic material]

4.
Bi-g's turn to ride ; [Admiral Byng riding Mr. Fox] ; [Admiral Byng riding the ass] [graphic].

Published / Created:
1756]
Call Number:
756.00.00.34
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Bing's turn to ride and Byng's turn to ride
Description:
Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Title of center design assigned by cataloger from the original. See Stephens 3369., Title of bottom design assigned by cataloger., Top and center designs are copies of, from top, Nos. 3370 and 3369 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Bottom design not recorded in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Battles: reference to the Battle of Port Mahon, Minorca, 20 may 1756 -- Trials: Admiral Byng sentenced by court-martial to death for neglect of duty, 27 Janaury 1757 -- Allusion to the loss of Minorca.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bi-g's turn to ride ; [Admiral Byng riding Mr. Fox] ; [Admiral Byng riding the ass] [graphic].

5.
Birdlime for bunglers, or, The French way of catching fools [graphic].

Published / Created:
Nov. 25 [1756]
Call Number:
756.11.00.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the corruption of Newcastle's government suggesting that it accepted French bribes; Byng, crushed by Hardwicke and Fox, is treated with some sympathy."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French way of catching fools and Oh! How are the mighty fallen?
Description:
Title etched above image., Year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Bribes -- Pictures amplifying subject: spider-web covered painting of Justice -- Emblems: French fleur-de-lis -- Gambling: EO table., Note by E. Truman filed with the print., and Mounted to 33 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Sold at the Star on Holborn Hill
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Byng, John, 1704-1757, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Birdlime for bunglers, or, The French way of catching fools [graphic].

6.
Bribery A m-n-l forge ; The two guardians. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1756]
Call Number:
756.00.00.37
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titles etched above images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Sticks: wand -- Bag of secret service money -- Newcastle's bribery, 1756 -- Parliament: corruption of Parliament by Newcastle -- Newcastle Administration -- Allusion to William, Baron Blakeney, 1672-1761 -- Interiors: forge -- Tools: farrier's tools -- Forgery: Admiral Byng as victim of forgery -- Trials: allusion to Admiral Byng's court-martial for neglect of duty -- Money for Hanover -- Addresses: subsidiary treaties -- Scales: weighing addresses against money -- Taxes: 1756.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, and Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773
Subject (Topic):
Petitions, Bribery, Forge shops, Scales, Fools' caps, and Money
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bribery A m-n-l forge ; The two guardians. [graphic]

7.
Byng return'd, or, The council of expedients [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1756]
Call Number:
756.07.31.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the ministerial changes and payments made to out-going ministers; Admiral Byng is shown in chains holding the dispatches referring to his withdrawal from action at Minorca; Earl Sandwich concerns himself only with opera and theatre."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Council of expedients and Byng returned
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse below image: The quacks of government who sate at the unregarded helm of the state ..., Temporary local subject terms: Trials: court-martial of Admiral Byng -- Reference to the Battle of Minorca, 20 May 1756 -- Fetters -- Literature: quotation from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., Watermark., and Mounted, for further information consult staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Minorca (Spain)
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
History, Shackles, and Scales
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Byng return'd, or, The council of expedients [graphic].

8.
Byng's ghost to the triumvirate [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1757]
Call Number:
757.03.00.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the affair of Admiral Byng, showing his ghost appearing to Newcastle, Anson and Hardwicke who are seen through a transparent screen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: One night to indulge their vile thoughts tete a tete ..., Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings -- Pictures amplifying subject: French rooster carrying off a map of Minorca -- Furniture., and Mounted to 30 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Byng, John, 1704-1757, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, and Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
Subject (Topic):
Ghosts, Chandeliers, Screens, and Chairs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Byng's ghost to the triumvirate [graphic].

9.
Exit unworthies. Enter worthies [graphic].

Published / Created:
[24 November 1756]
Call Number:
756.11.24.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Enter worthies
Description:
Titles etched above images., Plate numbered '51' in upper right corner., Two images on one plate, each with a title above the image., Six lines of verse under design: No more thy gracious mind perplex / The vulture now no more shall vex ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 13 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Novr. 24, 1756, by Darly and Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1720-1764, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Exit unworthies. Enter worthies [graphic].

10.
Hic niger est [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1756]
Call Number:
756.00.00.85
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Acapulca
Description:
Title etched above image., Text below image: Acapulca., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Plate numbered '38' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Satire on Admiralty -- Royal die and dice box -- Emblems: anchor -- Playing cards -- Naval battles: seizure of the Acapulca galleon., and Mounted to 18 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Playing cards, and Anchors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hic niger est [graphic].

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