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1.
This is the house that Jack built [graphic].

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 January 1792]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to a lampoon on the Gunning scandal. A series of portraits following [1] a letter directed to 'His Grace the D. . . of' [Marlborough, see BMSat 7980], beneath which is inscribed: 'This is the Note that Nobody wrote!' [2] A groom (three-q...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 2, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),, Gunning, John, -1797, Gunning, Miss (Elizabeth), 1769-1823, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, and Marlborough, George Spencer Churchill, Duke of, 1766-1840
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > This is the house that Jack built [graphic].

2.
The H-r bubble [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1743]
Call Number:
Folio 724 C2 738
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on George II's wish for continuing British subsidies for Hanoverian forces in the war of Austrian Succesion, and the objections of some British politicians. In an open loggia on the left the king sits at a table, over which is spread a map of ...
Alternative Title:
Hanover bubble
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hanover, House of., George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Marlborough, Charles Spencer, Duke of, 1706-1758, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The H-r bubble [graphic].

3.
The H-r bubble [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1743]
Call Number:
743.00.00.04.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on George II's wish for continuing British subsidies for Hanoverian forces in the war of Austrian Succesion, and the objections of some British politicians. In an open loggia on the left the king sits at a table, over which is spread a map of ...
Alternative Title:
Hanover bubble
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hanover, House of., George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Marlborough, Charles Spencer, Duke of, 1706-1758, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The H-r bubble [graphic].

4.
Old E-l-d's T totum, being the H-r bubble, or, Our all to nothing [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1743]
Call Number:
743.00.00.04.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Our all to nothing and Old England's T totum being the Hanover bubble
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hanover, House of., George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Marlborough, Charles Spencer, Duke of, 1706-1758, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Old E-l-d's T totum, being the H-r bubble, or, Our all to nothing [graphic].

5.
The ghost of Eustace Budgel Esqr. to the *man in blue most humbly inscrib'd to His Royal Highness

Published / Created:
[1742]
Call Number:
742.00.00.10++ Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and noted music
Abstract:
"A broadside satirising Robert Walpole with an etching in two parts. In the left-hand scene Frederick, Prince of Wales, stands with the Duke of Argyll and other gentlemen, pointing to the left where George II embraces Britannia. In the foreground, the...
Description:
Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Printed for Eliza Haywood at Fame in the Piazza, Covent Garden, and sold by the printsellers and pamphlet shops of London and Westminster, according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
Cartagena (Colombia) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Budgell, Eustace, 1686-1737, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, Haddock, Nicholas, 1686-1746, Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530, Wentworth, Thomas, active 1741, and Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801,
Subject (Topic):
English West Indian Expedition, 1739-1742, History, Britannia (Symbolic character), Political corruption, Death (Personification), Bribery, Crowns, Decapitations, Ghosts, Justice, Putti, National emblems, British, French, Germany, and Spanish
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The ghost of Eustace Budgel Esqr. to the *man in blue most humbly inscrib'd to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales *see the Chinese Orphan, a tragedy for the reason of this term / [graphic]

6.
The screen

Published / Created:
[March 1742]
Call Number:
Folio 724 C2 738
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Keene, Benjamin, Sir, 1697-1757, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The screen

7.
The wheel of fortune, or, The Scot's step completed [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1742]
Call Number:
Folio 724 C2 738
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Scot's step completed
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The wheel of fortune, or, The Scot's step completed [graphic].

8.
The night visit, or, The relapse : with the pranks of Bob Fox the Jugler, while steward to Lady

Published / Created:
[12 April 1742]
Call Number:
742.04.12.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Robert Walpole at the time of his fall. Extended across a room is a large screen with twenty scenes described metaphorically in the text below. The scenes refer to instances of corruption and maladministration in his career: (1) three soldi...
Alternative Title:
Relapse
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 12, 1742, by J. Huggonson, in Sword-and-Buckler Court, on Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, and Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The night visit, or, The relapse : with the pranks of Bob Fox the Jugler, while steward to Lady Brit, display'd on the screen

9.
The screen : a simile

Published / Created:
March 18, 1741/2.
Call Number:
742.03.18.01
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Satire on Robert Walpole and his continuing influence on government after his fall from power. A large folding screen in the centre stands open showing events from Walpole's career: the South Sea Bubble, the treaties of Hanover and Seville, the "Bank...
Description:
Caption title in letterpress below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by T.B.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Diogenes, -approximately 323 B.C.
Subject (Topic):
Pardo, Treaty of, 1739, Mirrors, and Ships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The screen : a simile

10.
The wheel of fortune, or, The Scot's step completed [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1742]
Call Number:
742.03.16.02+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Scot's step completed
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The wheel of fortune, or, The Scot's step completed [graphic].

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