Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Sir Robert Walpole as Punch -- Wool trade -- The Earl of Islay., Mounted to 33 x 48 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
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
Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Sir Robert Walpole as Punch -- Wool trade -- The Earl of Islay., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
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
"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 contract" of 1720, Admiral Hosier's expedition to Cartagena, the Excise Scheme (depicted as BM Satires 1918), the War of Jenkins' Ear, the Convention of the Pardo, the English ships held in the port of San Sebastian in 1740 (see BM Satires 2418 and 2440), and a general reference to "Bribery, &c.". A mirror on the left reveal that Walpole is standing behind the screen pulling strings that operate members of parliament assembled in the chamber shown below. Above the screen is a separate scene showing the reconciliation between George II and Frederick, Prince of Wales, early in 1742. To the right stands the Duke of Argyll in Garter robes resting against a lectern and pointing to Wapole's misdeeds as portrayed on the screen; above Argyll's head hangs a picture of Diogenes holding his lamp and a portrait of the "honest man" he sought; beside Argyll is lettered, "Glorious and Brave to shake Corruption's Seat, But much more Glorious is thy brave Retreat". Two columns of letterpress verse below warn "William", i.e. Pulteney, that Walpole continues to influence governement."
Description:
Caption title in letterpress below image., The title from the caption above the image on the plate: A new screen for an old one, or, The screen of screens., "Price 6p.", Imprint on plate below design., Letterpress broadside poem illustrated with an etching in upper part of the sheet (plate mark 17.3 x 17.2 cm.). The title from the caption above the image on the plate: A new screen for an old one, or, The screen of screens., Two lines of verse engraved vertically on the right of plate: Glorious and brave to shake corruption's seat, but much more glorious is thy brave retreat., Twenty six lines of verse in two columns below the plate, in letterpress: Dear William, did'st thou never go, to mimic farce, call'd Puppet-Shew? ... Lond. Evening Post, Mar. 11, 1741-2., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 35 x 42 cm., and Watermark.
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.
Title from caption etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Harlequin -- Personifications: Death -- Dr. Richard Rock, fl. 1731-1769., and Mounted to 34 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Title from item., Publication information from British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Violin -- Treaties: Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748 -- Personifications: nobles and wheelbarrow vendors -- Hostage: British hostages to France -- Emblems: fool's head -- Hanover turnips., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
G. Bickham
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Fredrik I, King of Sweden, 1676-1751, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Klemens August, of Bavaria, 1700-1761, Sussex, George Augustus Yelverton, Earl of, 1727-1758, and Cathcart, Charles Schaw Cathcart, Lord, 1721-1776
Subject (Topic):
Flags, Musical instruments, National emblems, Hanoverian, and Wheelbarrows
In the upper right, beneath the French flag, French troops and Indians attack English settlers and burn their homes as signs of general social and political corruption are illustrated in the foreground; each scene is numbered and explained in the key below the image. In the center a tower covered by a cloud, obscuring all but a crown, orb and scepter. Two counselors with goose heads standing gossiping, and two bishops play backgammon and drink spirits (wine?), one sits on a chair made from a bible and the other sits on am overturned model of a church. Two noblemen rob a countryman as he sleeps in his chair. Two senators count their bribes, one hiding the money in his 'pension'. The decline in manufacturing (trade) is symbolized by the idle loom, covered with cobwebs and labeled "To be sold cheape". A thin, starving seaman begs while behind him two common folk stand idly with their hands in their pockets. In the upper left, soldiers in uniform lounge around their military encampment, beside rows of tents and cannons. In the distance, lines of ships stand idle at sea
Description:
Title etched above image., Earlier state of the print had 'Gazette' in title; this later state Gazette has been burnished out and replaced with 'Evening Post.', Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark., Following imprint: "Price six pence.", Later state, with change in title, of No. 3605 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 17, 1757, by T. Ewart at the Bee Hive near St. Martins Lane in the Strand
Subject (Geographic):
United States and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
Subject (Topic):
History, Political corruption, Backgammon, Clergy, Games, Pleading (Begging), and Starvation
In the upper right, beneath the French flag, French troops and Indians attack English settlers and burn their homes as signs of general social and political corruption are illustrated in the foreground; each scene is numbered and explained in the key below the image. In the center a tower covered by a cloud, obscuring all but a crown, orb and scepter. Two counselors with goose heads standing gossiping, and two bishops play backgammon and drink spirits (wine?), one sits on a chair made from a bible and the other sits on am overturned model of a church. Two noblemen rob a countryman as he sleeps in his chair. Two senators count their bribes, one hiding the money in his 'pension'. The decline in manufacturing (trade) is symbolized by the idle loom, covered with cobwebs and labeled "To be sold cheape". A thin, starving seaman begs while behind him two common folk stand idly with their hands in their pockets. In the upper left, soldiers in uniform lounge around their military encampment, beside rows of tents and cannons. In the distance, lines of ships stand idle at sea
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Following imprint: "Price six pence.", Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 17., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials LVG below., Mounted to 32 x 48 cm., and 'Gazette' in title erased from this impression; 'Evening' written in contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 17, 1757, by T. Ewart at the Bee Hive near St. Martins Lane in the Strand
Subject (Geographic):
United States and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
Subject (Topic):
History, Political corruption, Backgammon, Clergy, Games, Pleading (Begging), and Starvation
Title from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '4' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse below image: A maxim this tho vice first thrives / It seldom lasts th [sic] offenders lives ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Reversed copy of no. 3488 in the Cat. of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: figure of Justice and figure of Liberty -- British Lion.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Title and date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Fifteen lines of verse in center of sheet in a vignette between two images comprising this print: The sacred Lion conquers every foe, and tears in pieces all devouring beasts ..., Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- Emblems: Unicorn and thistle for Scotland., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 9., Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906., Watermark: Strasburg bend., and Mounted to 49 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
