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1. A new deceptio visûs [graphic]

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:: [ca. 1728]
Call Number:: 728.00.00.08+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two further panels, one with a coin of George II, the other lettered 'A new Deceptio Visus. Engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, in London' [part of address erased].
Description:: Title from print in upper right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of docket title and associated text. Perimeter of the design has been heavily inked in black, obscuring all but the images of the prints. The gold coin has been decorated with gold lead and the background of this print is also heavily inked in black., A composite of images and verses to form a greeting card, folded for mailing as advertisement for Bickham's engravings. With docket title: With docket title: A new Deceptio Visus, or A guinea for a shilling : being a curious medley, by way of letter / engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, at his drawing school, at Hatten Garden near Holburn, London. See impression in the Library of Congress, PC 3 - 1729 - Near deceptio., See also working proof (?) at the British Museum online catalogue, no. 1980,U.861., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Geo. Bickham
Subject (Geographic):: Greece.
Subject (Name):: Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
Subject (Topic):: Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A new deceptio visûs [graphic]

2. Frontispiece to Lond. mag. 1760 [graphic]

Creator:: Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1760]
Call Number:: 760.00.00.17
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Frontispiece to London magazine 1760
Description:: Title etched above image in upper right., Publisher and place of publication inferred from those of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin ... , 1732- , v. 29 (1760), page 393., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: figure of Concord -- Figure of Justice -- Figure of Religion -- Figure of Liberty -- Figure of Providence -- Containers: funeral urn -- Monuments: funeral obelisk.
Publisher:: R. Baldwin
Subject (Name):: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
Subject (Topic):: Death and burial, Britannia (Symbolic character), Justice, Liberty, Urns, Obelisks, and Cornucopias
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece to Lond. mag. 1760 [graphic]

3. A new deceptio visûs [graphic]

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 1760]
Call Number:: 765.00.00.73 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two further panels, one with a coin of George II, the other lettered 'A new Deceptio Visus. Engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, in London' [part of address erased].
Alternative Title:: New deceptio visus, or, A guinea for a shilling
Description:: Title from print in upper right., Date based on publisher's years of activity at 53 Fleet Street., Later state of a print, a composite of images and verses to form a greeting card, folded for mailing as advertisement for Bickham's engravings. With docket title: A new Deceptio Visus, or A guinea for a shilling : being a curious medley, by way of letter / engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, at his drawing school, at Hatten Garden near Holburn, London. See impression in the Library of Congress, PC 3 - 1729 - Near deceptio visus., See also working proof (?) at the British Museum online catalogue, no. 1980,U.861., Description based on imperfect impression; impression lacks plate with docket title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:: Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):: Greece.
Subject (Name):: Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
Subject (Topic):: Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A new deceptio visûs [graphic]

4. The court cards of 1759, or, Hearts is trump & has won the game [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1759]
Call Number:: 759.00.00.03
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Hearts is trump & has won the game and Hearts is trump and has won the game
Description:: Title from item., Plate numbered '90' in upper left corner., and Plate from: A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1758 and 1759.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761, and Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The court cards of 1759, or, Hearts is trump & has won the game [graphic].

5. The Russian cat-arse-trophy, 1758 [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1758]
Call Number:: 758.00.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched above image., Plate numbered '76' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Inscription below image: Mene tekel., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Copy in reverse of No. 3676 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: scales of Justice.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 1709-1762, Adolf Fredrik, King of Sweden, 1710-1771, Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, 1713-1759, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, and Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg, 1728-1793
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Russian cat-arse-trophy, 1758 [graphic].

6. Without from the London Evening Post of Saturday, June 11, 1757. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [17 June 1757]
Call Number:: 757.06.17.01.2+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Without from the London Evening Post of Saturday, June 11, 1757. [graphic]

7. Without from the London Gazette of Saturday, June 11, 1757. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [17 June 1757]
Call Number:: 757.06.17.01.1+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Without from the London Gazette of Saturday, June 11, 1757. [graphic]

8. [The grinders] [graphic].

Published / Created:: pub. according to [the] act 1757.
Call Number:: 757.04.00.07
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on the times in four compartments each showing the figure of Time and a grindstone in relation to current events: the incompetent management of war with France; John Barnard's lottery scheme, in which Henry Legge, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had invested heavily; Henry Fox's "Treachery,Vanity, Folly & Impudence" which Pitt promises to crush; the burden of taxes on all but the friends of the Devil."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Design divided into four compartments, each with its own title and numbered Part 1 to 4., Temporary local subject terms: Grinding stones -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- British Lion -- Personifications: Time -- Frenchmen -- Spaniards., and Mounted to 23 x 38 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [The grinders] [graphic].

9. Oddities 1757 [graphic].

Creator:: Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1757]
Call Number:: 757.04.00.04
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Printmaker from an unverified card catalog record., Plate numbered '1' in upper left corner and '69' in upper right corner., Publisher identified from the address., Another state, with additional plate number, of No. 3576 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: chairmen -- Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Sentry booth -- Containers: tankard -- Signboards: 'Intire Bub Bub' -- Symbols: Chamberlain's key., and Mounted to 21 x 33 cm.
Publisher:: To be had facing Hungerford at the Acorn, Strand
Subject (Name):: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762
Subject (Topic):: Sedan chairs and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Oddities 1757 [graphic].