Subject (Name): George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760. - Yale University Library Search Results

Creator:: Carey, William Paulet, 1759-1839, printmaker
Published / Created:: [after 18 December 1783]
Call Number:: 783.12.00.02+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Between two large pedestals, the one to the left topped with the head of George II, the one to the right with a sitting figure of George III, the Coalition ministers fall to the ground, their balance upset by a large platform, "New method of executing...
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Pedestals, Angels, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Today disliked, and yet perhaps tomorrow again in favour so fickle is the mind of R-y-l-ty / [graphic]

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Call Number:: LWL Mss Vol. 152
Image Count:: 42
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, in Walpole's hand, containing primarily the beginnings and endings of various sections of the memoirs of political characters and events during the reign of King George II. The focus of the collection, however, is on the drawings and engr...
Alternative Title:: Memoirs of King George II.
Description:: In English.
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Bentley, R. 1708-1782. (Richard),, Campbell, Archibald, 1691-1756., George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Harrington, William Stanhope, Earl of, approximately 1690-1756., Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798., Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768., Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Memoires of the year 1751, [ca. 1754]

Creator:: Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker
Published / Created:: publish'd pursuant to an act of Parliament, 1737.
Call Number:: Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: "A ship, apparently bearing 'Aeneas' (George II) is tossed on a stormy sea. On the shore at right, 'Dido' (the figure of Britannia), points and smiles, above the inscription, "She, while [the] outragious winds [the] deep deform, Smiles on [the] tumult...
Description:: Title engraved above image.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Dido,, Aeneas (Legendary character),, and Neptune (Roman deity),
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Britannia (Symbolic character), Sailing ships, and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Aeneas in a storm [graphic].

Published / Created:: [April 1728]
Call Number:: 728.04.00.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on the popularity of the Beggar's Opera in the form of a medley print. At top left a print shows two oval portraits, Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum on the left and Thomas Walker as Macheath on the right, two short columns of verse beneath. In...
Description:: Title from text engraved above image.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Gay, John, 1685-1732, Gay, John, 1685-1732., Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760, Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744, Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726, Bordoni, Faustina, 1697-1781., Amhurst, N. 1697-1742. (Nicholas),, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Heraclitus, of Ephesus., Democritus, approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 370 B.C., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
Subject (Topic):: Social life and customs, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc, Pegasus (Greek mythology), Apollo, Muses (Greek deities), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Prints, Prisons, and Theaters
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The stage medley representing the polite tast [sic] of the Town & the matchless merits of Poet G- Polly Peachum and Captn. Macheath. [graphic]

Creator:: Schenk, Petrus, 1693-1775, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1721]
Call Number:: 721.04.26.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: P. Schenk?
Subject (Name):: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737., William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765., and Suffolk, Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of, 1688?-1767.
Subject (Topic):: Canopy beds, Thrones, Clergy, Servants, and Rugs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Het kraam-bed van de Princes van Wallis, die op den 26 April 1721 des avonds ten 7 uren gelukkig bevallen is van een Prins, die na enige tyt gedoopt is met de naam William Augustus Princeps Walliae filium enixa 26 die Apr. 1721 cui nomen in baptismo inditum Gulielmi Aug. / [graphic] =

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