Subject (Name): George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 / Subject (Topic): Dining tables

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1. Grace before meat, or, A peep at Lord Peter's [graphic].

Published / Created:: [approximately November 1778]
Call Number:: 778.11.05.04.2+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: George III at table with the queen and seated between Lord and Lady Petre with nine other persons while a tall monk stands on the left saying grace. A crucifix and picture of a saint on the wall mark this as an anti-Catholic satire occasioned by the King's visit to Lord Petre in October of 1778 after the passing of the Catholic Relief Act
Alternative Title:: Peep at Lord Peter's
Description:: Title etched below image., Date from British Museum catalogue., and Also attributed to Gillray.
Publisher:: Sold by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Petre, Robert Edward Petre, Baron, 1742-1801
Subject (Topic):: Anti-Catholicism, Prayer, Monks, Dining tables, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Grace before meat, or, A peep at Lord Peter's [graphic].

2. Grace before meat, or, A peep at Lord Peter's [graphic].

Published / Created:: [approximately November 1778]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: George III at table with the queen and seated between Lord and Lady Petre with nine other persons while a tall monk stands on the left saying grace. A crucifix and picture of a saint on the wall mark this as an anti-Catholic satire occasioned by the King's visit to Lord Petre in October of 1778 after the passing of the Catholic Relief Act
Alternative Title:: Peep at Lord Peter's
Description:: Title etched below image., Date from British Museum catalogue., Also attributed to Gillray., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.2 x 37.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Mounted on leaf 3 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:: Sold by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Petre, Robert Edward Petre, Baron, 1742-1801
Subject (Topic):: Anti-Catholicism, Prayer, Monks, Dining tables, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Grace before meat, or, A peep at Lord Peter's [graphic].

3. Is this, your louse [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:: [1787]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The King, Queen, and three princesses are seated at a small dinner-table, on which is a soup-tureen, &c. The King holds a plate on which is an insect, turning round to address angrily a cook (right), who stands trembling beside him. Two alarmed servants stand behind the King's chair. The Queen and princesses make gestures of alarm; one princess (left) has risen from her chair in horror. On the extreme left stands a beefeater holding a jug, who lets glasses fall from a salver in his consternation. A draped window forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image; source of the title "Lousiad canto 1st" as indicated., Printmaker from Grego., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left sides., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. The Lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto I. London, G. Kearsley, 1787., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 18.9 x 25 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., and Mounted on leaf 71 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Subject (Topic):: Princesses, Cooks, Dining rooms, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Interiors, and Servants
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Is this, your louse [graphic].

4. Is this, your louse [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:: [1787]
Call Number:: 787.00.00.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The King, Queen, and three princesses are seated at a small dinner-table, on which is a soup-tureen, &c. The King holds a plate on which is an insect, turning round to address angrily a cook (right), who stands trembling beside him. Two alarmed servants stand behind the King's chair. The Queen and princesses make gestures of alarm; one princess (left) has risen from her chair in horror. On the extreme left stands a beefeater holding a jug, who lets glasses fall from a salver in his consternation. A draped window forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image; source of the title "Lousiad canto 1st" as indicated., Printmaker from Grego., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left sides., and Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. The Lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto I. London, G. Kearsley, 1787.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Subject (Topic):: Princesses, Cooks, Dining rooms, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Interiors, and Servants
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Is this, your louse [graphic].

5. Richard coeur de diable!! [graphic].

Published / Created:: [October 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: British caricature showing bishop and other men around table toasting to looking out for themselves, regardless of justice. The Prince Regent? of England arises saying, "By holy Paul--shadows to night have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, than can the substance of ten thousand foes, arm'd all in proof and led by Caroline!!!" and "Caricature on George IV who starts awake with a vision of his parents admonishing him, while at the side politicians plot his downfall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 102 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Londondery [sic]," "Canning," "Wellington," "Eldon," "Liverpool," "Sidmouth," "Geo. III," "Pss. Charlotte," and "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image; date "Oct. 1820" written beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:: Published October 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
Subject (Topic):: Corruption, Politics & government, Politicians, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Toasting, and Beds
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Richard coeur de diable!! [graphic].