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10. Locusts [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1748]
- Call Number:
- 748.00.00.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of eight locusts is gathered in the foreground; each is numbered and identified in the key below image. A long procession of other locusts in the background is walking on Whitehall by the Banqueting House to Holbein's Gate, while a swarm of more locusts descends on the Banqueting House. Some of them landed on the trees leaving them denuded
- Description:
- Title from item., Text below title: And [the] Locusts rested in all [the] Coasts of Egypt ..., Key below image, in four columns: 1. Found at St. James's; 2. found in Staffordshire; 3. found in Bloomsbury; 4. found in Lincolns Innfields; 5. the fellon to the fourth; 6. a female locust found at Yarmouth; 7. found near Huntingon; 8. found in Worcestershire., and Watermarks: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Whitehall (London, England), Banqueting House (London, England), and Holbein's Gate (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Locusts [graphic].
11. Modern characters [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliament, June 5th 1746.
- Call Number:
- 746.06.05.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A broadside satirising seven politicians; with an etching showing a garden with seven statues on plinths in a semi-circle, depicting from left to right Lord Bolingbroke, the Earl of Orford (Sir Robert Walpole), Earl Cholmondeley, the Earl of Bath (William Pulteney), the Earl of Stair, William Pitt (the Elder, Earl of Chatham), and Henry Pelham; with engraved title and inscriptions, and letterpress title and text in three columns."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Collection of modern statues and caracters [sic]
- Description:
- Caption title in letterpress below image., Sheet trimmed within etching's plate mark on sides and top resulting in loss of caption title., and Mounted to 40 x 31 cm., mounted again to 42 x 34 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and England
- Subject (Name):
- Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1703-1770, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Stair, John Dalrymple, Earl of, 1673-1747, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians and Broadsides
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Modern characters [graphic].
12. The conduct of the two b*****rs [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1749]
- Call Number:
- 749.01.18.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Conduct of the two brothers
- Description:
- Title from item., The 'u' in 'conduct' etched backwards., Publisher tentatively attributed to Bickham in an unverified card catalog record., Publication place and date inferred from British Museum catalogue., Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: O England, how revolving is thy state! How few thy blessings! How severe thy fate ..., Temporary local subject terms: Britannia (Symbolic character) as St. Erasmus -- Martyrdom of St. Erasmus -- Dissections -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover -- Baron Ilton., and Watermark: countermark IV.
- Publisher:
- G. Bickham?
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The conduct of the two b*****rs [graphic].
