publish'd according to a late act, Febry. the 18, 1742.
Call Number:
742.02.18.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Robet Walpole's move to the House of Lords: A large room in which Walpole is pushed at swordpoint by the masked figure of Justice towards a group of lords who wait to receive him. He is led by a lion carrying a coronet in its teeth which says, "Follow me Sr. Blew String", and he holds his hand to his head, saying "I go in hopes to save this & trust to ye Hat". On the left, a group of four members of the Commons, wearing jockey caps and boots, surround Lord Pulteney. In the background are two shop stalls, "Deards from St. Dunstans" selling expensive trinkets, and "Dent's Snuff Shop"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From one house to another
Description:
Title engraved below image., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Triumphant V----y too well succeeds, when power, lion-like, to honour leads ..., 'Price 6 pence'--Lower right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the House of Commons -- Reference to the House of Lords -- Members of Parliament -- George II as British Lion -- Coronets: earl's coronet -- Architectural details: tradesmen's stalls -- Shops: tobacco shop, Dent's Snuff -- Toy shop, Deards from St. Dunstan's [Lane] -- Trades: tobacconists -- Toymen -- Containers: tobacco jars -- Justice's sword -- Justice's scale -- Personifications: figure of blindfolded Justice -- Court of Requests., Mounted to 29 x 37 cm., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764
A large, full-face portrait of Sir Robert Walpole yawning violently
Description:
Title engraved below image., Fourteen lines of verse in two columns below title: More he had said, but yawn'd. All nature nods: What mortal can resist the yawn of gods? ... Dunciad., For a similar print. Cf. No. 2607 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
Octor. 11th 1743, publish'd by G. Bickham in May's Buildings
"Satire on Henry Pelham and his allegiance to Robert Walpole, showing after his death him crossing the Styx to encounter Walpole, Wolsey, Judge Jeffreys and Machiavelli."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
His arrival at his country retirement and reception
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top and bottom., and Temporary local subject terms: Hell -- Bills: reference to the Jew Naturalization Bill, 1753.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527, and Jeffreys, George Jeffreys, Baron, 1644 or 5-1689
"Satire on Robert Walpole showing him as a colossal figure at the entrance to St James's Palce bending forward with his naked backside exposed for an ambitious young man to kiss; another man holds a petition and bowls a hoop lettered, "Wealth", "Pride", "Vanity", "Folly", "Luxury", "Want", "Dependance", "Servility", "Venality", "Corruption" and "Prostitution", through Walpole's legs towards an arcade whose arches are labelled, "Saint [James's P]alace", "The Treasury", "The Exchequer" and "The Admiralty"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Way to preferment
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in minor loss of text., Four lines of text below image: And Henry the King made unto himself a great idol ... Chronicle of the Kings, page 51., Bowditch's ms. annotations at bottom of sheet., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
Autographed letter signed from Joseph Farington to John Boydell written from Houghton Hall the seat of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford where he spent three years making drawings of the paintings for Boydell's Collection of prints after the most capital paintings in England (2 vols., 1782). He reports on the progress of his work in general and in particular his work with "the Paul Brills".
Description:
In English. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Boydell, John, 1720-1804., Houghton Hall (England), and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
"The cattle-pens (right) of Smithfield Market are filled with cattle with the faces of peers and draped with ermine-trimmed robes. [The ermine is apparent only in the coloured impression] Thurlow, dressed as a farmer, the owner of the cattle, stands on guard with his back to the pens; he wears his Chancellor's wig and uses the mace as a walking-stick. He clutches a full purse in his right hand and looks fiercely at a smaller number of cattle who are being driven from the left towards the pens. One of these, with the head of Lord Derby, stands on his hind legs, saying, "I move an adjournment till after the next Newmarket Meeting". The cattle in the pens (right) have the heads of peers who were believed favourable to Hastings. In the front row are (left to right) Lord Sydney, the Duke of Grafton, and (between two unidentified peers) Lord Bathurst. An ox with the head of Lord Lansdowne, his horns tipped to prevent mischief, stands (right) outside the pen which he tries to enter, his eyes slyly fixed on Thurlow (cf. BMSat 7311). Others cannot be identified. The Opposition peers include the Duke of Portland (who glares fiercely at Sydney), the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Carlisle, and Lord Stormont. They are being driven by a fierce-looking drover (left); a dog wearing a peer's robe, his collar inscribed 'Mountford', barks at them. On the extreme left Hastings, dressed as a butcher but wearing a turban, riding (right to left) a miserable horse fit only for the knacker (the horse of Hanover), carries off a calf with the profile of George III, its forelegs tied together. He whips his horse ferociously. Behind him is a pawnbroker's shop-window, with three balls and the sign 'Money Lent'. In the middle of the cattle-pens (right) is a bell (that of the Market) on a post, a man (? George Rose) wearing a bag-wig pulls the bell-rope, looking round with a cynical smile. Undifferentiated ministerial cattle at the back of the pens push with their horns at a watchman's box which they are overturning. Three men dressed as watchmen, seated on the roof (which they have climbed to escape the cattle), drop staff, lantern, and rattle and are about to fall off; they are Fox, Burke, and Sheridan. The background is formed by buildings; the pawnshop (left) adjoins a large inn behind the cattle, a house at the corner of 'Smithfield' and 'Cow Lane', which diverges on the right. It is the sign of the Crown; in a balcony over the large gateway which leads to the courtyard sit Dundas (left) and Pitt (right), much at their ease, facing each other in profile, regardless of the turmoil below. They are smoking and have foaming tankards marked with a crown; Dundas is in Highland dress, Pitt is dressed as an English farmer or drover. On the balcony is: 'Good Entertainment for Man and Beast'. Beneath the design is etched: '"Every Man has his Price", Sir Rt Walpole', and '"Sic itur ad astra"'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Two lines of quotation inscribed on either side of title. On the left: "Every man has his price," Sir Robert Walpole. On the right: "Sic itur ad astra.", and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 2d, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
India. and England
Subject (Name):
Smithfield Market., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Montfort, Thomas Bromley, Baron, 1733-1799, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Influence, Bribery, Cattle, Ceremonial objects, City & town life, Clock & watch making, Equipment, Taverns (Inns), Usury, Signs (Notices), Stockyards, and Stores & shops
Amelia, Princess, daughter of George II, King of Great Britain, 1710-1786
Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 14
Image Count:
81
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 125 primarily lighthearted and satirical poems and songs. Most of the entries are on the subject of love, drinking, gossip, and the disappointments of marriage; many include pastoral scenes; and most of the songs make reference to the name of the tune to which they are to be sung. The volume contains: The vicar of Bray, a poem satirizing religious and political events from Charles II to George I; another poem "to the tune of King John" satirizing George I and such political figures as Charles Spencer, Earl Sunderland and James, Lord Stanhope; as well as several satirical songs on the Italian singers Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni, including one sung "to the tune of 'Oh London is a fine town." Other entries include: The bush aboon Tranquair by Robert Crawford; Sung by a fop just come from France; and The Sussex toast, a song
Description:
Incomplete manuscript, pagination begins with p. 9., On penultimate leaf: 1744., On last page, in same hand: Princess Amelia's book., Index at end of manuscript., Pencilled note inside front cover: Not in Prs. Amelia's hand., Binding: full calf; blind-tooled decoration., Princess Amelia (1711-1786), daughter of Georg August (1683-1760), electoral prince of Hanover (after 1727 elector of Hanover and King George II of Great Britain), and his wife, Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683-1737). Her full names were Amelia Sophia Eleonora., and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Amelia, Princess, daughter of George II, King of Great Britain, 1710-1786., Bordoni, Faustina, 1700-1781., Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778., Stanhope, James Stanhope, Earl, 1673-1721, Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1674-1722, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
"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
Plate showing side-by-side floor plans for two levels of Houghton Hall. The image on the left shows a floor plan of the main level of the house; the image on the right shows a floor plan of the attic level of the house
Alternative Title:
Plan du principal etage de Houghton dans Norfolk maison Robert Walpole Esqr. &c. and Plan of the attik story
Description:
Title in English for image on left is etched in lower left above scale bar; title in French for image on left is etched in lower left below scale bar. Title in English for image on right is etched in lower right above scale bar., Title in English for image on left continues: ... Chancellor of Exqr. and First Lord Comr. of his Majesty's Treasury. Erected anno 1723. Design'd by Colen Campbell Esqr. 1723., Date of publication from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Campbell, C. Vitruvius Britannicus or the British architect ... [London] : [publisher not identified], [1767?]., "P. 31, vol. 3d"--Upper left corner., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title for image on left, statements of responsibility, and volume and page numbering. Missing text supplied from a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 11 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Norfolk.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Houghton Hall (England)
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '19' in upper right corner., Twelve lines of verse in rebus below image: W[hen] [fox] l[i]ke [dog]s infest th[e]s poor land ..., and Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer ... London, 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745