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19. The celebrated Clark, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop [graphic].

Published / Created:: [22 April 1809]
Call Number:: 809.04.22.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Mrs. Clarke auctions commissions from a rostrum to a crowd of bidders, while the Duke of York acts as her clerk. All are unconscious of a net in which they are enclosed, and with which the Devil flies off into flames (right). Mrs. Clarke (right), in profile to the left, with raised hammer, holds out a paper headed Commission. She says: Going for no more than £500 a Commission Positively worth 5000. An officer, probably Dowler, see British Museum satires no. 11253, holds out his arms towards her, saying, my dear dear dear Angel Knock it down to me or I am ruin'd. Another says: Let the good Bishop [the Duke, see British Museum satires no. 11227] have the Game & we my Boy will have the Cream. The other applicants are in civilian dress; one says to the bidder: my dear fellow dont be so anxious for depend upon it these tricks will be Found out & all will be Lost. The Duke of York, in uniform, records the bids in a book, his pen resting on the figure 500. He says Thus am I content to record & ratify the Destruction of the Army, my Country & myself, rather than loose my dear DARLING to [cf. British Museum satires no. 11228]. The Devil looks over his shoulder at Mrs. Clarke to say with a baleful grin: Going, Going Gon you may now say, for I have You tight enough my dear Honey."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Four lines verse below title: Who for the tricks he has done in the dark, is content to be his darling Clark's clerk. And to cure her from being more love sick, has given her a royal dukes bishopric., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top., and Mounted on linen and formerly sewn in an album, with only the holes remaining on the left edge. Also numbered in pencil on verso: PM-02-17-Hi. HE $800.
Publisher:: Pubd. 22nd April 1809 by J.H. Warl, London
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):: Political corruption, History, Sex, Political aspects, Corruption, Military officers, British, Auctions, Nets, and Devil
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The celebrated Clark, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop [graphic].

20. The last annuity paid, or, A salutary trip to the south of France [graphic]

Published / Created:: [2 November 1778]
Call Number:: 778.11.02.02+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A portly bewigged gentleman with banknotes under his arm, appears to be hurriedly leaving his house, which has been sold. On the far left stands a man holding the keys, while a black servant in livery appears to be pleading for his freedom to a man holding a whip. On the right a porter in a pigtail queue is packing. On the floor are rolls of paper marked annuities, and a sheet inscribed "James Sellaway, Broker." The portraits of ancestors have on them slips with lot numbers
Alternative Title:: Salutary trip to the south of France
Description:: Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Published as the Act directs Novr. 2d. 1778 by Mr. Campione, Printseller Oxford
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Auctions, Auctioneers, Blacks, Servants, Interiors, Clothing & dress, and Wigs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The last annuity paid, or, A salutary trip to the south of France [graphic]

21. The sale at Strawberry Hill [graphic]

Creator:: Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866
Published / Created:: [1842]
Call Number:: SH Views F171 no. 1 Box 105
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A view of the interior of the structure built for the sale of the contents of Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex in 1842, with the audience seated on benches in rows facing the auctioneer who stands on a rise behind a podium
Description:: Title etched below image. and Not in B. Gascoigne's Images of Twickenham.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Auctions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The sale at Strawberry Hill [graphic]

22. The state auction [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [26 March] 1784.
Call Number:: 784.03.26.01.2+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: William Pitt, acting as an auctioneer in the dissoluted Parliament, sells from the rostrum decorated with Royal Arms "useless valuables," such as "Magna Charta." Corwall, the Speaker sitting below the rostrum, records bids in the "Sundry acts." In front of him stands Thurlow in Chancellor's robes making dismissive comment on "nonsensical bidings of those common fellows," i.e. members of the House of Commons who leave through the door on the left. Last of them, Fox, turns back vowing to bid "with spirit" for lot 1, "rights of the people in 558 vol." held on display by Henry Dundas. A reference to the dissolution of the Parliament by the King on March 25.
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue for the History of the Westminster election, 1784, p. 48. See British Museum Catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of imprint., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 26th by W. Humphrey No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):: Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789., and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811.
Subject (Topic):: Great Britain, Politics and government, Political elections, Auctions, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The state auction [graphic].

23. The state auction [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [26 March] 1784.
Call Number:: 784.03.26.01.1+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: William Pitt, acting as an auctioneer in the dissoluted Parliament, sells from the rostrum decorated with Royal Arms "useless valuables," such as "Magna Charta." Cornwall, the Speaker sitting below the rostrum, records bids in the "Sundry acts." In front of him stands Thurlow in Chancellor's robes making dismissive comment on "nonsensical bidings of those common fellows," i.e. members of the House of Commons who leave through the door on the left. Last of them, Fox, turns back vowing to bid "with spirit" for lot 1, "rights of the people in 558 vol." held on display by Henry Dundas. A reference to the dissolution of the Parliament by the King on March 25.
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 26th by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):: Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
Subject (Topic):: Great Britain, Politics and government, Political elections, Auctions, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The state auction [graphic].

24. To be sold to the best bidder [graphic]

Creator:: Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:: March 15th 1773.
Call Number:: 773.03.15.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Series numbers in upper left and right corner of plate, respectively: V.2 5., Eight lines of text below title: All the valuable goods and effects of a savoir-vivre bankrupt consisting of a collection of very scarce books (not to be met with in any of the public libraries) ..., Another state, with volume and plate number added. Cf. No. 5171 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Bankruptcy.
Publisher:: Pub accorg. to act, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):: Langford, Mr. 1711-1774 (Abraham),
Subject (Topic):: Auctioneers and Auctions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > To be sold to the best bidder [graphic]

25. [Interior of the building for the sale] [art original]

Creator:: Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer), artist
Published / Created:: [ca. 1842]
Call Number:: Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
Collection Title:: Volume 1, page 127. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Interior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842. Several dozen men in top hats and some women sit or stand around a long table on the left; the auctioneer George Robins sits on a platform on the right, holding a gavel
Description:: Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower left corner of image., and Bound in as page 127 in volume 1 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Subject (Name):: Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Interiors, Auctions, and Auctioneers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Interior of the building for the sale] [art original]

26. [Outside of the building for the sale] [art original]

Creator:: Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer), artist
Published / Created:: [ca. 1842]
Call Number:: Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
Collection Title:: Volume 1, page 126. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Exterior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842, with part of Horace Walpole's Gothic villa visible on the left
Description:: Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower left portion of image., and Bound in as page 126 in volume 1 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Buildings and Auctions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Outside of the building for the sale] [art original]