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1. Smithfield sharpers hocussing the countryman [graphic].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 68. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image., In the manner of Rowlandson, and likely engraved after one of his drawings., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], and On leaf 68 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):: Interiors, Gambling, Intoxication, Sleeping, Tables, Bottles, Drinking vessels, and Dogs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Smithfield sharpers hocussing the countryman [graphic].

2. Banditti [graphic]

Creator:: Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:: Dec. 22, 1783. and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 24. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The Coalition ministers are gathered around the table placed in the mouth of a cave. On the left sits Lord North wearing armor under his cloak, a goblet in his left hand. Opposite him on the right is Charles Fox, dressed as a centurion and sitting on a fox. He leans on the table keeping his right hand on three dice signed, "Madras," "Bombay," and "Bengal," and clutching a dice box in his left. Behind him Admiral Keppel, the date of the battle of Ushant (1778) on his helmet, raises his goblet in a toast. Behind him Sheridan, with ass's ears and "School for Scandal" written across his head cover, watches the Duke of Portland count out money to Lord Carlisle. On Portland's shoulder leans Lord Cavendish in a centurion's armor under his cloak. Between him and North sits Burke in a Jesuit's outfit reading his own "Plan of oeconomy [sic]." Under the table lie the corpses of Lords Shelburne and Ashburton, ousted by the Coalition
Description:: Title from text in image., Plate signed I.B. (that is John Boyne) in lower right corner of image., Restrike, with imprint mostly burnished from upper left corner of plate. For original issue, see no. 6281 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], and On leaf 24 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Published by E. Hedges No. 92 Cornhill and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Costumes, Drinking vessels, Gambling, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Banditti [graphic]

3. "Crumbs of comfort", or, Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 9. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The Devil stands at the center of a mountain top with outstretched wings, dressed in lawyers wig and bands, but with horns on his head and feet with claws. On the left Fox kneels, eagerly receiving from Satan a dice box and dice, an allusion to his notorious gambling habit, while on the right Burke receives a scourge and rosary, a reference to his supposed Catholicism. A satire on the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment
Alternative Title:: Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children
Description:: Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue published ca. August 1782, see no. 6027 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 41., and On leaf 9 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):: Devil, Gambling, Catholicism, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > "Crumbs of comfort", or, Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children [graphic]

4. Gambling in the mines

Published / Created:: [between 1850 and 1859?]
Call Number:: WA Prints 393 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Two scenes of gambling at cards, arranged vertically. In the top scene, labeled "Monte," a group of miners sits around a table while one man deals to another, with many other miners milling in the background. In the bottom scene, labeled "Faro," two gentlemen in top hats sit at a table with several miners, some looking forlorn, while other miners stand around watching
Alternative Title:: Gambling in the mines : monte, faro
Description:: Title from caption at top of sheet.
Publisher:: Lith & published by Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):: California
Subject (Topic):: Gambling, Card games, Cardsharping, and Gold miners
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gambling in the mines

5. Gambling in the mines

Published / Created:: [between 1850 and 1859?]
Call Number:: WA Prints 393 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Two scenes of gambling at cards, arranged vertically. In the top scene, labeled "Monte," a group of miners sits around a table while one man deals to another, with many other miners milling in the background. In the bottom scene, labeled "Faro," two gentlemen in top hats sit at a table with several miners, some looking forlorn, while other miners stand around watching
Alternative Title:: Gambling in the mines : monte, faro
Description:: Title from caption at top of sheet.
Publisher:: Lith & published by Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):: California
Subject (Topic):: Gambling, Card games, Cardsharping, and Gold miners
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gambling in the mines

6. Gloria mundi, or, The Devil addressing the sun [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1849?]
Call Number:: 782.07.22.01.3+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Charles James Fox, with the feet and tail of a fox, his empty pockets turned out, and with cow horns protruding through his hat, stands on an E.O. (gaming) table placed on the North Pole. Quoting Satan's speech from Paradise Lost, he looks to the upper right where the sun is depicted as Lord Shelburne. Refers to Fox's gambling habit and his July 1782 resignation after Shelburne's appointment as First Lord of the Treasury
Alternative Title:: Devil addressing the sun
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher and date of publication from those of the volume in which the plate was issued., Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Plate from: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn by C. Whiting, [1849?]., For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 6012 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Printed on verso, an uncolored impression of: The V- Committee framing a report. [London] : Pubd. according to act of Parliament, Augt. 12th, 1782 by C. Atkinson, and sold in Mark Lane!!! Numbered in upper right corner of image: 10.
Publisher:: Pubd. July 22d by W. Humphrey [i.e. H.G. Bohn]
Subject (Geographic):: England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):: Gambling, Foxes, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Gloria mundi, or, The Devil addressing the sun [graphic].

7. The betting crib the betting boy's introduction to a gentleman of the turf, who volunteers to give his most invaluable advice. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [1848?]
Call Number:: 848.00.00.16
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A room with filled with men smoking and drinking and placing bets. On the wall in the background is a poster "Epson Races".
Description:: Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text preceding title: Plate 3., One of at least eight prints in an unidentified series., and Hand-drawn ink lines added along bottom of design.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Bookmakers (Gambling) and Gambling
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The betting crib the betting boy's introduction to a gentleman of the turf, who volunteers to give his most invaluable advice. [graphic]

8. Fores's racing envelope [graphic].

Creator:: Leech, John, 1817-1864, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1840]
Call Number:: 841.00.00.29
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Number five in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's musical envelope, Fores's alderman envelopes, Fores's hunting envelopes, etc
Description:: Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue., Title from text above image., and "No. 5".
Publisher:: Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):: Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):: Gambling, Horse racing, Postal stationery, Race horses, and Race tracks
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Fores's racing envelope [graphic].

9. The perpetual almanack, or, Gentleman soldier's prayer book : shewing how one Richard Middleton was taken before the Mayor of the City he was in, for using cards in church during Divine Service : being a droll, merry, and humurous account of an odd affair that happened to a private soldier, in the 60th Regiment of Foot

Published / Created:: [1837 or 1838]
Call Number:: File 68 837 P453+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text
Alternative Title:: Gentleman soldier's prayer book
Description:: Caption title., Printed in two columns with a woodcut at the head of each column, and playing cards surrounding text., Text begins: The serjeant commanded his party to the church, and when the parson had ended his prayer, he took his text; and all of them that had a Bible pulled it out to find the text, but this soldier had neither Bible, almanack, nor common prayer book, but he put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a pack of cards, and spread them before him as he sat, and while the parson was preaching he first kept looking at one card and then at another., Undated; James Catnach was active at this address from 1813 until his retirement in 1838; see Hindley, C. The history of the Catnach Press ..., 1886. Queen Victoria is mentioned in the text: "And also of Queen Victoria, to pray for her.", so the printing date must be after her accession in 1837., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: J. Catnach, printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Middleton, Richard, Private in the 66th Regiment of Foot.
Subject (Topic):: Gambling, Prayer, Christianity, Soldiers, Religious life, Almanacs, Playing cards, Religious services, Soliders, and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The perpetual almanack, or, Gentleman soldier's prayer book : shewing how one Richard Middleton was taken before the Mayor of the City he was in, for using cards in church during Divine Service : being a droll, merry, and humurous account of an odd affair that happened to a private soldier, in the 60th Regiment of Foot