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1. Cheyt-Syngs, ghost [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [9 March 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.03.09.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Hastings (right) shrinks in terror at the apparition of Chait Singh (left) who emerges from clouds, a rope round his neck, his left hand raised threateningly. His turban is inscribed 'Cheyt Sing.' They stand on opposite sides of a rectangular table covered with a fringed cloth, behind which sits a lady reading a book which lies on the table: 'The State of India'. Her dress and large feathered hat are heavily decked with jewels. Hastings, who wears oriental dress with a jewelled turban, has overturned his chair; on its back are the initials 'W H.' Two Indian servants (right) stand behind Hastings. In the centre of the wall, behind the lady, are shelves on which are money-bags, some inscribed 'Rupees' and 'Pagod[as]', jewels, and a large turban inscribed 'Cheyt Syng.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Chait Singh
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Variant state of no. 7315 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires v. 6. The 'y' in May is partly visible under 'r' engraved over it., and Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins.
- Publisher:
- Pub'd Mar. 9 1788 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- India and India.
- Subject (Name):
- Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Chait, Singh, rajah of Benares, fl. 1775-1781, and Nandakumara, Mahārāja, -1775
- Subject (Topic):
- Impeachment, Politics and government, Ghosts, Gems, Jewelry, Servants, Tablecloths, Turbans, Men, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cheyt-Syngs, ghost [graphic].
2. The Lennox jewel in the Tribune, Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mason, Walter George, 1820-1866, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1842]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents M398 no. 2 Box 110
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections and Gems
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Lennox jewel in the Tribune, Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
3. The Queen of Hearts cover'd with diamonds [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.00.00.85
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6979. A bust portrait of Queen Charlotte, directed to the left, taking a pinch of snuff. She wears a jewelled oriental turban; her hair is studded with jewels, and jewels cover her neck and ornament her dress. A large ear-ring is conspicuous. In the upper left corner of the print, under the words 'The Pun', is a large heart-shaped jewel surmounted with a crown; it stands, embedded in diamonds, in a box inscribed 'Bulse'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: Cheyt Sing in his Eastern dress., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
- Subject (Topic):
- Queens, Snuff, Turbans, Gems, Jewelry, and Crowns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Queen of Hearts cover'd with diamonds [graphic].
4. The chance seller of the Exchequer putting an extinguisher on lotteries [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [18 September 1823] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 30. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Robinson, wearing his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, leans forward from the right to place an extinguisher on the head of Fortune who sits in profile to the left, on a small globe, regardless of her fate. He says: Come Madam put on your Night Cap. She is a comely young woman with feathered wings, and a high-waisted dress with classical sandals. Her Wheel of Fortune serves as back to her seat. She holds out a Ticket £20 000 to an eager and indignant crowd; in her left hand is a full purse. At her feet is a box of jewels, behind her a cornucopia from which pour gold coins, with a bag of Filings. At her feet four little blue-coat boys from Christ's Hospital kneel imploringly. Behind them are a brawny washer-woman and a gaily dressed young woman. The former points to tub, Soap, linen, and brush at her feet, and shouts to Robinson: Let her alone take off the Soap Tax. The latter screams Stop let Me get a Prize first. A burly bare-legged cobbler holds up an old shoe, shouting, give us a Lottery and no Leather Tax. A man next him shouts Shut up the Subscription Houses [clubs such as Brooks's]. The two on the extreme left shout No Tax on Tallow and No Horse Racing. A hideous man grovels on the ground behind Robinson to grab coins and two bags, Filings and Gold Dust, and a Prize Bag. He looks up, saying, Persevere and the Saints shall Praise you. Three men stand behind Robinson, watching; two say, with cynical smiles: Hear Hear I knew they'd Grumble and He's only a Young Chancsellor. The third says with a frown: Little Van knew [better] than to Abolish a Voluntary Tax. On Fortune's right is a pillar on which bills are pasted: Races Kings Cup, over which is a playbill: Fudge a Farce; above both is Reform . . . Parliament . . . Public Morals."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 14525 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 374-5., and On leaf 30 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Publd. September 18, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- Ripon, Frederick John Robinson, Earl of, 1782-1859
- Subject (Topic):
- Fire extinguishers, Gems, Coins, Purses, Cornucopias, Children, Wash tubs, Soaps, Brooms & brushes, Shoemakers, Lotteries, and Taxes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The chance seller of the Exchequer putting an extinguisher on lotteries [graphic].
5. The knave of diamonds [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.00.00.84
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A bust portrait of a man wearing a turban covered in jewels, carrying a bulse. On the wall behind is a plan of the Battle of Hastings. In 1786 Warren Hastings forwarded a giant diamond from the Nizam of the Deccan as gift for George III, which was reported as a bribe from Hastings by his enemies
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For possibly related prints, see no. 6966 and no. 6978 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Nizām ʻAlī Khān, Nizam of Hyderabad, 1734-1803. and Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818.
- Subject (Topic):
- Turbans, Gems, and Maps
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The knave of diamonds [graphic].
