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1.
Descrizione della festa popolare della Porchetta fatta nella piazza maggiore di Bologna il giorno

Published / Created:
1730]
Call Number:
Italian Festivals 33
Image Count:
1
Description:
BEIN Italian Festivals 33 : Imperfect: Beinecke copy has plate only, wanting text. Ms. notes in lower right corner, in different inks and hands: "L5.--" and "183".
Publisher:
Clemente Maria Sassi?
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Bologna, and Bologna (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Festivals, Social life and customs, and Horse racing
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Descrizione della festa popolare della Porchetta fatta nella piazza maggiore di Bologna il giorno 24 agosto 1730

2.
[A rake's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 2d

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 June 1735]
Call Number:
Kinnaird 8K(a) Box 205
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionable interior (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popul...
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 2 and Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing, when she most beguiles,) ...
Description:
Title, state and imprint from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Bridgeman, Charles, -1738., Farinelli, 1705-1782., and Figg, James, -1734.
Subject (Topic):
Harpsichords, Horse racing, Gardeners, Boxers, Musicians, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 2d

3.
The macaroni on horseback, or, The contrast [graphic].

Published / Created:
publish'd as the act directs, 1771.
Call Number:
771.00.00.15+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire: a Macaroni races another horse with a figure holding a grooming brush."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Contrast
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Chimney sweeps, Dandies, British, Donkeys, and Horse racing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The macaroni on horseback, or, The contrast [graphic].

4.
The Brentford race for the Middlesex septennial plate [graphic]

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 22d, 1784.
Call Number:
784.04.22.08+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The candidates for Middlesex and their supporters race (right to left) to Brentford. The foremost rider is Wilkes on a horse wearing a royal crown (indicating George III); he holds up the cap of 'Liberty' on its staff. Half a length behind, and neare...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Middlesex (England), and England.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Mainwaring, William, 1735-1821, Byng, George, ca. 1735-1789, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, House, Samuel, -1785, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Politics and government, Elections, Crutches, Donkeys, Hobby horses, Horse racing, Horses, Justice, Liberty cap, Pharmacists, Political elections, Scales, Symbols, and Traffic signs & signals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Brentford race for the Middlesex septennial plate [graphic]

6.
A deep one and a knowing one [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs 25 April 1791.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two racing men in consultation on a race-course, with horses, jockeys, and a post-chaise in the background (left). They lean against a paling in front of the gable-end of a wooden barn or stable. One (left), with short unpowdered hair, wears a high-c...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Fences, Gambling, Horse racing, Race horses, Racetracks, and Stables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A deep one and a knowing one [graphic].

7.
A deep one and a knowing one [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs 25 April 1791.
Call Number:
791.04.25.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two racing men in consultation on a race-course, with horses, jockeys, and a post-chaise in the background (left). They lean against a paling in front of the gable-end of a wooden barn or stable. One (left), with short unpowdered hair, wears a high-c...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Fences, Gambling, Horse racing, Race horses, Racetracks, and Stables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A deep one and a knowing one [graphic].

8.
The sailors race [graphic].

Published / Created:
[25 October 1793]
Call Number:
793.10.25.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three sailors race on horses along a beach as a dog chases them
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Oct. 25, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Horse racing, Sailors, British, and Uniforms
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The sailors race [graphic].

9.
The horse race, or, The pleasures of the course

Published / Created:
[Mar. 3, 1795 - May 1795]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Pleasures of the course
Description:
"Price an half-penny, or 2s. 3d. per 100, 1s. 3d. for 50, 9d. for 25."
Publisher:
Sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) at Bath : By J. Marshall, at the Cheap Repositories, No. 17, Queen-street, Cheap-side, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-yard : R. White, Piccadilly, London; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country. Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers
Subject (Topic):
Horse racing and Race horses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The horse race, or, The pleasures of the course

10.
Ministerial races [graphic].

Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 July 1812]
Call Number:
812.07.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Five horses with human heads, ridden by jockeys, race for the half-open door of the Treasury (left), across a wide cobbled pavement. The Regent and Lady Hertford with Lord Hertford standing behind holding his Lord Chamberlain's wand, stand on the pav...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1st, 1812, for the proprietors of Town talk
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquess of, 1743-1822, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, Marquess, 1760-1842, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Great Britain. Treasury
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, John Bull (Symbolic character), Horse racing, Jockeys, Signs (Notices), and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ministerial races [graphic].

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