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1. A comfortable thing to be king of Greece [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [6 March 1830]
Call Number:: 830.03.06.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Prince Leopold sits enthroned, flanked by his new subjects; he wears uniform with a crown, and sits on a two-tiered circular dais in a chair of state, the seat of which is covered with giant thorns. Punctured and frightened, he grasps the arms of his chair with crisped fingers; his toes are drawn back, touching the ground, and he looks towards a savage-looking Greek (right) who kneels before him with a long knife held behind his back. A similar ruffian kneels on the left; others approach menacingly from the left, one smoking a long pipe and grasping a knife. They wear Greek costume with embroidered jackets and full white breeches. On the right are long-robed ecclesiastics, headed by a bearded patriarch with a cross in one hand, a knife in the other."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Pub. March 6, 1830 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):: Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865
Subject (Topic):: Greeks, Ethnic stereotypes, Thrones, Crowns, Thorns, Knives, Pipes (Smoking), and Clergy
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A comfortable thing to be king of Greece [graphic]

2. A funiral [sic] ticket for Lord Lovet [graphic].

Published / Created:: accordg. to act of Parlt., March 19, 1747.
Call Number:: 747.03.19.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A satire on King Louis XV of France accusing him of treachery showing him sitting on a throne under a canopy, his crown is held over his head by Pride on his left, a peacock in front of her, and two-faced Treachery on his right, behind whom the devil flies waving a firebrand and a Jesuit stands holding up a candle and scroll lettered “Persecution”. The king wears a black mask and the costume of a Roman general, a cloth adorned with fleur-de-lis round his legs and his sandaled feet rest on two books lettered “T[reatie]s”, a paper with the same lettering lies beside these and an open book. An obsequious courtier, a chain round his ankle attached to a book, kneels at the king’s feet as the king hands him a yoke. On the king’s other side another elegant courtier, his ankle chained to a log, exclaims “Oh! Wh(a)t a great Monarch”, a scene of “The [St Bartholomew's Day] massacre of Paris” hangs on the curtain behind the king. To the left of the canopy is an obelisk bearing the image of a weeping “Europa” with her bull and above this a medallion of the “Cat & monkey”. Around the obelisk are a Spaniard holding a rosary and kneeling in prayer before a statue, a Genoese man and a Bavarian (identified in the verses below); at their feet are the words “Here we stand for ye Glory of France”. In the sky above the Eye of Providence looks down on a pair of scales in which the British lion outweighs the French fleur-de-lis. On the right demon is about to hang Justice as a Cardinal (Tencin?) holds up a cross; beside this a man wearing a wig wooden shoes sits astride a braying donkey waves his hat and cries “Vive le Roy”. At the bottom are three scenes: [at left] three men “Burning of Treaties” and the “Pr[agmati]c S[anctio]n”; ... ; [at right] scenes of executions, torture, a village burning and a monk leading a band of troops while another holding up a cross says “one K[in]g one R[e]l[igio]n”). "--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition
Alternative Title:: Funiral ticket for Lord Lovet and Funeral ticket for Lord Lovat
Description:: Title from item., Publisher identified from address., 'Price 6d.'--Following imprint., An earlier state of the plate was used by D. Fournier on Feb. 14, 1747 to illustrate a broadside entitled "The glory of France"; see no. 2849 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3. In addition to the added title and altered imprint statement, this later state also differs in the replacement the previous image of a custom house and ships in the bottom center with a new image of Simon Lord Lovat in a chair, with women to the left of him and severed heads to the right., Temporary local subject terms: France: Louis XV masked and dressed as a Roman -- Burning of treaties -- Literature: Jean de la Fontaine, Fables, ii, 143: The monkey and the cat -- Hand of Justice -- Personifications: Persecution -- Pride as a peacock -- Winged Death -- Two-faced Deceipt -- Europa -- Pictures amplifying subject: massacre of Paris -- Beheaded heads -- Eye of Providence -- Torch-bearing demon -- Animals: ass -- Yoke -- Whip -- Torture rack -- Reference to Leaden Hall -- Reference to Westminster Hall -- Wooden shoes -- Emblems: lion -- Balance -- French crown -- Tickets: invitation to an execution., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
Publisher:: Publish'd in May's Buildings
Subject (Name):: Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667?-1747, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, and Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774
Subject (Topic):: Jacobites, Treaties, Justice, Priests, Decapitations, Crowns, Monuments & memorials, Thrones, Scales, Gallows, and Demons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A funiral [sic] ticket for Lord Lovet [graphic].

3. A kick at the broad-bottoms!, i.e., Emancipation of all the talents [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [23 March 1807]
Call Number:: 807.03.23.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: George III stands before his throne, face hidden behind a pillar, his sceptre raised over head ready to strike Grenville as his kicks him. Other members of the ministry flee in confusion and terror, some rubbing their posteriors to show that they too have been kicked. A label floats from the King: What! What! bring in the Papists! O you cunning Jesuits you! What you thought I was like little Boney & would turn Turk or anything? ... Grenville has lost hold of a scroll on which can be read: Catholic Bill for bringing the Papists into power & supporting the Broad bottom Jesuits in their places for securing the Papists in commanding of the Army & Navy & all the Public offices ...
Alternative Title:: Emancipation of all the talents
Description:: Title from item. and Text following title: Vide the fate of yr Catholic Bill.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 23 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):: Anti-Catholicism, Catholic emancipation, Politics and government, Fools & jesters, and Thrones
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A kick at the broad-bottoms!, i.e., Emancipation of all the talents [graphic].

4. A kick up in a great house [graphic].

Creator:: Elmes, William, active 1797-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:: [August 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 40. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "King, Archbishop, Ministers, &c., and Green Bag are overturned or put to flight by the Queen mounted on a savage bull (J.B.). An 'Italian' dagger, a 'horse Leech', &c., &c., fall from the Bag."--British Museum catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to Elmes in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 40 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:: Pubd. Augt. 1820 by Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Leach, John, 1760-1834
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Bishops, Bulls, Bags, Worms, Thrones, Crowns, Scepters, and Daggers & swords
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A kick up in a great house [graphic].

5. A scene in the new farce as performed at the Royalty Theatre! / [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [14 February 1821]
Call Number:: Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 33. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "George IV, dressed as Henry VIII and with cavalry boots decorated with rosettes, sits on the throne (right), shrinking angrily from oxen wearing civic gowns who bow, presenting petitions. All the horns of the oxen are tipped with tiny caps resembling caps of Liberty; a slightly larger pair protects the prongs of a fork held up on the extreme left above the massed heads of the beasts. On this a placard is speared: 'Petitions from every Part of the World--(Hole's and Corner's excepted) to Dismiss the Ministers-- signed by upwards of 999,999--Millions of the Brute Creation.' The petitions of the four beasts in the front row are headed: 'Petition of Lord Mayor & Citizens of London to Dismiss Ministers'; 'Petitions from every part of England & Wales to Dismiss Ministers &c &c &c'; '. . . ions from every Part of Scotland to Dismiss Ministers &c &c &c'; 'Petitions from every part of Ireland . . . [ut supra]'. Hooves rise from cattle behind holding more petitions: 'from Europe'; 'From Asia'; 'from Africa'; 'from America'; 'from every Honest Man'. The canopied throne is raised on a dais of three steps, the footstool is a cushion supported on a (carved) elephant; but the King's feet are drawn back. His right hand is on his hip; he holds an oddly shaped sceptre in the left hand. The back of the throne is framed by carved mannikins with shackled hands and feet; a large crown rests on the heads of the two uppermost. The back of the canopy has a pattern of writhing serpents. Ministers, much caricatured, stand on the right and left of the dais. In the foreground (right) and on the King's left, Wellington, with the apron and steel of a butcher (as in British Museum Satires No. 13288), with gauntlet gloves and with a star on his tunic, holds a blood-stained battle-axe. Sidmouth, as Court-fool, sits in profile to the left on an apothecary's mortar, wearing a double-peaked fool's cap and a star, and holding a bladder which is his clyster-pipe. Behind is Eldon, scowling savagely and holding the mace and the Purse of the Great Seal. A bishop holding a crosier stands on either side of the throne, behind the Ministers. A staff supports an emblematical cask which a naked Bacchus bestrides. On the King's right is Liverpool, holding a tall staff to which a green bag is tied (see British Museum Satires No. 13735). Next him is Castlereagh, blandly sinister, holding a scourge, and with a bunch of keys hanging from his belt; he stares at the petitioners. A tiny Vansittart is beside him, in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, with an 'X' on his breast above a chequered pattern, hung diamond-wise. Immensely fat and absurd beefeaters stand along the back of the room under quasi-Gothic windows of stained glass. All hold tridents and turn their eyes towards the petitioners, grinning grotesquely. Each window is centred by an escutcheon on which a decanter is the chief object. The upper part of each is filled by a design of three large peacock's feathers (see British Museum Satires No. 13299). The Gothic roof, caricaturing that at Carlton House (cf. British Museum Satires No. 11727), is filled with tracery in the form of antlers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched above image., Text below image: Historical fact, King Henry VIII, being petitioned to dismiss his ministers & council, by the citizens of London & many boroughs, to releive [sic] his oppressed subjects, made the citizens this sagacious reply: "We, with all our cabinet, think it strange that ye, who be but brutes, & inexpert folk, shd. tell us who be & who be not fit for our council." Vide La Belle Assemblée for October 1820, p. 151., and Mounted on page 33 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, Feby. 14, 1821, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547., and Dionysus (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Boots, Thrones, Oxen, Bowing, Petitions, Liberty cap, Pitchforks, Podiums, Crowns, Scepters, Butchers, Fools & jesters, Mortars & pestles, Medical equipment & supplies, Ceremonial maces, Bishops, Bags, Whips, Honor guards, and Windows
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A scene in the new farce as performed at the Royalty Theatre! / [graphic]

6. A total eclipse [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1830?]
Call Number:: 830.00.00.10+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., On same sheet, recto: The new pony chaise., and Watermark: Smith & Allnutt 1829.
Publisher:: Published by O. Hodgson, 10 Cloth Fair and Dean & Munday Lithographers, Threadneedle St.
Subject (Name):: William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):: Thrones
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A total eclipse [graphic].

7. A view of the House of Peers the King sitting on the throne, the Commons attending him / [graphic]

Creator:: Lodge, John, -1796, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1769]
Call Number:: 769.01.00.04
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An interior view of the House of Peers, looking towards the King's seat, where he sits in state with officials holding swords and maces around him, peers sitting in benches lining the walls, which are decorated with crests and ships, others in a block in the centre, one standing in the centre foreground with his back to the viewer, holding a scroll in his right hand, and several standing conversing to either side. The throne is shown with a backdrop of a tapestry
Description:: Title etched below image., In upper right corner above image: Gent. Mag. Jany. 1769., and Plate from: The gentleman's magazine, or, Monthly intelligencer / by Sylvanus Urban. London : Edw. Cave, 1769, v. 39.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and Westminster Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Interiors, Thrones, and Legislative bodies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A view of the House of Peers the King sitting on the throne, the Commons attending him / [graphic]

8. A warm birth for the old administration [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 April 1782]
Call Number:: 782.04.02.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: George III sleeps on his throne while Fox introduces the Devil to Lord North. On the right Sandwich and Germain, members of the previous administration, are being carried off by a demon through a doorway labelled Pandaemonium, as Mansfield and Bute are hurried in the same direction
Alternative Title:: Warm berth for the old administration
Description:: Title from item. and Sheet trimmed.
Publisher:: Pub'd April 2, 1782 by W. Brown
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Devil, Thrones, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A warm birth for the old administration [graphic].

9. A warm birth for the old administration [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 April 1783]
Call Number:: 783.04.02.02+ Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: George III sleeps on his throne while Fox introduces Lord North to the Devil pulling him by his neck cloth. On the right Sandwich and Germain, members of the previous administration, are being carried off by a demon through a doorway labelled Pandaemonium, as Mansfield and Bute are hurried in the same direction
Alternative Title:: Warm berth for the old administration
Description:: Title etched below image., Reissue, with altered date in imprint; originally published April 2, 1782, by W. Brown., Text etched below title: Take the wicked from before the king, & his throne shall be establish'd in righteousness., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 2d, 1783, by W. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Devil, Sleeping, Thrones, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A warm birth for the old administration [graphic].