- Published / Created:
- [between 1770 and 1800?]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 770.00.00.191 Box 112
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler (looking left) mounted on a pedestal on which is carved a relief showing a satyr whipping figures of Rebellion, Hypocrisy, and Ignorance dressed as puritans, while he drives a chariot drawn by Hudibras and Ralpho; in the foreground, on the rightt, a satyr holds up a volume of Butler's poem as a guide for the carver (a boy dressed only in an apron), and on the left a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia
- Alternative Title:
- Hudibras frontispiece and explanation
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., After Hogarth., Caption on either side of title: "The basso releivo, on the pedestal, represents the general design, of Mr. Butler, in his incomparable poem, of Hudibras. Viz. Butler's genious in a car lashing around Mount Parnassus in the persons of Hudibras & Ralpho, Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance the reigning vices of his time.", Copy in reverse of no. 504 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 82.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680, and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
- Subject (Topic):
- Puritans, History, Britannia (Symbolic character), Religion, Satyrs (Greek mythology), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Vice
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece and its explanation [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. October 1796]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A bust of George III in an oval medallion, the profile (left) an obtuse angle, the face blank, giving an impression of complacent imbecility. The background is shaded to simulate a cameo. From behind the medallion two figures look out: 'Averice' (left), a hag with pendent breasts and serpents for hair, leans forward in profile to the left, holding up a money-bag. On the right is Famine, a thin man wearing a shroud; both are shouting
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Place of publication based on subject., Publication date from Thomas Kirgate's manuscript note on Horace Walpole's impression., A date of 1794 is suggested in the British Museum catalogue, but their online catalogue suggests 1795 based on the reference to a famine., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 158 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 16.1 x 17.9 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., and With manuscript note by Thomas Kirgate below plate line: A vulgar satiric print of George 3d, published in 1796 but inserted here because it happened to be exceedingly like to a piece of flint, found the year before at Brighthelmstone, with a Lusus Naturae resembling the King, and now in this collection.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Corsica (France)
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Avarice, and Famines
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Plan of Mud Island, off the Kingdom of Corsica [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. October 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.10.00.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A bust of George III in an oval medallion, the profile (left) an obtuse angle, the face blank, giving an impression of complacent imbecility. The background is shaded to simulate a cameo. From behind the medallion two figures look out: 'Averice' (left), a hag with pendent breasts and serpents for hair, leans forward in profile to the left, holding up a money-bag. On the right is Famine, a thin man wearing a shroud; both are shouting
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Place of publication based on subject., Publication date from Thomas Kirgate's manuscript note on Horace Walpole's impression., A date of 1794 is suggested in the British Museum catalogue, but their online catalogue suggests 1795 based on the reference to a famine., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Corsica (France)
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Avarice, and Famines
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Plan of Mud Island, off the Kingdom of Corsica [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption above image., Plate numbered '81' in upper left corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756, 1757, 1758, and 1759. In a series of ... prints. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1760?]., and Reduced and reversed copy of No. 3467 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Mahón (Spain)
- Subject (Name):
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Byng, John, 1704-1757
- Subject (Topic):
- History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The auction 1756 [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the act diricts [sic] Feby 3, [17]94.
- Call Number:
- 794.02.03.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A large naked monster sits astride a large cup, which is balanced on a dagger held in the mouth of a small sansculotte juggler who exclaims, " By Gar tis var heavy, O dear! O dear! It will fall!" The monster holds in his hands the heads of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. On his head five daggers meet at a point to form a cap labelled "Cap of Liberty." He grins showing sharp teeth, two labels issuing from his mouth, " Ca ira, ca ira, ca ira" and "Hold me well up or I will bit off your head."
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Word "of'" in title etched over "!!" The original title appears to have been "Democracy!!", and Earlier state, with earlier date and without publisher's name. Cf. No. 8446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 and Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Foreign public opinion, British, Sansculottes, Decapitations, Liberty cap, and Monsters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The democracy of France [graphic].