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1. A North-ern ass [graphic].
- Creator:
- Hutchinson, W., active 1773-1784, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 14 April 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.00.00.80
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the election for County Durham, 14 April 1784: Sir Thomas Clavering and Sir John Upton, one headless, holding a caption labelled 'The Irish Faction for ever' and carrying the other, who has no feet, on his back, who says 'I serv'd you as long as I could stand' and carries captions lavelled 'Coal owners Bill' and 'A command in India'; both seated on an ass facing left, which brays 'Thus I go to Parliament and am not the first Ass that has farted for preferment, but this is dirty work and hard Labour' and which has a collar labelled 'I speak for my Master / Populus me sibilat at plaudo ipse domi' and strips at the saddle labelled 'Curse all Pitts / But a Coal-Pitt'; with the ass' droppings falling on a crest with the motto 'Diem Perdidi'; a mitre, crozier and sword and label 'At rest' on the ground in the centre, playing cards and papers labelled 'Turnpike Speech / Election Speech' to left; a milestone to right labelled 'From Durham / T: C / J: E / 14 April 1784'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Northern ass
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attribution to W. Hutchinson from annotation on verso of British Museum impression. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1014.456., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark in the center of sheet.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Clavering, Thomas, Sir, 1719-1794, Eden, John, Sir, 1740-1812, and Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, Donkeys, Defecation, Traffic signs & signals, Miters, Crosiers, Daggers & swords, and Playing cards
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A North-ern ass [graphic].
2. A courier just setting out (who has any letters to send?) sketch'd from [the] life while his boots were greasing [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1745]
- Call Number:
- 745.03.00.01.2 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below the figures in the image: At length old O----d [i.e., Orford] must depart, helped on by medicinal art ..., Temporary local subject terms: Medicine: prescriptions -- Canes: gold-headed cane -- Broad Bottoms -- Animals: ass with human head -- Reference to quackery -- Whips -- Letters, and Watermark: countermark IV.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Mead, Richard, 1673-1754, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A courier just setting out (who has any letters to send?) sketch'd from [the] life while his boots were greasing [graphic].
3. A courier just setting out (who has any letters to send?) sketch'd from [the] life while his boots were greasing [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1745]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C2 738
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below the figures in the image: At length old O----d [i.e., Orford] must depart, helped on by medicinal art ..., Temporary local subject terms: Medicine: prescriptions -- Canes: gold-headed cane -- Broad Bottoms -- Animals: ass with human head -- Reference to quackery -- Whips -- Letters, and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Mead, Richard, 1673-1754, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A courier just setting out (who has any letters to send?) sketch'd from [the] life while his boots were greasing [graphic].
4. A design for building a commodious prison for the reception of debtors & felons, in the room of the present goal [sic] of Newgate [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dance, George, the Elder, approximately 1694-1768
- Published / Created:
- [1755]
- Call Number:
- Topos L847 no. 61+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text above images., Date of publication from citation in: Imagining the penitentiary : fiction and the architecture of mind in eighteenth-century England / John Bender. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987., Design consists of three individually-titled images on one plate., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 37 x 48 cm., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Prisons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A design for building a commodious prison for the reception of debtors & felons, in the room of the present goal [sic] of Newgate [graphic]
5. A list of foreign soldiers in daily pay for England [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1743]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C2 738
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Upper image depicts a white horse (representing the House of Hanover) removing a mask and treading on papers called "Trade" and "Liberty." A dialog ribbon is coming out of his mouth with the word "Worms" on it [i.e. Treaty of Worms]. He is surrounded by men offering him money and saying such things as "Here's Cole" and "Damn Engl---d." and Lower image depicts Hanover as a nurse sitting on a three-sided stool and changing the diaper of Britannia as a baby. The nurse is saying "Your Besh-t again wares y. Clouts." A stool is nearby with a pot of food on it and a sign saying "Bon pour Nicole."
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two images, one above text, one below, on broadside 38 x 24 cm., Text consists of two lists showing pay received by, respectively, Hanoverian soldiers, Hessian soldiers and Danish soldiers., Cf. Malcolm, History of caricaturing, 1813, p. 83, pl. XXI, fig. 4., Cf. Lewis, Genesis of Strawberry Hill for three-sided Gothic chair, fig. 35., Temporary local subject terms: Masks: George II -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover -- Lists: pay lists -- Slang: cole, i.e., money -- Furniture: three-sided Gothic chair -- Personifications: Britannia as a baby -- Personifications: Hanover as an old woman -- Money: purses -- Food: rotten baby food., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Compton, Spencer, Earl of Wilmington, 1673?-1743, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Great Britain., and Hanover, House of.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Armed Forces, and Pay, allowances, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A list of foreign soldiers in daily pay for England [graphic].
6. A list of foreign soldiers in daily pay for England [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1743]
- Call Number:
- 743.00.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Upper image depicts a white horse (representing the House of Hanover) removing a mask and treading on papers called "Trade" and "Liberty." A dialog ribbon is coming out of his mouth with the word "Worms" on it [i.e. Treaty of Worms]. He is surrounded by men offering him money and saying such things as "Here's Cole" and "Damn Engl---d." and Lower image depicts Hanover as a nurse sitting on a three-sided stool and changing the diaper of Britannia as a baby. The nurse is saying "Your Besh-t again wares y. Clouts." A stool is nearby with a pot of food on it and a sign saying "Bon pour Nicole."
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two images, one above text, one below, on broadside 38 x 24 cm., Text consists of two lists showing pay received by, respectively, Hanoverian soldiers, Hessian soldiers and Danish soldiers., Cf. Malcolm, History of caricaturing, 1813, p. 83, pl. XXI, fig. 4., Cf. Lewis, Genesis of Strawberry Hill for three-sided Gothic chair, fig. 35., Temporary local subject terms: Masks: George II -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover -- Lists: pay lists -- Slang: cole, i.e., money -- Furniture: three-sided Gothic chair -- Personifications: Britannia as a baby -- Personifications: Hanover as an old woman -- Money: purses -- Food: rotten baby food., and Watermark: Fleur-de-lis.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Compton, Spencer, Earl of Wilmington, 1673?-1743, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Great Britain., and Hanover, House of.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Armed Forces, and Pay, allowances, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A list of foreign soldiers in daily pay for England [graphic].
7. A papist with his Jacobite footman [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Jany. [the] 1st 1745-6 [i.e. 1746]
- Call Number:
- 746.01.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., 'P.6'--Lower right corner., Twelve lines of verse in four columns below image: Pope Pius's table was spread with a net ..., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Lambeth Palace -- Rivers: Thames -- Domestic service: footmen -- Demons -- Mitres -- Crosses -- Daggers -- Jacobites -- Portmanteaux -- Wigs -- Hats: jockey cap -- Battles: reference to the Battle of Prestonpans, 1745 -- Battles: reference to the Battle of Boyne, 1690 -- Clergy -- Pope -- Reference to William Sherlock, 1641?-1707., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with illegible initials below.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Sherlock, Thomas, 1678-1761
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A papist with his Jacobite footman [graphic].
8. A policy for the Three-Thumb Assurance Office of St. A- W- [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1745?]
- Call Number:
- 745.00.00.17
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Policy for the Three-thumb Assurance Office of St. Anne's, Westminster
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record. Dated in British Museum catalogue: ca. 1770., Twelve lines of verse below image: A significant justice, a burgess and stump, their sap-sculls together had lay'd ..., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: St. Anne's Parish, Westminster -- St. Anne's Parish, Westminster: allusion to insurance and its disposition -- Thumbs: tyrannical thumbs of the City Companies -- Gallows -- City Companies: Barbers -- City Companies: Pewterers -- City Companies: Carpenters -- Emblems: thumbs as City Companies tyranny -- Allusion to assurance offices -- Poll-books -- Poll-clerks -- Allusion to voters' freedom -- Tools: barbers' implements -- Tools: pewterers' implements -- Tools: carpenters' implements -- Hallmarks: pewterer's 'touch'., and Watermark: Pro patria.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A policy for the Three-Thumb Assurance Office of St. A- W- [graphic].
9. A short examination of the spirit of Quakerism [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1770]
- Call Number:
- 770.00.00.30+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Quakers: a meeting house with a woman speaking and men and women assembled on benches and in galleries."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Below title: Preface to the reader. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.", Sixteen lines of text below image: A short examination &c. It is hoped that this little treatise will not be unfavourably received among the people called Quakers ..., Temporary local subject terms: Quakers -- Meeting-house of the Society of Friends., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Society of Friends, Interiors, and Friends' meeting houses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A short examination of the spirit of Quakerism [graphic]