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1. A forcible entrance into Leadenhall-Street by Master Billy Declaratory upon a dun'd-ass [graphic].
- Creator:
- Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 April 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.04.24.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: East India House -- Declaratory Act., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 24, 1788 by Josa. Baldrey, No. 19 H. Holborn, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Rumbold, Thomas, Sir, 1736-1791, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Portraits, Impeachment, Taxation, Tax assessment, Justice, Donkeys, Stores & shops, Shutters, Lawyers, and Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A forcible entrance into Leadenhall-Street by Master Billy Declaratory upon a dun'd-ass [graphic].
2. A monument dedicated to posterity in commemoration of [the] incredible folly transacted in the year 1720 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.45+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Originally published by Thomas Bowles in 1720. See the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Publication date of this edition inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered in lower right corner: 89., Nine lines of text below image: Here is represented Fortune conducted by Folly who is well known, by her ordinary attributes and her ample hoop petticoat, which is also a folly of the times. The chair is drawn by the principal company's who began this pernicious trade as [the] Mississippi with a wooden leg, South Sea with a sore-leg and a ligament upon another ..., Later state, by a different publisher. Cf. No. 1629 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: car -- Personifications: Fame -- Folly -- Bank of England -- Assurance -- East India Company as a Chinese man -- Mississippi Company as a native man with a wooden leg -- West Indies Company as a native (Indian) man -- Devil -- Emblems: serpent -- Furniture: table -- Ladderback chairs -- Mottoes: desinit in luctum species formosa superne., Watermark: Band., and Window mounted to 27 x 35 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard
- Subject (Name):
- East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720 and Crowds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A monument dedicated to posterity in commemoration of [the] incredible folly transacted in the year 1720 [graphic].
3. A puerile attack upon an old servant [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 17th March 1787.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 40. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sir James Erskine dressed as a little girl but wearing a man's wig, bends forward in profile to the left to thrash a mastiff (Hastings) who lies (left) surrounded by a wreath of thorns, his collar inscribed 'Keeper of Ind[ia]'. He holds in his left hand a paper inscribed 'Speec[h] for Thur[sday] Monopoly of Opium'. On the lash of Erskine's whip is a judge's wig inscribed 'Defence of Lord Clive'; its handle is decorated with bells. Burke's head and right arm project into the upper right corner of the design; he holds leading-strings attached to Erskine's shoulders. Below him and immediately behind Erskine are the head and shoulders of Francis, who leans forward, clapping his hands. Above Hastings a rectangular block inscribed 'Impeachment' hangs by a thread. Beside him are three stones, which have been thrown at him, inscribed respectively 'Malice', 'Eloquence', and 'Calumny'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject., and Mounted on page 58 with one other print.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A puerile attack upon an old servant [graphic]
4. A puerile attack upon an old servant [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 17th March 1787.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 40. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sir James Erskine dressed as a little girl but wearing a man's wig, bends forward in profile to the left to thrash a mastiff (Hastings) who lies (left) surrounded by a wreath of thorns, his collar inscribed 'Keeper of Ind[ia]'. He holds in his left hand a paper inscribed 'Speec[h] for Thur[sday] Monopoly of Opium'. On the lash of Erskine's whip is a judge's wig inscribed 'Defence of Lord Clive'; its handle is decorated with bells. Burke's head and right arm project into the upper right corner of the design; he holds leading-strings attached to Erskine's shoulders. Below him and immediately behind Erskine are the head and shoulders of Francis, who leans forward, clapping his hands. Above Hastings a rectangular block inscribed 'Impeachment' hangs by a thread. Beside him are three stones, which have been thrown at him, inscribed respectively 'Malice', 'Eloquence', and 'Calumny'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject., 1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 27 x 22 cm, on sheet 29.1 x 23.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 40 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A puerile attack upon an old servant [graphic]
5. A puerile attack upon an old servant [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 17th March 1787.
- Call Number:
- 787.03.17.01 Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 40. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sir James Erskine dressed as a little girl but wearing a man's wig, bends forward in profile to the left to thrash a mastiff (Hastings) who lies (left) surrounded by a wreath of thorns, his collar inscribed 'Keeper of Ind[ia]'. He holds in his left hand a paper inscribed 'Speec[h] for Thur[sday] Monopoly of Opium'. On the lash of Erskine's whip is a judge's wig inscribed 'Defence of Lord Clive'; its handle is decorated with bells. Burke's head and right arm project into the upper right corner of the design; he holds leading-strings attached to Erskine's shoulders. Below him and immediately behind Erskine are the head and shoulders of Francis, who leans forward, clapping his hands. Above Hastings a rectangular block inscribed 'Impeachment' hangs by a thread. Beside him are three stones, which have been thrown at him, inscribed respectively 'Malice', 'Eloquence', and 'Calumny'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A puerile attack upon an old servant [graphic]
6. A scene in Leadenhall Street humbly inscribed to Sir George Wombwell Baronet, by the engraver. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the act directs this 29th. March 1780.
- Call Number:
- 780.03.29.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Wombwell, George, -1780, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Pigot, George, Baron, 1719-1777, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Urination
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A scene in Leadenhall Street humbly inscribed to Sir George Wombwell Baronet, by the engraver. [graphic]
7. ALS to Thomas Pitt and Daniel Chardin, 1700 Nov 1, London
- Creator:
- Yale, Elihu, 1649-1721
- Call Number:
- Eliz +05
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Description:
- A business letter. Accompanied by a copy of Yale's statement of account with Pitt, 1701. A transcript of this letter is in Osborn Files, Beinecke Library.
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, Thomas, 1653-1726., Chardin, Daniel., and East India Company.
- Found in:
- Elizabethan Club > ALS to Thomas Pitt and Daniel Chardin, 1700 Nov 1, London
8. Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at football [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 February 1784] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 15. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the left, William Pitt, his arms and one leg raised, is looking up at the East India House that he has just kicked toward Charles Fox who stands ready to toss it back. Behind Fox is a table with dice and a dice box on it. Playing cards are scattered on the floor. Behind Pitt an open book inscribed, "Blackstone," indicates his barrister's education
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6406 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., 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. 1, pages 117-8., and On leaf 15 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at football [graphic]
9. Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at football [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 February 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.02.07.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the left, William Pitt, his arms and one leg raised, is looking up at the East India House that he has just kicked toward Charles Fox who stands ready to toss it back. Behind Fox is a table with dice and a dice box on it. Playing cards are scattered on the floor. Behind Pitt an open book inscribed, "Blackstone," indicates his barrister's education
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at football [graphic]