- Creator:
- Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Feby. 7th, 1787.
- Call Number:
- 787.02.07.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Burke, in the voluminous robes of a Roman senator, stands looking to the left, making a speech, his right arm extended, left hand on his hip. He is bald-headed, wears spectacles, and his feet are bare. Behind him (right) the heads and shoulders of Fox and North are seen above a barrier or partition. Fox watches Burke with cynical but melancholy impassivity; North reads shortsightedly, his back to Burke. In the middle distance (left) Britannia is seated on the ground, her arm protectingly round the shoulders of another woman, evidently intended for India; she points to the left. Beneath the design the words of Burke's speech are engraved: 'The time is come, Fathers, when that which has long been wished for, towards allaying the envy, your House has been subject to, & removing the imputations against trials, is (not by human contrivance, but superior direction) effectually put in our power. An opinion has long prevailed, not only here at home, but likewise in foreign countries, both dangerous to you, and pernicious to the state, viz. That, in prosecutions, men of wealth are always safe, however clearly convicted. There is now to be brought upon his trial before you, to the confusion, I hope of the propagators of this slanderous imputation, one, whose life and actions condemn him in the opinion of all impartial persons; but who, according to his own reckoning, and declared dependance upon his riches, is already acquitted; I mean W------H------. I have undertaken this prosecution, Fathers, at the general desire, and with the great expectation of the British People, with the direct design of clearing your justice and impartiality before the world. For I have brought upon his trial, one, whose conduct has been such, that, in passing a just sentence upon him, you will have an opportunity of re-establishing the credit of such trials; of recovering whatever may be lost of the favour of the British People; and of satisfying foreign states and kingdoms in alliance with us, or tributary to us. I demand justice of you, Fathers, upon the robber of the public treasury, the oppressor of Asia, and the invader of the rights & privileges of'Britons, the scourge and curse o/Indostan. If that sentence is passed upon him which his crimes deserve, your authority, Fathers, will be venerable & sacred in the eyes of the public. But if his great riches should bias you in his favour, I shall still gain one point, vis. To make it apparent to all the world, that what was wanting in this case was not a criminal, nor a prosecutor; but justice, & adequate punishment.'"--British Museum catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Below image: Fourteen lines from Burke's speech., and Mounted to 43 x 31 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub'd by Boyne & Walker, No. 11 Great Turnstile, Lincolns Inn Fields
- Subject (Geographic):
- India.
- Subject (Name):
- Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cicero against Verres [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [29 March 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.03.29.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Design in oval. In a ballroom, Lord North, dressed as a lady in hooped petticoats and wearing his Garter ribbon, is dancing with Charles Fox who holds his hat in his left hand. Behind them sits Lord Chancellor Thurlow playing the bagpipes while at the same time receiving a bag of money handed him by Britannia who sits next to him. Thurlow retained the chancellor's office through two administrations preceding the North-Fox coalition before he was forced by Fox to resign. The bag of money may refer to the pension he was then granted
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by E. Dachery March 29, 1783, St. James Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Dance, Bagpipes, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Coalition minuet [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Octr. 7th, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.10.07.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of text below title., Temporary local subject terms: Hot air balloons -- Boats -- Cannons -- Apothecary's pestle and mortar -- Hibernia (Symbolic character) -- Fights; duels -- Expressions of speech: 'Neck or nothing' -- Allusion to the American War of Independence -- Allusion to Fox-North Coalition, 1783 -- Spy-glasses -- Devil -- Clergy: Jesuits., and Partial watermark center left side of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the act direct, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Grand Irish air balloon [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [10 February 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.02.10.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two Native Americans attack a group of American loyalists. One of the loyalists lies dead on the ground, another, fallen on his back, is about to be slaughtered by the Indian saying "Shelbu-n for ever." The second Indian, with a feathered headdress, pulls a loyalist by the tails of his coat saying "No-th [North] to the devil." Lord Shelburne (William Petty) looks on, smiling, in spite of being attacked by Britannia who aims her spear at his heart and says, "Inhuman smiling Hypocrite thus to disgrace my unsullied fame." He responds, "be not angry Madam no peace no place." A butcher standing behind Shelburne and with inscription above his head, "Even Butchers weep," wipes tears from his face with a large handkerchief. One of the loyalists expresses the popular sentiment that the British government sacrificed them through peace terms: "Ungrateful Britons to Abandon thus your Loyal friends."
- Alternative Title:
- Shelburne's sacrifice
- Description:
- Title from item. and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by E. Dashery Febth. 10 [sic], St. James's Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and United States
- Subject (Name):
- Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Indians of North America, Headdresses, Tomahawks, Butchers, Politics and government, and History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Shelb--ns sacrifice [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [April 1774]
- Call Number:
- 774.04.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "America, a partly-draped female figure, is being held down by Lord Mansfield (right) in judge's wig and robes, while North, holding her by the throat, pours the contents of a tea-pot down her mouth. America ejects the tea in a stream directed at North's face. From his pocket hangs a paper inscribed "Boston Port Bill". Sandwich (left) kneels, holding America down by an ankle, while he lifts the edge of her draperies and peers beneath them. Behind Mansfield (right) stands Bute in Scots cap and kilt, holding a drawn sword, its blade inscribed "Military Law", pistols are thrust through his belt. Behind America stands Britannia resting one hand on her shield; she averts her face and covers her eyes with her hand. Behind Sandwich (left) stand two men dressed in the French and Spanish fashions and representing France and Spain or the monarchs of France and Spain; the order of the Golden Fleece hangs from the neck of Spain. They stand close together, pointing towards America with expressions of interest and concern. In the foreground is a torn document inscribed "Boston petition". In the background is the sea; on the horizon and on a minute scale are the spires of a town surrounded by ships, above is engraved, "Boston cannonaded"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- America swallowing the bitter draught
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Publication place and date from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., and Plate from: London magazine. London : Printed for J. Baldwin, v. 43 (1774), p. 185.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Boston Port Bill, 1774, Boston Tea Party, 1773, Britannia (Symbolic character), Ethnic stereotypes, Teapots, and Medical procedures & techniques
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The able doctor, or, America swallowing the bitter draught [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [2 January 1766]
- Call Number:
- 766.01.02.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the Stamp Tax of 1765 showing Britannia presenting "Pandoras Box" (the tax) to America (represented by a native American) who appeals to Minerva; the goodess advises "Take it not" pointing to Liberty prostrate on the ground and attacked by a snake and a thistle. Mercury (standing for Trade) turns to America saying, "It is with Reluctance I leave ye" as he moves towards the king of France who, in turn, offers a purse of money to an irradiated boot (Lord Bute). Above a zephyr blows forcefully towards the tree of Liberty beside which stands a man saying "Heaven grant it may stand" beside whom a crown and sceptre lie on the ground. In the background, sailors stand on a shore beside three ships one with a broom at its masthead indicating that it is for sale; one points towards a gibbet labelled, "Fit Entertainment for St[am]p M[e]n"; a group of men beside the gibbet, identified by Stephens as Stamp Men or excisemen, complain, "We shall all Starve", "By G[o]d I'll rob first!, "Ay, ay, necessity has no Law"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Sc---h government and Scotch government
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Publication date from The gazetteer and new daily advertiser. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., In lower right corner: Price 6d., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: America as a native man -- Liberty -- Loyalty -- Mythology -- Pandora's box -- Acts: Stamp Act, 1765 -- Emblems: Caduceus; cap of liberty; thistle as Scotch influence; serpent as treachery; boot as Lord Bute -- Emblems: Boreas as Lord North -- Liberty Tree -- Mercury as commerce -- Ships for sale, with broom at the mast-head -- Purse with money., and Mounted to 22 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Mercury, and Minerva
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The deplorable state of America, or, Sc---h government [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [20 May 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.05.20.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the right, William Petty, Lord Shelburne, attacks Britannia pulling on her hair and petticoat while pushing her to the ground. She leans on her shield; her broken spear lies next to it. William Pitt, who stands behind her with his arms folded on his chest, looks down at her indifferently. On the left, Charles Fox, taking Lord North's hand in his, points to the distressed Britannia with an entreaty to join their forces in her defense and "Fox and North stand together in consultation (left). Fox, holding the right hand of North who stands on his right, points with his left hand towards Britannia (right), who has been thrown to the ground, and is being maltreated by Shelburne. Her shield and broken spear lie beside her. Shelburne has seized her by the hair and is tearing off her upper garments; he smiles saying, "I smile at the feeble efforts of them single". Britannia looking towards Fox and North cries, "Help! tis only your united strength can save me". Pitt, young and slim, stands beside Britannia, his arms folded, looking down at her and saying "I see her danger, yet, better she should perish than I join the Man I hate". Fox is saying to North, "Forgetting our former disputes Quick! let us join to save her". In the foreground lies a large scroll, inscribed, "BRITANIA rescue'd from the wicked designs of an artfull------", the last word hidden by a curl of the scroll."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Men of abilities call'd for and Men of abilities called for
- Description:
- Title from item. and Mounted to 29 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd May 20th, 1783, by I. Freeman, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The true state of the junction, or, Men of abilities call'd for [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 December 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.12.29.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A series of ten images showing the rise and fall of the Fox-North Coalition. In the first image, Charles Fox, shown as a fox, speaks to the crowd in front of the Covent Garden Church. In the second one, Lord North, the 'country gentleman' leading sheep on strings, makes an agreement with Fox, who leads the 'Wes[tminste]r geese' on strings. The third image shows Fox speaking to a crowd in a rotunda, while in the fourth one he is stoking a fire around a pole topped with the liberty cap and the India charter suspended from it. In the fifth image, North and Fox, sharing one coat, stand on a plinth signed, "Power." The sixth image shows Fox ascending in an air balloon while the next one shows him falling head-down into a "pitt." In the eighth image, the two politicians are being rejected by the figure of Britannia, who refuses to look at them, instead pointing to the gallows in the background. This condemnation results in their execution, together with Burke, in the ninth image. In the tenth image, all three are shown as well-known mythological sinners in Hades; Burke submerged up to his neck as Tantalus, Fox stretched on a wheel as Iion, and North as Sisyphus pushing a large boulder
- Alternative Title:
- Two new sliders for the state magic lantern
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 29th Decr. 1783 by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Britannia (Symbolic character), Foxes, Public speaking, Balloons (Aircraft), Gallows, and Hell
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Two new sliders for the state magic lanthern [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1771]
- Call Number:
- 771.07.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Britannia hard rode
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Dated in British Museum catalogue: 1 August 1771., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 7 (1771), p. 29., Temporary local subject terms: Hibernia (Symbolic character) -- Secret influence -- Sport: cricket bat., and Lower corners cut off diagonally.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
- Subject (Topic):
- Hercules, Britannia (Symbolic character), Harps, and Volcanoes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Vice triumphant over virtue, or, Britannia hard rode [graphic].