- Published / Created:
- [1743]
- Call Number:
- 743.00.00.04.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on George II's wish for continuing British subsidies for Hanoverian forces in the war of Austrian Succesion, and the objections of some British politicians. In an open loggia on the left the king sits at a table, over which is spread a map of northern Europe on top of which is a teetotum, lettered "160,000 for year", the tip of which is pointing towards him. He exclaims to a group of politicians around the table that he has won the whole stake, "Je tire tous les enjeux, Tenez, la voici" . Across the table from him John Carteret, who has a second, anxious, face peering through the back of his wig, replies "Well thrown the Balance is on our Side to a T". Beside the king another politician, holding a pen, remarks "More money for the year, & you shall have a P[eace]". The Duke of Cumberland standing beside Carteret wit h his hand resting on his sword hilt says "Smart money I've ventured my Life", a man beside him tells him "You have fought bravely take H[a]n[ove]r". In the centre the British Lion lies on the Act of Settlement, his back piled high with papers lettered "Dains", "Hessians", "Austrean", "H[a]n[o]ve[ria]ns", "Vots of Ct", "Sinking F[un]d", "lottery tickets", "lott[ery] next year, for 16000,000". The white horse of Hanover rests his fore legs on top of these and above the Austrian eagle flies with the French cock on its back. The lion laments "I can Bear it no more I'll be Bubble'd no longer". A politician to the right of the lion moves as if to lighten its burden saying, "Poor Lion, wee shall Oppose this foul Play", another behind him , holding a commander's baton pushes forward saying "The English sav'd him, where was his H-gs" ; another, wearing a sash decorated with eagles, restrains him saying "1,000,000 is too much for Mercenaries", another politician reassures him that "G[o]d be prais'd they have preserv'd ye Balance in Europe"; in the background another says "D[a]m it the D[ice] is Loaded"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Hanover bubble
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Attributed on verso to George Bickham the younger?, Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Caption below image: Old E-l-d's*T*Totum, being the H-r bubble or our all to nothing., and Temporary local subject terms: Games: teetotum -- Musical instruments: flute -- Musicianas: flutist -- Wigs: wig with a face on its back -- Expressions of speech: Hanover turnips, i.e., German policies of the King -- British lion -- Emblems: Austrian eagle -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover -- Emblems: Gallic cock -- Maps: Europe.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hanover, House of., George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Marlborough, Charles Spencer, Duke of, 1706-1758, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The H-r bubble [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1743]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C2 738
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on George II's wish for continuing British subsidies for Hanoverian forces in the war of Austrian Succesion, and the objections of some British politicians. In an open loggia on the left the king sits at a table, over which is spread a map of northern Europe on top of which is a teetotum, lettered "160,000 for year", the tip of which is pointing towards him. He exclaims to a group of politicians around the table that he has won the whole stake, "Je tire tous les enjeux, Tenez, la voici" . Across the table from him John Carteret, who has a second, anxious, face peering through the back of his wig, replies "Well thrown the Balance is on our Side to a T". Beside the king another politician, holding a pen, remarks "More money for the year, & you shall have a P[eace]". The Duke of Cumberland standing beside Carteret wit h his hand resting on his sword hilt says "Smart money I've ventured my Life", a man beside him tells him "You have fought bravely take H[a]n[ove]r". In the centre the British Lion lies on the Act of Settlement, his back piled high with papers lettered "Dains", "Hessians", "Austrean", "H[a]n[o]ve[ria]ns", "Vots of Ct", "Sinking F[un]d", "lottery tickets", "lott[ery] next year, for 16000,000". The white horse of Hanover rests his fore legs on top of these and above the Austrian eagle flies with the French cock on its back. The lion laments "I can Bear it no more I'll be Bubble'd no longer". A politician to the right of the lion moves as if to lighten its burden saying, "Poor Lion, wee shall Oppose this foul Play", another behind him , holding a commander's baton pushes forward saying "The English sav'd him, where was his H-gs" ; another, wearing a sash decorated with eagles, restrains him saying "1,000,000 is too much for Mercenaries", another politician reassures him that "G[o]d be prais'd they have preserv'd ye Balance in Europe"; in the background another says "D[a]m it the D[ice] is Loaded"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Hanover bubble
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Attributed on verso to George Bickham the younger?, Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Caption below image: Old E-l-d's*T*Totum, being the H-r bubble or our all to nothing., Temporary local subject terms: Games: teetotum -- Musical instruments: flute -- Musicianas: flutist -- Wigs: wig with a face on its back -- Expressions of speech: Hanover turnips, i.e., German policies of the King -- British lion -- Emblems: Austrian eagle -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover -- Emblems: Gallic cock -- Maps: Europe., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hanover, House of., George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Marlborough, Charles Spencer, Duke of, 1706-1758, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The H-r bubble [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [July 1766]
- Call Number:
- 766.07.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five columns of verse below image: A monkey once as stories say delighted with a cat to play and yet appear'd to public eyes, the sage Grimalkin to despise ..., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: thistle and white rose of Stuarts -- Royal crown -- Animals -- Pictures amplifying subject: A view of Chatam [sic] -- Pictures amplifying subject: A view of the Isle of Bute -- Scots -- Male dress: Highlander's dress., and Mounted to 32 x 47 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782
- Subject (Topic):
- Fireplaces, Crowns, Cats, and Monkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cat's paw [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.02.10.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Sc---h hobby horses, Scotch hobby horses, and Dukes exchanged
- Description:
- Title from item., Thirty-two lines of verse in four columns below image: Come and listen to my ditty de song de tune is very pretty ..., Variant state, with verse below image, of No. 4001 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Treaties: Treaty of Utrecht -- Castle: Dover Castle -- Emblems: boot as Lord Bute -- Emblems: thistle -- Animals: fox -- Devil -- Balances -- Hobby horses -- Birds: hawk -- Bribery -- Military uniforms: sentry -- Buildings: church steeple -- Wars: galeons representing war with Spain, 1762 -- Calais -- Songs -- Allusion to James Wolfe, 1727-1759., Watermark: Vryheyt., and Mounted to 33 x 47 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Hawke, Edward Hawke, Baron, 1705-1781, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Bussy, François de, 1699-1780
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The d-kes exchanged, or, Sc---h hobby horses [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1762?]
- Call Number:
- 762.11.00.02.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Lion entranced
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reduced and reversed copy of: The lyon entranced. See Stephens., and Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- Coffins.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The lyon entranced quis talia fando temperet a lachrimis. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.11.00.04 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item, Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 3 (1769), p. 188., and Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: horseless carriage -- Emblems: bishop's crook -- Mitres -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Allusion to the East India Company -- Devil -- Mouth of Hell -- Executions: hanging -- Executioner's axe -- Horse whips -- Reference to Dr. Samuel Musgrave, 1732-1780.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The political machine that goes without horses [graphic].