- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.43
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Titles from items., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Two lines of verse below top design: The ass of Balaam through oppression spoke our Stone-Ase of oppression brings the yoke., Caption below center design: Absolute obedience my brethren ; murmering [sic] against your superiors is rebellion and consumate impudence., Caption below bottom design: Justice has leaden feet but iron claws., None of designs recorded in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Angels -- Asses -- Bible: nos. 22.21-35 -- Human body: mechanical human heart -- Money: bags of money -- Bellows -- British Lion -- Personifications: figure of Justice -- Balances -- Allusion to Gibraltar -- Treasury: Sinking Fund -- Battles: allusion to the Battle of Minorca, Port Mahon, 20 May 1756.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Balaam and his ass A whip for [the] horse, a bridle for [the] ass, & a rod for [the] fools back ; The ballance master. [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.37
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Titles etched above images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Sticks: wand -- Bag of secret service money -- Newcastle's bribery, 1756 -- Parliament: corruption of Parliament by Newcastle -- Newcastle Administration -- Allusion to William, Baron Blakeney, 1672-1761 -- Interiors: forge -- Tools: farrier's tools -- Forgery: Admiral Byng as victim of forgery -- Trials: allusion to Admiral Byng's court-martial for neglect of duty -- Money for Hanover -- Addresses: subsidiary treaties -- Scales: weighing addresses against money -- Taxes: 1756.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, and Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773
- Subject (Topic):
- Petitions, Bribery, Forge shops, Scales, Fools' caps, and Money
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bribery A m-n-l forge ; The two guardians. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.58
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Hengist and Horsa
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Two columns of verse below image: A patient sick you see above, one that should claim the doctors love ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Hessian and Hanoverian mercenaries.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Mercenaries (Soldiers)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hengist & Horsa [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.22
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Old woman and her ass, a fable, Fox in the pit, and Pillars of the state
- Description:
- Title from item., Three playing card designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Title of the bottom design assigned by cataloger from its original version or copy (see Stephens 3399)., Caption under top image: Peachum and Lockit., Four lines of verse below center image: There lives a report that in Asias [sic] hot clime, was an ass turn'd to Stone for a horrible crime ..., Four line quote from Bible below bottom design: And whosoever will not do [the] law of thy God & [the] law of [the] king ..., Copies of, from top, nos. 3371, 3497, and 3399 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: French cock -- Quizzing glasses -- Allusion to French influence -- Gallows -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Webs: cobweb -- Asses -- Tubs: fishwoman's tub for picked salmon -- Allusion to Billingsgate -- Allusion to House of Commons, Ways and Means -- Taxes: 1756 -- Military: payment to Hanoverian Hessians, 1756 -- Fall of the Newcastle Administration -- Literature: allusion to the beggar's opera, by John Gay, 1685-1732 -- Literature: quotation from the fable, The old woman and her ass -- Bible: quotation from Ezra, ch.vii.v.26, 27.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Pillers of the state The old woman and her ass, a fable ; [The fox in the pit]. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.72
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '19' in upper right corner., Twelve lines of verse in rebus below image: W[hen] [fox] l[i]ke [dog]s infest th[e]s poor land ..., and Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer ... London, 1759.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Poor Robin's prophecy [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.63
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of text below image: These figures gem'men & ladies are the richest & largest in Europe ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Reversed copy of No. 3394 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Mr. Punch -- Personifications: Punch's wife, Joan -- Literature: reference to Bardolph in Shakespeare's Henry IV.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Punch's opera with the humours of Little Ben the Sailor [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.28
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged horizontally, separately titled., Title of the center design assigned by cataloger from its original. See Stephens 3342., Four lines of verse below title in left design: Aquilus can nurse his own, on other birds he'll prey ..., Six lines of verse below center desgin: Oh! Shame to nature, shame to common sense. must Britain for its own defence ..., Five lines of explanatory description below right design: 1.1. Two heads imperfect & of a black hew suppos'd to have been wood ..., Copies of, from left, nos. 3502, 3342, and 3417 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Justice -- Personifications: Loyalty -- Pictures amplifying subject: images of Justice and Loyalty hung upside down -- Cap of Liberty -- Wigs: Lord Chancellor's wig -- Reference to French influence -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Newcastle Administration --Birds: vulture -- Money: bags of money -- Bible: Revers'd Bible -- Literature: quotation from Horace's Ars poetica, 5 -- Military: chained English soldiers -- Monuments -- Military: Hanoverian Hessians -- Plinths -- Swords: broken swords -- Societies: reference to Society of Antiquarians.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Risum teneatis amici [The 2 H, H's] ; Naturae lusus, a curious petri-faction dedicated to Society of Antiquarians. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.65
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '40' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse below title: In vain to hard'ned vice your wrongs you'll plead / There is but one who will those wrongs redress ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Reversed copy of No. 3392 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Addresses: 'Western Address' to George II, 1756.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Western Address [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.61
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satirical stroke upon an act that favored something of arbitrary power, whereby the liberty of the common subject was taken away to enhance that of the nobility and gentry
- Description:
- Title etched at top of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '35' in upper right corner., Two columns of verse below image: In fable & in axiom lies, matter invelop'd by the wise ..., Plate from: England's remembrancer ... London, 1756., and Temporary local subject terms: Bills: The Game Act, 1756.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The association 1756 [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].