- Published / Created:
- [16 May 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.05.16.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "George III (left), seated in a chair, is being shown by the ghost of Chatham a procession of figures walking towards a pit (right) inscribed "Chaos". Chatham wears pseudo-classical draperies, a tie-wig crowned with a laurel wreath, and is surrounded by a glory of rays. He holds up a circular glass to the king, who looks through it with an expression of alarm. On the back of the king's chair is a crown surmounted by a weathercock which points to the South, probably to indicate that North's power is over, cf. BMSat 5659. Under his feet are torn county petitions, and an open book, "Lock on Government". The petitions are those of York, Westminster, Middlesex, Hampshire, Surrey. There is also the design of the façade of a building inscribed, "The Elevation of [a] Baby House". The leaders of the procession, who are on the brink of the pit, are the kings of France and Spain. A devil (right) with wings, horns, and a long barbed tail, points into the pit. Behind the two kings come North and Sandwich. North holds a rolled document inscribed "Taxes". Under his arm is a large money-bag with a gaping hole in it, by which is an open book or paper inscribed "New Way to pay old Debts, A Farce by Boreas" (Massinger's comedy had recently been revived at Drury Lane). On his right Sandwich walks with his arms folded, a paper under his arm is inscribed "Catches & Glees Mr Arne" (Arne (1710-78), the musical composer, is generally styled Dr; Sandwich was "the soul of the Catch Club", see BMSat 5342). From his pocket protrude papers, one inscribed "Greenwich Hospital", in allusion to the scandal caused by Captain Baillie's exposure of abuses there, see BMSat 5548. The other is inscribed "Love & Madness"; this is the title of a series of fictitious letters recently published purporting to be the correspondence of Hackman and Martha Ray, Sandwich's mistress, see BMSat 5540, &c, but really by Herbert Croft. See Walpole, 'Letters', xi. 139-40,13 Mar. 1780. Behind come Mansfield, in judge's wig and robes, and Bute in Highland dress, both with expressions of despair; they are being hurried along by a man with the face of a fiend who has seized Mansfield by the arm and Bute by the shoulders. Beside them walks a Dutchman, his hands in his breeches pockets, being propelled from behind by a devil, significant of the unpopularity of the Dutch Republic,"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Peep into futurity
- Description:
- Title from item. and Trimmed within plate line.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs May 16, 1780, by W. Wells, No. 132 opposite Salisbury Court Fleet Street London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Netherlands.
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788., and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
- Subject (Topic):
- Demons, Crowns, and Thrones
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Chatham's ghost, or, A peep into futurity [graphic].
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- Creator:
- O'Brien, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [11 May 1778]
- Call Number:
- 778.05.11.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Design occupying top third of plate shows Bute driving a cart labelled G.R. III, having just crossed the Rubicon, laden with National Debt, Pensioners, etc., drawn by ministerial donkeys including ones labelled North, Germaine, Sandwich, and Weymouth. The donkeys are assailed by opposition dogs Burke, Wilkes, Fox etc. In the upper left an overloaded boat depicts the "Commissioners setting off for America." Smaller insets beneath the main image refer to the balance of power and antiministerial demonstrations. Two columns of dialect verse beneath image, follow the title "A new gallant shew or the ministry's cabinet & minority's closet broke open" signed at bottom by Doodle Doodle Doo. A criticism of both governmental ministry and the opposition
- Alternative Title:
- View of the political state of the nation
- Description:
- Title from item., Imperfect; cropped with loss of imprint and last 2 lines of verse., Date of publication from English political caricature., Publisher from impression in John Carter Brown Library., "Price 1 shilg.", and Mounted to 33 x 35 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs May 11, 1778 at Darly's, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, United States, and America.
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790., Hancock, John, 1737-1793., and Adams, John, 1735-1826.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, History, Colonies, Donkeys, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Seesaws, and Coats of arms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Folly on both sides, or, A view of the political state of the nation, with the senators in propria persona. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [March 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.03.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Three outgoing ministers are being knocked off their seats by their successors. The ministers are or have been seated on stones resembling mile-stones, engraved with the title of their office. They are all in profile to the left, facing their successors. Sandwich (centre), on a stone inscribed "First Lo--d of the Adm--ty", is being knocked backwards by Admiral Keppel, his successor, who threatens him with clenched fists, saying, "Strike your false Colours". Sandwich is saying "That broadside has broke my Bowsprit". From his pocket falls a small paper, "List of the navy". Round his waist is a rope with a broken end, the other end of which is still attached to an anchor which lies on the ground beside him, inscribed "Rotten for want of care". Lord North (right), very short and fat, is being knocked backwards by Fox, who has a fox's head. His stone is inscribed "Prime Minis--r"; he says, "O Reynard if I fall I shall burst". Fox says to him, "Buss Constable". By this stone He two bars inscribed "Soap" and a cask inscribed "12 Shilling Small Beer", to indicate the taxes recently proposed by North, see BMSat 5964, &c. To the left Lord Amherst, in general's uniform and wearing spurred top-boots, is seated on the stone inscribed "[Gen]eral of al[l] the Land Forces". Conway stands opposite him, threatening him with his fists and saying, "That Staff shall be mine". Amherst says, "Where's my reserved courage--oh-- its in my breeches". In the foreground (left) sits Britannia, her shield beside her, holding her spear and stretching out an arm towards Keppel. She says Britons strike home."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Tack about is fair play and Lord Sandwich drove from his moorings
- Description:
- Title from item. and Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Sold by W. Humphrey no. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Fighting, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lo-d Sand-g drove from his moorings, or, Tack about is fair play [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1776]
- Call Number:
- 776.11.00 .01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Reaction to the Battle of Long Island and the capture of New York by British forces. North and Mansfield stand on a platform, the former holding up a dispatch from Howe. Bute and George III stand behind them. A distressed Wilkes stands in the left foreground, with a tearful woman on the ground near him holding the cap of Liberty. Two ministers are depicted on the right, one being Sandwich, the other probably Germain. The seacoast is visible in the background with ships, some sinking
- Alternative Title:
- Patriots in the dumps
- Description:
- Title from item., Above image in plate: Lond. Mag. Nov. 1776., and From the London Magazine v, 45, p. 599 of Nov. 1776, although British museum catalogue gives date as Dec. 1, 1776.
- Publisher:
- Publisher not indentified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, America., and United States
- Subject (Name):
- Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785.
- Subject (Topic):
- Long Island, Battle of, New York, N.Y., 1776, Colonies, History, and Campaigns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > News from America, or, The patriots in the dumps [graphic].
- Creator:
- Slapbang, J., printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 January 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.01.10.01.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Ministerial hounds in full cry
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Perhaps a reissue of British Museum catalogue no. 5676, with altered imprint.
- Publisher:
- Publishd as y Act direts for y Proprietor Jany. 10, 1780 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand or No. 18 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Dudley, H. Bate Sir, 1745-1824. (Henry Bate),, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785., Palliser, Hugh, Sir, 1723-1796., and Adam, William, 1751-1839.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government and Newspaper vendors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Political stag hunt, or, The m...l [ministerial] hounds in full cry [graphic]
- Creator:
- Slapbang, J., printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.01.10.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A huntsman (left), mounted on a horse snorting flames which are inscribed "Faction", preceded by the "ministerial hounds", chases a stag, inscribed "Constitution". The huntsman is Bate, afterwards Bate Dudley, representing the Ministerial Press. He is dressed like the body of news vendors with drums and trumpets to advertise the 'Morning Post' seen by Walpole in Nov. 1776 (see BMSat 5550), and is blowing a trumpet. His cap is inscribed "Post", round his shoulders is slung a bundle inscribed "Materials for Post", made up of "Satire", "Malice", "Scandal", "Falsehood". From his pocket hangs a paper, "The Art of Lying made Easy by B." He leaps a fence inscribed "Bounds of Discretion". The hounds are taking a circular course as the stag has doubled back and is advancing towards a ravine, a signpost pointing "To the Vale of Oblivion". The stag says "I shall fall like Lucifer never to Hope again." The two foremost hounds have human faces; the first (North) says "We shall soon be in at the Death - She can go no further N . . . h". The next, inscribed "Twitcher" (Lord Sandwich), says "I have long had her Destruction at Heart & the sooner the better". The third (Lord G. Germain) says, "I run almost as fast now as I did at Minden" (cf. BMSat 5675). Next is a dog with a judge's wig (Mansfield) saying, "She will find no Covert near Caen Wood" (cf. BMSat 4885). A dog inscribed "L. S." says "I am the sort to go Thro Thick & Thin"; perhaps intended for Lord Stormont, Secretary of State, and Mansfield's nephew, or possibly for Lovel Stanhope, who was appointed Comptroller of the Board of Green Cloth in September 1780. A dog with the face of a demon, [Mr Hawkins has written "Jer. Dyson" on this dog, but he died in 1776] probably representing the Devil as in BMSat 5675, says, "I allways was firm to the cause". The next dog is inscribed "Log" and is saying "I stick at Nothing". This is evidently Sir Hugh Palliser, whose log-book was found at his court martial to have been altered, see BMSat 5536, 5537. The last dog says "I am Adam'd Good Dog but ye last Fox Hunt Had like to be Death of me". He is William Adam, whose duel with Fox on 29 Nov. 1779 roused much bitterness against the ministry, see BMSat 5575, 5625. The scene is a wooded hill and the going is rough. Behind Bate on the left is the partly ruined "Templum Libertatis" overgrown with shrubs and shored up by timbers inscribed "Richmond", "Barre", "Camden", "Burke & Fox", "Wilks". Beneath the design is etched: "Hungry Dogs the old Proverbs say Eat dirty Pudding, when in their way So Will these Dogs as oft we are told Catch at any thing which looks like Gold. Or bears the least Aspect of doing Good for themselves tho their Country ruin. Tis little Rogues submit to fate Whilst ye Great enjoy ye World in State.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Ministerial hounds in full cry
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed, with upper right corner torn off., and Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Dudley, H. Bate Sir, 1745-1824. (Henry Bate),, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785., Palliser, Hugh, Sir, 1723-1796., and Adam, William, 1751-1839.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government and Newspaper vendors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Political stag hunt, or, The m...l [ministerial] hounds in full cry [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [21 February 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.02.21.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Drivers in danger
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the Act directs Feby. 21, 1780, by I. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785.
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Foreign relations, and Spectators
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The bull over-drove, or, The drivers in danger [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 February 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.02.12.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to BMSat 5640. A large bull transfixed on a spit roasts before a fire (left) over which hangs a large covered pot. Beside the animal sits George III (left) wearing a ribbon, in his right. hand he holds the end of the spit, in the left a handkerchief, saying "Turning the Spit, has made me Sweat; by George". Sandwich holds a large spoon to baste it, saying, "Not quite so fat as he was formerly". Bute, in tartan, stands behind the bull, saying, "Twas a Noble Beast; Jemmy Twitcher". On the right is a dinner table, behind which sit figures representing France, America, and Spain. France is saying "A bit of the Brown for Louis". America, a Red Indian woman, with a feathered head-dress, her knife raised to her mouth, her left hand in her plate clutching a fork, is saying, "A Dish of Buttock for Congress". Spain, in cloak and feathered hat, says "Some of the Flank for Don Diego". On the ground in front of the table sits a Dutchman eating with a spoon out of a bowl; he says "I've got a Dish of Memorial Broth", an allusion to the succession of memorials presented by Sir Joseph Yorke to the States General on breaches of their treaties with England, see BMSat 5568, 5571, &c Lord North is bringing a dish from the fire to the table, saying "I'll serve you all my good Friends as fast as possible". Beneath the design is engraved: "Behold the poor Bull! once Britania's chief boast, Is kill'd by State Cooks, and laid down for a Roast! While his Master, who should all his Honours maintain, Turns the Spit tho' he should such an Office disdain. Monsieur licks his gills at a bit of the Brown, And the other two wish for to gobble him down, But may ill digestion attend on the treat, And the Cooks every one soon be roasted, & Eat.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Political cooks serving their customers
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs Feby. 12, 1780, by I. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792.
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)., Foreign relations, Cauldrons, and Cooking utensils
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The bull roasted, or, The political cooks serving their customers [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- May 1, 1780.
- Call Number:
- 780.05.01.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A view of Temple Bar, with three heads on spikes. The heads are being pelted with stones, dead dogs, &c, by a crowd of men, women, and children. A market-woman smoking a pipe kneels before her basket, and is about to use its contents as missiles. Another woman says "This is a sight I have long wish[ed] to see". A boy holds a stone in one hand, a dead dog or cat in the other. A man waves his hat, crying, "Steer to the North", indicating that one of the victims is Lord North; another says, "There goes for Germany" (Lord George Germain). The third is evidently Lord Sandwich. Another man says "This is a happy day for England". A man waves his wig in delight. Small figures hurling missiles are seen through the centre arch; passers-by appear through the two side arches. On the upper part of the masonry of the arch is sketched a figure of Justice, seated on clouds, her scales in one hand, a spear in the other. The statues of two kings in the alcoves show that this is the west side of Temple Bar. On Temple Bar are placards: "Lecture upon Heads", a punning allusion to the popular 'Lecture' of George Alexander Stevens; "A Cure for a Distressed] nation" and "1745", in allusion to the heads on Temple Bar after the Jacobite rebellion. See BMSat 5660, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate line., and Mounted to 32 x 40 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, (39) Strand
- Subject (Name):
- North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784., and Temple Bar (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 and Crowds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The heads of the nation in a right situation [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [after 1 March 1776]
- Call Number:
- 776.03.01.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a blacksmith's shop, the Earl of Mansfield forges links of a chain, with Lord North on the left holding his lorgnette in his left hand, with "An Act for prohibiting trade" in his right hand. Lord Sandwich stands to North's left, holding hammer and anchor, with Bute behind them working the bellows and George III looking in the window at the left
- Alternative Title:
- Political blacksmiths
- Description:
- Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed., and Probably a variant of no. 5328 "The State blacksmiths forging fetters for the Americans" in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, United States, and America.
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, History, Colonies, and Blacksmiths
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The political black-smiths [graphic].