- Creator:
- Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.10.00.01.3+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Set of blocks for Hogarth's wigs
- Description:
- Title from item., Attribution to Paul Sandby from Gunn., Third state, with an addition of a gallows on far right. See British Museum catalogue., Publication date inferred from earlier states., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Below image: An account of the blocks their origin &c., with an escutcheon showing a jack boot in the center of text., "Price 6"., and Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: land tax, 1762 -- Barbers: wig blocks -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Newspapers: Auditor -- Coffee-houses: Cocoa Tree Coffee House -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Pugilists: Nailer ('Nail'em') -- Trades: coachmen -- Coachmen: fighting coachman, Stephenson 'Flogg'em.'
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dashwood, Francis, Sir, 1708-1781, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxation, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Anglo-French War, 1755-1763, Barbers, Engravers, Devil, Wigs, and Gallows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A sett of blocks for Hogarth's wigs [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1762?]
- Call Number:
- 762.00.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title in letter press above image., Publication date based on the date of Lord Bute's appointment in 1762., Two columns of text, separated with vertical ornamental border, below plate: Explanation., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Coats of arms -- Weapons: guns -- Dress: wooden shoes -- Emblems: thistle -- Executioner's axe -- Scots -- Protestants: reference to protestants -- Mottoes: Ense recidendum me pars sincera trabatur immedicabile vulnus.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
- Subject (Topic):
- Firearms, Gallows, Lawyers, Military uniforms, British, and Shackles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Arms designed for the people of England [graphic]
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.02.00.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Warning piece to political boys
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker, place and date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Commutation Tax, 1785 -- Soap tax -- Tax on lights -- Tax on windows -- Signs: sign-posts -- Trades: washerwomen -- Vehicles: tumbrels -- Windows -- Pitt's speech -- Gallow ropes., and Partial watermark in upper right of plate: fleur-de-lis on shield with initials L V G.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxes, Traffic signs & signals, Gallows, Foxes, Horses, Farmers, and Pitchforks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Country revenge, or, A warning piece to political boys [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1757]
- Call Number:
- 757.00.00.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- H. Renardo and his squire called Crafto
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Inscription below image: When the fox destroys the poultry, destroy him., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Plate numbered '59' in upper right corner., Copy in reverse of No. 3638 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Calcraft, John, 1726-1772, and Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805
- Subject (Topic):
- Carts & wagons and Gallows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > H. Renardo & his squire called Crafto going in triumph from the City [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.31
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically
- Description:
- Titles from items., Caption under top design: --well done quoth Whackum., Caption under center design: Mores homines., Two lines of verse below bottom design: And shall the substitutes of power our Genius thus bedecks ..., Copies of, nos. 3398, 3493, and 3543 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Money: bag of money -- Pictures amplifying subject: hawk attacking cock -- Newcastle Administration -- Axes -- Signboards: inn sign -- Blazing comet -- Masks -- Satire on Admiralty -- Royal die and dice box -- Emblems: anchor -- Pictures amplifying subject: EO table -- Clubs: allusion to White's Club -- Animals: sea-lions -- Trades: fishwomen -- Female dress: French dress, ca. 1756 -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Containers: fishwoman's tub for pickled salmon.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Gallows, and Gambling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The constitution card The lyon of [the] sea ; The French dressers, or, England made odious. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- pubd. Novr. 1818.
- Call Number:
- 818.11.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Ferdinand VII, seated on a throne on a low platform inscribed "TIRANIA", is flanked by two advisers, the Devil on the left and a friar on the right. At the friar's feet, in the foreground, a demon burns newspapers with a firebrand. Tortures of the Inquisition are seen in the background
- Description:
- Title from text in image., A close copy, with same imprint but with other inscriptions translated into Spanish, of a print by George Cruikshank entitled "The curse of Spain". Cf. No. 13009 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Six lines of text below image: En tanto que los bravos españoles, Derramaban su sangre por Fernando, El á Napoleon felicitaba, Por las victorias que en el suelo hispano, Sus sanguinárias huestes conseguian-- Ved las hazañas de este Monstruo infando. La Ferdinanda. Lib. 1. v. 129., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1303., Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 868., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1818.
- Publisher:
- Washington
- Subject (Name):
- Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Podiums, Thrones, Crowns, Fools' caps, Scepters, Skulls, Devil, Monks, Axes, Nooses, Demons, Newspapers, Punishment & torture, and Gallows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tirania [graphic].