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1. Characteresticks [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1771]
- Call Number:
- 771.12.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three half-length figures in circles of laurel leaves. Lord Mayor Crosby (centre) in his gown wearing a civic mural crown holds a scourge inscribed "For Monopoly" in one hand, in the other a scroll: "Thanks and Prayers of the Poor". Behind him is a figure of Justice with her scales and a view of the Tower of London in which he had been imprisoned, see British Museum Satires No. 4850, &c. Wilkes (left), as Hercules, with a sheriff's staff holds a club "For undue Influence" and a scroll inscribed "Herculas's Labours overcome Genl Warrants maintain'd Lib. of Press - Freedom of Election, &c. &c. &c". A bull (right) wearing an alderman's chain, holding a sheriff's staff and with one hoof on a column inscribed "Fortitude" denotes Alderman Bull who was elected sheriff with Wilkes in 1771, see British Museum Satires No. 4874. In the centre, between the circles, are the City arms and motto, "Domine dirige nos", and the cap of liberty inscribed "Libertas"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Characteristics
- Description:
- Title from item., Date of publication from that of the periodical for which the plate was engraved., Dated to 1 January 1772 in the British Museum catalogue., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors , v. 7 (1771), p. 229., and Temporary local subject terms: Arms: London city arms -- Personifications: Justice -- Aldermen -- Tower of London -- Mythology: Hercules -- Brass Crosby, 1725-1793, Lord Mayor of London, 1771.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bull, Frederick, approximately 1714-1784, and Tower of London (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Liberty cap, Coats of arms, and Emblems
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Characteresticks [graphic].
2. Coalition arms [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [8 March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.08.01.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "North and Fox as supporters of the Coalition Arms (cf. BMSat 6369 (5)), which rest on the prostrate body of the king, on whom North rests his left foot and Fox his right. North stands (left) dexter, holding in his right hand a flag on which are two demons and the word 'Coalition'; the staff is surmounted with a skull; in his left is a small flag with thirteen oblique stripes, an allusion to the loss of the Colonies, which forms part of the first quarter of the arms. Fox holds a ragged cap of Liberty on its staff; his right hand, resting on the escutcheon, holds a small axe which forms part of the second quarter of the arms. The crest is formed of the heads of North and Fox back to back, in profile, right; from their mouths comes a ribbon with the word 'Faction'. The motto which supports the figures of Fox, North, and I the king, is 'Neck or Nothing'. Beneath the plate is a printed explanation of the Coalition Arms: 'Lately granted by a new College of Arms to two Illustrious Persons for their numerous and distinguished Virtus "Go and do thou likewise". They are thus emblazoned: First Quarter. A Standard with the Thirteen Stripes of the American States; Base, Edmund St Omer's [Burke], like a skilful Dentist, drawing the Teeth of a Lion. Second. Quarterly, First and Fourth, Implements of Gambling; Sinister Chief, a declining Axe; Dexter base, the head of Charles, Martyr; Fesse Point Arms of H--ll--d [Holland, the arms of Fox, cf. BMSat 6423]. Third. A Gallows, Two Halters charged Proper. Fourth. Britannia Renversed. Crest. Janus, with the motto Faction. Supporters. Dexter, the Promoter of Independence with the Flag of Coalition. Sinister; the Man of the People, with a Liberty Cap worn Threadbare; both Supporters trampling on an injured------[King] who is extricating Himself from their Oppression.' The arms are as described: Burke (half length) applies a pair of forceps to the teeth of a lion, seated passively. Above them is a paper inscribed 'Reform Bill' (cf. BMSat 5645, &c). The implements of gambling are dice-box, dice, and cards. From the gallows hang a fox (left) and North (right). Britannia, seated head downwards, holds out an olive-branch, emblematical of the peace and the loss of America."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Original issue of no. 6441 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires; with the printmaker's initials and date intact., The printed explanation of the arms below the plate begins: "Key to the coalition arms," and ends with: "These arms were given from the Herald's Office to the two men, for their many and distinguished virtues. 'Go and do thou likewise.'", and Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published by M. Smith, March 8, 1784, and sold at No. 46 in Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Coats of arms, Liberty cap, Foxes, Lions, Gambling, Gallows, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Coalition arms [graphic]
3. Coalition arms [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [8 March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.08.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The shield of the Coalition Arms rests on the prostrate figure of the King who tries to free himself from his burden. His efforts are resisted by two supporters of the shield, Lord North (dexter) and Charles Fox (sinister) who each press him down with a foot. North holds a flag with two dancing devils and sign "Coalition," and a small flag with thirteen stripes. Fox holds a stick with a tattered liberty cap on its top. The shield is divided into four quarters. In the first one, Burke, standing under the sign, "Reform bill," pulls a lion's teeth. In the second, the "implements of gambling" are combined with an axe and the head of "Charles Martyr" [i.e., Charles I]. In the third, Fox, shown as a fox, and North, hang from a gallows. In the fourth, a seated figure of Britannia with an olive branch is drawn upside down. The whole is supported by a motto, "Neck or nothing."
- Description:
- The printed explanation of the arms below the plate begins: "Lately granted by a new College of Arms to two illustrious persons for their numerous and distinguished virtues. 'Go and do thou likewise.'" and "Price one shilling."
- Publisher:
- Published by M. Smith, March 8, 1784, and sold at No. 46 in Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Coats of arms, Liberty cap, Foxes, Lions, Gambling, Gallows, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Coalition arms [graphic].
4. Lord Sheffield & the commerce of Great Britain [graphic]
- Creator:
- Deeble, T., printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1790?]
- Call Number:
- 790.00.00.10.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Lord Sheffield within an ornamental oval border
- Alternative Title:
- Lord Sheffield and the commerce of Great Britain
- Description:
- Title from item., Another [earlier?] state published with the imprint: John Str. Bristol, 1790., and Temporary local subject terms: Cap and staff of liberty -- Emblems: Commerce -- Literature: Sheffield on commerce -- British commerce -- Cargo.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Sheffield, John Holroyd, Earl of, 1735-1821,
- Subject (Topic):
- Liberty cap, Commerce, Coats of arms, Shipping, and Sailing ships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lord Sheffield & the commerce of Great Britain [graphic]
5. Lucifera's procession Fairy-Queen. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 12, 1821.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 46. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Queen Caroline as Lucifera sits in a coach made up of objects which figured in the evidence against her. The driver is Bergami, whip in hand (thus representing Satan) on a high box seat; he turns to hand a bottle of wine to the Queen who holds a sack inscribed '50,000' [see British Museum Satires No. 14145]. The beam or chassis is a cannon (see British Museum Satires No. 13850), on this rests the body of the open coach, the front part being the prow of a boat (the polacca, see British Museum Satires No. 13818), the centre part a tub, representing the bath, see British Museum Satires No. 13819, the back part, half of the body of a travelling-coach, is surmounted by half a conical tent (see British Museum Satires No. 13818), the whole making a canopy over the Queen. On the tub-section a coat-of-arms is represented by a diamond-shape blank (hatchment-wise) with two supporters, Bergami and the Devil. Motto: 'Ama et Aude'. The six animals harnessed single file and their riders are adapted from the 'Faerie Queene', relevant quotations being etched below, in eight compartments. The procession advances from the right, down a slope towards a slough, on the verge of which the leading animal, an ass, has fallen, throwing its rider, Alderman Wood in his livery gown, who has dropped two large stacks of papers: 'Addresses ready made' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14119] and 'Plate Subscription' [see British Museum Satires No. 14196]. Below: 'Ignorance Might seem the Wain was very Evil led, When such an One had guiding of the way, That knew not whether right he went or else astray.--' [I, iv. 19.] [He replaces the 'Idlenesse' of the original.] The next four carry banners, each topped by a bonnet rouge; the leader is Dr. Parr on a large pig, as 'Gluttony the second of the crew'. He smokes his accustomed pipe, holds an open book; on his banner is 'Un-Sunned Snow' [see British Museum Satires No. 13975]. Below: 'And next to him rode loathsome Gluttony, deformed Creature, on a filthy Swine' [ibid. 21]. Next, on a goat, is Lord Grey, holding a banner inscribed 'Purity' and a staff topped by a burning heart. He wears a garland of white roses over his shoulder. Below: '--Sir G Rat-- In a Green Gown he cloathed was full fair, And in his hand a burning heart he bare' [ibid. 25]. (He is the 'lustfull Lechery' of the original.) He is followed by Brougham riding a wolf (fifth in the original), in wig and gown, holding a broom and a banner inscribed 'Innocence'. Below: 'And next to him malicious Envy rode upon a ravenous Wolf .....He doth backbite and spitefull poison spews' [ibid. 30, 32]. Next (last in the original), riding a fierce lion, is Burdett wearing makeshift and partial armour, a small red cap, and a tricolour sash; he holds up a firebrand and a red flag inscribed 'Victory or Death' [cf. Hunt's motto in 1819, see British Museum Satires No. 13279]. Below: 'And him beside ride fierce revenging Wrath, Upon a Lion loath for to be led, And in his hand a burning brand he hath, The which he brandisheth about his head' [ibid. 33]. Last (fourth in the original) a stout man mounted on a camel holds before him a copy of 'The Times', from a stack of the papers on his knee. He wears an apron with rolled-up shirt-sleeves (like a pressman) and top-boots, and is clearly Barnes (a fair portrait). Large saddle-bags are inscribed 'Hush Money, Pub[lic] Money', and '£500 Weekly'. Below: 'And greedy Avarice next him did ride, Upon a Camel, loaded all with Gold For of his wicked Pelf his God he made, And unto Hell himself for money Sold' [ibid. 27]. The last two inscriptions (right) describe Bergami and the Queen: 'And after all upon the waggon beam Rode Satan with a smarting Whip in hand, With which he forward lashed the lazy Team, As oft as Ignorance ['Slowth' in original] in the Mire did stand [ibid. 36]. So forth She comes and to her coach does climb [ibid. 17] The which was drawn by six unequal Beasts, On which her six sage Counsellors did ride' [ibid. 18]. Queen Caroline is compared to Lucifera: That made her selfe Queene, and crowned to be, Yet rightfull kingdome she had none at all, . . . [ibid. 12]."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 46 of: George Humphrey shop album.
- Publisher:
- Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
- Subject (Topic):
- Parades & processions, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Whips, Bottles, Wine, Bags, Cannons, Wash tubs, Tents, Coats of arms, Devil, Donkeys, Robes, Banners, Liberty cap, Pipes (Smoking), Swine, Wolves, Brooms & brushes, Lions, Armor, Torches, Camels, and Newspapers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lucifera's procession Fairy-Queen. [graphic]
6. The Unitarian arms [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [14 July 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.07.14.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Design in an oval. A burlesque coat of arms symbolizing the supposed character of the Unitarians represented by Priestley. After the title is engraved: 'Address'd to those Peaceable Subjects of this Kingdom who prefer the Present happy Constitution to that Anarchy & Bloodshed so Zealously sought for by these restless advocates for Priestly & Paine's Sophistical Tenets.' A printed explanation is attached to the print. The shield rests on a vulture which grasps in its beak and claws the motto: 'Under these Garbs do we act.' On a shaded (sable) ground a harpy suckles young harpies and holds up the cap of Liberty with a pendent banner on which is a crown surrounded by drops of blood. On a border round the shield are ten groups of ten intertwined serpents. The crest is the Devil and a number of fiends attacking a glory of rays surrounding a triangle, symbolizing the Trinity. The supporters are (dexter) Religion, a veiled woman holding a book and cross, her foot on a skull, and (sinister) Hypocrisy, a woman with the feet of a bird of prey, reading a book, and holding (concealed) a dagger with a notched blade; a trumpet is slung to her waist; a small wallet containing 'a bandelure' (see BMSat 7829) hangs from her neck in place of a cross. She tramples on a crown. She wears a ragged drapery, intended to suggest humility, over a rich garment. 14 July 1792."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Five lines of prose below title: Addressd to those peacable subjects of this Kingdom who prefer the present happy constitution to that anarchy & bloodshed so zealously sought for by these restless advocates for Priestly & Paine's sophistical tenets., and Watermark: J Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pub. July 14, 1792, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.
- Subject (Topic):
- Harpies (Greek mythology), Dissenters, Religion, Unitarians, Coats of arms, Devil, Demons, Emblems, Liberty cap, Symbols, and Vultures
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Unitarian arms [graphic].