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- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [February 1771]
- Call Number:
- 771.02.00.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Highlanders in tartan kneeling on the left before the Duke of Cumberland and two officers on horseback, with a standing guard directing their submission; soldiers in a cloud of smoke and a castle in the background to left; after Wale; in an architectural frame headed by a trophy composed of a crown, laurel wreath, and weapons."--British Museum online catalogue and "The plate illustrates an article contrasting the present Duke of Cumberland, who is attacked for his affair with Lady Grosvenor (see British Museum Satires nos. 4440, 4441, 4844), and the previous holder of the title. Scotland and the Scots are also attacked."--British Museum online catalogue, Curator's comments
- Alternative Title:
- Rebellion crushed MDCCXLV
- Description:
- Title etched above and within image., Date inferred from that of the periodical in which the plate was published., Plate from: The Oxford magazine; or, Universal museum ..., v. 6, page 70 (February 1771)., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790, Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790,, and Grosvenor, Henrietta Grosvenor, Countess, -1828.
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746. Henry Frederick, Scotland, Adultery, Scottish regiments, Soldiers, and Military officers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Scotch pride humbled, or, The rebellion crushed MDCCXLV [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1772]
- Call Number:
- 772.02.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A skimmington procession : on a sorry-looking horse a man and woman sit astride, back to back; the woman, richly dressed, sits in front, her skirts pushed back to show breeches. In her right. hand is a pistol, in her left. a sword. The man holds a distaff. The procession is headed by a man (r.) holding aloft on a pole a petticoat and a pair of horns. Behind him walks a man beating a drum. Behind the horse is a woman carrying a broom over her shoulder and a woman blowing a horn. A spectator points and jeers, another walks with folded arms."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Dowager Queen riding poor Denmark
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to a description of the palace revolution in Denmark in 1772., and Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 56.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway, 1749-1808 and Caroline Mathilde, Queen, consort of Christian VII, King of Denmark, 1751-1775
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery and Parades & processions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The D--g-r Queen riding poor D--m--k [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.01.00.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Court character that appear'd at the King of Denmark's masquerade
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in British Museum catalogue Oct. 10, 1768 which was the date of the masquerade alluded to in the title., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1769), p. 24., Temporary local subject terms: Crowns: earl's coronet -- Cuckolds -- Literature: Reference to A wife to let by Eliza Haywood, ?1693-1756., and Mounted to 33 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The contrast, or, A court character that appear'd at the King of Denmark's masquerade [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 September 1812]
- Call Number:
- 812.09.01.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Illustration to 'The Empire of the Nairs', pp. 175-9, referring to verses published in the 'Scourge', iii. 313-18, 456-61, 'The H- [Hertford] Dynasty, or the Empire of the Nairs', suggested by the romance of J.H. Lawrence, 'The Empire of the Nairs', 1811 (published in German in 1811, and afterwards in French), with an introduction seriously advocating the introduction of these customs into England. The Nairs (or Nayars) were a military caste of Malabar who practised polyandry. The plate is not elucidated. Lady Hertford reclines in an ornate bath, into which water gushes from the jaws of a monster which decorates the pedestal of a Venus. The bath is raised on a triple dais and backed by the pillars and canopy which frame the Venus forming the centre of the design. The Regent, in royal robes, ascends the steps of the dais, poised on his toes like a ballet-dancer, and places a crownlike marquis's coronet on the head of Lady Hertford who leans towards him, her enormous breasts appearing over the edge of the bath. She says: "I proclaim the Freedom of the Sex & the Supremacy of Love." Lord Hertford, who bestrides the pedestal, looks down delightedly from behind the statue of Venus. He has horns, and holds his Chamberlain's staff. The water pours from the bath through the nostrils of a bull's head with which it is ornamented, and falls in a triple cascade into a circular basin in the centre foreground. On each side of the statue of Venus and flanking the dais is a statue in a niche: 'Aspasia' (left) and 'Messalina' (right); both are disrobing. Near the fountain (right) a hideous hag, naked to the waist, crouches before a tall brazier in which she burns a 'Mantle of Modesty'. The building appears to be circular, an arc of the wall forming a background on each side of the centre-piece. On this are tablets inscribed respectively 'Hic Jacet Perdita' [Mary Robinson, the Prince's first mistress, see No. 5767, &c.]; 'Hic Jacet Armstead' [Mrs. Fox, who had been the Prince's mistress, cf. No. 10589]; 'Hic J[acet] Vauxhall Bess' [Elizabeth Billington, see British Museum Satires No. 9970; her mother sang at Vauxhall, see British Museum Satires No. 6853]. In the foreground on the extreme right a buxom young woman puts her arms round the Duke of Cumberland, saying, "I'll go to Cumberland"; he walks off with her, to the fury of an admiral just behind the lady who clutches his sword and is seemingly her husband. Cumberland wears hussar uniform with a shako and fur-bordered dolman, with a star and a large sabre. A meretricious-looking young woman (? Mrs. Carey) puts her arms round the Duke of York, saying, "And I to York." The Duke, who wears uniform with a cocked hat and no sword, looks down quizzically at her. Behind him a tall thin officer in hussar uniform bends towards Princess Charlotte, taking her hand; he says: "Sure & I'll go to Wales." She runs eagerly towards him. As a pendant to these figures, Grenadiers stand at attention on the left, holding bayoneted muskets; they have huge noses, and smile at a buxom lady wearing spurred boots who addresses them with outstretched arm, saying, "And you for Buckinghamshire." At her feet is an open book: 'Slawkenberges Chapr on Noses' [from Sterne's Slawkenbergius, imaginary author of a Rabelaisian fantasy in 'Tristram Shandy']. They have a standard with the word 'Buckin ...' on it. Behind the Prince (left) stands Tom Moore, looking up at the coronation; he holds an open book: 'Little Poems / Ballad . . .' He says: "I'll give you one Little Song More [see British Museum Satires No. 12082]." Behind him stands Mrs. Jordan, placing a chamber-pot on the head of the Duke of Clarence, who wears admiral's uniform with trousers."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 4 (September 1812), page 173., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. September 1st, 1812, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate St.
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquess of, 1743-1822, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800., Fox, Elizabeth Bridget, 1750-1842., Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818., and Venus (Roman deity),
- Subject (Topic):
- Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Nairs, Sculpture, Fountains, Crowns, Horns, Adultery, Mistresses, and Soldiers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The coronation of the Empress of the Nairs [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 November 1812]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Plate to the 'Scourge', iv, before p. 349. An illustration to 'Elections in the Isle of Borneo', pp. 349-55, relating a dream in which the Prince chooses his Ministers and Household officers according to their proficiency in adultery. A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 11899. The Regent is enthroned under a canopy in the centre of a long platform backed by the pillars of Carlton House. Below is the cobbled street, with passers-by and spectators whose heads are just below the platform, so that the figures are arranged in two tiers. The Regent's throne is on a triple dais; he puts one arm round the waist of Lady Hertford who sits on his knee, holding at arms' length a brimming goblet. She puts her right arm round his neck, and also supports herself by placing a finger on the branching antlers of her husband, who stands in his chamberlain's robes, and holding his wand of office, beside the dais, at which he points with a complacent grin. He says: "My gracious Master is personelly acquainted with my merits, they live in his bosom, & he will reward me, according to my Deserts." Lady Hertford wears a spiky crown, and her vast spherical breasts are divided by a jewel in the form of the Prince's feathers with his motto 'Ich Dien.' The drapery over the throne is centred by the crowned skull of a stag, with wide antlers; in its nostrils is a ring from which a birch-rod hangs above the Prince's head. A grinning demon, standing on the antlers, straddles across the crown, holding up the drapery. On the left of the throne the Duke of York, in uniform with cavalry boots, his hand on his sword, stands swaggeringly. A woman clutches his arm and whispers in his ear; beside them is a basket containing three infants and inscribed 'Mother Careys Chickin' [see British Museum Satires No. 11050]. He says: "I was turned out of the Office I now solicit because I was too fond of a married Woman [Mrs. Clarke, see British Museum Satires No. 11216, &c.] & could not live without commiting Adultery I claim therefore to be once more elevated to the Office of Commander in Cheif." Behind Lord Hertford (and a pendant to Mrs. Carey) stands an elderly posturing peer, wearing a star, his hands deprecatingly extended. He says: "As for business I never had a Headfor't but I have laid the Country under a Massy load of Obligations in other respects Adultery is my Motto so give me ******ship of the H-." Next (right) is a group of three: the Duke of Cumberland in outlandish Death's Head Hussar uniform holding a sabre with a notched blade and seemingly dripping blood, though not so coloured. He stands between two young women; one, holding his arm, brandishes a razor over her head, the other holds a paper called 'Nugent'. The Duke says: "Considering my Exploits you cannot do less than make me a Field Marshal." On the extreme right is the Duke of Clarence in admiral's uniform with trousers, pointing to a broken chamber-pot ('Jordan') decorated with a crown and containing seven children, two in uniform. Mrs. Jordan takes him affectionately by the arm. He points downwards, saying, "I have lived in Adultery with an actress 25 years & have a pretty Number of illegetimate Children. I hope you will make me an Admiral of the Fleets." On the extreme left McMahon, dwarfish and ugly, stoops over the edge of the platform, pouring coins from a bag marked 'P P' [reversed letters], for Privy Purse (or Pimp), into the apron of a hideous bawd who grins up at him. He says: "Let her be forty at least, plump & Sprightly." Next stands Lord Yarmouth, wearing a star, his hands in his pockets, scowling at a young woman who puts her hands on his shoulders; he says: "Confound my Wishers if Venus alias Fanny Anny [Fagniani] may not go to Juno----I'm Vice all over. Let me con tinue so." Next is a tall man wearing a long driving-coat with a star and a small rakish top-hat (? Lord Melbourne); one leg terminates in a cloven hoof. He stands between two disreputable women of the lowest St. Giles type, ragged and hideous, an arm across the shoulders of each; both offer him drink, one takes him by the chin. A third and younger woman sits on the ground at his feet, drinking from a bottle. He says: "As for me my Name is sufficient, I am known as the Paragon of Debauchery and I only claim to be the-s [Regent's] Confidential Friend." On the ground (left to right) are the bawd receiving money from McMahon, a ragged dustman with the curved shin-bones then known as 'cheese-cutters', a result of rickets; George Hanger, with his bludgeon under his arm (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8889, &c.), saying, "Hang her She's quite Drunk"; Augustus Barry, grotesquely thin and very rakish, with long coat, standing with widely splayed-out feet. These three stare up at the throne, Barry looking through an eye-glass. A ragged, sub-human creature picks Barry's pocket, taking a paper: 'A Sermon to be Preached at Cripple gate by Revd Honble A Newgate'. A blind beggar (? a sailor) walks with a stick, and a dog on a string, holding out his tattered hat. A Quaker-like figure stares up at the platform where the legs of the seated prostitute hang over its edge, as does a beggar boy with badly twisted legs. Next, a fashionably dressed man and woman shake hands, bending to stare into each other's face. He takes her left hand. His dress resembles that of the dandy of a few years later: shock of hair, exaggerated neck-cloth, hussar-pattern trousers, and long tail-coat. The centre figure in this lower row is John Bull looking up angrily over his shoulder at the prostitute, and pushing away to the right three young girls; he says to them: "Get away get away, if you go near the Platform you'll be ruined." His bull-dog looks pugnaciously up at the platform. A tall emaciated cavalry soldier speaks to a woman in a poke-bonnet, while a little ragged boy clasps the long horse-tail which hangs from his helmet. On the extreme right is Sheridan in (ragged) Harlequin's dress (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9916), moribund or drunk, supported between two top-booted bailiffs; one holds a writ and says "Poor fellow his Magic wand is broken." On the ground lies his wooden sword in two pieces, one inscribed 'M', the other 'P'; at his feet is a paper: 'Princely Promises'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Election in the island of Borneo
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 4 (October 1812), page 349., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted opposite page 318 (leaf numbered '143' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- Published November 1st, 1812, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, Hertford, Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, Marquess of, 1777-1842, Melbourne, Peniston Lamb, Viscount, 1745-1828, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Barry, Augustus, Honble., 1773-1818, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Carlton House (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Harlequin (Fictitious character), John Bull (Symbolic character), Dustmen, Thrones, Canopies, Columns, Adultery, Antlers, Cobblestone streets, Demons, Military uniforms, Baskets, Infants, Daggers & swords, Poor persons, Pickpockets, Beggars, Staffs (Sticks), Prostitutes, Soldiers, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The court of love, or, An election in the island of Borneo [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- Feb. 1, 1787.
- Call Number:
- 787.02.01.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered 'i' and 'ii'.
- Description:
- Titles engraved below images., Plate from: "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1787, v. xix, page 33., Temporary local subject terms: Chamber maid., and Mounted to 20.5 x 28 cm, with p. 33-34 from Town and country magazine, 1787, vol. xix.
- Publisher:
- Published by A. Hamilton Junr., Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The seduced fille de chambre The cruel husband. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- 1 Mar. 1787.
- Call Number:
- 787.03.01.03 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A portrait said to be of Sir Brook Watson and a grocer's wife whom is reputed to have seduced
- Alternative Title:
- Pensioned magistrate
- Description:
- Titles from text below images., Plate from?: "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1787, v. xix, page 51., Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered 'IV' and 'V'., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., with p. [51]-52 of Town and country magazine, 1787, vol. xix.
- Publisher:
- Published by A. Hamilton Junr., Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- Watson, Brook, 1735-1807.
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The subtle prude The pensioned magistrate. [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [1770]
- Call Number:
- 770.01.00.04 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire on the trial of the Duke of Cumberland for criminal conversation with Lady Grosvenor at the King's Bench; most of the characters --lawyers and cuckolds -- shown with animal heads
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum. London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), page 19., and Mounted to 33 x 46 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Grosvenor, Henrietta Grosvenor, Countess, -1828
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery and Judicial proceedings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The trial of Mr. Cumberland for spreading the distemper among horned cattle at St. Albans & other parts [graphic]