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1. A sett of blocks for Hogarth's wigs [graphic].
- 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].
2. A sett of blocks for Hogarth's wigs [graphic].
- Creator:
- Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [October 1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.10.00.01.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The central figure of this satire is Lord Bute who stands on a chest labeled "Treasure Box". He is surrounded by his supporters, including Hogarth, and other members of the administration, Smollett, Murphy, Bedford, Dashwood, Townshend, Talbot, Kirby, etc. A satire on Bute's administration and his handling of tax reform and peace with France
- Alternative Title:
- Set of blocks for Hogarth's wigs
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Attribution to Paul Sandby from Gunn., First state, as described in British Museum catalogue: plate without additional text and before addition of gallows., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Below image: An account of the blocks their origin ..., and "Price 6".
- 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, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A sett of blocks for Hogarth's wigs [graphic].
3. Old Wigsby [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1770]
- Call Number:
- 770.00.00.49
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from an unverified 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: Male dress, ca. 1770., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Old Wigsby [graphic].
4. The duellists [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1770]
- Call Number:
- 770.00.00.182
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in a coffee-house. Two men, one in a queue wig and with a pistol, another in club wig and with a sword, are fighting a duel while three frightened customers are trying to leave and another one cowers behind a settee next to a low table with coffee service on it. Behind another settee, a barmaid holds up her hands in horror. The gentleman with the pistol uses it to parry the sword thrusts of his opponent whose forehead is bleeding. A cat with an arched back and a dog barks look at the scene from the left. The room is decorated with a large mirro and shelves with wine glases, china bowls, and pitchers
- Description:
- Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Coffee cups, Coffeepots, Coffeehouses, Dueling, Fear, Handguns, Interiors, Mirrors, Tableware, Waitresses, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The duellists [graphic].
5. The wire master and his puppets [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1767]
- Call Number:
- 767.10.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the original from which this copy was made., Four lines of verse below image: The puppets blindly led away, / Are made to act for ends unknown ..., Reversed copy of No. 4230 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Puppets -- Puppeteers -- Theater: stage -- Devil -- Audiences.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The wire master and his puppets [graphic].
6. [Half-length portrait of a clergyman] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Novr. 6th 1791.
- Call Number:
- 791.11.06.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A half-length portrait in profile of a clergyman wearing spectacles and a wig. He holds a stack of paper in his right hand, while his left hand is raised with his finger pointing upward
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Sitter tentatively identified as Edward Bearcroft., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Bearcroft, Edward, ?1737-1796
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Clergy, Eyeglasses, Lawyers, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Half-length portrait of a clergyman] [graphic]
7. [Illustration to one of Peter Pindar's odes] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1787?]
- Call Number:
- 787.00.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier proof state
- Description:
- Title, printmaker, and date from description of proof state in the British Museum catalogue., For a proof state before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image, see no. 7188 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1787], Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Personification -- Mythology -- Pindar's Ode for a new year.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
- Subject (Topic):
- Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Illustration to one of Peter Pindar's odes] [graphic].
8. [The siege of Namur] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1835]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 773.01.26.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from later state., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., State before title. Cf. Later state in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c., p. 79., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the later state appears., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of a print after Bunbury published in 1773. See no. 5213 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Fortifications -- Jack-boots -- Newspapers: London gazette -- Sentry boxes -- Uniforms: Grenadiers hats .
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Namur (Belgium)
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Siege, 1695, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The siege of Namur] [graphic].
9. [Unidentified portrait] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gulston, Eliza B., 1749 or 1750-1779 or 1780, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the act directs 2d March 1772.
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 71. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Caricature: a stout gentleman standing in profile to right, grinning, right hand behind his back, left tucked into his waistcoat, wearing a sword, frock coat and queue wig."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 71 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Wigs and Daggers & swords
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Unidentified portrait] [graphic]