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1. Observations on the times [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1762]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A broadside satirizing William Hogarth and his print "The Times plate 1" and a reply to Henry Howard's song "The Queen's Ass"; with an etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
- Alternative Title:
- The Time. Pl. 1st
- Description:
- Title from text etched at top of second plate., Two plates: the smaller on top with text "The times pl: 1st. 1762 Price 2s." and an image of an ass with the head of Hogarth, in profile as in the Gates of Calais. The second plate, following the caption title continues "An honest Man's the noblest work of God. Pope. The words by S.W. to the tune of [the] Ass in the Cahlet"; followed by eight stanzas of "A new song" in two columns; a ninth stanza centered below., "Price 6d.", and On page 292 in volume 3. Plate mark 6.4 x 6.6 at top, on sheet 27.3 x 19.3 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Donkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Observations on the times [graphic].
2. Observations on the times [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1762]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 762.09.00.06 Box 110
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A broadside satirizing William Hogarth and his print "The Times plate 1" and a reply to Henry Howard's song "The Queen's Ass"; with an etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
- Alternative Title:
- The Time. Pl. 1st
- Description:
- Title from text etched at top of second plate., Two plates: the smaller on top with text "The times pl: 1st. 1762 Price 2s." and an image of an ass with the head of Hogarth, in profile as in the Gates of Calais. The second plate, following the caption title continues "An honest Man's the noblest work of God. Pope. The words by S.W. to the tune of [the] Ass in the Cahlet"; followed by eight stanzas of "A new song" in two columns; a ninth stanza centered below., and "Price 6d."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Donkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Observations on the times [graphic].
3. The Congress, or, A device to lower the land-tax : to the tune of Doodle, doodle, do, &c.
- Published / Created:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliamt. [August 1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.09.09.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A letterpress broadside with verses of a song in two columns satirizing the Bute administration's overtures for peace with France, suggesting that making peace and handing English conquests to France are motivated by the Duke of Bedford's personal interest to escape paying the Land Tax to support the war. With an etching at top showing Lord Bute on the left offering a scroll to two Frenchmen who are holding the British lion on a chain. One holds a flag with a large jack-boot, the emblem of Lord Bute. In the lower left a tomb decorated with a skull and crossbones and the words "British glory obit 1762".
- Alternative Title:
- Device to lower the land tax
- Description:
- Caption title in letterpress., Publication date from Stephens., "Price sixpence.", Etching at top of sheet: plate mark 18.6 x 19.2 cm. Imprint etched in lower left: Publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Six stanzas of song in two columns: Here you may see the happy congress, all now is done with such a bon grace ..., and Watermark: countermark I V.
- Publisher:
- Printed for the author and sold by all the printsellers in London and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Skull & crossbones, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Congress, or, A device to lower the land-tax : to the tune of Doodle, doodle, do, &c.
4. The Congress, or, A device to lower the land-tax : to the tune of Doodle, doodle, do, &c.
- Published / Created:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliamt. [August 1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.09.09.01+ Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A letterpress broadside with verses of a song in two columns satirizing the Bute administration's overtures for peace with France, suggesting that making peace and handing English conquests to France are motivated by the Duke of Bedford's personal interest to escape paying the Land Tax to support the war. With an etching at top showing Lord Bute on the left offering a scroll to two Frenchmen who are holding the British lion on a chain. One holds a flag with a large jack-boot, the emblem of Lord Bute. In the lower left a tomb decorated with a skull and crossbones and the words "British glory obit 1762".
- Alternative Title:
- Device to lower the land tax
- Description:
- Caption title in letterpress., Publication date from Stephens., "Price sixpence.", Etching at top of sheet: plate mark 18.6 x 19.2 cm. Imprint etched in lower left: Publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Six stanzas of song in two columns: Here you may see the happy congress, all now is done with such a bon grace ..., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
- Publisher:
- Printed for the author and sold by all the printsellers in London and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Skull & crossbones, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Congress, or, A device to lower the land-tax : to the tune of Doodle, doodle, do, &c.