Title etched at top of plate above image., A satire against Walpole. See Foxon., Verse: "Who be de noble lady dere ..."., Letterpress broadside poem printed, illustrated with hand-colored etching at top of sheet (plate mark 21.3 x 32.2 cm.)., Lewis Walpole Library 741.04.07.01+: Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: White Hall -- Buildings: Treasury -- Personifications: Justice -- Britannia (Symbolic character)., and Unidentified watermark.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, April the 7th 1741, and sold by J. Tinney, at the Golden Lion, in Fleet-Street, and at the print and pamphlet-shops
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two designs, side by side, within a border containing seventeen smaller designs., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to 'Carus', fl. 1733 -- Allusion to William Arnall, ca. 1700-1736 -- Nicknames: W. Arnall as 'Francis Walsingham' or 'Mother Osborne' -- Allusion to James Pitt, fl. 1733 -- Nicknames: J. Pitt as 'Fr. Osborne' or 'Mother Osborne' -- Hand of Providence -- Newspapers: allusion to The daily gazeteer -- Journals: Prompter -- Mythology: Acteon as a stag -- Imperial princes as a naked boy -- Implements of torture -- Maps: Naples and Sicily -- Figure of Rome as a nun -- Figure of Germany -- Figure of Scotland -- Britannia -- Shields -- Magna Charta -- Nuns -- Altars -- Pyramids -- Defeat of the excise scheme -- Devils -- Coins -- Dragons -- Harpies -- Mottoes -- Houghton Hall -- Slogans: liberty and property -- Navy: fleet of ships -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis on globe -- Ropes: halter -- Allusion to the sinking fund -- Treaties: Hanover -- Treaties: Seville and Vienna -- Spithead expedition -- Fasces -- Sir Robert Walpole's mistresses as Harpies -- Headsman's axe -- British lion tied by heels -- Sir Robert Walpole as a serpent -- Sir Robert Walpole's French policy, 1733 -- English commerce foundering -- Writing fools -- Unobtainable justice -- Scales tipped by the judge -- Gibbets -- Executions -- Hanged traitors., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Walpole, Maria, Lady, 1701 or 1702-1738, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, and Norfolk, Edward Howard, Duke of, 1686-1777
"Satire on Robert Walpole and his continuing influence on government after his fall from power. A large folding screen in the centre stands open showing events from Walpole's career: the South Sea Bubble, the treaties of Hanover and Seville, the "Bank contract" of 1720, Admiral Hosier's expedition to Cartagena, the Excise Scheme (depicted as BM Satires 1918), the War of Jenkins' Ear, the Convention of the Pardo, the English ships held in the port of San Sebastian in 1740 (see BM Satires 2418 and 2440), and a general reference to "Bribery, &c.". A mirror on the left reveal that Walpole is standing behind the screen pulling strings that operate members of parliament assembled in the chamber shown below. Above the screen is a separate scene showing the reconciliation between George II and Frederick, Prince of Wales, early in 1742. To the right stands the Duke of Argyll in Garter robes resting against a lectern and pointing to Wapole's misdeeds as portrayed on the screen; above Argyll's head hangs a picture of Diogenes holding his lamp and a portrait of the "honest man" he sought; beside Argyll is lettered, "Glorious and Brave to shake Corruption's Seat, But much more Glorious is thy brave Retreat". Two columns of letterpress verse below warn "William", i.e. Pulteney, that Walpole continues to influence governement."
Description:
Caption title in letterpress below image., The title from the caption above the image on the plate: A new screen for an old one, or, The screen of screens., "Price 6p.", Imprint on plate below design., Letterpress broadside poem illustrated with an etching in upper part of the sheet (plate mark 17.3 x 17.2 cm.). The title from the caption above the image on the plate: A new screen for an old one, or, The screen of screens., Two lines of verse engraved vertically on the right of plate: Glorious and brave to shake corruption's seat, but much more glorious is thy brave retreat., Twenty six lines of verse in two columns below the plate, in letterpress: Dear William, did'st thou never go, to mimic farce, call'd Puppet-Shew? ... Lond. Evening Post, Mar. 11, 1741-2., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 35 x 42 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by T.B.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Diogenes, -approximately 323 B.C.
Title from item., Seven lines of verse in two columns below title: Why man, he doth bestride [the] narrow world ... Shakespeare., Five lines of text titled "Description" below verse: The Colossus at Rhodes, a stature of [the] Sun 70 cubits high ..., Temporary local subject terms: Cuba -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare -- Colossus -- Cardinal Fleury as a fox., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743