- Published / Created:
- [1720]
- Call Number:
- 720.00.00.55+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A broadside satirising share traders; with an etching showing five scenes relating to stock holders and traders, in the centre an image of the interior of a coffee house with various people dealing papers; with engraved Dutch title, inscriptions, and verses in four columns."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Grosse Versammel-Platz der Wind Verkäuffer A. 1720
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The great gathering place of the wind dealers in the year 1720., Large image in center of sheet and four smaller designs, two on each side. Each smaller design has seven lines of verse below it., Four columns of verse in Dutch below the image in the center: De Zamel-plaats der Actie-Héren ..., Plate 41 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > De grôte vergader-plaats der windverkopers van 't jaar ao. 1720 Der grosse Versammel-Platz der Wind Verkäuffer A. 1720. [graphic] =
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- Published / Created:
- [1787]
- Call Number:
- File 53 B639 Es74++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Title from first words of text. and Broadside concerning the health and safety regulations for an early balloon ascent in Germany. The rules drawn up by the city of Nuremberg in preparation for Jean-Pierre Blanchard's momentous balloon flight over the city on 12 November 1787 are listed.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Germany and Nuremberg (Germany)
- Subject (Name):
- Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809.
- Subject (Topic):
- Balloon ascensions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Es hat Ein Hochlöblicher Rath der des H.R.R. frenen Stadt Nürnberg, bey Gelegenheit der ... Herrn Blanchard ... vor hiesiger Stadt erlaubten Luftfahrt zu Erhaltung guter Ordnung ...
- Creator:
- Leizelt, Balthasar Friedrich, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.00.00.158+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Vue d'optique depicting the burning English frigate Quebec and its opponent the French frigate Surveillante, during the battle of October 6, 1779 near the island of Ushant. The print is dedicated to the memory of the Quebec's captain, George Farmer, who died in the battle
- Alternative Title:
- Etat malheureux du Quebeck et Surveillante vais. de guer. franʻ
- Description:
- Headline title printed in reverse mirror image. and Collection des prospects.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States
- Subject (Name):
- Farmer, George, 1732-1779., Surveillante (Frigate), and Québec (Frigate)
- Subject (Topic):
- History and Naval operations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Etat malheureux du Quebeck et de la Surveillante vaiseau de guerre francois Der unglückliche Zufall der beeden Französischen Kriegs Schiffe, genant Quebeck und Surveillante / [graphic] =
- Creator:
- From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
- Published / Created:
- 1745 April 23–1749 July 14
- Call Number:
- LWL MSS 7
- Container / Volume:
- box 1
- Image Count:
- 270
- Description:
- The volume holds 266 pages of letters primarily from Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, and Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, writing from Whitehall in London. Also present are letters of instruction from George II appointing Hanbury-Williams Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of the King of Poland in 1747 (pages 13-24), his letter of revocation in 1749 for reassignment to the Court of the King of Prussia (pages 199-202), and his instructions from King George II for travel to Anspach to invest Charles William Frederick, the Margrave of Anspach, with the Ensigns of the Order of the Garter (pages 263-265). The letters in the volume were bound nearly in chronological order. Other items in the volume are a copy of a letter written in 1715 to George Townshend from members of the Board of Trade (pages 1-8) and a copy of Lord Harrington's letter to all ministers abroad regarding court couriers, with a list of charges for their trips between Whitehall or Hanover and foreign cities (pages 9-12). Near the end of the volume (pages 243-262), is a "Paper delivered by Count Fleming," in which Saxon minister Karl Georg Friedrich Flemming mentions the June 1747 "double wedding" of Bavarian Elector Maximilian Joseph and his sister Princess Maria Antonia to the Electoral Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony and his sister Princess Maria Anna; the marriage united the ruling families of Bavaria and Saxony. The volume is untitled; it is in a stiff-board binding covered in brown paper with a blue linen spine and has no label on the front cover. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 34; the Phillipps number is 10906.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Charles Hanbury-Williams Papers (LWL MSS 7) > Series I: Diplomatic Papers > > Correspondence > Secretary of State and Staff > Incoming Letters > Letters and reports, 1745-1749
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- Published / Created:
- [1814?]
- Call Number:
- 814.00.00.42+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- An anti-Napoleon broadside including an engraved, cartographic bust of Napoleon above two columns of letterpress in Dutch, German, English and French. The face of Napoleon is formed of carcases of war victims: on the collar are waves of the sea; a "hand" is placed as the epaulet while on the cuff is 'R' (for Regent), round the wrist 'Honi Soit ', on the fingers are the letters 'A', 'R', 'P', 'S', 'E' (for the Allies). A drawing the Rhenish Confedracy [sic] under the flimsy symbol of the cobweb: and the "spider" is a symbolic emblem of the vigilance of the Allies
- Description:
- Title from letterpress caption above text., The name "Napoleon" appears four times below image, above each section in Dutch, English, French, and German. Text in English begins: The first, and last, by the wrath of Heaven Emperor of the Jacobins ..., Engraved image of Napoleon: plate mark 22.7 x 15.9 cm., The satirical Napoleon portrait is a copy of the original by Voltz; Cf. No. 12177 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Place and date of publication based on English-language version of the print published in London by Ackermann in 1814; Cf. No. 12202 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arcimboldesque figures
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Napoleon
- Creator:
- From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
- Published / Created:
- 1731–1743
- Call Number:
- LWL MSS 7
- Container / Volume:
- box 45, folder 20
- Image Count:
- 111
- Description:
- Autograph manuscript poems cover 94 leaves (the full volume), with poems arranged/dated chronologically from 1731 to 1743. Most of the material was published in his Works, and the album pages were annotated in pencil in the twentieth century with those citations. The volume is in a stiff board binding covered with marbled paper with a calf spine. It has printed CH-W and Phillipps number labels on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 69; the Phillipps number is 10930.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Charles Hanbury-Williams Papers (LWL MSS 7) > Series III: Personal Papers > Literary Works > Writings by Hanbury-Williams > Poems and writings, volume 1
- Creator:
- From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
- Published / Created:
- 1743–1744
- Call Number:
- LWL MSS 7
- Container / Volume:
- box 45, folder 21
- Image Count:
- 71
- Description:
- Autograph manuscript writings cover 57 leaves (about half of the volume) in an otherwise blank book, with poems arranged/dated chronologically from 1743 to 1744. Most of the material was published in his Works, and the album pages were annotated in pencil in the twentieth century with those citations. The volume is in a stiff board binding covered with marbled paper with a calf spine. It has printed CH-W and Phillipps number labels on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 70; the Phillipps number is 10930.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Charles Hanbury-Williams Papers (LWL MSS 7) > Series III: Personal Papers > Literary Works > Writings by Hanbury-Williams > Poems and writings, volume 2
- Creator:
- Gole, Jacob, 1660?-1737?, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1700?]
- Call Number:
- 700.00.00.09
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Nous sommes sept, Nos summus septem, Wir sind sieben, and We are seven
- Description:
- Title from item. and "Cum privilegio Ord. Holl. et West Frisiae."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Wy syn seven = Nous sommes sept = Nos summus septem = Wir sind sieben = We are seven / [graphic]