- Published / Created:
- [1821]
- Call Number:
- 53 C292 821b Framed, shelved in Object Room A:B
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Monody on her late Majesty Queen Caroline ...
- Description:
- Caption title., Letterpress with woodcut illustration., A illustrated broadside printed on silk., With an image of a woman weeping at a tombstone enscribed with the words "Great Britain's Queen, the injured Caroline., Around the border, following the title: Minister! go hang thyself in justice to mankind, for if after this, you die by the ordinary course of Nature, all honest men will be disgraced by sharing even a common death with you., In verse., First line: Hark! - whence proceeds that awful sound ..., and In a contemporary (or early) gilt wood frame, 19 x 16 cm, hanging hook at top; likely framed for domestic display. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "They have destroyed me" : a monody on her late Majesty Queen Caroline, who departed this life August 7, 1821, aged fifty-three
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- Published / Created:
- [1709]
- Call Number:
- 709.00.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Engraved broadside with an etching at top and two columns of verse below., The verse begins: Since moderation is so much in vogue ..., and Unidentified contemporary signature in upper left corner on verso.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A British Janus : Anglicè a timeserver
- Published / Created:
- [between 1680 and 1710?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Description:
- In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; imprint below the last three; the columns are not separated by rules., Date range conjectural; other ballads with similar imprints are also undated; printer’s name conjectured from other imprints recorded by Wing., Verse begins: "In Rome a nobleman did wed"., In this setting line 24 begins with "straight"., Not in Wing., Mounted on leaf 52. Copy trimmed., Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1., and Sheet in two pieces repaired and mounted as one piece.
- Publisher:
- Printed by and for C.B. [Brown?] and sold by J. Walter, at the Hand and Pen in High Holborn
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and vertuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children, wickedly performed by a heathenish and blood-thirsty blackamore, their servant, the like of which cruelty and murther was never before heard of. To the tune of The lady's fall, &c. Enter’d according to order
- Published / Created:
- [between 1701 and 1800?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Description:
- Caption title above woodcut., Date range conjectural., Verse begins: "In Rome a nobleman did wed"., In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules., In this setting line 24 begins with "and"., Mounted on leaf 51. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and virtuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.07.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Late epistle to Mr. Cleveland and Cabin council
- Description:
- Title from first line of letterpress below image., Publisher identified from address., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., "To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford Market in the Strand."--Bottom of sheet., "Pr. 6d."--Bottom of plate., Broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet. Title on etching: Cabin council., Mock paraphrase of Admiral Byng's letter to John Cleveland, Admiralty., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: cabin on Ramillies (admiral's ship) -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Naval uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Furnishings: porcelain -- Guns: cannons -- 2nd Earl of Effingham -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Henry IV -- Literature: quotation from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., and Watermark: countermark I V.
- Publisher:
- Edwards & Darly
- Subject (Name):
- Byng, John, 1704-1757 and Cornwallis, Edward, 1713-1776
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A late epistle to Mr. C------d.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1741? and 1748]
- Call Number:
- 741.00.00.19
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- A satirical broadside, with two vignettes of the "Weaver". On the left the weaver is at his loom his back to his wife who is seated at the hearth warming her hands over the fire. On the right he is shown in the disguise of a Friar receiving his wife for confession as she kneels before him. Two columns of verse below: "A weaver jealous of his wife like many, Still dream't of horns before the Knave had any ... Twas you were the young man the old man & [the] Fryer. Finis."
- Alternative Title:
- Weaver jealous of his wife like many, Still dream't of horns before the Knave had any ...
- Description:
- Title from engraved text above image., All engraved., Date from British Book Trade Index., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and With "Pro Patria" watermark.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by Samuel Lyne, map and printseller at the Globe in Newgate Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Weavers, Looms, Fireplaces, Confessions, Costumes, and Monks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A merry tale of the jealous weaver [graphic].
7.
- Creator:
- Howard, H. (Henry), author
- Published / Created:
- [July 1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.07.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- A broadside with seven verses in letterpress below an engraving, representing three Red Indian Chiefs in their national costumes -- "The Stalking Turkey", "The Pouting Pidgeon", "The Man killer". This satire written on the occasion of the arrival in London of three chiefs of the Cherokee Nation, on an embassy to the Court of George III, and the impression these envoys produced on the English
- Description:
- Caption title., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Bowditch's annotations on mounting sheet., Annotated in an unknown hand below verse., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm; some damage to edges and lower corners.
- Publisher:
- Sold by the author, opposite the Union Coffee-House, in the Strand, near Temple-Bar, and by all the print and pamphlet seller[s]
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America and Songs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new humorous song on the Cherokee chiefs inscribed to the ladies of Great Britain, to the tune of, Caesar and Pompey were both of the horned / [graphic]
8.
- Creator:
- Spilsbury, Jonathan, approximately 1737-1812, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- July 17, 1766.
- Call Number:
- Topos N878 no. 2++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- A view of Dilston Hall with its grounds, gardens, and river in foreground. On the far end of the bridge over the river on the right sits a woman with her back to the viewer; a man with a cane walks past her. Other figures in the foreground include a fisherman with a dog addressing a man with a raised cane and a dog at his heels; a woman with a hat appears to have a kerchief to her eye as she views the two men. In the right foreground a woman sits on the grass with child standing in front of her. In the left foreground another two men with walking sticks converse, one has a dog. A poem engraved in three columns below the image laments the death of the Earl
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Plate signed below image., and Verses below image begin: How mournful feeble nature's tone, when Dilston-Hall appears ...
- Publisher:
- Drawn on the spot by Thos. Oliver of Hexham in Northumberland, & published according to act of Parliament
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Northumberland., and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Derwentwater, James Radcliffe, Earl of, 1689-1716 and Dilston Castle (Dilston, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Castles & palaces, Jacobites, and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A perspective view of Dilston Hall, once the seat of the unfortunate James, Earl of Derwent-Water [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [between 1754 and 1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Alternative Title:
- Tragical ballad, of the unfortunate love of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor
- Description:
- In three columns with the title above the first two; a woodcut is in middle of the second column; imprint is below the third column; the columns are not separated by rules., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Verse begins: "Lord Thomas he was a bold forester,"., Mounted on leaf 72. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballads, English, Man-woman relationships, Murder, Suicide, Courtship, Betrayal, Decapitations, Dead persons, and Daggers & swords
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tragical ballad of the unfortunate loves of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor : together with the downfal of the brown girl
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1780]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 646 780 On58
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Caption title., Place and date of publication based on provence: formerly bound in a collection of chapbooks published in Lichfield in the 1770s., First line: Miss Pure, a very neat and clean-heeled Filly, from Black Mary's Hole, near London ..., A broadside with a simple woodcut above the title, advertising the services and skills of woman, Miss Jenny Foreyard, Cleopatra Tickleback, Diana Trapes, Polly Trim, Jenny Spruce, and Lucy Pleasant., Not in ESTC., and Broadsides printed on laid paper and mounted in an album bound in red, quarter-leather morocco with Cockerell-marbled boards and vellum corners, with black-leather, gilt-stamped spine label. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, England., and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Prostitutes, Prostitution, and Couples
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A true list of the sporting ladies