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1. Address of the Catholics of England, to their Protestant countrymen
- Published / Created:
- [1826]
- Call Number:
- File 68 826 Ad227
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Caption title., "Extracted from the Exeter News, of Saturday, June 17, 1826."--Lower edge., An apology for the attitude of many Protestants determined to deny Roman Catholics an equal place in political, social and religious life., Printed in two columns; signed at the end by approximately 70 Catholics, headed by the Duke of Norfolk., and Scraps of paper mounted on verso and with ms. note: Mr. Thomas Hardick. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Religious tolerance, Anti-Catholicism, Political rights, and Religion
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Address of the Catholics of England, to their Protestant countrymen
2. Dottator et lineator loquitur
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1817?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 94 Box D166
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Five rows with titled dot-and-line figure vignettes engaged in various activities including fencing, duelling, interpersonal actions. Top row from left to right show the stick figures (or "pin men"): "Asking to dance", "Leading out", "Hands round", "Down the middle", "Right & left" and "Setting". Second row from left to right: "Cross hands", "Pousette", "Hornpipe", "Tete à tete", "Fainting", and "Taking home royal". Third row: "Battledore", Tight rope", "Single stick". Fourth row: "Believe me", "O' how lovely", "Don't [illegible] me", "Feeling queer". Fifth row: "Feeling querrer", "Attack", and "Friends arriving too late"
- Description:
- Title from related published print., Formerly mounted on blue paper with residue on the back of the sheet., The first two lines are identical (with the exception for a slight change in the title of the third figure, top row) to a plate entitled "Dottator et lineator loquitur" and published in: Ackermann's Repository of Arts for February 1, 1817, following page 90., An example of the "line and dot" caricature., The genre was perhaps originated by G.M. Woodward who designed two plates of acrobatic feats, &c., entitled 'Multum in Parvo, or Lilliputian Sketches shewing what may be done by lines and dots'. See Curator's note to British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1935,0522.10.220.b, and The published print was accompanied by a satirical poem from the artist's perspecive, scorning the great masters' classical training in figure drawing and sculpture.
- Subject (Topic):
- Badminton, Duelling, Fencing, and Figure drawings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dottator et lineator loquitur
3. Monsieur Kaniferstane : a tale
- Creator:
- Burges, James Bland, Sir, 1752-1824, attributed name
- Published / Created:
- [1796?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- First line: Once on a time, a little French marquiss., Sometimes attributed to Sir James Bland Burges., In two columns with the title in two lines centered above both; the columns are separated by a rule. Last line of first column: "Of gold and silver, pearls and jewels rare."., Cf. no. N64799 in ESTC., Mounted on leaf 52. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Monsieur Kaniferstane : a tale
4. Monsieur Kaniferstane, : a tale
- Creator:
- Burges, James Bland, Sir, 1752-1824, attributed name
- Published / Created:
- [1796?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Verse - "Once on a time, a little French Marquiss"., Sometimes attributed to Sir James Bland Burges., Dated from another edition, issued as part of: 'Poetry; original and selected', vol. 1 (1st issue), Glasgow, [1796]., In two columns with the title in three lines centered above both; the columns are separated by a rule in a vague leaf pattern. Last line of first column: "On the Marquis she must impression made;"., 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. 3.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Monsieur Kaniferstane, : a tale
5. The city dispute, or, Milk Street in an uproar [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [1817]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 95 Box D166
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A "line and dot" series of caricatures featuring scenes with stick figures (or "pin men"), both male and female, engaged in some form of public violence, arranged in two rows, each grouping individually titled. In the first row the designs are titled: "You lie, sir!", "Proceeding to blows", "Friends ending the dispute" and then a larger group of figures with the title "Dispute at cards: ending in a round game". In the second row: "In love I perceive", "Prick'd to the heart. She's gone, she's gone!", "Met to part no more", "O! Thou false wretch", "O, Sophia fairest of women", "How you teaze me Charles" and "I'll seek revenge", and a pair of designs labeled above "The effects of jealousy" and on the left "Now for the fatal blow" and "Keep your distance fellow."
- Alternative Title:
- Milk Street in an uproar
- Description:
- Title from text in upper left., Unidentified artist., Date conjectured from that of the published print of the same design., Similar to a print, published by G. Blackman in 1817, and attributed to George Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue. Cf. Nos. 12955 and 12956 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., and The genre was perhaps originated by G.M. Woodward who designed two plates of acrobatic feats, &c., entitled 'Multum in Parvo, or Lilliputian Sketches shewing what may be done by lines and dots'. See Curator's note to British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1935,0522.10.220.b
- Subject (Topic):
- Fighting, Card games, Couples, and Envy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The city dispute, or, Milk Street in an uproar [art original].
6. The end of pain the last speech, dying words, and confession of T.P. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.00.00.108
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Paine (head and shoulders only visible) dangles on a noose from a lamp-bracket, the post of which is inscribed 'Rights of This Man'. The head of Orléans with the horns of a devil looks down at Paine from behind the post, which he clutches with his talons. From the lamp dangles an escutcheon, on which are pairs of stays and a chevron, with the motto 'Common Sense'.
- Description:
- Title from letterpress text below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., With eighteen lines of letterpress text attacking Paine, beginning: Setting forth as how Tom was born at Thetford ..., and Dated '1794' in a contemporary hand. Beneath the date is a later pencil inscription: ‘This is said to contain a strong likeness of Paine and is not a print to be bought.’
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., and Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793
- Subject (Topic):
- Nooses, Hangings (Executions), and Lampposts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The end of pain the last speech, dying words, and confession of T.P. [graphic]
7. [Collection of Napoleonic War broadsides].
- Published / Created:
- 1803.
- Call Number:
- Folio 63 803 C697
- Image Count:
- 38
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- A bound volume of 32 Napoleonic broadsides, all good impressions, suggesting they were ordered directly from a publisher, possibly from James Asperne who is well represented in the collection and who perhaps made a trade in offering collections of the broadsides to contemporary collectors. Also well presented are broadsides by John Ginger
- Alternative Title:
- Patriotic handbills
- Description:
- In English., Title from cataloger., Bound in 19th-century calf and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label with "Patriotic Handbills" and green morocco label with the number "II"; a sheet of writing paper bound in before the broadsides has a watermark "G. Langley 1856". With a manuscript note on the blank verso of the final broadside that states "Patriotic Handbills Packet II / I have duplicates of each bill.", With two copies of: Plain answers to plain questions, in a dialogue between John Bull and Bonaparte., With two copies of: Britons triumph, or, Bonaparte's knell., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- multiple publishers
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, and History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Collection of Napoleonic War broadsides].
8. [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson].
- Creator:
- Wilkinson, Tate, 1739-1803, collector
- Published / Created:
- [between 1748 and 1778]
- Call Number:
- Folio 767 P69B W65
- Image Count:
- 220
- Abstract:
- Some with unidentified notes; also some with dates and locations including: Drury Lane and Covent Garden; the provinces, including Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other locations
- Description:
- Includes some undated playbills.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., England, London., Ireland, Dublin., Scotland, Edinburgh., and Glasgow.
- Subject (Name):
- Covent Garden (London, England) and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Theater
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson].
9. [Collection of playbills for productions of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto].
- Published / Created:
- [1840-1841]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 767 P69B C27
- Image Count:
- 40
- Description:
- A collection of playbills, one from 1840 and the rest from 1841.
- Publisher:
- S.G. Fairbrother, "Garrick Press" 31, Bow Street, Cove
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Collection of playbills for productions of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto].
