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1. A North-ern ass [graphic].
- Creator:
- Hutchinson, W., active 1773-1784, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 14 April 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.00.00.80
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the election for County Durham, 14 April 1784: Sir Thomas Clavering and Sir John Upton, one headless, holding a caption labelled 'The Irish Faction for ever' and carrying the other, who has no feet, on his back, who says 'I serv'd you as long as I could stand' and carries captions lavelled 'Coal owners Bill' and 'A command in India'; both seated on an ass facing left, which brays 'Thus I go to Parliament and am not the first Ass that has farted for preferment, but this is dirty work and hard Labour' and which has a collar labelled 'I speak for my Master / Populus me sibilat at plaudo ipse domi' and strips at the saddle labelled 'Curse all Pitts / But a Coal-Pitt'; with the ass' droppings falling on a crest with the motto 'Diem Perdidi'; a mitre, crozier and sword and label 'At rest' on the ground in the centre, playing cards and papers labelled 'Turnpike Speech / Election Speech' to left; a milestone to right labelled 'From Durham / T: C / J: E / 14 April 1784'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Northern ass
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attribution to W. Hutchinson from annotation on verso of British Museum impression. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1014.456., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark in the center of sheet.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Clavering, Thomas, Sir, 1719-1794, Eden, John, Sir, 1740-1812, and Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, Donkeys, Defecation, Traffic signs & signals, Miters, Crosiers, Daggers & swords, and Playing cards
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A North-ern ass [graphic].
2. A courier just setting out (who has any letters to send?) sketch'd from [the] life while his boots were greasing [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1745]
- Call Number:
- 745.03.00.01.2 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below the figures in the image: At length old O----d [i.e., Orford] must depart, helped on by medicinal art ..., Temporary local subject terms: Medicine: prescriptions -- Canes: gold-headed cane -- Broad Bottoms -- Animals: ass with human head -- Reference to quackery -- Whips -- Letters, and Watermark: countermark IV.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Mead, Richard, 1673-1754, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A courier just setting out (who has any letters to send?) sketch'd from [the] life while his boots were greasing [graphic].
3. A courier just setting out (who has any letters to send?) sketch'd from [the] life while his boots were greasing [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1745]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C2 738
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below the figures in the image: At length old O----d [i.e., Orford] must depart, helped on by medicinal art ..., Temporary local subject terms: Medicine: prescriptions -- Canes: gold-headed cane -- Broad Bottoms -- Animals: ass with human head -- Reference to quackery -- Whips -- Letters, and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Mead, Richard, 1673-1754, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A courier just setting out (who has any letters to send?) sketch'd from [the] life while his boots were greasing [graphic].
4. A list of foreign soldiers in daily pay for England [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1743]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C2 738
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Upper image depicts a white horse (representing the House of Hanover) removing a mask and treading on papers called "Trade" and "Liberty." A dialog ribbon is coming out of his mouth with the word "Worms" on it [i.e. Treaty of Worms]. He is surrounded by men offering him money and saying such things as "Here's Cole" and "Damn Engl---d." and Lower image depicts Hanover as a nurse sitting on a three-sided stool and changing the diaper of Britannia as a baby. The nurse is saying "Your Besh-t again wares y. Clouts." A stool is nearby with a pot of food on it and a sign saying "Bon pour Nicole."
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two images, one above text, one below, on broadside 38 x 24 cm., Text consists of two lists showing pay received by, respectively, Hanoverian soldiers, Hessian soldiers and Danish soldiers., Cf. Malcolm, History of caricaturing, 1813, p. 83, pl. XXI, fig. 4., Cf. Lewis, Genesis of Strawberry Hill for three-sided Gothic chair, fig. 35., Temporary local subject terms: Masks: George II -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover -- Lists: pay lists -- Slang: cole, i.e., money -- Furniture: three-sided Gothic chair -- Personifications: Britannia as a baby -- Personifications: Hanover as an old woman -- Money: purses -- Food: rotten baby food., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Compton, Spencer, Earl of Wilmington, 1673?-1743, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Great Britain., and Hanover, House of.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Armed Forces, and Pay, allowances, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A list of foreign soldiers in daily pay for England [graphic].
5. A list of foreign soldiers in daily pay for England [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1743]
- Call Number:
- 743.00.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Upper image depicts a white horse (representing the House of Hanover) removing a mask and treading on papers called "Trade" and "Liberty." A dialog ribbon is coming out of his mouth with the word "Worms" on it [i.e. Treaty of Worms]. He is surrounded by men offering him money and saying such things as "Here's Cole" and "Damn Engl---d." and Lower image depicts Hanover as a nurse sitting on a three-sided stool and changing the diaper of Britannia as a baby. The nurse is saying "Your Besh-t again wares y. Clouts." A stool is nearby with a pot of food on it and a sign saying "Bon pour Nicole."
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two images, one above text, one below, on broadside 38 x 24 cm., Text consists of two lists showing pay received by, respectively, Hanoverian soldiers, Hessian soldiers and Danish soldiers., Cf. Malcolm, History of caricaturing, 1813, p. 83, pl. XXI, fig. 4., Cf. Lewis, Genesis of Strawberry Hill for three-sided Gothic chair, fig. 35., Temporary local subject terms: Masks: George II -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover -- Lists: pay lists -- Slang: cole, i.e., money -- Furniture: three-sided Gothic chair -- Personifications: Britannia as a baby -- Personifications: Hanover as an old woman -- Money: purses -- Food: rotten baby food., and Watermark: Fleur-de-lis.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Compton, Spencer, Earl of Wilmington, 1673?-1743, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Great Britain., and Hanover, House of.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Armed Forces, and Pay, allowances, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A list of foreign soldiers in daily pay for England [graphic].
6. A papist with his Jacobite footman [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Jany. [the] 1st 1745-6 [i.e. 1746]
- Call Number:
- 746.01.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., 'P.6'--Lower right corner., Twelve lines of verse in four columns below image: Pope Pius's table was spread with a net ..., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Lambeth Palace -- Rivers: Thames -- Domestic service: footmen -- Demons -- Mitres -- Crosses -- Daggers -- Jacobites -- Portmanteaux -- Wigs -- Hats: jockey cap -- Battles: reference to the Battle of Prestonpans, 1745 -- Battles: reference to the Battle of Boyne, 1690 -- Clergy -- Pope -- Reference to William Sherlock, 1641?-1707., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with illegible initials below.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Sherlock, Thomas, 1678-1761
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A papist with his Jacobite footman [graphic].
7. Bob Cherry, or, Argumentum ad hominem [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.04.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Argumentum ad hominem
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Date of publication inferred from date of Lord Bute's resignation., Based on no. 4032 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Games: bob-cherry -- Oeconomy -- Offices: Clerk of the Pells., and Watermark: 1748.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Holland, Stephen Fox, Baron, 1745-1774, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Henry Edward, 1755-1811, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Grenville, George, 1712-1770
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bob Cherry, or, Argumentum ad hominem [graphic].
8. Briton's association against the Pope's bulls [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Octr. 21, 1745.
- Call Number:
- 745.10.21.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image: I Perkin young and bold, my father me has sent here ..., Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Weapons: espontoons -- Military uniforms -- Cardinal -- Playing cards: Nine of Diamonds (Curse of Scotland)., and Watermark: countermark IV.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Tweed River (Scotland and England),
- Subject (Name):
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Tencin, Pierre Guérin de, 1679-1758, and Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland),
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Neptune, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Bulls, Devil, and Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Briton's association against the Pope's bulls [graphic].
9. Excise a comical hieroglyphical epistle from [Beelzebub] to [Lord Bute]. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.04.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption., A letter in form of rebus., State without imprint, from: The Scots scourge ... London : Printed for J. Pridden, [1763]. Cf. British Museum Cat., no. 4012., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: Beelzebub by a demon, Lord Bute by his portrait., Temporary local subject terms: Devil -- Excise: cider tax., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Excise a comical hieroglyphical epistle from [Beelzebub] to [Lord Bute]. [graphic]