- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.54
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire: Britannia, whose spear is broken in her hand, sits on a monumental statue which is placed on a pedestal of "Rotten Stone"; she says: "My leaness my leaness, wo untio me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously, yea the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. ..." At the foot of the monument lies the British Lion, dreadfully emaciated, wounded by three daggers, and breathing his last. Near him are the personifications Truth, Rapine, Envy, Ingratitude, and Infidelity -- representations of the powers of Europe
- Description:
- Title from item., Plate numbered '22' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse below image: See here a monument of shame / Indelible the Horrid Name / Shame on your Actions, Cursed Tricks / To the latest Time -- O! fifty-six.", and Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Europe
- Subject (Topic):
- Foreign relations, Britannia (Symbolic character), Allegories, and National emblems
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Are these things so [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.40
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Britanias pocket pickd by mercenaries, Britanias pocket picked by mercenaries, and Britannia's pocket picked by mercenaries
- Description:
- Titles etched below each image., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., and None of designs recorded in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 1709-1762, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Byng, John, 1704-1757, and Mingotti, Regina, 1722-1808.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Ammunition, Barrels, Cannons, Crowns, Eagles, Eclipses, Flags, British, Mercenaries (Soldiers), Musical instruments, National emblems, French, German, and Scepters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Brittanias pocket pickd by mercenaries The choice spirits, or, Puffers for Sig Mingotas operas ; Prussia mounting the German Eagle. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.49
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Cannon refused by foreigners as too destructive
- Description:
- Title etched at top of plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Three images on one plate, arranged vertically., Caption in upper right corner of top image: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ..., Caption in upper right corner of center image: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ..., Caption in upper right corner of bottom image: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ..., One line of text at bottom of plate: These cannon [sic] are all mounted on golden wheels., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer. London, 1759., and Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Property as gun-carriage -- Heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Guns -- Map of England -- Coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Books of 'Priestcra[ft]', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Cannons, Maps, Money, Taxes, and Bibles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.58
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Hengist and Horsa
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Two columns of verse below image: A patient sick you see above, one that should claim the doctors love ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Hessian and Hanoverian mercenaries.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Mercenaries (Soldiers)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hengist & Horsa [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.53
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Plate numbered '21' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: The gen'rous steed no more will grace the field but to the critic goose and cobbling turky [sic] yield ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., and Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: go-cart.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Devils
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Needs must when the devil drives [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.31
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically
- Description:
- Titles from items., Caption under top design: --well done quoth Whackum., Caption under center design: Mores homines., Two lines of verse below bottom design: And shall the substitutes of power our Genius thus bedecks ..., Copies of, nos. 3398, 3493, and 3543 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Money: bag of money -- Pictures amplifying subject: hawk attacking cock -- Newcastle Administration -- Axes -- Signboards: inn sign -- Blazing comet -- Masks -- Satire on Admiralty -- Royal die and dice box -- Emblems: anchor -- Pictures amplifying subject: EO table -- Clubs: allusion to White's Club -- Animals: sea-lions -- Trades: fishwomen -- Female dress: French dress, ca. 1756 -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Containers: fishwoman's tub for pickled salmon.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Gallows, and Gambling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The constitution card The lyon of [the] sea ; The French dressers, or, England made odious. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.11.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Barrington suggesting that their conduct of the war is influenced by, respectively, corruption and incompetence, with reference here to the disgrace of General Fowke and Admiral Byng."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Discard
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four columns of verse below image: I've heard of times (pray God defend us, we're not so good but he may mend us) ..., Temporary local subject terms: Naval uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Literature: Shakespeare., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Byng, John, 1704-1757, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Military uniforms, British, Thrones, and Eagles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The dis-card [graphic].