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28. The times [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [December 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.12.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "In the centre of the design is the Coronation Chair (in Westminster Abbey), raised on four steps. Britannia on the right of the Chair takes the hand of the Prince of Wales, who is on the left, to lead him up to it; each rests a foot on the lowest step, inscribed 'Voice of the People'. The other steps are 'Public Safety', 'Patriotism', 'Virtue'. Britannia points with her left hand at Pitt and three maniacal and screaming Furies on the right whom she is putting to flight. She says: "I have been long deceiv'd by Hypocrisy but have at last discovered an Intention of sacrifising the rights of my people to satisfy a private ambition". Pitt, fleeing terror-struck, turns his head to say: A long farewell to all my greatness. From his pocket protrude papers inscribed 'Shop Tax' and Commutation. The Furies are half-naked hags with writhing serpents for hair; one, whose belt is inscribed 'Falshood', holds in one hand serpents, in the other a flaming torch inscribed 'Rebellion'; 'Envy' tears her hair, shrieking. The British lion, beside Pitt, looks from behind Britannia's shield at his mistress, roaring angrily. The Prince is being ushered to the throne by 'Liberty' and Justice, who are pretty young women carrying their accustomed symbols. Commerce reclines on the extreme left, leaning on a bale inscribed 'Commerce', and looking admiringly up at her two companions. The Lord Mayor, followed by other citizens, advances from the left, carrying the mace; the arms of the City decorate his gown. He says: "Whilst we mourn the occasion we must feel ourselves happy in reflecting that we are blessed by a Prince whose wisdom will protect our liberties, whose Virtues will afford stability to Empire". The background is a wall with Gothic mouldings and windows. A crown is suspended above the Chair."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue; a questionable date of 1783 is given by Grego., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The times [graphic].
29. Veluti in speculum [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- []178-?]
- Call Number:
- 788.00.00.07
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Devil (or a satyr) crouches behind a magic lantern whose handle he is turning. Its light is thrown on a draped sheet, speared to the wall by a fork. Facing the lantern, life-size and realistic, but apparently displayed by the lantern, stand (left to right) Fox, Sheridan, and Lansdowne. Each stands as if speaking in Parliament: Fox, with right hand in his breeches pocket, left fist raised for a downward thrust; Sheridan stooping forward as if expounding, right forefinger extended, left fist half raised; Lansdowne smiling blandly. The Devil points at Fox; an angry man at his side (right) threatens Fox with fist and bludgeon."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- Projectors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Veluti in speculum [graphic].
30. Wit's last stake, or, The cobling voters and abject canvassers [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 April 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.04.22.03+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A canvassing scene in a poor and disreputable district of Westminster, indicated by 'Peter Street' on the corner of the house. The Duchess of Devonshire canvasses a cobbler; she sits supported on Fox's knee, putting one foot on a cobbler's stall that he may do some imaginary repairs, for which she lavishly pays the man's wife, who leans forward, both hands held together to receive coins. The cobbler and his wife are behind a stall protected by a pent-house roof. On this is a notice, 'Shoes made and mended by Bob. Stichitt Cobler to her Grace the Tramping Dutchess NB Dogs Wormd Cats Gelded'. From an open casement window above it a man leans out waving a fox's brush; he holds a tankard and a long clay pipe in his left hand. Beside him a woman holds her head to vomit from the window, her elbows supported on the sill. A dog lies under the cobbler's stall. Fox, his right knee on his hat on the ground, the other supporting the duchess, turns round to give his right hand to a ragged man to whose mouth Sam House holds a tankard, his other hand pressed on the elector's head, who is shown by his long shovel to be a scavenger. Behind, a chimneysweeper with his brushes and his boy with brush and shovel are amused spectators. These figures fill the space to the left of Fox and the duchess. Behind are the irregular gabled roofs and casement windows of old Westminster."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Cobling voters and abject canvassers
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate reissued for The history of the Westminster election. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: London: Peter Street -- Old Westminster -- Gabled roofs -- Casement windows -- Coblers' stalls -- Dishes: Tankards -- Clay pipes -- Shovels.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1784 and Political elections
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Wit's last stake, or, The cobling voters and abject canvassers [graphic].
31. [Illustration to one of Peter Pindar's odes] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1787?]
- Call Number:
- 787.00.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier proof state
- Description:
- Title, printmaker, and date from description of proof state in the British Museum catalogue., For a proof state before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image, see no. 7188 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1787], Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Personification -- Mythology -- Pindar's Ode for a new year.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
- Subject (Topic):
- Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Illustration to one of Peter Pindar's odes] [graphic].
32. [Kitchen of a French post house] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1835]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 771.02.01.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from later state., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., State before title. Cf. later state in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London?, 1836?], p. 82., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the later state was published., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of artist's name., A reduced copy of one of several prints published in 1771 based on the same Bunbury drawing. Cf. no. 4764 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Shading added in pencil to lower part of design., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Kitchen of a French post house] [graphic]
33. [Peter's pension] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.00.00.04 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The King (right), standing in profile to the left, holds out to Peter a rolled document inscribed 'Pension'. Peter, a thin elderly man, turns away, holding out both hands to ward off the gift. From his pocket projects a paper inscribed 'Odes'. Both wear bag-wigs, and old-fashioned dress with flapped waistcoats; the King wears a sword."-- British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Ah! let me Sire refuse it, I implore, ought not to be rich whilst you are poor
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title from text below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue, Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Peter's pension. London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1788], and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Wolcot, John, 1738-1819
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Peter's pension] [graphic].
34. [The hopes of the family] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1803?]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 807.00.00.46+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A copy by Rowlandson after the 1774 Bunbury print, 'The hopes of the family - an admission at the university', a satire on a socially aspirational family: a youth is being examined by a tutor for admission to Cambridge university; the tutor, in academic robes, is seated at a table pointing at a large volume resting beside a globe; the youth stands counting on his fingers while his eager father, wearing countryman's boots, urges him on; on the left a woman, probably the tutor's housekeeper, holds two further volumes, and on the right an elegant undergraduate stands smiling; on the wall behind are portraits of "Dr Allcock" and a woman, a Roman bust with turned down mouth on the lintel above the door, and a frame with the plan and elevation of a building."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger, based on that of the earlier print from which this design was copied., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2006,U.1348., A reduced copy of no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Similar to and perhaps related to a series of small copies by Rowlandson of earlier Bunbury satires, published in 1803 by R. Ackermann. See Rowlandson the caricaturist / by Joseph Grego. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v. ii, p. 42-43., On same sheet: Miseries of London., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Families, Social mobility, Students, Teachers, Teaching, and Portraits
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The hopes of the family] [graphic]
35. [The siege of Namur] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1835]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 773.01.26.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from later state., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., State before title. Cf. Later state in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c., p. 79., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the later state appears., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of a print after Bunbury published in 1773. See no. 5213 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Fortifications -- Jack-boots -- Newspapers: London gazette -- Sentry boxes -- Uniforms: Grenadiers hats .
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Namur (Belgium)
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Siege, 1695, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The siege of Namur] [graphic].
36. [Twelfth night characters] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1811]
- Call Number:
- 811.00.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title, printmaker, and date of publication from Grego., Twenty-four images of characters, individually titled: King; Queen; Lord Flutter; Lady Careless; Sir Timy. Spruce; Miss Busy; Lord Zealous; Lady Flutter; Jemmy Dazzle; Miss Sparkle; Sir Simon Solid; Mr. Nimble; Dolly Diligent; Lady Peaceable; Capn. Dash; Lady Lydia Blaze; Giles Diligent; Priscilla Prudent; Sir Peter Puff; Lady Racket; Major Matchless; Mrs. Friendly; Sir Chas. Worthy; Miss Gadabout., Playing cards?, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Twelfth night characters] [graphic].