- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.06.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of text below image: Moderation, moderation, wonderfull moderation ..., Temporary local subject terms: Prisons: the Tower -- Yeomen of the Guard -- British Lion -- Animals: dogs -- Allusion to Magna Charta -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Whips -- Laws: allusion to Habeas corpus -- Emblems: royal cipher., and Mounted to 31 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A safe place [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [approximately April 1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.04.08.05 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines below image: They go from the devil to Court, and from the Court to the devil again., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 1763 -- Demons -- Female dress: petticoat -- Allusion to the Princess of Wales -- Games: soap bubbles -- Litearture: quotation from Jonathan Swift., and Mounted to 33 x 45 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view of the origins of Scotch ministers & managers [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [May 1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.05.13.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Three columns of verse below title: To pay a grand visit on peace being made, see the wise men of Goatham [sic] in solemn parade ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Aldermen -- Processions: procession of aldermen and City officials from Guildhall to St. James's Palace, May 12, 1763 -- Fleet Street -- Churches: St. Bridge's Church -- Trades: merchants -- Zanies -- Animals: grotesque horses -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Trade emblems -- Prisons: Newgate -- Sir Charles Asgill, d. 1788 -- Sir Thomas Rawlison, d. 1769 -- Robert Alsop, d.1785 -- Marshe Dickinson, d. 1765 -- Sir Henry Bankes, d. 1774 -- Sir Francis Gosling, d. 1768 -- Richard Blunt, d. 1763 -- Sir Thomas Challenor, d. 1766.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Eyre, James, Sir, 1734-1799, Harrison, Thomas, Sir, 1699 or 1700-1765, and Hodges, James, Sir, d. 1774
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An exact representation of a certain wise body without a head in the East going to pay a visit to a certain great body in the West [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.04.18.01.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A rebus letter headed by a representation of the head and shoulders of Bute taken from Ramsay's portrait (not caricatured) and the Devil with a fork for a foot who holds the letter described under British Museum Satires No. 4012 to which this is a reply. The present letter, transliterated in a broad Scots accent, states that although Bute has officially resigned he intends to remain in power behind the throne and to ensure that his Scottish friends will find good "posts and places" in order to "reduce the English into total subjection"; he refers to Princess Augusta as "a certain bonny Lassie"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Caption title., State without imprint, from: The Scots scourge ... London : Printed for J. Pridden, [1763]. Cf. British Museum catalogue., Engraved letter in the form of rebus., The following words in the title are represented by a rebus: Lord Bute by his portrait, Beelzebub by an image of a devil., Temporary local subject terms: Excise: cider tax., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792,
- Subject (Topic):
- Devil and Taxes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An hieroglyphic epistle from [Lord Bute] to [Beelzebub] in answer to that lately receiv'd from Pandemonium [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].
- Published / Created:
- [April 1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.04.00.12+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Tower
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy of the print "Kaw Jack, have Canada or to the Tower", with a new title etched above image and the verses below image omitted. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Imps -- Pets: feeding stick for birds -- Literature: allusion to Ossian, by James MacPherson, 1736-1796 -- Allusion to Temora by James MacPherson, 1736-1796 -- Allusion to the governorship of Canada., and Mounted to 34 x 45 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Liberty cap, Bribery, and Money
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Canada, or, The Tower [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]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.00.00.15
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An emaciated man in rags and tartan shawl, without kilt, walks out of a cave on the right. He is barefoot and has a rag tied around his head. The landscape is that of the wild Scottish mountains, with misty moors. A small shack is visible on a hill in the background. Two emaciated sheep are near the cave
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date inferred from that of Charles Churchill's poem, The prophecy of famine : a Scots pastoral. London, 1763., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 24 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Sheep and Starvation
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Famine [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.02.10.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Prospect of a peace
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Tho' crest-fallen at present the Spanairds [sic] and France, confess they are beaten by England stout lance ..., Temporary local subject terms: Fleets -- Gallows -- French -- Spaniards., and Window mounted to 24 x 33 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > France and England, or, A prospect of a peace [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.03.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A broadside satirising the dominance of Lord Bute after the Treaty of Paris; with an etching showing the figure of Britannia, her shield and spear lying on the ground, carrying a yoke with two buckets; on the yoke stands Lord Bute wearing tartan, holds a liberty cap and a penant labelled "Magna Charta" on a staff in one hand and in the other the Union flag below the French one; on either side people look on, including a sailor and a lady in tears. Engraved inscriptions, title and verses in two columns decrying Bute, with a reminder of Robert Walpole's Excise Bill of 1733 as an implied parallel to Bute's Cider Tax."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Title from song engraved below image., Variant state, lacking imprint statement, of no. 4011 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Date from that assigned to the variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Ten numbered verses etched below image beginning: 1. Of all the nobles in the land, Great Gisbal bears the sway. All things are by his orders done, and none dare disobey ..., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: reference to cider tax -- Yoke -- Containers: pails -- Emblems: staff and cap of liberty -- Flags: Union Jack -- Flags: French ensign., and Mounted to 34 x 32 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Flags, British, Yokes, and Liberty cap
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Gisbal triumphant a new song to the tune of Chevy Chace. [graphic]