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1. "Paris he saw, & Paris saw him too" [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, [ca. 1750?]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 178. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Paris he saw, and Paris saw him too
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date from unverfied data in local card catalog record; dated by costume., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6d."--Following publication statement., and Mounted on page 178 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Paris he saw, & Paris saw him too" [graphic].
2. 1758 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1758]
- Call Number:
- 758.00.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Plate numbered '83' in upper left corner., and Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1758 and 1759.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > 1758 [graphic].
3. A Bath Adonis worshiping the idol of his affections [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1775?]
- Call Number:
- 775.02.01.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man wearing laced coat and sword and holding a snuff box leans on an elaborately carved console table of the pump room at Bath, admiring himself in a mirror. An illustration for the "History of Captain S_: or, the Bath Adonis."
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date and publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Extended to 26 x 18 cm.
- Publisher:
- The Matrimonial Magazine?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bath (England) and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Mirrors, Wallpaper, and Tables
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Bath Adonis worshiping the idol of his affections [graphic].
4. 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].
5. A city hunt [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1780?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image on second plate., A single design on three plates., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., Dedication below image on first plate: To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales., Dedication below image on third plate: This plate is dedicated to His Royal Highness by his most obedient humble servant, James Bretherton., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Tipped in at page 5 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Dogs, Hunting, and Hunting accidents
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A city hunt [graphic]
6. A confab on the event of a late election [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [July 1771]
- Call Number:
- 771.06.00.11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Politics -- London elections: sheriff - Symbols: tartan as window curtain., and Mounted to 15 x 21 cm., mounted again to 22 x 31 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A confab on the event of a late election [graphic].
7. A continuation of the humorous effects of cross-reading the news-papers
- Published / Created:
- [1770?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Date of publication from ESTC., First line of text: "The Right. Hon. the Speaker -"., In two columns with the title centered above both; the columns are not separated by a rule., Refers to Mr. Wilkes's 'History of England', vol. 1 of which was published in 1768, and to "Sermons for young women, in 2 vol. 12mo.", which may be a reference to James Fordyce's collection, which went into a large number of editions in 1766 and 1767., A selection of statements on contemporary events, made ridiculous by their association with other events., Mounted on leaf 35. 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Wit and humor and Reading
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A continuation of the humorous effects of cross-reading the news-papers
8. A country inn yard at the time of an election [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [between 1747 and 1800]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 747.00.00.01 Box 105
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Copy of scene in the "Old Angle In", an inn with the sign of an angel that gives the proprietor as 'Toms. Bates', and a stop for coaches on the road to London; in foreground a large woman enters a coach, the man to her left helps her in with a hand on her round backside, a man with a protruding belly stands waiting, behind him a boy holds out a hat for tips; to the left a refreshment seller yells out advertising her goods, two drunken guests lean out from a window above with a pipe and a horn, and two figures embrace in the doorway below, the watchdog lies asleep in his kennel on the right; a crowd of election campaigners at the far end of the inn."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Stage-coach
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Copy in reverse of the Hogarth print with the Paulson title: The stage coach, or, The country inn yard. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 167., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,2.145., "From an unidentified series of copies after Hogarth's prints. The prints in this series are lettered with title, 'Invented & Painted by Wm. Hogarth' and plate number. For the full list of the plates, see BM Satires 3051"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,2.153., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and "No. 4"--Upper right corner.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Carriages & coaches, Crowds, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A country inn yard at the time of an election [graphic]
9. A curious letter from Oliver Puzzle-cause
- Creator:
- Puzzle-cause, Oliver
- Published / Created:
- [between 1775 and 1790?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- A joke letter; at end is added: "From such examples as of this and that, we are all taught to know - I know not what"., In this edition the title is in two lines; the first line reads "William having received a letter"; the last two paragraphs are set in smaller type than the rest, clearly in order to fit the page., First line: "Sir. William having received a letter", In two columns with the title centered above both; the columns are not separated by rules. In this edition the title is in two lines., Oliver Puzzle-cause is a pseudonym., Below signature in second column: Price three half-pence., Mounted on leaf 59. 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- English wit and humor
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A curious letter from Oliver Puzzle-cause