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1. A decent story [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1795?]
- Call Number:
- 795.11.09.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A stout man (right), seated at a round table, tells a story to a parson on his left, who grins broadly. Two women fix the raconteur with expressions of absorbed amusement, while an officer is more frankly amused at watching the lady on his right. All are elderly. On the table are a decanter of 'Port' and glasses. A patterned carpet completes the design. From a sketch by an amateur."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue., Variant state, without publisher and date and with differently etched title, of No. 8753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs, Clergy, Floor coverings, Military uniforms, British, and Storytelling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A decent story [graphic].
2. A. Bp. Laud charging his clergy [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- pubd. as the act directs Jany. 1st 1781.
- Call Number:
- 782.01.01.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a church. Archbishop Markham (left) delivering a charge to his clergy. He stands (left) within the chancel rails; in his left hand he holds up a flaming torch; in his right hand, which rests on a balustrade, he holds a birch-rod and a paper inscribed "Factious C--y--n. [Countrymen], A Lamentable Want of Sobriety, Foremost in mischief. This is no Gainfull Traffick - Nonresistance &c. Explain'd. Vide my Sermon. Charity Thinketh no Evil &c. A perfectly detestable Faction &c." On the right, in the body of the church, sit clergymen dressed in gown and bands, they listen with varying expressions. Behind the archbishop is a table of the Ten Commandments, on which is inscribed, "... VI Thou shalt do no Murder and IX Thou shalt not bear false Witness &c." Below the design is etched, "Remarks upon a late charge delivered not 100 Miles from Y--k. Vide Rememr.pt. 2nd 1781- page 239."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Archbishop Laud charging his clergy
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Etched beneath title: Hac itur ad astra' Anglicé - This is the road to Lambeth., and Ms. note in ink in an unidentified hand on verso: Before price 2s. was etched. Numbered also on verso in upper left.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and York
- Subject (Name):
- Markham, William, 1719-1807.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bishops, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Interiors, Preaching, and Torches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A. Bp. Laud charging his clergy [graphic]
3. Afternoons amusement [graphic]
- Creator:
- Albanesi, Angelo, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publishd. according to act of Parliament the 30 Octobr. 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.10.30.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A print showing the front elevation of a brothel, with a sign over the door "Young Ladies Educated & Board." At the threshold of the establishment, the brothel keeper (possibly Charlotte Hayes) stands at the front door talking with a young man who holds a riding crop (possibly her common-law husband, Dennis O’Kelly.) The two windows on the ground floor show, on the left, a woman entertaining a portly gentleman, and, on the right, two pretty, young woman, one leaning out the window to view the scene at the door. In the two windows on the upper, left and center, two other women are already entertaining men (one of whom is a clergyman) while on the right, two pretty women look down at the scene on the brothel threshold. On the left, a man reads handbills in a covered alley identified as "Kings Place." On the sidewalk (left) a pedestrian holds a monocle to his eye to better see the women; in his pocket is a paper with a title "Economical Lowe[r?]. On the sidewalk to the right, a flower girl in ragged clothes holds out a bunch of flowers to the young man addressing the madam. A woman (dwarf) crier holds a sheet titled "The Harlot's Progress."
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Hayes, Charlotte, 1725-1813, and O’Kelly, Dennis, 1725-1787,
- Subject (Topic):
- Prostitution, Humor, Brothels, Prostitutes, Prostitutes' clients, Clergy, Dogs, Doors & doorways, Dwarfs, Windows, Signs (Notices), and Peddlers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Afternoons amusement [graphic]
4. 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].
5. Fashionable reading vide new church Oxford. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1818]
- Call Number:
- 818.02.06.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text below image., A copy or variant of a print published 6 February 1818 by S.W. Fores. Cf. No. 13106 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Parsons -- Jewelry -- Churches -- Monocles., and Watermark: T Stain.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Clergy, Preaching, Pulpits, and Rings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fashionable reading vide new church Oxford. [graphic]
6. Robert Webber, A.B. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676-1751, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1750]
- Call Number:
- 750.00.00.18
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image and two lines of verse., Publication date inferred from Overton's death date., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image and above title: Two men there are the inward & the out, whom Satan to insnare [sic] still hovereth about ..., Two lines of verse below title: Sing Whitfield and Webber, for ever and ever., Subject identified in a note in 18th-century hand at bottom of sheet as Rev. George Whitefield., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum., and Temporary local subject terms: Wall-eyed.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Robert Webber, A.B. [graphic]
7. Setting out in life [graphic]
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1790?]
- Call Number:
- 790.00.00.127+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A gaunt older man sits in an upholstered chair (left) and shown in profile looks upon his well-fed son (facing the viewer). A cat sits at the son's feet. The father says: "It is high time child, thee should't think of setting out in life. Thee art too lively for a farmer, what treade, shoudst like best?" The son replies: "Why father if you have no objection, I should like woundily to be bound prentice to a bishop, for is all pay and little work! Now that would just suit I to a tittle."
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Chairs, Clergy, Fathers, Occupations, and Sons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Setting out in life [graphic]
8. The brazen face'd o----r, or, Popish incendiary [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, December 10, 1746.
- Call Number:
- 746.12.10.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Orator Henley preaching in his chapel in Newport Market which crowded with listeners, male and female intermingled, some standing, some seated in pews, and others in a gallery; in the foreground stands a drover with his dog. Henley to the left wearing a wig standing in a pulpit hung with a cloth bearing three fleurs-de-lis, with a devil hovering above him holding a noose and a Jesuit cap. At the foot of the steps to the gallery an additional figure has been added in graphite; this appears as "Jack Ketch", the public hangman, in the finished print. The whole composition is placed within a scrolled and foliated border including rosary beads hanging on either side."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Popish incendiary, Brazen faced orator, and Temple of Rebellion
- Description:
- Title etched within banner above image., Ten lines of verse, entitled "The Temple of Rebellion," etched below image: H----y [i.e, Henley] exalts his voice, his arms extends, and blasphemy & treason madly blends ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: church -- Preacher -- Rosaries -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis on altar cloth -- Hats: cardinal's scarlet -- Tricornes hanging on pegs -- Male dress: surplice -- Trades: butchers -- Allusion to popery -- Expressions of speech: coup de grace -- Congregations -- Emblematic borders -- Allusion to Jacobites., Watermark: fleur-de-lis., and Window mounted to 27 x 31 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Preaching, Devil, Nooses, and Pulpits
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The brazen face'd o----r, or, Popish incendiary [graphic].
9. The march of intellect [graphic]
- Creator:
- Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1829?]
- Call Number:
- 829.00.00.15+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire against corruption with an image of a huge automaton representing the new London University (later University College, London) tramples over greedy clerics, doctors, lawyers and the crown. Five lines of text below image: "I saw a vision, a giant form appeard, it's eys where [sic] burning lights even of Gas, and on its learned head it bore A Crown of many towers, It's Body was an Engine yea of steam it's arms where [corn?] and the legs with which it stode like unto presses that men called printers use, from whence felt ever and anon small Books that fed the little people of the Earth, It rose and in it's hand it tool a Broom to sweep the rubish [sic] from the face of the land, the Special pleaders & thier [sic] wigs also & the Quack Doctors also and the ghosts & those tha twhear Horns & the Crowns of those kigns that set themselv's above the laws & the Delays in Chancery it utterly destroy'd, likewiase it sweept from the Clergy every Plurality, Nevertheless the Lawyers & the Parsons & divers others kick't up a great dust!!!"
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Date from online British Museum catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- University College, London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Education, Higher, Avarice, Balloons (Aircraft), Clergy, Demons, Justice, Lawyers, Machinery, Physicians, Rulers, and Steam
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The march of intellect [graphic]
