Title from text within woodcut illustration; remainder of title from letterpress text beneath illustration., Woodcut illustration of a hot air ballloon with two flag-waving gentlemen seated in the basket. The flag to the left reads "No blanks"; the flag to the right, "All money.", Printed in red and blue ink., and Mounted to: 25 x 18 cm. With a sticker in upper left corner with blue crayon annotation "11-". For further information, consult library staff.
Lottery, on a new plan, begins drawing October 20, 1807
Description:
Caption title., Handbill with details of the lottery and the supplementary draw., "Tickets and shares are on sale at J. Warner's Licensed Lottery Office ... ."--Bottom of sheet., and Name and address of "Mrs. Scott" added in ink on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Design in an oval depicts John Molesworth holding a wand seated at a wooden table and wearing a conical hat and dressing gown. He points towards lottery wheels from which 2 small boys wearing paper crowns observe him. Molesworth is saying "Eo, Meo, and Areo, stick close my boys and let me have all the capital prizes in my calculation." Before him on the table are ink bottle and quill, several books, including one entitled Calculations and another Conjurations, together with The life of Duncan Campbel, deaf & dumb fortune-teller. Molesworth in 1774 authored Proofs of the reality and truth of lottery calculations
Description:
Title etched below image., Dedication etched below title: This plate is humbly inscribed to all keeper's of lottery offices by their humble servt. A.B., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 25.0 x 17.7 cm, on sheet 28.1 x 22.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 1 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Augt. 30th, 1776, by A.B., London
A brewer (left) accepts a note for five thousand [pounds] from a young man in profile (right). Three lines of text below image: "This passion is represented by a philosophical brewer, who having gained a considerable prize in the lottery, receives it with the most perfect composure -- a useful lesson for those persons who are too apt to be over elated at an unexpected change of fortune."
Description:
Title and plate number etched above image., "No. 8.", Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Twenty-four letterpress and engraved lottery puffs uncut on one sheet. Each puff includes engravings of Twelfth night character by George Cruikshank and an 8-line poem
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., On each lottery puff: Lottery begins drawing 12th January, 1820., and Includes puff numbers 1347-1370: John Bull, Sukey Salmon, Alderman Turtle, Queen, Tabby Turnip, Billy Bantam, Polly Pigface, Molly Maid, Toby Fillpot, The Grand Turk, Colly Calf-head, John Dory, Pomposa Pine-apple, Doughy Upper-crust, Dolly Dumpling, Timothy Tun-Belly, Simon Sheepface, King, Cissy Cowslip, Letty Lambkin, Dame Partlett, Kitty Cabbage, Giddy Goosecap, Solomon Sirloin.
Publisher:
J. & J. Sivewright ... 37, Cornhill, 11, Holburn, 38 Haymarket, 141, Oxford-St
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Lotteries, Marketing, Advertising, Caricatures and cartoons, and Animals in human situations
Caption title., Printed handbill; with woodcut illustrations of "matchstick men" in four panels (with letterpress captions below) on the third line and on the fourth line a hand with a finger pointing to text "Six £21.000! All in the one day , 3rd May.", "Bish is the contractor, No. 4, Cornhill, and No. 9, Charing Cross, who sold and shared the very last drawing, 1st March, 7,340 Class A £20,000, 10,004 Class B £20,000.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Dated in lower left: Nov. 17, 1817., Single sheet handbill, printed within mourning border, announcing of the postponement of the national lottery due to the death of Princess Charlotte., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817.
Caption title., Printed handbill; woodcut illustration of 'The Grand Hotel' positioned in the center, with letterpres text above and below., On verso: half page woodcut illustration of a hay-maker in front of a grand house; below, advertising poem for the lottery, entitled 'The Hay-Maker.', "Only 20,000 tickets"--Beneath title., "Agents in Bath: A Barratt's Library, for Swift & Co. R. Cruttwell, for Brancomb & Co. ..."--Bottom of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
