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1.
A free born Englishman!!! The glory of civilized life & the envy of Indian nations! / [graphic]

Creator:
Spence, William, -1797, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1796]
Call Number:
796.00.00.61
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in ragged clothes stands facing right, hunched forward under the weight of a basket of 'Rents' and 'Taxes' strapped to his back. His legs are shackled, his mouth is closed by a padlock, and his hands are tied behind him. Image enclosed within a ...
Alternative Title:
Freeborn Englishman
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publishd. by T. Spence, Turn Stile, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Poverty, Poor persons, Locks (Hardware), Shackles, and Taxes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A free born Englishman!!! The glory of civilized life & the envy of Indian nations! / [graphic]

2.
Bad news [graphic].

Published / Created:
[ 26 November 1783]
Call Number:
783.11.26.01
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A miserable, angry-looking tailor stands in the middle of his dilapidated workshop. His wig is turned sideways on his head, his empty pockets turned wrong side out, and his stockings undone. Between his feet on the floor lies a large lottery ticket si...
Description:
Title from caption etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 26, 1783, by Jno. Russell, Bond Street, Bath
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Tailors, Tailor shops, Lotteries, Poverty, and Interiors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bad news [graphic].

3.
Confined in the Fleet Prison [graphic].

Published / Created:
according to act of Parliament, July 1735.
Call Number:
Hogarth 735.07.00.01+ Box 200
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Copy of a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table, to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of al...
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 7
Description:
Title from text engraved above image.
Publisher:
Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell
Subject (Name):
Fleet Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Children, Debt, Dramatists, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, Telescopes, and Unmarried mothers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Confined in the Fleet Prison [graphic].

4.
Confined in the Fleet Prison. [graphic]. Plate 7

Published / Created:
[between 1785 and 1794]
Call Number:
Hogarth 785.00.00.126+ Box 210
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Copy of a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table, to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of al...
Alternative Title:
[Rake's progress]. Plate 7 and His Hours of Joy are fled with raipd speed, ...
Description:
Added title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Fleet Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Children, Debt, Dramatists, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, Telescopes, and Unmarried mothers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Confined in the Fleet Prison. [graphic]. Plate 7

5.
French liberty British slavery / [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[21 December 1792]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design in two compartments contrasting on the left the poverty and depravity of "French Liberty" with the opulence of the British on the right "British Slavery." The thin, ragged sansculotte with a liberty cap on his head, warms his bare, talon-like f...
Alternative Title:
British slavery
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. December 21st, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France, France., and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
History, Taxation, Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty, Poverty, Rugs, Taxes, and Wealth
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > French liberty British slavery / [graphic]

6.
Good news [graphic].

Published / Created:
[26 November 1783]
Call Number:
783.11.26.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elated cobbler skips joyfully in his dilapidated workshop waving his wig with one hand and a "10000" pound lottery ticket with the other. The tools of his trade are scattered on the floor
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 26, 1783, by Jno. Russell, Bond Street, Bath
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Shoemakers, Lotteries, Poverty, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Good news [graphic].

7.
Political cartoons relating to reform in Great Britain and the United States

Published / Created:
[approximately 1832]
Call Number:
724 832 P769
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
A series of crude (and in some cases explicitly racist) lithographed cards numbered 1-16, with scenes relating to political reform on both sides of the Atlantic. On British side, they cover the reforms to the franchise made by the 1832 Reform Act, pok...
Description:
Title from dealer's description.
Publisher:
W.F. Wodson, lith., Pavement, York
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and United States
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, Ethnic stereotypes, Poverty, and Racism
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Political cartoons relating to reform in Great Britain and the United States

8.
Snuff and twopenny [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:
812.00.00.107 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An ugly woman with only two teeth and with holes in her sleeve, shown half-length to left, a scarf over her head and tied under her chin, one hand around a tankard, holding up the other hand with thumb and forefinger pinched together, a small round sn...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Snuff, Drinking vessels, Older people, and Poverty
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Snuff and twopenny [graphic].

9.
Sutton [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1 June 1790]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A coach pulling up to the Post Station, the Cock Inn at left, on route to Brighton. The coach is pulling into the court yard, about to pass under a wooden gate bearing the inn's sign, while another coach stands at the inn door. People look down from t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1, 1790, by Messrs. Robinson's, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
Sutton (England)
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Donkeys, Peg legs, Poverty, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sutton [graphic]

10.
The benevolent physician [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs [...] [not before 9 November 1782]
Call Number:
782.11.09.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A generous physician refusing money for services rendered from a poor family
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, British, Families, Sick children, Interior decoration, Fireplaces, Biblical events, Canopy beds, Painting, Poverty, Beneficence, Patients, fireplaces, medicine bottles, beds (furniture), poverty, patients, Clothing, Money, Medicine bottles, House furnishings, Benevolence, and Beds
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The benevolent physician [graphic].