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1.
Anticipation bringing them to the scratch. Hercules in the Church, or, The tithes in danger

Creator:
Phillips, John, fl. 1825-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 1829.
Call Number:
829.05.00.07+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wellington in civilian dress stands between two fat bishops wearing mitres pulling each by an ear as they vomit huge streams of gold coins into a large wooden tub that is labeled: Receptacle for the poor curates, repairs of churches, and support of pa...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley,
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Bishops, Clergy, Coins, and Tithes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Anticipation bringing them to the scratch. Hercules in the Church, or, The tithes in danger / [graphic]

2.
Avarice & dissipation [graphic].

Published / Created:
[4 June 1810]
Call Number:
810.06.04.07
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young gentleman with a riding crop, a macaroni, stands before a money-lender leaning on a table, his hands on a bag of gold coins. The young man offers a packet of papers wrapped with a ribbon to the older man as he glances up from his task of count...
Alternative Title:
Avarice and dissipation
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Distress, Usury, and Dandies
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Avarice & dissipation [graphic].

3.
Covetousness : manuscript

Creator:
Castle, William, active 1785, artist
Published / Created:
1785.
Call Number:
LWL Mss File 152+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
An illustrated manuscript leaf in an 18th-century hand. In the upper portion of the recto side is a large vignette of a man in traditional Jewish garb, seated at a table, weighing coins as they spill from two cornucopias, one to each side and held by ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Topic):
Avarice in literature, Antisemitism, Avarice, and Ethnic stereotypes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Covetousness : manuscript

4.
Desire with hope [graphic].

Published / Created:
[4 June 1810]
Call Number:
810.06.04.14
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
One man clutches a wine-bottle, looking with a sideways grin at another who bends towards it smiling with expectant greed
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Smiling, and Wishing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Desire with hope [graphic].

5.
English coronet auction by K-, P- & Co., or, Comfort for the late French noblesse [graphic]

Creator:
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, attributed name
Published / Created:
July 8, 1790.
Call Number:
790.07.08.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a large room French aristocrats crowd across a table from Pitt who is taking money while handing a pen to the man opposite who holds a crown in his left arm as he throws coins toward Pitt's grasping hand. Above Pitt stands George III behind podium,...
Alternative Title:
English coronet auction by King, Pitt & Co., or, Comfort for the late French noblesse and Comfort for the late French noblesse
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., France, and France.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Refugees, History, Avarice, Auctions, Corruption, Crowds, Crowns, and Nobility
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > English coronet auction by K-, P- & Co., or, Comfort for the late French noblesse [graphic]

6.
Farewell Old Gripe! they work is done ... [graphic].

Published / Created:
[not before 1735]
Call Number:
Hogarth 735.00.00.16+ Box 200
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A loose plagiary (reversed) after Hogarth's first plate in the Rake's Progress series; the interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a bag of coin...
Description:
Title from verses below image. Verses (in four columns, each with six lines) continue: " ... And thou hast left graceless son to wast thy fund of ill got stores .... plate, gloves and hoarded cash descend."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Corruption, Interiors, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Farewell Old Gripe! they work is done ... [graphic].

7.
Hospitality kicking avarice out of doors, or, New tenants at a mansion house [graphic].

Published / Created:
Novr. 9, 1799.
Call Number:
799.11.09.02++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A caricature of the new Lord Mayor of London: Harvey Combe stands centered in a hall, surrounded by a desperate looking group of people both rich and poor, who kneel and beg. A skeletal man (butcher?) holds a knife in one hand and a scroll in the othe...
Alternative Title:
New tenants at a mansion house
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Sold by all the printsellers in London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Combe, Harvey Christian, 1752-1818 and Glyn, Richard Carr, Sir, 1755-1838
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Avarice, Pleading (Begging), Butchers, Kicking, Poor persons, Interiors, Cats, Dogs, Putti, and Spiders
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hospitality kicking avarice out of doors, or, New tenants at a mansion house [graphic].

8.
Hypocrisy [graphic].

Published / Created:
[4 June 1810]
Call Number:
810.06.04.21
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A clergyman, with a rampturous look on his face, sits in a chair, a book opened in his hands, as a bag of gold spills onto the table in front of him. Next to him in another chair a bearded man, with horns in his curly hair, long whiskers and fangs pro...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Clergy, and Devil
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hypocrisy [graphic].

9.
L'amour du temps present [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1807?]
Call Number:
807.00.00.89
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Allegorical caricature: Two couples approach a Cupid-like statue of a man with wings that has come alive; he wears a wig and carries a bow and a torch (extinguishing as he holds in downwards); he stands on a plinth hung with bags of money, an open che...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Chez Noel Fréres rue des Prétres, St. Germain l'Auxerois, no. 22. Rue St. Jacques no. 16
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Cat, Couples, and Snakes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > L'amour du temps present [graphic].

10.
Monstrous craws at a new coalition feast [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 May 1787]
Call Number:
787.05.29.01.1++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
George III, dressed as an old woman, the Queen, and the Prince of Wales in a fool's cap decorated with his three feathers, are seated around a basin perched on the laps of the King and Queen, marked "John Bull's Blood" and filled with gold coins. All ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 29th, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subject (Topic):
Avarice and Gluttony
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Monstrous craws at a new coalition feast [graphic].

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