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1. Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.57
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Cannon refused by foreigners as too destructive
- Description:
- Title etched at top of plate., Publisher identified from address., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Three images on one plate, arranged vertically., Caption in upper right corner of top image: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ..., Caption in upper right corner of center image: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ..., Caption in upper right corner of bottom image: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ..., One line of text at bottom of plate: These cannon [sic] are all mounted on golden wheels., Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Property as gun-carriage -- Heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Guns -- Map of England -- Coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Books of 'Priestcra[ft]', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke., and Mounted to 18 x 22 cm.
- Publisher:
- To be had at the Acorn, facing Hungerford Market in the Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Cannons, Maps, Money, Taxes, and Bibles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive [graphic].
2. The damnation of Obadiah [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 January 1773]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 773.01.30.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Dr. Slop, short and fat, seated in an arm-chair (centre) holding in his left hand the book containing the form of excommunication, points with his right at Obadiah who is disappearing (left), one leg and his back alone being visible. A handkerchief hangs over the doctor's cut right thumb. Behind him on the left stands Mr. Shandy, in dressing-gown and night-cap, smoking a long pipe, he is frowning and holds out his left hand in protest at the doctor's curses. Uncle Toby, his crutch under his left arm, stands on the right. pointing with his left hand at a map of Flanders which hangs on the wall over Dr. Slop's head. He turns to speak to Corporal Trim, who stands (right) at attention in profile to the left holding a long broom."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Text below title: Vide Tris. Shandy, vol. 2d., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of prose below image, two on either side of title: "May all the angels & archangels, principalities and powers, & all the heavenly armies curse & damn him ...", One of a series of prints illustrating Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy., Temporary local subject terms: Maps: Flanders -- Male costume: Dressing gown and night cap -- Male headdress: Pig-tail -- Furniture: Ladder-back chairs -- Household utensils -- Dr. Slop., and Watermark: L.V.G.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, 30th Jany. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illustrations, Military uniforms, British, Physicians, Servants, Maps, Chairs, and Brooms & brushes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The damnation of Obadiah [graphic]
3. The damnation of Obadiah [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 23, 1799.
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.05.23.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Dr. Slop, short and fat, seated in an arm-chair (centre) holding in his left hand the book containing the form of excommunication, points with his right at Obadiah who is disappearing (left), one leg and his back alone being visible. A handkerchief hangs over the doctor's cut right thumb. Behind him on the left stands Mr. Shandy, in dressing-gown and night-cap, smoking a long pipe, he is frowning and holds out his left hand in protest at the doctor's curses. Uncle Toby, his crutch under his left arm, stands on the right. pointing with his left hand at a map of Flanders which hangs on the wall over Dr. Slop's head. He turns to speak to Corporal Trim, who stands (right) at attention in profile to the left holding a long broom."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 30 Jan. 1773 by J. Bretherton. Cf. no. 5214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Text below title: Vide Tris. Shandy, vol. 2d., Four lines of prose below image, two on either side of title: "May all the angels & archangels, principalities and powers, & all the heavenly armies curse & damn him ...", One of a series of prints illustrating Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy., Temporary local subject terms: Maps: Flanders -- Male costume: Dressing gown and night cap -- Man-servant -- Male headdress: Pig-tail -- Furniture: Ladder-back chairs -- Household utensils -- Medical -- Dr. Slop., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, British, Physicians, Servants, Maps, Chairs, and Brooms & brushes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The damnation of Obadiah [graphic]
4. The damnation of Obediah [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 79. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Damnation of Obadiah
- Description:
- Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each with a separate title and signature., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Reduced copies of two designs by Bunbury. Cf. Nos. 5214 and 5216 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Restrike, with added titles and borders. For the earlier state without titles, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession nos.: 59.533.1746 ; 59.533.1744., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1803; see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., and On leaf 79 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, Maps, Servants, Brooms & brushes, Dogs, Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, and Screens
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The damnation of Obediah [graphic]
