Genre: Early works to 1800 / Language: English / Subject (Topic): Lotteries

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Call Number:: LWL Mss Vol. 115
Image Count:: 270
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, in a single hand with numerous corrections, of a collection of 15 letters describing life in England, translated into French, possibly from German. The letters discuss English lotteries; the proliferation of newspapers; the constitution a...
Description:: In French.
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, Great Britain., England, France, and Versailles (France)
Subject (Name):: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834., Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., and Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804.
Subject (Topic):: Cockfighting, Elections, Hunting, Lotteries, Slave trade, Newspapers, Nobility, Travelers' writings, French, Description and travel, History, Women, Intellectual life, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Letters describing life in England, 1790

Creator:: Phillips, John, active 1777, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1777]
Call Number:: 777.00.00.06
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Three men and two women in a lottery insurance office, one man with quill pen behind desk. The other individuals all hold bills reading "Mess. Gosling & Co. pay the bearer one hundred..." Sign on back wall reads "Tickets insured by Iohnson & Co." and ...
Description:: Title from text below image.
Publisher:: Edward Johnson
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Lottery winners, Lotteries, Drinking vessels, Interiors, Coats of arms, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > To the subscribers to the Lottery Magazine for 1777 this plate (representing the four favourites of fortune who receiv'd the four hundred guineas for last years Lottery Magazine) is most gratefully inscribed by their obliged humble sert. E. Johnson / [graphic]