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28. The political cartoon for the year 1775 [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1 May 1775]
Call Number:: 775.04.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Two horses labelled Obstinacy and Pride driven by Mansfield head for an abyss pulling a chaise occupied by a sleeping George III who holds a paper stating "I glory in the name of Englishman." Bute stands behind as footman holding papers entitled places, pensions, reversions. A wheel rolls over Magna Carta and the horses trample the Constitution as mitred clergymen joined by North hold out their hands for favors. Behind the chaise Pitt the elder and Lord Camden reach out as if to protest, while in the foreground a minister offers a bag of money to a crowd of men and women. In the background America is depicted as a city in flames while a demon flies above carrying a sack labelled "National Credit." Accompanying text connected the image with corruption in the boroughs of Hindon and Shaftesbury. cf. British Museum catalogue
Description:: Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark., Place of publication from that of the Westminster magazine., Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue., and From the Westminster magazine, v. 3, p. 209.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England., Great Britain, and America.
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Chatham, John Pitt, Earl of, 1756-1835., and Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794.
Subject (Topic):: Boroughs and Colonies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The political cartoon for the year 1775 [graphic].

29. Two ladies in the newest dress from drawings taken at Ranelagh, May 1775. [graphic]

Published / Created:: June 1, 1775.
Call Number:: 775.06.01.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Elegantly coiffed and dressed lady faces to the right holding fan, while behind her and facing away stands another woman with a similar dress and hair style
Description:: Title from item., At head of title: Engraved for the Lady's Magazine., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 215., and Imperfect; with offset from letterpress.
Publisher:: Published by G. Robinson
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Fashion, Clothing & dress, and Hairstyles
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Two ladies in the newest dress from drawings taken at Ranelagh, May 1775. [graphic]

30. [Folly of the times] [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1775?]
Call Number:: 775.00.00.26
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Depicts two bearded figures in classical attire (possibly Tragedy and Comedy), the former leaning on a tomb while the latter gestures laughingly at a cracked and broken globe on which the countries of France, Canada and Great Britain are identified. A satyr (the Devil), stands holding his scythe before the globe, whence from the broken area of Great Britain emerges a procession of persons mounted on hobby horses, including royalty, clergy, and a man carrying a ship model and bags of money. Time flies above, lifting the curtain on the scene, while a putto with a bubble-pipe flies towards the globe. Within the bubble is a representation of Fortune. On the ground a monkey accosts an owl, while to the right an open scroll proclaims "Life is a jest," a possible reference to John Gay's Epitaph
Alternative Title:: Life is a jest
Description:: Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet cropped within plate mark., and Mounted to 20 x 14 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Social conditions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Folly of the times] [graphic].

31. [Mr. Andrews's Gothic house] [graphic].

Published / Created:: [ca. 1775?]
Call Number:: Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Possibly a view of Donnington Grove in Berkshire, which was designed and built by John Chute in 1763 for James Pettit Andrews
Description:: Title devised by curator., Approximate date of publication supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 103 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Berkshire (England), England, and Berkshire.
Subject (Name):: Andrews, James Pettit, 1737?-1797
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts and Houses
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Mr. Andrews's Gothic house] [graphic].