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1.
Admiral Keppel [graphic]

Creator:
Pollard, Robert, 1755-1838, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1779]
Call Number:
Portraits K38 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
R. Pollard
Subject (Name):
Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Admiral Keppel [graphic]

2.
Apothecaries, taylors, &c. conquering France and Spain [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 September 1779]
Call Number:
779.09.29.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A scene of disorder; men sitting and standing round a circular table; they are smoking, gesticulating and drinking. A very fat man, seated on the farther side of the table, wearing a hat and smoking, his hands folded, says,"we want men of Activity". His neighbour, also smoking, adds "To destroy all their Looms". The next man (left), clenching his fists, says, "Blood & Guts, what are we all about - our Armys are grazing in Idleness, like a Flock of Sheep till they die of the Rot - I'd send them to Slaughter all the Cattle on the Enemy's Coast & make the Papist Scoundrells keep a long Lent of it". A man (right) holding up a foaming tankard, says "Old England will never be conquer'd while we can Brew such Drink as this". A barber, a comb stuck in his hair, an implement for curling hair protruding from his pocket, leans back in his chair, saying, "We're all in the Suds - I could shew them a way to lower their French Toupees". On his right stands the figure of 'Prattle' (Atkinson of Pall Mall), as in BMSat 5603 but in reverse. He is saying, "Beg your Pardon my Dr Sir, meant no Offence my Dr Mr Tallow - too much Love & Respect - your Perfectly in the Right - of the same Opinion of my Led & I - they'll never Invade us as you say & my Lud Chatter observed to me the other Night at Lady Carbuncles". He is addressing a stout man standing on the left of the table, who flourishes a stick in his right hand while with a blow from his fist he overturns a punch-bowl, having upset a tankard, a lemon, and a number of wineglasses which are falling to the ground. He says "Dont Talk to me of your Dukes & your Lords, I'm a True Born Englishman, & dont care for Nobody not I - they dare not invade us - Damme they dare not - you Glister Pipe, you pitiful Plaister Spreader You------". A dog barks at him. A thin and rather ragged-looking man on his right, his hands in his breeches pockets, says "Invade us - Damme, what can Soup Meager do against Beef & Plumb Pudding"; a pair of scissors projecting from his coat-pocket shows that he is a tailor; his stockings are ungartered and his shoes are unbuckled. On the extreme left an elderly man with a tie-wig and wearing a hat and pince-nez, sits in a chair reading a newspaper; he holds up a hand in dismay saying, "All's lost". Behind stands a waiter, his napkin under his arm, saying "Dr Prattle says right - I'll go over to the Opposition and never drink another Pot with my Lords Footman". Hats are hung up on the wall, and a bracket-clock shows that it is one o'clock."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Apothecaries, tailors, &c. conquering France and Spain and Apothecaries, tailors, conquering France and Spain
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint. Imprint from British Museum catalogue., and Attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sept. 29th, 1779, by W. Humphrey
Subject (Topic):
Meetings and Eating & drinking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Apothecaries, taylors, &c. conquering France and Spain [graphic].

3.
Captain James Cook [graphic]

Creator:
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 April 1779]
Call Number:
Portraits C771 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Captain James Cook wearing a suit, seated, resting one arm on a manuscript laid on a table, his hat and a book are next to the manuscript; after a picture by Dance now at Greenwich."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published April 20th 1779 by J.K. Sherwin No. 234 Strand
Subject (Name):
Cook, James, 1728-1779,
Subject (Topic):
Explorers and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Captain James Cook [graphic]

4.
Evelina [graphic]

Creator:
Walker, William, 1729-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 24, 1779.
Call Number:
779.11.24.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Probable book illustration to Fanny Burney's Evelina.
Publisher:
T. Lowndes
Subject (Name):
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Evelina [graphic]

5.
Hercules & Omphale in the Carlo Maratt room at Houghton / [graphic]

Creator:
Michel, Jean-Baptiste, 1748-1804, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1779]
Call Number:
Drawer 779.05.01.06
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Hercules and Omphale
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 3 i. long., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate VII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Venus & Cupid.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1779, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hercules & Omphale in the Carlo Maratt room at Houghton / [graphic]

8.
Miss Martha Ray [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1 May 1779]
Call Number:
523 H11 779cj
Collection Title:
Frontispiece. Case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance with the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Martha Ray; bust length, looking to left; in oval, with scene of her street murder beneath; illustration to unknown publication."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miss Martha Reay
Description:
Title from text in image., Bound in as frontispiece in an extra-illustrated copy of: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statment from bottom edge., and Mounted to 21.1 x 12.8 cm
Publisher:
Published 1st of May 1779 by Fielding & Walker, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Name):
Reay, Martha,
Subject (Topic):
Victims of crimes and Homicides
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Martha Ray [graphic].

12.
Mrs. W-r Lord L-. [graphic]

Published / Created:
Decr 1, 1779.
Call Number:
779.12.01.04 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Margaret Woffington, Earl of Loudon, and Lord L
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed., and Subjects of the prints dentified as Earl of Loudon and Margaret Woffington. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published by A. Hamilton Junr ...
Subject (Name):
Loudon, John Campbell, Earl of, 1705-1782. and Woffington, Margaret, -1760.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. W-r Lord L-. [graphic]

13.
Price's cut glass manufactory, Sherrard Street, St. James's from Mr. Parker's, Fleet Street

Creator:
Lockington, John, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1779?]
Call Number:
66 800 C69
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from pencil annotation on impression in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,66.42., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Publisher:
John Price
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Glass manufacture and Urns
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Price's cut glass manufactory, Sherrard Street, St. James's from Mr. Parker's, Fleet Street / [graphic]

14.
Seven we together make. Count us, and don't mistake. [graphic].

Published / Created:
publish'd as the act directs, 1 May 1779.
Call Number:
779.05.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three animals in coats and hats with feathers mounted on donkeys gather on a road with a house and walled garden in the distance. Text below the image: Welcome Brother, view us well, And which you most resentble tell. Seven we together make, Count us, and don't mistake. Our looks relationship betray, So you may either Grin or Bray
Description:
Title etched below image, centered between two columns of verse. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his print and map warehouse, No. 69 in St. Paul's Churchyard, London
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Donkeys, and Monkeys
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Seven we together make. Count us, and don't mistake. [graphic].

15.
Sir Thomas Gresham in the common parlour at Houghton / [graphic]

Creator:
Michel, Jean-Baptiste, 1748-1804, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1779]
Call Number:
Drawer 779.05.01.07
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 2 f. 1 i. by 2 f. 9 3/4 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate VI from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: [Rubens's wife].
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1779, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Gresham, Thomas, 1519?-1579,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sir Thomas Gresham in the common parlour at Houghton / [graphic]

18.
The capricious marchioness The boisterous lover. [graphic]

Published / Created:
Feb. 1, 1779.
Call Number:
779.02.01.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Bust-length portraits of a woman to the left and a man to the right, each in an oval with bow above
Alternative Title:
Boisterous lover
Description:
Title etched below images.
Publisher:
Published by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The capricious marchioness The boisterous lover. [graphic]

19.
The captivating Lais ; The favourite of the fair [graphic].

Published / Created:
June 1, 1779.
Call Number:
779.06.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portraits of Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, at right, in profile to left, facing a lady, directed to right, in separate medallions, surmounted by ribbons; illustration to 'The Town and Country Magazine' (1779, p.233). 1779"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Favourite of the fair
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The captivating Lais ; The favourite of the fair [graphic].

20.
The last stake [graphic]

Published / Created:
[6 December 1779]
Call Number:
779.12.06.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"On the further side of a stream, inscribed "Rubicon - Flu -", a bull representing John Bull is being baited. On his back sits Lord North in profile to the left., very obese and asleep; at his back is a large square pack, inscribed "Taxes". The bull is held by a rope which is twisted round a post inscribed "The Last Stake", the end being held by a Scotsman in Highland dress intended for Bute, and by a man in judge's wig and robes, evidently Mansfield. Two other members of 'the Junto' are goading the bull on, one with a pole, the other with a club. The bull is being attacked by France with a sword, and Spain with a spear. France wears a coat, hat and bag-wig of French fashion, Spain wears a slashed doublet, ruff and cloak. In front of an inn-door (l.) behind them stands George III, watching the struggle complacently, his hands in his pockets. Above the door the signboard, on which is a crown, is falling off, and hangs from one hook only. From a window a woman's arm empties a chamber-pot on to the king's head. In the foreground, on the nearer side of the "Rubicon" a Dutchman (r.) stands facing the wall of a building, urinating on a paper inscribed "British Memorial".--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., The names of the artists indicate that the plight of the country is due to the designs of Bute (Stuart), carried on by Mansfield (Murray) and executed by the Junto., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Decr. 6, 1779, for J. Almon ...
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The last stake [graphic]

22.
The midnight magistrate [graphic].

Published / Created:
Decr 1, 1779.
Call Number:
779.12.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on "hireling constables", that is, on constables who were paid as substitutes for parishioners who were bound to serve annually without pay. The interior of a watch-house, where the constable of the night sits in an armchair, wearing a hat and holding a long staff. Watchmen are bringing in persons arrested during the night, others sit or stand about; some are smoking. All the figures have the heads of apes. A watchman bringing in a young woman shows the constable his broken lantern. He is followed by a watchman bringing in a well-dressed young man. Other watchmen, with a woman wearing an apron, are seen through a large open doorway; behind them are buildings and the tower of Westminster Abbey. On the top of the door, which opens inwards, sits a large owl. A large fire blazes. The room is lit by a lantern hung from the roof and two large candles. Large flagons of drink are in evidence. Verses (eighteen lines) are engraved beneath the design, whose tenor is that the young woman is used by the constable as a decoy, the man is charged (falsely) with having assaulted the watch and broken the lantern. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Imprint from British Museum catalogue., and Trimmed within plate line with loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Fielding & Walker
Subject (Topic):
Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The midnight magistrate [graphic].

23.
The political raree-show, or, A picture of parties and politics, during and at the close of the

Published / Created:
[1 July 1779]
Call Number:
779.07.01.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Twelve views seen in a peep-show, the views being arranged in four rows; the outside of the box or booth is seen on the left, a boy looks through a round hole, the showman points, saying to him, "There you shall see". His words are given at length in the accompanying text"--British Museum online catalogue and "From the ‘Westminster Magazine’, vii. 282 (folding plate). [1] ‘The Distressed Financier.’ ... [2] ‘The Generals in America doing nothing, or worse than nothing.’ ... [3] ‘Proving that they have done every thing.’ ... [4] ‘Jemmy Twitcher Overseer of ye Poor of Greenwich.’ .... [5] ‘The Duke of Richmond turned Linen-Draper’ ... 6] ‘The Opposition Pudding-makers.’ ... [7] ‘Cha. Ja Tod abusing ye national Gamblers.’ ... [8] ‘The Jerseymen treating ye French with Gunpowder tea.’ ... [9] 'The Scotch Presbyterians pulling down the Papists Houses.' ... [10] 'The English Papists laughing at ye Protestants.' ... [11] 'A Picture of Irish Resolution.' ... [12] ‘Inside View of the Long Room at ye Custom House.’ ..."--British Museum curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Picture of parties and politics
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Imprint from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published 1st. of July 1779 by Fielding & Walker ...
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The political raree-show, or, A picture of parties and politics, during and at the close of the last session of Parliament, June 1779 [graphic].

24.
The sinking fund [graphic].

Published / Created:
[9 April 1779]
Call Number:
779.04.09.01.1+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a pawnbroker's shop. Behind a counter (l.) an old man wearing a cap and spectacles is bargaining with a customer over a watch. On the wall above his head is inscribed "Money lent by Judas Gripe". The customer, a well-dressed man, leans on the counter. Next him is a young woman holding a garment which she intends to pawn. Behind her a man standing on tip-toe reaches over her head to offer the pawnbroker a wig. An elderly and ragged woman is counting the coins she has received. A man (r.) in profile to the right. has just taken the buckles off his shoes, his left. foot raised on a stool. Behind the figures and against the wall at r. angles to the counter is a large cupboard, the upper part fronted with panes of glass; behind this are many pawned articles including a number of watches, books, a violin, a sword, jugs, bowls, a barber's bowl, a hat. Inside the counter, which is hollow, are rolls of material."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and First state, without printmaker's initials and before alterations to title and imprint.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs 9th April 1779 by Robert Wilkinson, at No. 58, in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Pawnshops
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The sinking fund [graphic].

25.
This plate (representing a negroes dance in the island of Dominica) is humbly dedicated to the

Creator:
Brunias, Agostino, 1730-1796, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[15 February 1779]
Call Number:
779.02.15.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A couple dance together under a lush tree with large fruit hanging from its branches. They are accompanied by two men playing instruments, a drum and tambourine as one woman claps along to the music. Others, including a small girl, stand and converse
Description:
Title from text below image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published 15 Feby. 1779 by the proprietor N [...] Broad Street
Subject (Geographic):
Dominica.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Dance, Indigenous peoples, and Musical instruments
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > This plate (representing a negroes dance in the island of Dominica) is humbly dedicated to the Honble. Charles O'Hara, Brigadier General of His Majesty's Army in America .... by his most obedt. & devoted servt. A. Brunias [graphic]

26.
Venus & Cupid in the Carlo Maratt room at Houghton / [graphic]

Creator:
Michel, Jean-Baptiste, 1748-1804, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1779]
Call Number:
Drawer 779.05.01.06
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Venus and Cupid
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 4 1/2 i. long., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate VIII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Hercules & Omphale.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1779, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Venus & Cupid in the Carlo Maratt room at Houghton / [graphic]

27.
Weddell, jeweller, Hyde Street, Bloomsbury [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1779?]
Call Number:
66 800 C69
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from pencil annotation on impression in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,67.230, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "No. 32" engraved at top of image; "Jewels set in [the] most elegant taste" engraved within banner below numbering., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Publisher:
Weddell
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Jewelers and Putti
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Weddell, jeweller, Hyde Street, Bloomsbury [graphic]

28.
William Crotch [graphic]

Creator:
Fittler, James, 1758-1835, printmaker
Published / Created:
[12 May 1779]
Call Number:
Portraits C951 no.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the infant musical genius William Crotch; aged 3, half length, full face; holding music sheet; wearing feathered hat; oval on pedastal with musical ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text on pedestal within image., Two lines of biographical information beneath image: This celebrated child who discover'd extraordinary talents for music during the third year of his age, was born at Norwich July 5th, 1775., Dedication at bottom of plate: To Sir Harbord Harbord Bt. L.L.D. this plate is by permission most humbly inscribed by his faithful and obedient servant, Isabella Crotch., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament May 12th, 1779, by Mrs. Crotch, near St. James's Street, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Crotch, William, 1775-1847,
Subject (Topic):
Gifted children and Musicians
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > William Crotch [graphic]

29.
[Rubens's wife] [graphic].

Creator:
Michel, Jean-Baptiste, 1748-1804, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1779]
Call Number:
Drawer 779.05.01.07
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from lettered state in the British Museum., Artist, printmaker, and publication information from description of a later state in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2006,U.916., State lacking text but having a coat of arms (lacking motto) etched below image., Plate V from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Sir Thomas Gresham.
Publisher:
John Boydell
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Rubens's wife] [graphic].