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Creator:: Stamp Act Congress (1765 : New York, N.Y.)
Published / Created:: [1775?]
Call Number:: 775.00.00.14+
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: A landscape divided by a stream. On the left, a desolate wasteland with a man cutting down the remaining apple tree while several other men attack a cow with knives or drink its blood. The cow bears on its rump a large stamp, alluding to the Stamp Act...
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and America.
Subject (Topic):: Colonies, Children, Eating & drinking, Dancers, Milking, Cows, and Apple trees
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The contrast [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1775]
Call Number:: 775.02.01.01 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Eight people crowd around a dining table, a woman on the right having fainted, perhaps choking, while two gentlemen attempt to revive her. Other diners continue eating as a maid carries in a dripping tray of meat and a dog begs from a woman on the lef...
Alternative Title:: Good dinner spoiled by the ridiculous custom of drinking to friends with a full mouth
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England. and England
Subject (Topic):: Dinners and dining, Toasts, Food habits, Social life and customs, Eating & drinking, and Dining rooms
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A good dinner spoil'd by the ridiculous custom of drinking to friends with a full mouth [graphic]

Published / Created:: published as the act directs, Augt. 1, 1775.
Call Number:: 775.08.01.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An illustration from London Magazine. Several men including one with a wooden leg sit or stand atop pilings at quayside. A tavern or inn with a glass and bottle on signboard is to the left of the image. In the foreground men fall off a gangplank attem...
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Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Topic):: Regattas, Boats, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A humorous scene at the regatta [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1775?]
Call Number:: 775.00.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Depicts Earls of Mansfield and Bute with Lord North, seated on a cloud with a demon, observing below them the female combatants Britannia and America with spear and tomahawk, flanked by male figures representating France and Spain
Alternative Title:: Blessed effects of family quarrels
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Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and America.
Subject (Name):: Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792.
Subject (Topic):: Britannia (Symbolic character), Indians of North America, Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, and Colonies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Bunkers hill, or, The blessed effects of family quarrels [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1775?]
Call Number:: 775.00.00.02
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: Probable book illustration, within ornamental frame, of a man declaiming from a raised platform before an audience composed chiefly of men in the foreground and of women in the upper gallery, the setting illuminated by candles on the table before the ...
Alternative Title:: School of Shakespeare
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Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):: Dramatic productions, Acting, Actors, Audiences, and Stages (Platforms)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The School of Shakespear [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1775]
Call Number:: 775.02.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A satire on governmental policy towards America. Depicts the Earl of Bute on the left and Earl of Mansfield with Lord North on the right dancing around a tall thistle which is draped with a Garter ribbon emblazoned with the motto "Honi soit qui mal y ...
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Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, America., Canada, and Canada.
Subject (Name):: Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., and Québec (Province).
Subject (Topic):: Colonies, Politics and government, and Freedom of religion
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The thistle reel [graphic].

Published / Created:: February 1, 1775.
Call Number:: 775.02.01.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Probably an illustration to Sterne's Sentimental Journey. A corpulent gentleman with an equally rotund lady on his arm waits in a line of passengers to board a ship. An invalid is carried up the gangpank in a chair, while a servant carries a side of b...
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Publisher:: Published as the Act directs, by A. Hamilton ...
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, Dover (England), England, and Dover
Subject (Topic):: Travelers, Passengers, Sailing ships, Carriages & coaches, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Yorick at Dover going to embark for Calais [graphic]