- Published / Created:
- [1740]
- Call Number:
- 740.01.24.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Robert Walpole showing him as a colossal figure at the entrance to St James's Palce bending forward with his naked backside exposed for an ambitious young man to kiss; another man holds a petition and bowls a hoop lettered, "Wealth", "Pride", "Vanity", "Folly", "Luxury", "Want", "Dependance", "Servility", "Venality", "Corruption" and "Prostitution", through Walpole's legs towards an arcade whose arches are labelled, "Saint [James's P]alace", "The Treasury", "The Exchequer" and "The Admiralty"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Way to preferment
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in minor loss of text., Four lines of text below image: And Henry the King made unto himself a great idol ... Chronicle of the Kings, page 51., Bowditch's ms. annotations at bottom of sheet., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Idol worship, or, The way to preferment [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1740?]
- Call Number:
- 740.05.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Court shittle-cock
- Description:
- Title from item., Date of publication based on subject of satire., Temporary local subject terms: Games: shuttlecock., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801, Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The c---t shittle-cock [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1740?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C2 738
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Court shittle-cock
- Description:
- Title from item., Date of publication based on subject of satire., Temporary local subject terms: Games: shuttlecock., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801, Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The c---t shittle-cock [graphic].
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [July 1740]
- Call Number:
- 740.07.31.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Cardinal Fleury and French dejction at the success of Admiral Vernon, coupled with condemnation of Robert Walpole for his initial opposition to the war. Fleury, finely dressed in cardinal's robes, rises from a chair and teeters on the edge of a cliff, looking in alarm at a medallion with a laureated head lettered, "Admiral Vernon"; under his arm is a scroll, lettered, "His iron will geet ye better of my Gold./G[o]d, he'll take all our Aquisitions in America." July 1740. Behind Fleury is a wall covered in graffiti: a gallows from which hangs a fat man (Walpole) lettered, "No matter yt he is long than ye Gallow's"; a man with the head of a bird who pushes a wheelbarrow; a windmill; a donkey laden with a pack; the heady of an angry Spaniard with a bird on his hat; another Spaniard, whole-length, leaning on a stick, a dog biting the tail of his cloak and two birds flying around his head; in the middle of the wall is a circular opening through which can be seen "Poor Hosier's Fleet"; a cock lettered, "Crown'd twice", stands on the wall. A pole rises from the wall, bearing a severed head, lettering identifies this as "Wall/Pole"; a ribbon hangs from the mouth lettered, "What Pity is it we can die but Once to serve our Country/Ad. Cato." Behind the wall on the right, is an imposing building flying the union flag; three crowns rest on clouds, and lightning flashes in the sky. The scene is set in a rococo frame with verses below."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Preferment of the barber's block
- Description:
- Title from item., Attributed to Bickham the Younger by British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: --Age thou art sham'd! Rome thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! ..., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
- Publisher:
- According to act, July 1740. Sold at [the] Black-moor's Head opposite Surry Street, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Name):
- Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Hosier, Francis, 1673-1727.
- Subject (Topic):
- Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Naval operations, Cardinals, Gallows, and National emblems
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cardinal in the dumps with the head of the Colossus. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [July 1740]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C2 738
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Cardinal Fleury and French dejction at the success of Admiral Vernon, coupled with condemnation of Robert Walpole for his initial opposition to the war. Fleury, finely dressed in cardinal's robes, rises from a chair and teeters on the edge of a cliff, looking in alarm at a medallion with a laureated head lettered, "Admiral Vernon"; under his arm is a scroll, lettered, "His iron will geet ye better of my Gold./G[o]d, he'll take all our Aquisitions in America." July 1740. Behind Fleury is a wall covered in graffiti: a gallows from which hangs a fat man (Walpole) lettered, "No matter yt he is long than ye Gallow's"; a man with the head of a bird who pushes a wheelbarrow; a windmill; a donkey laden with a pack; the heady of an angry Spaniard with a bird on his hat; another Spaniard, whole-length, leaning on a stick, a dog biting the tail of his cloak and two birds flying around his head; in the middle of the wall is a circular opening through which can be seen "Poor Hosier's Fleet"; a cock lettered, "Crown'd twice", stands on the wall. A pole rises from the wall, bearing a severed head, lettering identifies this as "Wall/Pole"; a ribbon hangs from the mouth lettered, "What Pity is it we can die but Once to serve our Country/Ad. Cato." Behind the wall on the right, is an imposing building flying the union flag; three crowns rest on clouds, and lightning flashes in the sky. The scene is set in a rococo frame with verses below."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Preferment of the barber's block
- Description:
- Title from item., Attributed to Bickham the Younger by British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: --Age thou art sham'd! Rome thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! ..., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
- Publisher:
- According to act, July 1740. Sold at [the] Black-moor's Head opposite Surry Street, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Name):
- Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Hosier, Francis, 1673-1727.
- Subject (Topic):
- Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Naval operations, Cardinals, Gallows, and National emblems
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cardinal in the dumps with the head of the Colossus. [graphic]