- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.01.00.02 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the ministerial party's attempts at bribery to influence the poll at Brentford during the Middlesex By-election in December 1768. A drunken feast is taking place in a tavern with voters and others sitting round a table on which is a large joint of meat. John Horne, in clerical dress, sits behind the table with a small glass in his hand. A man crowns him with a tankard while waving his hat and shouting “Huzza for the Rector of old Brentford Huzza”. Also seated round the table are respectably dressed voters and a woman tossing back a glass of wine. At the front of the table, on the left, a large man picks at a bone, one hand reaching behind him to receive a purse from a man in court dress. In handing the purse he upsets a bottle and bowl of punch on to a dog, another dog gnaws a bone at the large man’s foot. Behind them a woman carries aloft another joint of meat towards the table splashing liquid on to a document being read by two men standing conspiratorially in a corner. On the right at the front a prosperous butcher sits at his ease turning his head towards a man offering him a handful of coins saying “Your Money & you be d[a]md here’s a bumper to Glyn!”At the same time a ragged boy picks the briber’s pocket. Behind him a unkempt drunken man flings up his arms, waving his hat with an election cockade he declares “Huzza for the Freemen of Middlesex Glyn for ever, Huzza!” while spilling the contents of a tankard on the boy. A barmaid on the right is filling a tankard from a large half-barrel while pushing away a man who tries to molest her. A cat sits upright on a chair toying with a mouse on the edge of the half-barrel."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: Dec. 1768., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1769), page 37., Temporary local subject terms: Election dinners -- Electors -- Freeholders: Middlesex freeholders -- Trades -- Bribes -- Sir William Beauchamp Proctor -- Food: ribs -- Fowl -- Containers: water tub., and Mounted to 29 x 42 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Glynn, John, 1722-1779 and Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, Bribery, Eating & drinking, Butchers, and Pickpockers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An election entertainment at Brentford [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.03.00.05 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which the edition of this plate including the statement of responsibility was engraved., Later state. Orginally published in: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors ... 1768-[1776], v. 2, page 90., Cf. No. 4268 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Middlesex elections, 1768 -- Animals.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Glynn, John, 1722-1779, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Political elections, Bloodhounds, Clergy, and Judges
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hieroglyphics [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.02.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Design based on true incident in 1768 during construction of the Grafton House
- Alternative Title:
- New Grafton House
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 5 (1769), p. 65., and Temporary local subject terms: Electors: Middlesex freeholders -- Buildings: Grafton House, Hay Hill, Piccadilly -- Scaffoldings -- Allusion to pilfered public funds -- Allusion to horse-race betting -- Edward Weston.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Carhampton, Henry Lawes Luttrell, Earl of, 1743-1821, Macpherson, John, Sir, 1745-1821, and Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > New G-----n House [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.03.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of London merchants met on 8 March 1769 in the pub the "King's Arms" to address the King and express confidence in the current government, but it desolved into a fist fight. The participants are identified in the British Museum catalogue as Mr. Tooke, Mr. Muilman, a Mr. Reynolds (fl. 1769) and Charles Dingley. See British Museum catalogue for further explanation of the events depicted
- Description:
- Title from caption etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 38 (1769), p. 147., For the sequel see "Battle of Temple Bar.", and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Dingley, Charles, -1769, Muilman, Peter, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Vaughan, Samuel
- Subject (Topic):
- Fighting, Interiors, Meetings, Merchants, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The addressers [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.03.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A meeting of the London merchants in the King's Arms in Cornhill which ends in a fist fight
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Numbered 'No. 9' in upper right corner., Sequel to: The addressers., Plate from: The town and country magazine. London : A. Hamilton, v. 1(1769), p. 137., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Limehouse windmill -- Pictures amplifying subject: eagles pecking a carcass -- Bible: reference to Matthew, 24.28 -- Placards -- Reynolds, fl. 1769.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Boehm, Edward, Dingley, Charles, -1769, Muilman, Peter, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Vaughan, Samuel
- Subject (Topic):
- Fighting, Interiors, Merchants, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Windmills
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The battle of Cornhill [graphic].