Two men fight a duel with rapiers in the courtyards of a building. Through a large doorway peers Sir Robert Walpole his finger to his lips, saying "Let them cut one another's throats".
Alternative Title:
Duel between Lord Hervey and the Honble. William Pultney
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Subjects identified in manuscript on British Museum catalogue impression., Lewis Walpole Library: The two duellists were formerly misidentified as Lord Chesterfield and Viscount Cobham., For publication date of print see British Museum Catalogue of prints and drawings, v. iii, p. 372., Variant state, without caption title above the image and without publisher. Cf. No. 1868 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743, and Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764
Four designs enclosed by scrolls, with six lines of verse inscribed below two top and bottom left design, and eight lines of verse inscribed below bottom right design
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker supplied by curator., George Bickham identified as the publisher from address in imprint., 'Price 1s.', and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Hospital for Foundlings -- Castles -- Ships: ships shelling shoreline fortifications -- Ships: ships for sale, with brooms at mastheads -- Placemen -- Broad-bottoms -- Bills: excise tax, 1741 -- Guns: cannon -- Birds: doves -- Flags -- Masks: mask with dagger -- Churches: St. Paul's -- Savoyards -- Sun: eclipse -- Moon -- Treaties -- Webs: spider web -- Symbols: hands of Providence -- Wars: war with Spain, 1739 -- Animals: wolf -- Animals: cat -- Animals: mice -- Heads: grotesque head -- Emblems: German eagle -- Personifications: Holland as an infant in cradle holding heraldic arrows -- Emblematic representations: English and French dogs pouncing on Spanish dogs -- Personifications: hand-tied Justice -- Emblems: French fox -- Devil holding scroll -- Devil laughing -- Devil flying kite -- Devil fishing -- Maps: Cartegna -- Maps: England -- Maps: Havana -- Maps: capture of Porto Bello, November 22, 1739 -- Joseph Edward, Count Gage, 1678?-1753?
Publisher:
Sold at [the] Blackmoors Head against Surry Street in [the] Strand
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Four designs enclosed by scrolls, with six lines of verse inscribed below two top and bottom left design, and eight lines of verse inscribed below bottom right design
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker supplied by curator., George Bickham identified as the publisher from address in imprint., 'Price 1s.', Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Hospital for Foundlings -- Castles -- Ships: ships shelling shoreline fortifications -- Ships: ships for sale, with brooms at mastheads -- Placemen -- Broad-bottoms -- Bills: excise tax, 1741 -- Guns: cannon -- Birds: doves -- Flags -- Masks: mask with dagger -- Churches: St. Paul's -- Savoyards -- Sun: eclipse -- Moon -- Treaties -- Webs: spider web -- Symbols: hands of Providence -- Wars: war with Spain, 1739 -- Animals: wolf -- Animals: cat -- Animals: mice -- Heads: grotesque head -- Emblems: German eagle -- Personifications: Holland as an infant in cradle holding heraldic arrows -- Emblematic representations: English and French dogs pouncing on Spanish dogs -- Personifications: hand-tied Justice -- Emblems: French fox -- Devil holding scroll -- Devil laughing -- Devil flying kite -- Devil fishing -- Maps: Cartegna -- Maps: England -- Maps: Havana -- Maps: capture of Porto Bello, November 22, 1739 -- Joseph Edward, Count Gage, 1678?-1753?, and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
Sold at [the] Blackmoors Head against Surry Street in [the] Strand
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Title engraved at top of design, within the scroll surrounding the images., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and left side., 'Price 1 shilling'--Below image., Ten lines of text in rebus, followed by two columns of further text in rebus, below image: Whosoever will [be] rich or [high] be [for] [all] things ..., The following words within the text are represented by a rebus: be by an image of a bee, high by an image of a throne, for by number 4, all by an awl., Temporary local subject terms: Cession of Gibraltar -- Cession of Port Mahon -- Conventions: Pardo, 1739 -- Electorates: German electorates -- Electorate of Hanover -- Cuba: Fort St. Iago -- Cumberland Harbor -- Fairs: Horn Fair -- Yarmough fish -- Hungary -- France -- Bavaria -- Slogans: wooden shoes -- Hats: King's hat -- Parodies: parody on Athanasian Creed., Mounted., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Sold by G. Bickha[m] at the Blackmoor's Head, Exeter Exchange
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757
Title engraved at top of design, within the scroll surrounding the images., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and left side., 'Price 1 shilling'--Below image., Ten lines of text in rebus, followed by two columns of further text in rebus, below image: Whosoever will [be] rich or [high] be [for] [all] things ..., The following words within the text are represented by a rebus: be by an image of a bee, high by an image of a throne, for by number 4, all by an awl., Temporary local subject terms: Cession of Gibraltar -- Cession of Port Mahon -- Conventions: Pardo, 1739 -- Electorates: German electorates -- Electorate of Hanover -- Cuba: Fort St. Iago -- Cumberland Harbor -- Fairs: Horn Fair -- Yarmough fish -- Hungary -- France -- Bavaria -- Slogans: wooden shoes -- Hats: King's hat -- Parodies: parody on Athanasian Creed., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
Sold by G. Bickha[m] at the Blackmoor's Head, Exeter Exchange
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757
"Satire on the ineffectual opposition at the time of the parliamentary motion to remove Robert Walpole from office suggesting that they are motivated by self-interest. Walpole stands in a landscape assailed by arrows labelled "Ambition", "Want of Place", "Disappointment", "Self Interest", "Sham Patriotism", "affected Zeal", "Resentment", "Malice", "Prejudice", "Revenge", "Disaffection", "Want of Pension", and "Pique"; none of the arrows hit their mark. On the left opposition politicians with their bows stand or run away. They are identified in the verses beneath: Carteret, Argyll, the Bishop of Lichfield fallen to the ground saying "The D[evi]l owed me a Spite", Sandys crying "all mismanaged", Doddington, Lyttelton, Pulteney saying, "Z[ound]s I've mist him"; in the foreground, the tory William Shippen kneels laying down his bow and saying "I'll e'en not meddle"; a group of tories rushing away to left cry, "Let us make hast out"; the devil flies above them in the form of a winged pig, crying "yah! yah! yah!". In the background three men labour in vain to push a millstone up a hill twoards where another waits to receive it. On the right a group of Walpole's supporters mock the opposition, noting particularly the collapse of the Bishop Smalbroke, "Split Devil is down". Fifteen explanatory stanzas below, each ending with the chorus, "Doodle, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched on plate above image., Fifteen stanzas of verse below image: Who be he dat stand alone-a ..., "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. Price Six-Pence."--Following imprint., Letterpress broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet (plate mark 20.8 x 30.2 cm)., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater Noster Row
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Smalbroke, Richard, 1672-1749, and Shippen, William, 1673-1743
"Satire on Robert Walpole, showing the grounds for the Motion to remove him from office. In the foreground an extravagantly dressed young woman, representing bribery and corruption, distributes lucrative offices to the clergy, judges, army officers and members of parliament all of whom wear yokes about their necks and profess their loyalty to her and to Walpole's policies including, in the case of the politicians, a general Excise. At her feet is a pile of money bags, coronets, orb and sceptre, bank bills and pensions. In the background Walpole rides on a wagon in the form of a large money chest labelled "for the word "king" has been added here in a later hand] /For Secret Services /For [th]e Projector / for Friends and Assistants"; its wheels are labelled "Expence of Law &c./Penal Laws/G[i]n A[c]t/Debts/Civel List/Taxes" crush men representing "Manufactures/Trade/Honesty/Liberty"; penants attached to the waggon name taxes levied under Walpole's ministry, "Malt Ale/Tobacco Wine/Leather/Gin/Stamp/Land Tax/Candles/Soap/Salt/Coals". Walpole himself, lettered, "Volpone the Projector", stands on top of the waggon saying "Whoever flinches I'll discard"; he slices open an infant ("Sinking Fund") with a sword so that coins from its belly fall into the money chest, at the same time he blows French and Spanish ships out of Brest and Ferol into the Atlantic to frustrate Admiral Vernon's efforts in the Caribbean, while breaking wind that holds British ships in Torbay; a devil flying above, observes, "this wind is strong agt. them). The waggon is driven by "Volpone Junior" (Robert, Baron Walpole) and drawn by six yoked placemen, while the "Balance Master" (Horatio Walpole) sits on the back exclaiming, "Lawful plunder". Bishop Herring (labelled "Salty") follows the waggon acting as a recruiting officer holding a spear and encouraging, "All B[isho]ps, P[ee]rs, C[ommon]ers or others, willing to List in Projectrs Service. repair thither & meet with suitable Encouragemt."; a pamphlet of 1740, "Letter to a Member [of Parliament concerning the present state of affairs at home and abroad]" protrudes from his pocket; he is accompanied by two journalists, "Freeman" (Raphael Courteville) playing the drum and "Sidney" blowing the horn each has a copy of the "Gazeteer" in his pocket
Description:
Title etched above image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark resulting in loss of imprint and verse in letterpress below the plate., Publication date from variant state described in the British Museum Catalogue., Variant state of no. 2484, with additional words added to the back left wheel of the wagon. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 3., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Herring, Thomas, 1693-1757, and Courteville, Raphael, -1772
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Misconduct in office, Great Britain, Politics and government, Clergy, Corruption, Lawyers, and Politcians
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 7, 1741.
Call Number:
741.03.07.02.3+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Robert Walpole, showing the grounds for the Motion to remove him from office. In the foreground an extravagantly dressed young woman, representing bribery and corruption, distributes lucrative offices to the clergy, judges, army officers and members of parliament all of whom wear yokes about their necks and profess their loyalty to her and to Walpole's policies including, in the case of the politicians, a general Excise. At her feet is a pile of money bags, a coronets, orb and sceptre, bank bills and pensions. In the background Walpole rides on a waggon in the form of a large money chest labelled "for the [blank]/For Secret Services/For ye Projector/for Friends and Assistants"; its wheels are labelled "Expence of Law &c./Penal Laws/G[i]n A[c]t/Debts/Civel List/Taxes" crush men representing "Manufactures/Trade/Honesty/Liberty"; penants attached to the waggon name taxes levied under Walpole's ministry, "Malt Ale/Tobacco Wine/Leather/Gin/Stamp/Land Tax/Candles/Soap/Salt/Coals". Walpole himself, lettered, "Volpone the Projector", stands on top of the waggon saying "Whoever flinches I'll discard"; he slices open an infant ("Sinking Fund") with a sword so that coins from its belly fall into the money chest, at the same time he blows French and Spanish ships out of Brest and Ferol into the Atlantic to frustrate Admiral Vernon's efforts in the Caribbean, while breaking wind that holds British ships in Torbay; a devil flying above, observes, "this wind is strong agt. them). The waggon is driven by "Volpone Junior" (Robert, Baron Walpole) and drawn by six yoked placemen, while the "Balance Master" (Horatio Walpole) sits on the back exclaiming, "Lawful plunder". Bishop Herring (labelled "Salty") follows the waggon acting as a recruiting officer holding a spear and encouraging, "All B[isho]ps, P[ee]rs, C[ommon]ers or others, willing to List in Projectrs Service. repair thither & meet with suitable Encouragemt."; a pamphlet of 1740, "Letter to a Member [of Parliament concerning the present state of affairs at home and abroad]" protrudes from his pocket; he is accompanied by two journalists, "Freeman" (Raphael Courteville) playing the drum and "Sidney" blowing the horn each has a copy of the "Gazeteer" in his pocket."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication line printed in letterpress at bottom of sheet., "Sold at the print and pamplet-shops of London and Westminster"--Preceding publication line., "(Price four-pence)"--Following publication line., Three columns of verse in letterpress below image, the first of fifteen numbered stanzas beginning: I. Vat be dat machine do make de Folk groan-é? It be de invention of de old Fox Volponé ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, Herring, Thomas, 1693-1757, and Courteville, Raphael, -1772
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Misconduct in office, Politics and government, Clergy, Corruption, Lawyers, and Politcians
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Six stanzas of of verse in three columns below image: Who be dat de coach box do sit on? ..., Temporary local subject terms: House of Lords: motion to dismiss Sir Robert Walpole -- Buildings: Exchequer -- Members of Parliament -- Newspapers: The Gazetteer -- Newspapers: Quack Doctor -- Emblems: Trade, trampled -- Vehicles: coach -- Flags -- Money: bags of money -- Exchequer tallies -- Globe -- Asses -- Mules -- Horses -- Personifications: figure of Fame -- Rebuses -- Emblems: fool's cap -- Badges: miniature badges with fool's cap -- Bills: 1740-1741 -- Taxes: 1740-1741 -- Traps -- Trident -- Wooden swords -- Whips -- Philip Cavendish, d. 1743 -- Ralph Freeman, 1707-1772., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
Printed for G. Bickham, Exeter Change
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Marlborough, Charles Spencer, Duke of, 1706-1758, Sherlock, Thomas, 1678-1761, and Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770
Title from item., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image, preceded by instructions: Tune, London is a fine town: First is the King of Pru---a with his men of might ..., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: King John by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
Sold at [the] Blackmoos [sic] head, Exeter Change
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, 1685-1740, Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 1709-1762, Peter III, Emperor of Russia, 1728-1762, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Francis II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1708-1765, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Elizabeth Farnese, consort of Philip V, King of Spain, 1692-1766, Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
