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1.
The staymakers address to the ladies = L'addresse du faiseur de corps au dames

Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, 1 August 1748.
Call Number:
748.08.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on women's fashion in the middle of the 18th century: in a richly appointed room, an elegant young woman with imposing stature looks the viewer in the eye as she is being measured (perhaps suggestively) by a gentleman staymaker while her maid...
Alternative Title:
Addresse du faiseur de corps au dames
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
Sold by C. Moseley, engraver & printseller in Round Court in the Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Foundation garments, Women's clothing, Clothing & dress, Tailors, and Women domestics
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The staymakers address to the ladies = L'addresse du faiseur de corps au dames

2.
Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis [graphic].

Published / Created:
publishd December [the] 8th 1748.
Call Number:
748.12.08.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377, Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422, Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Cathcart, Charles Schaw Cathcart, Lord, 1721-1776, Sussex, George Augustus Yelverton, Earl of, 1727-1758, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, Devil, Hostages, Military uniforms, British, National emblems, and Hanoverian
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis [graphic].

3.
The rebellion displayed most humbly inscribed to his sacred Majesty King George. [graphic]

Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament 1 Nov. 1748.
Call Number:
748.11.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left James II, seated on a throne of "hereditary right" and holding manacles, turns left to shake the hand of a monk who tramples on an open volume labeled "Holy Bible". From under the throne dragons or serpents devour the "Magna Carta", "Toler...
Description:
Title engraved in cartouche below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
James II, King of England, 1633-1701, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, and Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Animals, Clergy, Demons, Justice, Martyrs, Monks, Shackles, and Enslaved people
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The rebellion displayed most humbly inscribed to his sacred Majesty King George. [graphic]

4.
The preliminary congress [graphic].

Published / Created:
according to act, 1748.
Call Number:
748.06.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covt. Gardern
Subject (Name):
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746, Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia, 1701-1773, and William IV, Prince of Orange, 1711-1751
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The preliminary congress [graphic].

5.
Quackery unmask'd, or, Empiricism display'd dedicated to Doctor Chiron riding master to Achilles

Published / Created:
according to act of Parliamt, 1748.
Call Number:
748.05.17.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Empiricism display'd, Quackery unmasked, and Empiricism displayed
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Gardern
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Quackery unmask'd, or, Empiricism display'd dedicated to Doctor Chiron riding master to Achilles and Aescupalius physician extraordinary to the dead. [graphic]

6.
The congress of brutes [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1748]
Call Number:
748.05.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire of the Congress and Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle with references to Silesia and Gibraltar and the territorial concessions made by the British, specifically relinguishing Capr Breton to France. Here the European powers are represented as beasts: ...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Europe
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Politics and government, Animals in human situations, Roosters, Lions, Boars, Dogs, Wolves, Eagles, Leopards, and Griffins
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The congress of brutes [graphic].

7.
Jaco-independo-rebello-plaido [graphic]

Published / Created:
Febr. [the] 13th, 1747 [that is, 27 June 1748?]
Call Number:
748.02.13.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Morgan, David Thomas, ca. 1695-1746, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754, and Warren, Peter, Sir, 1703-1752
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Jaco-independo-rebello-plaido [graphic]

8.
A new posture in Aretine's Manner. [graphic]

Creator:
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher
Published / Created:
[1748]
Call Number:
748.00.00.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on Pietro Aretino's (1492-1556) Aretino, the author many licentious poems
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
1748, according to Act of Parliam't, Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Topic):
Musicians and Musical instruments
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A new posture in Aretine's Manner. [graphic]

9.
The grumbler 1748 [graphic]

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1748]
Call Number:
748.00.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A gentleman wtih an angry, disappointed look on his face sits at a table in a coffeehouse filling his pipe with tobacco. On the table is a sugar bowl, a drinking glass, and a sugar basin. Below the design is engraved in two lines: You grumbled at th...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, according to act of Parliamt
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Complaining, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The grumbler 1748 [graphic]

10.
Locusts [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1748]
Call Number:
748.00.00.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A group of eight locusts is gathered in the foreground; each is numbered and identified in the key below image. A long procession of other locusts in the background is walking on Whitehall by the Banqueting House to Holbein's Gate, while a swarm of mo...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Whitehall (London, England), Banqueting House (London, England), and Holbein's Gate (London, England)
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Locusts [graphic].