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- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.43
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Titles from items., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Two lines of verse below top design: The ass of Balaam through oppression spoke our Stone-Ase of oppression brings the yoke., Caption below center design: Absolute obedience my brethren ; murmering [sic] against your superiors is rebellion and consumate impudence., Caption below bottom design: Justice has leaden feet but iron claws., None of designs recorded in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Angels -- Asses -- Bible: nos. 22.21-35 -- Human body: mechanical human heart -- Money: bags of money -- Bellows -- British Lion -- Personifications: figure of Justice -- Balances -- Allusion to Gibraltar -- Treasury: Sinking Fund -- Battles: allusion to the Battle of Minorca, Port Mahon, 20 May 1756.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Balaam and his ass A whip for [the] horse, a bridle for [the] ass, & a rod for [the] fools back ; The ballance master. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- Nov. 25 [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.11.00.06+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the corruption of Newcastle's government suggesting that it accepted French bribes; Byng, crushed by Hardwicke and Fox, is treated with some sympathy."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- French way of catching fools and Oh! How are the mighty fallen?
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Bribes -- Pictures amplifying subject: spider-web covered painting of Justice -- Emblems: French fleur-de-lis -- Gambling: EO table., Note by E. Truman filed with the print., and Mounted to 33 x 44 cm.
- Publisher:
- Sold at the Star on Holborn Hill
- Subject (Name):
- Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Byng, John, 1704-1757, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Birdlime for bunglers, or, The French way of catching fools [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.37
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Titles etched above images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Sticks: wand -- Bag of secret service money -- Newcastle's bribery, 1756 -- Parliament: corruption of Parliament by Newcastle -- Newcastle Administration -- Allusion to William, Baron Blakeney, 1672-1761 -- Interiors: forge -- Tools: farrier's tools -- Forgery: Admiral Byng as victim of forgery -- Trials: allusion to Admiral Byng's court-martial for neglect of duty -- Money for Hanover -- Addresses: subsidiary treaties -- Scales: weighing addresses against money -- Taxes: 1756.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, and Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773
- Subject (Topic):
- Petitions, Bribery, Forge shops, Scales, Fools' caps, and Money
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bribery A m-n-l forge ; The two guardians. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Walker, Anthony, 1726-1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.87.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Britannia in distress under a tottering fabric
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker identified by Richard T. Godfrey, Dec. 13, 1979., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Trade as a caryatide -- Personifications: Public credit as a caryatide -- Subsidies., and Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Britannia in distress under a tott'ring fabrick with cumberous load [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.10.00.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Plate numbered '32' in upper right corner., Two lines of music with text loosely printed below them: Britons, strike home. Revenge, revenge your country's wrongs., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Fall of the Newcastle Administration -- The Duke of Newcastle as salmon., and Mounted to 17 x 28 cm.
- Publisher:
- To be had at Edwards and Darlys facing Hungerford in the Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
- Subject (Topic):
- Axes and Musical notation
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Britons strike home an old tune, proper to be play'd upon several instruments at this juncture. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.07.31.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the ministerial changes and payments made to out-going ministers; Admiral Byng is shown in chains holding the dispatches referring to his withdrawal from action at Minorca; Earl Sandwich concerns himself only with opera and theatre."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Council of expedients and Byng returned
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse below image: The quacks of government who sate at the unregarded helm of the state ..., Temporary local subject terms: Trials: court-martial of Admiral Byng -- Reference to the Battle of Minorca, 20 May 1756 -- Fetters -- Literature: quotation from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., Watermark., and Mounted, for further information consult staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Minorca (Spain)
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Shackles, and Scales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Byng return'd, or, The council of expedients [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- French dressers
- Description:
- Title from item., Publisher identified from address., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse in two columns engraved below image: And shall the substitutes of power our genius thus bedeck ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Dress: French dress, ca. 1756., and Mounted to 21 x 23 cm.
- Publisher:
- To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > England made odious, or, The French dressers [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.47
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- French dressers
- Description:
- Title from item., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: And shall the substitutes of power our Genius thus bedeck ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: French dress, ca. 1756 -- Shields: bipartite shield, British and French -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- French influence -- Pictures amplifying subject.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > England made odious, or, The French dressers [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [24 November 1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.11.24.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Enter worthies
- Description:
- Titles etched above images., Plate numbered '51' in upper right corner., Two images on one plate, each with a title above the image., Six lines of verse under design: No more thy gracious mind perplex / The vulture now no more shall vex ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 13 x 17 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act Novr. 24, 1756, by Darly and Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1720-1764, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Exit unworthies. Enter worthies [graphic].