Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing about 43 entries including religious meditations; Biblical notes; religious poems and verse paraphrases on Biblical subjects; sermon extracts; a play titled "The Tragedye of Jepthas daughter;" a treati...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.
Subject (Topic):
Dueling, English drama, English poetry, Medicine, Medicine, Popular, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, Sermons, English, Politics and government, and Religious life and customs
Mr. Pulteney duels with Lord Hervey in a country road, an open field behind them and in the distance trees against a dark, cloudy sky. In the foreground on the right stands the figure of Sir Robert Walpole who points to the two duelers
Description:
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Ickworth, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
"Satire on the duel between Horatio Walpole and William Richard Chetwynd showing the point where they are separated by a clerk. Walpole, on the right, accuses his opponent, "Would you not have hang'd my Brother at ye door of ye House", to which Chetwy...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, Chetwynd, William Richard Chetwynd, Viscount, ?1683-1770, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Onslow, Arthur, 1691-1768
"Satire on the duel between Horatio Walpole and William Richard Chetwynd showing the point where they are separated by a clerk. Walpole, on the right, accuses his opponent, "Would you not have hang'd my Brother at ye door of ye House", to which Chetwy...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, Chetwynd, William Richard Chetwynd, Viscount, ?1683-1770, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Onslow, Arthur, 1691-1768
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
762.10.03.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An etching, showing Earl Talbot, who was Lord Steward of the Household, standing behind a "Fire Screen", on the floor near which are two saucepans ... duel ... Bagshot Heath"-- British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pot-lid & inkhorn Pot-lid and inkhorn
Description:
Title from caption etched below image.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
A scene in a coffee-house. Two men, one in a queue wig and with a pistol, another in club wig and with a sword, are fighting a duel while three frightened customers are trying to leave and another one cowers behind a settee next to a low table with co...
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A flying demon holds the level beam of a pair of scales, on which stand Wilkes (left) and Parson Horne (right). Each stands in the attitude of a fencer, thrusting at the other with an outstretched goose-quill; neither has the advantage. Wilkes wears ...
Description:
Title from text in image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
