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12.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published 24th Febry. 1755, as the act directs.
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 755.02.24.01.8++ Box 305
- Collection Title:
- Plate 39. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A dining room in a tavern is filled with drunken and rowdy men seated around a rectangular and a circular table that have been pushed together. More men and women are pushing through the doorway on the right. In the back of the room, a band of musicians play their instruments. Through the window demonstrators care signs with political messages: "Liberty and property" and "Marry and multiply in spite of the devil and the ..." State with hatching lines throughout strengthened. The space where "the whole" was is in the inscription is now crossed out with lines. Dark areas on the surface of the overturned table are removed
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., The first plate of four of an election., Dedication engraved below design: To the Right Honourable Henry Fox, &c,&c,&c. This plate is humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient humble servt. Wm. Hogarth., and Statement of responsibilty with heavily scored through word between "Painted and" and "engraved by Wm. Hogarth."
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Children, Demonstrations, Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Musicians, Political elections, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An election entertainment. [graphic] / Plate I
13.
- Published / Created:
- [1755?]
- Call Number:
- 755.00.00.24+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A three-quarter lenth portrait of Theyanoguin (also spelled Thoyanoguen, Tiyanoga, etc.) a Mohawk sachem, facing left, wearing European style military uniform and holding a hatchet in his right hand and a wampum belt in his left. On his visit in 1740 he received elaborate court clothing trimmed with gold lace from the King. This print may be based on a painting made from that visit. Impressions of this engraving were offered for sale in the November 1755 issue of Gentlemen's magazine within months of Hendrick's death. Hendrick negotiated peace between the Six Nations and Great Britain at the Albany Conference of 1754. He was killed during the Battle of Lake George on September 8, 1755
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date based on a November 1755 advertisement in Gentleman's magazine, two months after Theyanguin's death., The subject is often confused with another Mohawk sachem Tejonihokarawa who visited England in 1710, met with Queen Anne and whose portrait was painted by John Verelst. See Dean R. Snow's article in New York History, Searching for Hendrick: correction of a historic conflation, v. 88, no.3., and Mounted to 57 x 44 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Sold by Eliz. Bakewell, opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill
- Subject (Name):
- Theyanoguin, Hendrick Peters, 1692-1755.
- Subject (Topic):
- Mohawk Indians and Kings and rulers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The brave old Hendrick, the great Sachem or chief of the Mohawk Indians one of the six nations now in alliance with & subject to the King of Great Britain. [graphic]
14.
- Published / Created:
- publish [sic] as the act directs, [1755]
- Call Number:
- 755.11.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 'Price 6d.', and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the geese of the Capitol -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The council of beasts [graphic].
15.
- Creator:
- June, John, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, 25 Sepbr. 1755.
- Call Number:
- 755.09.25.01.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- French fairly coopt at Louisbourg and French fairly cooped at Louisbourg
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Blockades: Louisbourg, 1755 -- Coops: Frenchmen imprisoned in a coop -- American Indians -- Mythology: Neptune -- Mars -- Monuments -- British Lion -- Eclipses: eclipse of British arms over French arms -- America: boat falling down Niagara Falls -- Mottoes -- Colonies: America., and Mounted to 28 x 36 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, and Jno. Bowles & Son, in Cornhil [sic]
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > British resentment, or, The French fairly coopt at Louisbourg [graphic]
16.
- Published / Created:
- [March 1755]
- Call Number:
- 755.03.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "Engraved from the original drawing that was taken taken from [the] life, Janry. 17, 1755."--Above imprint., Ten lines of biographical description below title: Captain Kettle of Town Malden in Kent, who went with the King into Germany, was her Godfather ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Catherine Warman, 1648-1755 -- Beggars -- Badges: St. Martin's Parish.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to the act, March 1755, by T. Jefferys, the corner of St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross
- Subject (Topic):
- Badges
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Catherine Warman daughter of John Ross of the North of Scotland, was born May 1648 in the city of Berlin, in the reign of King Charles I. [graphic]
17.
- Published / Created:
- [1755?]
- Call Number:
- 755.00.00.07+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A broadside on the British failure to retaliate against French forces in America, with the ghost of Oliver Cromwell addressing the Duke of Cumberland, Lord Anson and Henry Fox (subsequently Lord Holland) and drawing attention to the achievements of Admiral Blake in the previous century; with an etching showing the profile of a bust of Cromwell looking to the right; with letterpress title and text in four columns."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Letterpress title above portrait., Publication date from the British Museum catalogue., The bust portrait of Cromwell in profile with plate mark 14.6 x 14.5 cm., and Watermark in the upper part of sheet, countermark in the lower.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States
- Subject (Name):
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658,, Blake, Robert, 1599-1657., William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765., Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762., and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774.
- Subject (Topic):
- History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Oliver Cromwell's ghost [graphic].
18.
- Creator:
- Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1755?]
- Call Number:
- 755.00.00.06+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An interior view of Westminster Hall, with lawyers and members of the Court talking in small groups. Around the perimeter book stalls, printersellers and book cases
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Ryall at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- Westminster Hall (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookselling, Judicial proceedings, and Lawyers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The first day of term [graphic]