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1. Richard Oliver, Esqr. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Aliamet, François Germain, 1734-1788, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, April 20, 1771.
- Call Number:
- 771.04.20.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Oval bust portrait of Richard Oliver, with an engraved broadside below, both enclosed in ornamental scrolls
- Description:
- Title from item., Inscribed below portrait: Chosen alderman of Billingsgate Ward 5 July 1770. Elected member of Parliament for the City of London 11 July 1770. Sent prisoner to the Tower 26 March 1771., The text of the broadside contains an address, To the worthy liverymen on the City of London, followed by an address To the committee appointed by the Common Concil of London to provide a table for Mr. Alderman Oliver at the city expence [sic] during his imprisonment in the Tower., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark., After imprint: P[rice 1s]., Temporary local subject terms: Aldermen -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Reference to Bill of Rights -- Reference to Habeas Corpus -- Reference to alderman's oath -- Arms -- Richard Oliver, 1735-1784, alderman., Watermark: countermark I V., and Lower right corner torn off resulting in partial loss of design, statement of responsibilty, and price.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Richard Oliver, Esqr. [graphic]
2. The Right Honble Brass Crosby, Esqr. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Aliamet, François Germain, 1734-1788, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, April 20, 1771.
- Call Number:
- 771.04.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Right Honorable Brass Crosby, Esqr
- Description:
- Title from item., After imprint: Price 1s., Oval bust portrait of Brass Crosby, with an engraved broadside below, both enclosed in ornamental scrolls., Inscribed below portrait: Elected member of Parliament for Honiton, 17 March 1768. Chosen Lord Mayor of London 29 September 1770. Sent prisoner to the Tower 27 March 1771., The text of the broadside contains Address of the Borough of Honiton in Devonshire to Sir George Yonge, Bart. and Brass Crosby, Esqr., followed by The answer of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor to the worthy electors of the Borough of Honiton., Temporary local subject terms: Lord Mayors of London: Brass Crosby -- Addresses: Honiton, Devonshire -- Maces: royal mace -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Buildings: Tower of London -- Arms: City arms, London -- Reference to alderman's oath -- Reference to City charter -- Emblems: scales of Justice -- Brass Crosby, 1725-1793, Lord Mayor of London, 1771., and Watermark: British Lion.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Right Honble Brass Crosby, Esqr. [graphic]
3. The country-man in London [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730-, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, Sepr. 1, 1771.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 11. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on gullible youths and dishonest prostitutes. A bedroom in which a young countryman is seated at a table between two young women. His right leg is slung across the legs of the woman on the left; she wears a quilted petticoat and her neckline plunges to reveal a breast; she puts an arm around his shoulder and with the other picks his purse from pocket. His left arm is around the waist of the other woman, who gazes seductively at him and offers a punchbowl; playing cards lie on the table and the Queen of Hearts has fallen to the floor. On the back of the first woman's chair sits a parrot chewing a twist of lemon peel; the pimp and an old bawd stand behind the bed curtain watching the scene; a picture on the wall shows a sheep being fleeced; in front of the table, a dog chews the young man's copy of "The Journey to London"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Countryman in London
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Bullies -- Countrymen -- Pictures amplifying subject: couple fleecing a ram -- Procuresses -- Pickpocketing -- Pets -- Male dress: countryman -- Furniture: tripod table -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Books: A journey to London -- Bed with curtains -- Literature: allusion to The provok'd husband, or journey to London by Sir John Vanburgh (1664-1726) and Colley Cibber (1671-1757)., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 24.8 x 34.8 cm, folded to 24.8 x 25 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 11 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Prostitutes, Pickpockets, Parrots, Dogs, Books, Beds, Gambling, Playing cards, and Chamber pots
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The country-man in London [graphic]
4. The country-man in London [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730-, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, Sepr. 1, 1771.
- Call Number:
- 771.09.01.01+
- Collection Title:
- Page 11. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on gullible youths and dishonest prostitutes. A bedroom in which a young countryman is seated at a table between two young women. His right leg is slung across the legs of the woman on the left; she wears a quilted petticoat and her neckline plunges to reveal a breast; she puts an arm around his shoulder and with the other picks his purse from pocket. His left arm is around the waist of the other woman, who gazes seductively at him and offers a punchbowl; playing cards lie on the table and the Queen of Hearts has fallen to the floor. On the back of the first woman's chair sits a parrot chewing a twist of lemon peel; the pimp and an old bawd stand behind the bed curtain watching the scene; a picture on the wall shows a sheep being fleeced; in front of the table, a dog chews the young man's copy of "The Journey to London"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Countryman in London
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Bullies -- Countrymen -- Pictures amplifying subject: couple fleecing a ram -- Procuresses -- Pickpocketing -- Pets -- Male dress: countryman -- Furniture: tripod table -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Books: A journey to London -- Bed with curtains -- Literature: allusion to The provok'd husband, or journey to London by Sir John Vanburgh (1664-1726) and Colley Cibber (1671-1757).
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Prostitutes, Pickpockets, Parrots, Dogs, Books, Beds, Gambling, Playing cards, and Chamber pots
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The country-man in London [graphic]
5. A geometrical view of the grand procession of the scald miserable masons, design'd as they were drawn up over against Somerset House, in the Strand, on the twenty seventh of April, ano. 1742 [graphic]
- Creator:
- Benoist, A. (Antoine), 1721-1770, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1771.
- Call Number:
- Drawer 771.00.00.26
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Fourth state as described in British Museum online., A key to persons and objects numbered within the image provided in two columns of text on each side of the title., and Folded and mounted to 29 x 68 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by F. Vivares, in Great Newport Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Somerset House (London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A geometrical view of the grand procession of the scald miserable masons, design'd as they were drawn up over against Somerset House, in the Strand, on the twenty seventh of April, ano. 1742 [graphic]
6. Samuel Foote Esqr [graphic]
- Creator:
- Blackmore, Thomas, 1740-1780, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1771]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 656); three-quarter length standing, turned slightly to left, leaning on stick, with left arm resting on right hand, wearing patterned waistcoat; curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1833,0610.33., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 16 (leaf numbered '70' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd June [the] 4th, 1771, accorg. to act of Parliament by W.W. Ryland in Cornhill
- Subject (Name):
- Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777,
- Subject (Topic):
- Dramatists, Actors, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Samuel Foote Esqr [graphic]
7. Hieroglyphicks of the natural man [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the act directs, [not before 1793]
- Call Number:
- 771.01.01.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Hieroglyphics of the natural man
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from the 1771 edition. Printmaker's name burnished from plate., Publication date inferred from the date of partnership formed by Henry Carington Bowles and Carver after Carington Bowles's death in 1793. See Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31., One line of quote below title: Cut it down while cumbreth it the ground., and Temporary local subject terms: Tree of life -- Vices: names on fruit of tree -- Death: skeleton with axe -- Emblems: scorpions and snakes as evil -- Emblems: dove of peace -- Emblems: lightining as wrath of God -- Mouth of Hell -- Destruction: woods and villages laid low -- Allegorical figures: angel(?) -- Bible: quotation from Luke, xiii, 7.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Bowles & Carver, Map & Printsellers, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Devils
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hieroglyphicks of the natural man [graphic]
8. Philospher laughing at magick [graphic]
- Creator:
- Brookshaw, Richard, 1736-, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1771]
- Call Number:
- 771.00.00.42+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Philosopher laughing at magic
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication date inferred from another print by Brookshaw: The Flemish ballad singer., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Philosophers -- Skulls -- Mortars and pestles -- Lighting: candlelight -- Bats -- Dog's head -- Books -- Glass bottles.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Philospher laughing at magick [graphic]
9. The Flemish ballad singer Le Flamand chantant des ballades / [graphic] =
- Creator:
- Brookshaw, Richard, 1736-, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 7, 1771.
- Call Number:
- 771.03.07.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two ballad singers, one of them standing on top of an overturned large basket, are singing to a small but pleased-looking crowd by the entrance to an inn. A child standing in front of the basket is reaching up to offer the singer a coin
- Alternative Title:
- Flamand chantant des ballades
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballads, Baskets, Children, Clothing & dress, Flemish, Crowds, Signs (Notices), Singers, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Flemish ballad singer Le Flamand chantant des ballades / [graphic] =
