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1.
A list of the pedigrees of some eminent geese shortly to appear in public [graphic].

Published / Created:
[October 1756]
Call Number:
756.10.29.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Oct. 29, 1756, by Edwards & Darly at the Acorn, facing Hungerford Strand
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778
Subject (Topic):
Geese
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A list of the pedigrees of some eminent geese shortly to appear in public [graphic].

2.
A poor man loaded with mischief, or, Iohn Bull and his sister Peg [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1762?]
Call Number:
762.09.23.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Iohn Bull and his sister Peg and John Bull and his sister Peg
Description:
Title from caption etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Treaty of Paris, Emblems, Apes, Foxes, Geese, and Shoemakers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A poor man loaded with mischief, or, Iohn Bull and his sister Peg [graphic].

3.
Bunkers Hill, or, America's head dress [graphic].

Published / Created:
[19 April 1776]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady (three-quarter length) in profile to the right. with the enormous coiffure of 1776-7 grotesquely exaggerated. Her hands are in a muff. Her inverted pyramid of hair supports three quasi-circular redoubts surrounded by cannon on which troops are...
Alternative Title:
America's head dress and America's headdress
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 19 by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
United States and England
Subject (Topic):
Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, History > Revolution, 1775-1783, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Muffs, Soldiers, British, Flags, Apes, and Geese
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bunkers Hill, or, America's head dress [graphic].

4.
Geese triumphant, or, Fox in the dumps [graphic].

Published / Created:
[26 February 1784]
Call Number:
784.02.26.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Charles Fox, with a fox's body, sits on the ground facing a building inscribed, "The Treasury," with the entrance signed, "Back door." He laments the loss of power and his inability to "get oer this mighty Pit [i.e., William Pitt]" shown as a large ov...
Alternative Title:
Fox in the dumps
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 26th, 1784 as the act directs by S. Neele, 352 near Exeter Change Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Geese, Foxes, and Nooses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Geese triumphant, or, Fox in the dumps [graphic].

5.
How to avoid the horse duty [graphic]

Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1791]
Call Number:
791.01.01.04
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout farmer rides (left to right) past an inn on a cow. The cow befouls and tramples on a paper inscribed 'Tax on Ho[rses]'. The farmer looks triumphantly over his right shoulder at a group of spectators standing at the door of the inn, and snaps ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Horses, Farmers, Cheering, Cows, Defecation, Geese, Horseback riding, Signs (Notices), Spectators, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > How to avoid the horse duty [graphic]

6.
How to pass a carriage [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 September 1786]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 68. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man rides (right to left) a violently shying horse, passing on the near side a two-wheeled farmer's cart, driving left to right, in which are seated a man and woman, the backs of their heads being visible. The front part of the cart is cut off by t...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Military uniforms, Carriages & coaches, Geese, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > How to pass a carriage [graphic]

7.
L--d Am---t on duty [graphic].

Published / Created:
[not before June 12, 1780]
Call Number:
780.06.12.01.2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Lord Amherst on duty
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. by HHumphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Gordon Riots, 1780, Military uniforms, British, and Geese
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > L--d Am---t on duty [graphic].

8.
L-d Am-t on duty [graphic].

Published / Created:
[12 June 1780]
Call Number:
780.06.12.01.1
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Lord Amherst in profile to the right in general's uniform rides a prancing horse, holding up a large sword, dripping with the blood of two geese, one of which lies dead beside him, the other staggers, with its neck slashed. Beneath the design is engr...
Alternative Title:
Lord Amherst on duty
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pub. accg to act June 12. 1780 by M Darly 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Gordon Riots, 1780, Military uniforms, British, and Geese
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > L-d Am-t on duty [graphic].

9.
Leonora [graphic]

Published / Created:
[5 December 1801]
Call Number:
801.12.05.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman, elderly, short, and broad, with swarthy Jewish features, stands, her head turned in profile to the right, holding a goose perched on her forefinger. In her right hand is the end of a ribbon attached to its leg. She says: "Say little foolish ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr 5th, 1801 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Costumes, Ethnic stereotypes, Geese, and Women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Leonora [graphic]

10.
Miseries of travelling [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1807] and [printed approximately 1980?]
Call Number:
Paulson 807.00.00.90
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An old Parson, of Dr. Syntax type, falls into the water from his horse which rolls in the stream. His hat, wig, and 'Funeral Sermon' are in the water, where a dog chases geese. On a rustic bridge (right) two women and a child are watching in alarm, a...
Alternative Title:
Miseries of traveling and Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Falling, Accidents, Bodies of water, Horses, Dogs, Geese, Pedestrian bridges, and Pails
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of travelling [graphic]

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