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1. [Unidentified monument] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bonnor, Thomas, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 633 780 En58
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., Date of printing based on watermark., and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; numbered '15' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Unidentified monument] [graphic]
2. [Four characters from The rivals] [art original].
- Creator:
- Loftie, W., artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, opposite page 102. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Collective title devised by cataloger., Each drawing has the title of Sheridan's play "The Rivals" written in ink above, as well as the depicted actor's name, the name of the character portrayed, the theater name, and the performance date written in ink below., Statement of responsibility "by W. Loftie" added in pencil for each drawing, in lower right corner of sheet., Date from partially trimmed watermark on sheet of upper right drawing: 1794 [J. W]hatman., and Mounted together opposite page 102 (leaf numbered '154' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Dodd, James William, 1740?-1796, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, and Johnstone, John Henry, 1749-1828
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Four characters from The rivals] [art original].
3. View of the telegraph erected on the Admiralty Office Charing Cross in Feby
- Published / Created:
- [26 March 1796]
- Call Number:
- File 69 796 V670+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- An explanatory design of the telegraph, built for the transmission of messages, over the Admiralty, Whitehall; the main image shows the telegraph on top of the Officer's Cabin with all the shutters closed; engraved lettering below, and around the edge, lettered from A to R, are further smaller telegraphs with shutters open in various different positions according to the specific letter signalled. Inscribed with letters above and within images, and with five short paragraphs of lettering below main image, three with the heading: "Explanation of the Telegraph / The Alphabet explained / Sentences explained".
- Description:
- Title from text engraved along the top of the image., All engraved., "Price 1 shilling.", and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Pud. March 26, 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Telegraph and Communications, Military
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of the telegraph erected on the Admiralty Office Charing Cross in Feby
4. The tankard [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ireland, Anna Maria, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1794]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 794.00.00.182.2 Box 130
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., An impression of the design engraved on the tankard belonging to the Clare Market artists club which included William Hogarth., Later state of plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 77., After Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 6., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Putti
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The tankard [graphic]
5. The raft in danger, or, The republican crew disappointed [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Janry. 28, 1798.
- Call Number:
- Drawer 798.01.28.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Leaders of the Opposition (left) turn a windlass which drags towards the shore a fantastic and enormous raft laden with French troops. They push against horizontal levers which pass through the broad centre-post on which the rope is wound; on the top of this Lauderdale, in Highland dress and on a smaller scale than the others, plays the bagpipes, from which issue the words: 'Over the Water & over the Sea, And over the Raft to Charlie.' He capers to his tune; a tricolour flag flies from his instrument. The most prominent figure is Fox, advancing full-face, and looking to the raft with a satisfied smile; he says, "Pull away Citizens". Behind him, the rope between them, is Bedford in riding-dress; under his arm is a book: 'Bedford on Agriculter' (cf. BMSat 8648). Opposite Fox is Tierney, saying, "We must take care to keep clear of the Rope". From his pocket hangs a paper: 'Borough Influence' (he was M.P. for Southwark, 'the Borough', cf. BMSat 9045). Sheridan, pushing hard in profile to the left, says: "Ah! The Rope We must avoid it if possible". Norfolk, on the extreme left, puts a hand on Tierney's lever; he says: "Hark Ther's a Storm coming. I hear Thunder." They walk on a circular track by the edge of a cliff. On the ground is a large open book: 'President of the Directory CIF. [Fox] Deputy a Bedfordshire Bull [cf. BMSat 8684]'. On it lies a 'Norfolk Cheese'. Behind (left) is a gallows inscribed 'Tierney' (almost obliterated) from which hangs a corpse. In the background is a hill on the summit of which is an encampment with massed troops flying the British flag. The raft nears the shore but is about to be overwhelmed by vast waves blown up by blasts from the mouths of Dundas, the King, and Pitt, whose heads emerge from dark clouds. Dundas, in profile to the left, aims his blast at the windlass; in it (right to left) are the names: 'Jack Ketch'; 'Addington, Bond, Staples [Bow Street justices]'; 'Macnamara Fugion, Macmanus, Townsend, Jelous' [Bow Street officers or 'runners']. The King and Pitt aim directly at the raft; from the mouth of the former (full-face) issue the names 'St Vincent, Pasley, Duncan, Pellew, Nelson'; from that of Pitt (in profile to the right): 'Trollope, Thomson, Bridport, Onslow, Pringle'. In the centre of the raft is a massive fortress manned with troops; from it flies a huge tricolour flag inscribed 'Liberty and Equality'. The fort is surrounded by tents; outside there are soldiers in close formation with bayonets. The outer edge is flanked by turrets, each having a (tricolour) flag inscribed: 'Plunder'; 'Regecides Paricides'; 'Deism Atheism'; 'Robbery'; 'Murder & Ravishmt'; 'Torture'; 'Blood & Rapine'; 'Cruelty & lust'; 'Barbar[ity]'. The motive force is given by wheels worked by windmills, and by large oars. In the bows is a guillotine surmounted by a bonnet-rouge; another guillotine decorates the stern. Behind the raft (left) advance ships of war. In the foreground, flying over the agitated sea like stormy petrels, are three winged heads (right to left): Erskine, Stanhope, and (?) Thelwall. Lauderdale, Fox, Sheridan, Norfolk, and Stanhope wear bonnets-rouges."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Republican crew disappointed
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., and Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark on top edge.
- Publisher:
- Published by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, and Thelwall, John, 1764-1834
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The raft in danger, or, The republican crew disappointed [graphic]
6. Noon [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 October 1797]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 797.10.01.03++ Box 310
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A copy of the second print in William Hogarth's series "Four Times of the Day": Set outside St Giles's-in-the-Fields. On the right an elegant crowd leaves the French Huguenot church; they are dressed in the height of French fashion. Two women kiss on the far right in the customary French way. They are contrasted with Londoners on the left. The two groups are separated by a gutter down the middle of the road; a dead cat lies in the gutter foreground. The Londoners stand outside a tavern with the sign of the Good Woman (one without a head); a woman and man in the second-storey window look surprised as the contents of her bowl are tossed out the window. In the foreground, left, under a sign with John the Baptist's head on a platter and reading "Good Eating", a black man embraces a servant girl and a small boy (evidently intended by his curly red hair to be identified as one of the Irish inhabitants of the area) cries because he has broken a pie-dish. A little girl squats as she eats the fallen pie off the ground. The clock in the steeple in the background reads 12:30.
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 147., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Published October the 1st, 1797, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., and England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Huguenots, Irish, Blacks, Children, City & town life, Churches, Couples, Crowds, Crying, Kissing, Servants, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Noon [graphic]
7. Night [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1798]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 798.02.01.01++ Box 310
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A copy of the fourth print in William Hogarth's series "Four Times of the Day", set at the intersection of Rummer Court and Charing Cross. Le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I can be seen in the background. It is the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II (29 May, known as "Oak Apple Day"). In the foreground a drunken freemason (probably the corrupt magistrate Sir Thomas De Veil) is supported by a serving man. Behind them a man pours gin into a keg. To the left a barber is seen at work through a window; each pane of the shop window contains a lit candle. From a window above the barber shop, a chamber pot is being emptied onto the top of a wooden shelter under which a man and woman sleep. Beside them, a link boy crouches as he blows on the flame of his torch. Behind and to the right of the freemason, the Salisbury Flying Coach has crashed and overturned while trying to avoid a bonfire in the middle of the street; the passengers reach out the window of the coach, alarmed looks on their faces.Two men look on, one of whom appears to be a butcher. Shop and tavern signs include the barber's which is decorated with oak leaves and advertises "Shaving Bleeding & Teeth Drawn wth. a Touch Ecce Signum"; the Rummer Tavern; the Earl of Cardigan; and, the Bagnio and the New Bagnio
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 149., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Published February the 1.st 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson Pater-noster Row London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and England.
- Subject (Name):
- De Veil, Thomas, Sir, 1684-1746
- Subject (Topic):
- Liquor laws, Freemasons, Jacobites, Accidents, Barbering, Butchers, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Children, Fires, Intoxication, Liquor, Prostitution, Sleeping, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Night [graphic]
8. Morning [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1797]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 797.08.01.01++ Box 310
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An old woman, the prude, is standing near a crowd of people huddled around a bonfire in Covent Garden. She is crossing Covent Garden Piazza, disapproving of the amorous scenes outside the notorious Tom King's Coffee House. The print shows the morning and is part of a series representing the progress of the day
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 146., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2357., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Published August the 1st, 1797, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Covent Garden (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Beggars, Children, City & town life, Couples, Crowds, Fighting, Food vendors, Kissing, Prostitutes, Quacks, Servants, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Morning [graphic]
9. King Edward the Second's monument in Gloucester Cathedral [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bonnor, Thomas
- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1781]
- Call Number:
- Folio 633 780 En58
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of printing based on watermark., Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '9' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff., and Watermark on paper '1794'.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament August 1st 1780 by Ralph Bigland, Garter principal King of Arms
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Gloucestershire (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments and Buildings, structures, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > King Edward the Second's monument in Gloucester Cathedral [graphic]
10. Gloucester Cathedral, west view [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1794?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 633 780 En58
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on watermark., With a separately titled plate on same sheet: Gloucester Cathedral, south view. [London?] : [publisher not identified], [1794?]., and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '12' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Gloucestershire (England) and England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, structures, etc and Churches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Gloucester Cathedral, west view [graphic].
11. Gloucester Cathedral, south view [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1794?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 633 780 En58
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on watermark., With a separately titled plate on same sheet: Gloucester Cathedral, west view. [London?] : [publisher not identified], [1794?]., and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '12' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Gloucestershire (England) and England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, structures, etc and Churches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Gloucester Cathedral, south view [graphic].
12. Evening [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1797]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 797.12.01.01++ Box 310
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The third print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set at Sadler's Wells. "A dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River; the wife holds a fan with a design of Aphrodite and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds; behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman; to the right is a tavern with the sign of Sir Hugh Middleton's Head, two women and a man are in the tavern garden, other figures are visible through the window, and a grape vine is climbing up towards the roof."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 148., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Published December the 1st, 1797, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, London
- Subject (Name):
- Myddelton, Hugh, Sir, 1560?-1631., Adonis (Greek deity), Aphrodite (Greek deity), and Sadler's Wells Theatre (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, City & town life, Crying, Dogs, Fans (Accessories), Milkmen & milkwomen, Signs (Notices), Spouses, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Evening [graphic]
13. Doublûres of characters, or, Striking resemblances in phisiognomy [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 November 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.11.01.03+ Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bust portraits of seven leaders of the Opposition, each with his almost identical double, arranged in two rows, with numbers referring to notes below the title. The first pair are Fox, directed slightly to the left, and Satan, a snake round his neck, his agonized scowl a slight exaggeration of Fox's expression; behind them are flames. They are 'I. The Patron of Liberty, Doublûre, the Arch-Fiend' (cf. BMSats 6383, 9263, &c). Next is Sheridan, with bloated face, and staring intently with an expression of sly greed; his double clasps a money-bag: 'II. A Friend to his Country, Doubr Judas selling his Master'. The Duke of Norfolk, looking to the right, scarcely caricatured, but older than in contemporary prints. His double, older still, crowned with vines, holds a brimming glass to his lips, which drip with wine: 'III. Character of High Birth, Doubr Silenus debauching' (cf. BMSat 8159). (Below) Tierney, directed to the right, but looking sideways to the left: 'IV. A Finish'd Patriot, Doubr The lowest Spirit of Hell.' Burdett, in profile to the right, with his characteristic shock of forward-falling hair, trace of whisker, and high neck-cloth, has a raffish-looking double with similar but unkempt hair: 'V. Arbiter Elegantiarum, Doubr Sixteen-string Jack' [a noted highwayman]. Lord Derby, caricatured, in profil perdu, very like his simian double, who wears a bonnet-rouge terminating in the bell of a fool's cap: 'VI. Strong Sense, Doubr A Baboon.' The Duke of Bedford, not caricatured, and wearing a top-hat, has a double wearing a jockey cap and striped coat (see BMSat 9380): 'VII. A Pillar of the State, Doubr A Newmarket Jockey'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Striking resemblances in phisiognomy
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Text following title: "If you would know mens [sic] hearts, look in their faces." Lavater., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine, or, Monthly politique and literary censor. London, 1798, v.1, p. 612., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject temrs: Judas -- Highwaymen: Sixteen-String Jack -- Jockeys., and 1 print on wove paper : mixed method ; sheet 26 x 36 cm., mounted to 31 x 41 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1798, by J. Wright, Piccadilly, for the Anti Jacobin review
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Doublûres of characters, or, Striking resemblances in phisiognomy [graphic]
14. Doublûres of characters, or, Striking resemblances in phisiognomy [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 November 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.11.01.03+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bust portraits of seven leaders of the Opposition, each with his almost identical double, arranged in two rows, with numbers referring to notes below the title. The first pair are Fox, directed slightly to the left, and Satan, a snake round his neck, his agonized scowl a slight exaggeration of Fox's expression; behind them are flames. They are 'I. The Patron of Liberty, Doublûre, the Arch-Fiend' (cf. BMSats 6383, 9263, &c). Next is Sheridan, with bloated face, and staring intently with an expression of sly greed; his double clasps a money-bag: 'II. A Friend to his Country, Doubr Judas selling his Master'. The Duke of Norfolk, looking to the right, scarcely caricatured, but older than in contemporary prints. His double, older still, crowned with vines, holds a brimming glass to his lips, which drip with wine: 'III. Character of High Birth, Doubr Silenus debauching' (cf. BMSat 8159). (Below) Tierney, directed to the right, but looking sideways to the left: 'IV. A Finish'd Patriot, Doubr The lowest Spirit of Hell.' Burdett, in profile to the right, with his characteristic shock of forward-falling hair, trace of whisker, and high neck-cloth, has a raffish-looking double with similar but unkempt hair: 'V. Arbiter Elegantiarum, Doubr Sixteen-string Jack' [a noted highwayman]. Lord Derby, caricatured, in profil perdu, very like his simian double, who wears a bonnet-rouge terminating in the bell of a fool's cap: 'VI. Strong Sense, Doubr A Baboon.' The Duke of Bedford, not caricatured, and wearing a top-hat, has a double wearing a jockey cap and striped coat (see BMSat 9380): 'VII. A Pillar of the State, Doubr A Newmarket Jockey'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Striking resemblances in phisiognomy
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Text following title: "If you would know mens [sic] hearts, look in their faces." Lavater., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine, or, Monthly politique and literary censor. London, 1798, v.1, p. 612., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject temrs: Judas -- Highwaymen: Sixteen-String Jack -- Jockeys.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1798, by J. Wright, Piccadilly, for the Anti Jacobin review
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Doublûres of characters, or, Striking resemblances in phisiognomy [graphic]
15. Blue & buff charity, or, The patriarch of the Greek clergy applying for relief [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 June 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.06.12.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fox, as a beggar, holds out his bonnet rouge to the door of the 'Crown & Anchor' tavern to catch the shower of dishonoured paper which the talons of the Devil are scattering; smoke and flames issue from the doorway. Fox, unkempt and unshaven, his tattered coat and breeches scarcely covering his naked body, has an expression of desperate eagerness; he holds under his coat a dagger which drips blood. From his coat-pocket project a dice-box and cards, the Knave of Clubs uppermost (cf. BMSat 6488). Behind him are his needy followers: Sheridan (a pair of pistols in his coat-pocket), M. A. Taylor, and Horne Tooke immediately behind him, also clutching concealed daggers and holding out their bonnets rouges. Close behind these are Hall the apothecary, Priestley, and Lord Stanhope, whose attitudes show that they too are clasping daggers and proffering caps for alms. From Hall's pocket protrude a syringe and a medicine-bottle labelled 'W. Pitt.' Three other heads are indicated. The Devil's words issue from the door among flames: "Dear Sir | Seldom have I experienced more heart-felt pleasure | "than now in executing the wishes of my Committee; - I flatter | "myself you will not be displeased with the convincing proof of the | "esteem of so many & so honorable persons; who far from imagining they | "are about to confer any obligations upon you, will think themselves | "honoured & obliged by your acceptance of their endeavours to be | "grateful for your unremitted efforts to effectuate | the Grand Object they have so deeply at heart." Fox answers: "Dear Sir - You will easily believe, that it is not | "mere form of words when I say, that I am wholly at a loss how | "to express my feelings upon the Charity which you are now in so kind a | "manner showering upon me, - In my wretched situation, to receive such a proof | "of the esteem of the Committee, - to be reliev'd at once from Contempt & Beggary! | "for such as me, to receive a Boon which even the most disinterested would think their | "lives well spent in obtaining! is a rare instance of felicity, which has been reserved for me; - | "It is with perfect sincerity that I declare, that in no other manner in which a Charity | "could have been bestow'd upon me, would have been so highly gratifying to every feeling | "of my heart, - I accept, therefore, with the most sincere gratitude, the bounty of the Committee | "and consider it as an additional obligation upon me, to adhere strictly to whatever mea- | "-sures the Committee may find it convenient to pursue; & to persevere thro' thick and thin | "in That line of conduct, to which alone, I am conscious, that I am indebted for this, as | "well as for every other mark of their approbation. - " Sheridan says: "Make haste, Charley! - make haste! - make haste! - for I long to have my turn come on; - I have been a Greek Emigrant a hell of a while, & relief could never come more seasonable: - and here's our "little Chicken" wants to peck up a little corn; & our old friend Blood & Brentford, the orthodox Parson, swears he has a right to a Particle; heres Glysterpipe expects to be paid for purging Administration; & old Phlogistick the Hackney Schoolmaster, expects some new Birmingham halfpence - besides ten Thousand more, with empty pockets, & hungry bellies, lads fit for any enterprize! who only want engagement; - but cannot get a Crust, before you are served! make haste Charley! - make haste! make haste." Over the tavern door is inscribed 'Whig Club'. The papers pouring into Fox's cap are inscribed 'Forged Notes' (twice), 'Swindlers Notes', 'Jews Bonds', 'Bankrupts Notes', 'Country Bank' (twice), 'Gamblers Notes', 'Blue & Buff Bonds', 'Forfeited Mortgages'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Blue and buff charity and Patriarch of the Greek clergy applying for relief
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the French Revolution -- Emblems: tricolored cockades -- Male costume: bonnet rouge -- Taverns: Crown and Anchor -- Weapons: daggers -- Subscriptions: subscription for Fox, 1793 -- Architectural details: doorway -- Gambling: cards and dicebox -- Allusion to the Whig party -- Banknotes -- Devil.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 12th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, and Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Blue & buff charity, or, The patriarch of the Greek clergy applying for relief [graphic]
16. Bibury [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bonnor, Thomas, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1794?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 633 780 En58
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the church at Bibury and the churchyard with gravestones
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of printing based on watermark., and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; numbered '21' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches and Cemeteries
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bibury [graphic]
17. Alderley [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bonnor, Thomas, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 633 780 En58
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the church at Alderley and its neighboring buildings at the town crossroads
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of printing based on watermark., and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; numbered '20' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alderley Edge (England) and England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, structures, etc and Churches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Alderley [graphic]
