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1. Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.57
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Cannon refused by foreigners as too destructive
- Description:
- Title etched at top of plate., Publisher identified from address., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Three images on one plate, arranged vertically., Caption in upper right corner of top image: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ..., Caption in upper right corner of center image: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ..., Caption in upper right corner of bottom image: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ..., One line of text at bottom of plate: These cannon [sic] are all mounted on golden wheels., Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Property as gun-carriage -- Heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Guns -- Map of England -- Coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Books of 'Priestcra[ft]', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke., and Mounted to 18 x 22 cm.
- Publisher:
- To be had at the Acorn, facing Hungerford Market in the Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Cannons, Maps, Money, Taxes, and Bibles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive [graphic].
2. Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.49
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Cannon refused by foreigners as too destructive
- Description:
- Title etched at top of plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Three images on one plate, arranged vertically., Caption in upper right corner of top image: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ..., Caption in upper right corner of center image: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ..., Caption in upper right corner of bottom image: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ..., One line of text at bottom of plate: These cannon [sic] are all mounted on golden wheels., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer. London, 1759., and Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Property as gun-carriage -- Heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Guns -- Map of England -- Coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Books of 'Priestcra[ft]', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Cannons, Maps, Money, Taxes, and Bibles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive [graphic].
3. Hercules cleaning the Augean stable [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1768]
- Call Number:
- 768.04.00.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the expected effect of a return of John Wilkes to parliament. Wilkes as Hercules leaps over the fallen figure of Discord to seize the arm of the Speaker, Sir John Cust, as members flee in all directions. In the front, to right, is Fletcher Norton, holding a bag of money while other coins fall from his pocket as he steps over the mace, lettered "A Mere Bauble" (quoting Oliver Cromwell). In the background, on a pedestal decorated with the mournful figure of Britannia, a bloated figure squats over "Magna Charta". It has three heads, a wolf, a snake and a sheep; one outstretched hand is in the form of a claw, the other holds a bag of money. Behind this figure, Lord Bute, emerges raising hands in shock at the sight of Wilkes/Hercules."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Two lines of text below image: The figure on the pedestal is the symbol of bribery, corruption & hypocrisy., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon [1767-1772], v. 2 (1768), page 193., and Temporary local subject terms: Mythology -- Influence: Lord Bute's influence -- Emblems: Speaker's mace -- Bags of money -- Personifications: Bribery, Corruption and Hypocrisy -- Weapons: mace.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Cust, John, Sir, Baronet, 1718-1770, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Hercules (Roman mythological character),
- Subject (Topic):
- Medusa (Greek mythology), Britannia (Symbolic character), Interiors, Ceremonial maces, Money, and Pedestals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hercules cleaning the Augean stable [graphic].
