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1.
Billy's raree-shew, or, John Bull's senses [art original].

Creator:
Ansell, Charles, 1752- artist
Published / Created:
[1797?]
Call Number:
Drawings AN618 no. 1 Box D100
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Pitt as a peepshow man stands in front of his box while John Bull, drawn here as a simpleton, looks inside. Pitt pulls a string on the box with his right hand and with his left hand pulls a bag from John Bull's pocket. Slung over John Bull's shoulder is a trumpet with a fringed a banner decorated with the royal arms. The flag above Pitt's pagoda-like box reads: "Licensed by authority the Grand Exhibition by moving mecanism or deception of the senses."
Alternative Title:
Billy's raree-show or John Bull enlighten'd, John Bull enlightened, and Billy's rare-show
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Ansell. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9030., A preliminary drawing for print entitled Billy's raree-show or John Bull enlighten'd? Date of production inferred from the publication date of the etching., and Paper that has been oiled possibly to be translucent for the transfer process. Edges are tattered with old folds in the corners.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-French War, 1793-1802, John Bull (Symbolic character), and Peepshows
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Billy's raree-shew, or, John Bull's senses [art original].

2.
Anticipation - ways and means -, or, Buonaparte really taken!! [graphic].

Creator:
Ansell, Charles, 1752- printmaker
Published / Created:
[13 August 1798]
Call Number:
798.08.13.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Buonaparte really taken
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Ansell in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Temporary local subject terms: Containers: saltbox -- Tools: pitch-forks -- Allusion to taxation., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 13th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Campaigns, Gout, John Bull (Symbolic character), Crowds, Exhibit booths, Fairs, Musical instruments, and Trumpets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Anticipation - ways and means -, or, Buonaparte really taken!! [graphic].

3.
Bloody news, bloody news, or, The fatal Putney duel [graphic].

Creator:
Ansell, Charles, 1752- printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 May 1798]
Call Number:
798.05.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Fatal Putney duel
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Duels: Pitt & Tierney, May 27, 1798 -- Putney Heath -- Buildings: telegraphs -- British Lion -- Weapons: pistols -- Gibbets -- Allusion to execution of Abershaw, the highwayman., and Watermark: E & C T Russell 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 26, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Walpole, George, 1761-1830
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character).
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bloody news, bloody news, or, The fatal Putney duel [graphic].

4.
Ceceders in limbo, i.e., vagabond's made usefull [graphic].

Creator:
Ansell, Charles, 1752- printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 November 1798]
Call Number:
798.11.20.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Seceders in limbo and Vagabonds made useful
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Ansell in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of verse below title: Poor pilgrims blithe and jolly, in penance for past folly., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: -- Vagabonds -- Trades: rope making -- Scourges -- Leg irons -- Bonnets rouges -- Tools: mallets., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials E & P below.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 20th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815
Subject (Topic):
Prisons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ceceders in limbo, i.e., vagabond's made usefull [graphic].

5.
The danger is over, or, Billy's return to Iohn Bull [graphic].

Creator:
Ansell, Charles, 1752- printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 June 1798]
Call Number:
798.06.04.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Billy's return to Iohn Bull and Billy's return to John Bull
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Duels: Reference to duel between Pitt & Tierney, May 27, 1798 -- Reference to taxation., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 4th 1798 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The danger is over, or, Billy's return to Iohn Bull [graphic].

6.
The resignation [graphic].

Creator:
Ansell, Charles, 1752- printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 February 1798]
Call Number:
798.02.23.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations -- Emblems: Earl Marshal's baton -- Furniture: chairs -- Footstools., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials E & P 1794 below.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 23d, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The resignation [graphic].

7.
The meeting of the Legion Club [graphic].

Creator:
Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 June 1787]
Call Number:
787.06.27.01+ Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Twelve lines of verse in three columns below title: Such assemblies, you might swear, Meet when butchers bait a bear ..., Later state by a different publisher of No. 7132 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6. Traces of the earlier imprint burnished from plate below image on left., and Temporary local subject terms: Naval uniforms -- Repeal of the shop tax.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 27th, 1787, by S. Fores, satirist, No. 3 Piccadily [sic]
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, and Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The meeting of the Legion Club [graphic].

8.
The meeting of the Legion Club [graphic].

Creator:
Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 June 1787]
Call Number:
787.06.27.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Twelve lines of verse in three columns below title: Such assemblies, you might swear, Meet when butchers bait a bear ..., Later state by a different publisher of No. 7132 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6. Traces of the earlier imprint burnished from plate below image on left., Temporary local subject terms: Naval uniforms -- Repeal of the shop tax., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 33.1 x 46.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 27th, 1787, by S. Fores, satirist, No. 3 Piccadily [sic]
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, and Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The meeting of the Legion Club [graphic].

9.
[William Pitt facing a fearful crowd] [art original]

Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created:
[1806?]
Call Number:
Drawings B87 no. 28 Box D300
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
William Pitt, wearing a tricorn hat and large sword at his side, stands defiantly shouting at a group of four men and one woman. He holds a rolled document in his fist behind him. One of the men, his hands outstretched as if to hold off Pitt or calm him down, confronts him while his companions cower behind him. The woman has fallen to her knees and turns in terror
Alternative Title:
Dreaded apparition
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Undated, but possibly just after Pitt's death; signed in lower right., Written in pencil in another hand: Vide Life of Mr. Pitt by the Bishop of Winchester. Page 285 - Vol. 1., and Written in pencil on verso in a later hand: Dreaded apparition.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [William Pitt facing a fearful crowd] [art original]

10.
English coronet auction by K-, P- & Co., or, Comfort for the late French noblesse [graphic]

Creator:
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, attributed name
Published / Created:
July 8, 1790.
Call Number:
790.07.08.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a large room French aristocrats crowd across a table from Pitt who is taking money while handing a pen to the man opposite who holds a crown in his left arm as he throws coins toward Pitt's grasping hand. Above Pitt stands George III behind podium, gavel in one hand and another crown extended toward one of the many bidders shouting comments and prices. The King calls out, "This is a lot, gentlemen, of superior brilliancy to the last. This, this raises you above your fellows in a very high degree indeed. I pity your distresses from my soul, what, what, what was that you were saying about jewels, Madames, too high. You may ride over the necks of half the nation with this upon your coach. You may get in debt as fast as you please and never pay. Mind that gentlemen, never pay." The Queen walks up a ladder behind the King to retrieve more crowns from the shelves behind the King's podium, turning her head to say, "Pay some attention to that Lady's jewels, my love."
Alternative Title:
English coronet auction by King, Pitt & Co., or, Comfort for the late French noblesse and Comfort for the late French noblesse
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Frederick George Byron by Andrew Edmunds., Publisher's advertisement below imprint: In Hollands Exhibition Rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humourous prints. Admtce. 1 shillg., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Irregular sheet, trimmed at an angel in lower left. Backed with blue paper.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., France, and France.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Refugees, History, Avarice, Auctions, Corruption, Crowds, Crowns, and Nobility
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > English coronet auction by K-, P- & Co., or, Comfort for the late French noblesse [graphic]

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