The Devil upon two sticks
1 print : engraving? | Sir Robert Walpole is carried by two members of Parliament through a muddy ditch. Satire of Walpole published on the eve of a general election.
Date:1740-01-01
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And has not Sawney too his Lord and w(hor)e
1 print : engraving and etching. | Colley Cibber (1671-1757) seizing Alexander Pope (1688-1744) by one leg, and pulling him off a woman who reclines on a chouch bed.
Date:1742-01-01
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A Race from Preston Pans to Berwick
1 print : engraving. | Print shows General Sir John Cope and two other British officers riding to the gates of Berwick and announcing the defeat of British forces at Prestonpans by the Scots under the leadership of Charles Edward Stuart. The test under the image ridicules Cope's behavior during the battle.
Date:1745-01-01
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The Highland visitors
1 print : engraving. | An open space in a country town where "The Post House" is at the sign of "The Old Crown, kept by George King with ye best of Usage". Highlanders are plundering and abusing the inhabitants in all directions. A distant road is filled with the approaching rebel army.
The Covt. Garden morning frolick. Gaillardise du Commun Jardin
1 print : engraving. | "An engraving showing Covent Garden, the church in the background, with its clock at 4:55; the sun-dial on the pillar, as in "He and his drunken Companions", No. 2186, which see for references to other illustrations of Covent Garden..." (Source: Stephens)
Date:1747-01-01
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Don Jumpedo in the character of Harlequin jumping down his own throat
1 print : engraving. | "An engraving, showing Harlequin, the lower half of his body placed within a sort of pedestal, gradually disappearing down his own throat, his mask appearing above; his legs and much of his body and head are gone, his arms are hanging down..." (Source: Stephens)
Date:1749-01-01
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A companion to the bottle; or, Don Jumpedo in the character of Harlequin jumping down his own throat
1 print : engraving. | 1 print : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 350 x 244 mm. | "An engraving, by hand, representing a room, as in a stage-scene, where Harlequin appears to have been seated on a pedestal; his hands are raised above his head; his feet are in his mouth, his legs are commencing to disappear..." (Source: Stephens)
Solomons glory, or the rival mistresses
1 print : engraving. | Duke of Cumberland seated on a bank with the Savoyard girl, his arm about her neck. The Duke's rival mistresses stand behind, and are vehemently jealous. In the distance appear Windsor Castle and Eton College Chapel.
Date:1749-01-01
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George's Combat
1 print : engraving. | George II as Saint George slaying dragon representing papacy.
Date:1745-01-01
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Muster of Bays's troops A new.
1 print : engraving and letterpress ; 31.5 x 22.8 cm (broadside format) | Print shows James Lacy, David Garrick, and others in "The Rehearsal," a play by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, revived to satirize Jacobite sympathies, with a list of characters and a ballad sung "To the tune of Sally in our Alley."
Contributor:
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of - Buckingham, George Villiers
Date:1745
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The Contrast a French prisoner in England, an English prisoner in France.
1 print : engraving. | Political cartoon showing French prisoner in England seated at table with plum pudding and woman serving him a large beef roast; in France a skinny English prisoner looks with disgust at food being served to him.
Date:1745-01-01
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The Highlanders medley, or the Duke triumphant
1 print : engraving ; sheet 34.7 x 25 cm. | Print shows a trompe-l'oeil presentation, with at center, "His Royal Highness Wm., D. of Cumberland", half-length portrait, facing slightly left, holding a sword labeled "Pro Patre et Patria" across his chest, surrounded by vignettes depicting scenes of William's success putting down the Jacobite uprising in Scotland and particulary the Battle of Culloden. Depicted…
Whipping John of Islington
1 print : etching. | Print shows an interior view of a room in which a man holds a bare-bottomed woman with a pained look on her face on his back as another woman holds up the woman's dress and points to her naked backside; a man, Whipping John, prepares to apply a bundle of rushes, the lash, to her exposed posterior. In the…