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Caricatures collected by Horace Walpole

Title: Caricatures collected by Horace Walpole [graphic].
Author: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Publication: 1769-1791.

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Description

119 prints : etching, engraving, aquatint, roulette, some col.; 39.3 x 78.5 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Political and social caricatures from the reign of George III. Individuals portrayed include Isaac Barré, Edmund Burke, Matthew Darly, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Maria Anne Fitzherbert, Charles James Fox, Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, George III, George IV, Warren Hastings, the Earl of Mansfield, Viscount Melville, Lord North, James Edward Oglethorpe, William Pitt, the Duke of Richmond, Mary Robinson, Thomas Rumbold, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Earl Stanhope, Edward Thurlow and John Wilkes. Includes representations of balloons, barbers, chamber pots, Chelsea pensioners, cross dressing, dandies, fashion, masks, mirrors, see-saws, urination and wigs. Settings include the House of Commons, Kensington Gardens and Lincoln Cathedral. Manuscript note cited in card catalog record: "Here follows a few of the best prints, selected from a vast number, that were published on the changes of adminstration in 1782, 1783, & 1784, on the coalition between Mr. Fox & Lord North, on Mr. Fox's East India bill in 1783 and on the Westminster election in 1784."

Subjects

Genre/Form

Caricatures – Great Britain – 1700-1799.
Prints – Great Britain – 1700-1799.

Note

Artists include Thomas Colley, Matthew Darly, W. Dent, James Gillray and James Sayers.
Title from New York Public Library card catalog.
Card catalog lists 137 caricatures in this collection; some prints have been recatalogued and are no longer housed with this collection.
Most prints incorporate manuscript notes (by Walpole?) identifying the individuals depicted.

Cite As (note)

Caricature Collection.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Finding aid available.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of Caricature Collection.

Contents

5. [Untitled] -- 6. The Kitchen Metamorphos'd -- 7. A Crown Piece for 1770 -- 7A. The Stable Voters of Beer Lane Windsor -- 8. Dame Rat, and her poor little Ones -- 9. Masquerade Scene, Kensington Gardens -- 10. [Lady Archer] -- 11. A Modern Antique -- 12. [Lady Mansel] -- 13. The Countess of D-h-ff. Nauticus -- 14. The Repeal -- 18. The Paw-miny. The Cock a toe Vulgurly call'd Cockatoo -- 19. A Gross Adjutant -- 20. [Darly the Engraver] -- 21. A Macaroni Printseller -- 22. [Lady Cecilia Johnston] -- 23. [General Oglethorpe] -- 24. [Lady Edgecumbe] -- 25. St. Cecilia -- 26. Date obolum Belisario / J.S. -- 27. Paradise lost / J.S. -- 28. "Aside he turn'd for Envy, yet with jealous leer malign eyd them askance" -- 29. The Washerwoman up with the Jesuit -- 30. The Nabob Rumbled or A Lord Advocates Amusement -- 31. The Fox and Stork -- 32. The General P--s, or Peace -- 33. War -- 34. Neithe [sic] War nor Peace! -- 35. [Fox and North as Herod and Pilatae] -- 36. The Union -- 37. Scrub & Archer -- 38. Coalition Minuet -- 39. The Mask -- 40. A Coalition Medal struck in Brass / JS. ff. -- 41. The New Coalition -- 42. Give Justice her Claims -- 43. La Politesse Françoise, or The English Ladies Petition to his Excellency the Mushroom Ambassador -- 44. L'entrée -- 45. The Political Balloon; or the Fall of East India Stock -- 46. The Hanoverian Horse and British Lion -- 47. The Transfer of East India Stock / JS f.
48. The Political Cudgellers, or the Mace of the House of Commons rendered of no Service -- 49. Whiggism, or Master Billy Learning his Task -- 50. An Harangue about the Goose -- 51. Carlo Khan's triumphal entry into Leadenhall Street / JS f. -- 52. War establishment -- 53. The Aerostatick Stage Balloon -- 54. Le Double Cabinet -- 55. The Mirror of Patriotism / JS f. -- 56. The Times - or A View of the Old House in Little Brittain - with Nobody going to Hannover -- 57. Plumpers for St. Judas, or the Chelsea Pensioners Revenge -- 58. Female Influence: or, the Devons-e Canvas -- 59. The Apostate Jack Robinson, the Political Rat Catcher - NB. Rats taken alive! -- 60. A Side Box at the Opera -- 61. Razor's Levee, or ye Heads of a new Wig [sic] Ad---n on a broad Bottom -- 62. Pand[e]monium / JS f -- 63. Satan harangueing his Troops previous to Action -- 64. The Poll -- 65. Madam Blubber on her Canvass -- 66. Cicero in Catilinam / JS f. -- 67. [Burke] on the Sublime & Beautiful / JS f. -- 68. The Drum Major of Sedition -- 69. Mars and Venus, or Sir Cecil Chastised -- 70. The WEstminster Watchman -- 71. The Lords of the Bedchamber -- 72. The Mask -- 73. TheRival Candidates -- 74. Savoir Vivre - Sans Six Sous -- 75. Savoir Vivre - Sans Souci -- 76. Britain's Hope or the Political Nobodies -- 77A. Uncle Toby retired into his Century Box -- 77B. Unkle Toby and Corporal Trim -- 78. Miss Prettyman in Clover -- 79. [North and Fox Attack the Iris h Resolutions] / JS f.
80. Boring a Secret of St--e -- 85. Wife & No Wife - or - A Trip to the Continent -- 86. 'Twas Nobody saw The Lover's Leap & Let the Cat Out of the Bag -- 87. A noble Lord, on an approaching Peace, too busy to attend to the Expenditure of a Million of the Public Money / JS ff -- 88. The Board of Controul, or the Blessings of a Scotch Dictator / JS ff. -- 89. Honi soit qui mal y pense -- 90. The Way to Keep Him as Perform'd at the Richmond Theatre -- 91. The Royal Society -- 92. The Fox and the Bust -- 94. Monstrous Craws at a New Coalition Feast -- 95. The Minister endeavouring to eke out Dr. Pr-ty-n's Bisho-prick / JS ff. -- 96. I'll tell you what! -- 97. The Triumphal entrance of a Peck Loaf into Grandchester -- 98. A Sandwich -- 99. The Happy Escape or Arch runaway's -- 100. To be seen at Mr. S--n's Menagerie the Wonderful Learned Han-r Colt, who writes a letter Blindfolded -- 101. To Durham -- 102. Court Cards the best to deal with -- 103. What a Man buys he may sell -- 104. Dun-Shaw -- 105. Ancient Music -- 105A. Wouski -- 105B. Questions & Commands; or, The Mistaken Road to He-reford; a Sunday Evenings Amusement -- 106. Elijah fed by the Ravens -- 107. Impeachment Ticket for the Trial of Warren Hastings -- 108. The Accomodating Spouse; Tyr-nn-es Delight! Coming York Over Her; Or What You Like -- 109. Frontispiece for the 2d Edition of Dr. Johnson's Letters -- 110. Signor Pi--i ravishing Mrs. Thr--e -- 111. [Joseph Randale...?]
112. The Irish Audience -- 113. Irish Ambassadors Extraordinary!!! -- 114. The Royal Duel -- 115. The Whitworth D--r -- 116. The Vis-aVis Bisected or the Ladies Coop -- 117. "Nil Amplius Opto" I am at the Summit of my Wishes -- 118. Camber's Letter to John Bull -- 119. Slight of Hand by a Monkey - or the Lady's Head Unloaded -- 120. Miss Shuttle-cock -- 121. The New Rigatta -- 130. The Dowry or Top and Tail turn'd about -- 131. The Piccadilly Macaroni -- 132. The Clerical Macaroni -- 133. Les Incommodités de Janvier 1786 -- 134. Headlands Capes and Promontories -- 135. Ancient and Modern Pyramids.

Call Number

MEZYRKZ+ (Walpole)

OCLC

NYPG95-F182

Author

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Collector

Title

Caricatures collected by Horace Walpole [graphic].

Imprint

1769-1791.

Cite As:

Caricature Collection.

Indexes

Finding aid available.

Linking Entry

Forms part of Caricature Collection.

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Added Author

Colley, Thomas.

Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.

Dent, W.

Gillray, James, 1756-1815.

Sayers, James, 1748-1823.

Research Call Number

MEZYRKZ+ (Walpole)

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