- Title: Five hundred pounds reward.
- Publication: [Stowe Park? : [publisher not identified], 12 November 1795]
Catalog Record and Digital Collection
File 63 795 F565+
Acquired November 2015
Five hundred pounds reward
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Tag Archives: Lewis Walpole Library November 2015
At James Wheeleys Paper Hanging Warehouse
A fashionable family looks at a roll of wallpaper that the shop clerk is displaying to them. The shop owner jestures to the elaborately decorated pattern on the roll. Another clerk behind the counter looks on as he rolls another bolt.
- Title: At James Wheeleys Paper Hanging Warehouse : wholesale retail & for exportation; at No. 25 Aldersgate Street London are manufactured & sold all sorts of emboss’d chints & common papers for rooms … [graphic].
- Publication: [London : James Wheeleys Paper Hanging Warehouse, ca. 1780?]
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
File 66 780 At862
Acquired November 2015
Papers of Lieutenant-General Thomas Fowke
The papers of Lieutenant-General Thomas Fowke of Parkhill, Yorkshire, covering the period 1752 to 1755, largely whilst serving as Governor of Gibraltar, bound in roughtly chronological order comprising some 500 letters, documents, and official and personal papers including notes and copy letters by Fowke and his secretaries with numerous autograph endorsements. With a ms. map (hand-colored) laid in volume 2.
- Author: Fowke, Thomas, -1765.
- Title: Papers of Lieutenant-General Thomas Fowke, 1752-1755.
LWL MSS 45
Acquired November 2015
Monsieur de St. George
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a champion fencer, violinist and conductor in Paris; son of George Bologne de Saint-Georges and Nanon, his African slave. First classical composer of African ancestry; also known as the “Black Mozart”.
- Printmaker: Ward, William, 1766-1826, printmaker.
- Title: Monsieur de St. George [graphic] : from an original picture at Mr. H. Angelo’s Academy / painted by M. Brown ; engraved by W. Ward.
- Publication: London : Publish’d April 4th, 1788, by Bradshaw, No. 4 Coventry Street, [4 April 1788]
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
Portraits Sa139 no. 1+
Acquired November 2015
Johnny Bull and the Alexandrians
The citizens of Alexandria, Virginia, are ridiculed in this scene for their lack of serious resistance against the British seizure of the city in 1814. At left two frightened gentlemen kneel with hands folded, pleading, “Pray Mr. Bull don’t be too hard with us — You know we were always friendly, even in the time of our Embargo!” In the center stands a bull in English seaman’s clothes, holding out a long list of “Terms of Capitulation” to the Alexandrians. He says, “I must have all your Flour — All your Tobacco — All your Provisions — All your Ships — All your Merchandize — every thing except your Porter and Perry — keep them out of my sight, I’ve had enough of them already.” His allusion is to American Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and Captain David Porter. At right, a soldier and sailor carry off spirits, saying: “Push on Jack, the yankeys are not all so Cowardly as these Fellows here — let’s make the best of our time.” and “Huzza boys!!! More Rum more Tobacco!” American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1814-3
- Printmaker: Charles, William, 1776-1820, artist, publisher.
- Title: Johnny Bull and the Alexandrians [graphic] / Wm. Charles sc.
- Published: Phila. [Philadelphia] : Pubd. and sold wholesale by Wm. Charles, [ca. 21 October 1814]
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
814.10.21.01+
Acquired November 2015
Boney’s inquisition
Four French soldiers with hot pincers torturing “Madame Toussaint” by burning her flesh and pulling out her fingernails; Napoleon gloats on a throne to the right.
- Printmaker: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, artist.
- Title: Boney’s inquisition [graphic] : another specimen of his humanity on the person of Madame Toussaint.
- Publication: [London] : Pubd. Octr. 25th 1804 by by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, [25 October 1804]
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
804.10.25.01+
Acquired November 2015