A political cartoon with 42 bust caricatures of members of a conspiracy discovered by no. 1 “La Vigilance du Gouvernement Français”, a rooster or the Gallic cock, depicted at top center, holding “Correspondance de Mr. Draque – Ambassadeur de la Cour Britannique &c. &c.”
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Acquired March 2018
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Reflections on the revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event : in a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris.
Published: London : Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1790.
Contemporary mottled calf binding
Reflections on the revolution in France...
Subjects (Library of Congress): France–History–Revolution, 1789-1799–Causes.
Lewis Walpole Library new acquisition: 2009
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Letter : to Sir David Dalrymple, 1790 September 21.
ALS from Walpole, in which after complaining his gout, he responds to a series of questions about his recollection of the art collections at the Earl of Exeter’s home Burghley House. Walpole’s memory is quite detailed about many of the paintings. The rest of the letter is a commentary on the what is occuring in France as a result of the National Assembly’s attempt at “correcting a bad government”.
Letter : to Sir David Dalrymple, 1790 September 21.
Subjects (Library of Congress): Boydell, John, 1719-1804; Dalrymple, David, Sir, 1726-1792; Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797; Burghley House (Stamford, England); Art–Collectors and collecting–Great Britain; France–History–Revolution, 1789-1799
Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University new acquisition: 2009