- Author: Duckett, T., author.
- Title: Duckett’s defence of the Queen.
- Publication: London : T. Duckett, 1820.
523 C292 820
Acquired July 2023
Duckett’s defence of the Queen
Reply
Tag Archives: Lewis Walpole Library July 2023
A babe’s diverting dream
In two columns with two woodcuts beneath the title.
A satire on the Milan Commission and the British government’s attempt to compile evidence of Queen Caroline’s misbehaviour and infidelity. Printed together with ‘A New Song’ on the same subject.
- Title: A babe’s diverting dream.
- Publication: [London] : Printed by Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, [1820]
File 53 C292 820Ba
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The London gazette
Supplement to 7 August 1821
- Uniform Title: London gazette (London, England : 1666)
- Title: The London gazette.
- Published: London [England] : T. Neuman, 1666-
File 53 C292 821Su
Acquired July 2023
Her Most Gracious Majesty Caroline
“Portrait of Queen Caroline wearing hat; profile, head and shoulders to left; with border of acorns and oak leaves and other tree branch leaves.”–British Museum online catalogue.
- Title: Her Most Gracious Majesty Caroline, Queen of England [graphic].
- Publication: [England] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1820]
Portraits C292 no. 3++
Acquired July 2023
General Order. Horse-Guards. 14th August, 1821
- Title: General Order. Horse-Guards. 14th August, 1821. : In consequence of the orders for the court going into mourning for Her late Majesty, it is directed that the officers of the Army shall, on the present melancholy occasion, wear a black crape round their left arms with their uniforms.
- Publication: [London] : Printed by W. Clowes, Northumberland-court, Strand, for HIs Majesty’s Stationery-office, [1821]
File 53 C292 821G
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The late and much lamented Princess Charlotte
- Title: The late and much lamented Princess Charlotte of Saxe Coburg [graphic] : who departed this life Novr. 6th, 1817.
- Publication: London : Published Novr. 20th, 1817, by R. Miller, Old Fish Stt, [20 November 1817]
File 56 C47 817L
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Mrs. Wrighten
“Portrait of Mrs. Frances Wrighten, half-length, directed to right, facing to front, holding sheet music, hair high and decorated with pearls; oval frame with lettering underneath and a motif of musical instruments that intrudes into the frame; after Dighton, from a set of twelve theatrical portraits.”–British Museum online catalogue.
- Printmaker: Laurie, Robert, 1755-1836, printmaker.
- Title: [Mrs. Wrighten] [graphic] / R. Dighton pinx. ; R. Laurie sc.
- Publication: [London] : Pubd. as the act directs March 1st, 1780, by W. Richardson, No. 68 High Holborn, [1 March 1780]
780.03.01.07
Acquired July 2023
Engravings of an historical fact of a Swiss shepherd…
This set of prints were advertised in the December 1817 newspaper as “A series of Engravings in Seven Parts, representing the sufferings of a Swiss Shepherd during the revolution of that country, and intended as illustrations of the Lord’s Prayer. Printed on Royal Quarto, price 10s. 6d”. In Ackermann’s own The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions (Vol. IV, December 1st, 1817), they are listed in the catalogue under “Intelligence, Literary, Scientific” prints and are described as “Engravings of an historical fact of a Swiss Shepherd during the revolution of that country…”
- Title: [Engravings of an historical fact of a Swiss shepherd during the revolution of that country] [graphic].
- Publication: [London] : Published Jany. 1, 1818, at R. Ackermann’s, 101, Strand, London, [1 January 1818]
818.01.01.05
Acquired July 2023
Gazette Extraordinary! A glorious action!
A satire, using a naval metaphor, on the trial of Queen Caroline. ‘Dispatches have this day received, announcing a glorious and desperate action, which was fought off St. Stephen’s Bay, in which the vessels engaged were the Carolina, Captain Wood, the other parts of the division were brought into action by Lieutenant Browham and Dingman. The Caslteair, a 74, was commanded by the gallant Loverpool, Elden, and Sid. …’
- Title: Gazette Extraordinary! A glorious action! Between the Carolina, a true blue frigate; and the Castleair, a first rate man of war.
- Publication: [England] : [publisher not identified], [1820]
File 53 C292 820Ga
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Memoirs of Prince Leopold, from his first arrival in England
Illustrations: Engraved frontispiece portrait of Leopold, “sketched & engraved by G. Cruikshank.”–Woodcut title-vignette depicting Leopold weeping over the casket of his wife
- Title: Memoirs of Prince Leopold, from his first arrival in England : with a variety of anecdotes of the Princess Charlotte, now first collected / by the editor of Hone’s editions of the “Life,” “Death,” & “Funeral,” of Her Royal Highness, to which this publication is a sequel.
- Publication: London : Printed by and for William Hone, 67, Old Bailey, three doors from Ludgate Hill, 1817.
53 L587 817
Acquired July 2023