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The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of @YaleLibrary, in Farmington, CT, is a renowned research center for the study of Britain in the long 18th century.
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フォロー数：593 フォロワー数：1771
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Watercolor by David Edward Cronin. Bound as p. 12 in vol 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of “Horace Walpole and his world” ed. by L. B. Seeley, 1884. https://t.co/aWN24BcbSj

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2021-03-20

1771 Mann wrote to Walpole that Thos. Patch "is a genius...[with] an excellent turn for caricatura...but he is so prudent as never to caricature anybody without his consent"https://t.co/ccXJNH92iI. We have 4 Patch caricature groups including 2 painted at Mann's.

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2021-02-23

Pub’d 1788 “The Word Eater” Fox, an “Extraordinary Phenomenon is just arrived from the Continent... He eats single words & evacuates them so as to have a contrary meaning...he can also eat whole sentences &...produce them...with a Double Different or Contradictory meaning.”

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2020-12-31

There’s a lot going on in this mezzotint with etching by John Simpson published depicting George III as “The botching taylor cutting his cloth to cover a button.”

https://t.co/6eKC24P7Cu

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2020-12-28

Companion prints of tailors published 1773 "Snip Francois" and "Snip Anglois" James Bretherton printmaker & publisher, Henry William Bunbury artist. Hand-colored etching with drypoint.

https://t.co/T1BYu5gqM8
https://t.co/phpk7409nY

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2020-12-21

1783 William Pitt became Prime Minister at age 24. Nine years later he appeared, with his unmistakable features & figure, in Gillray's print "John Bull bother'd:-or-the geese alarming the Capitol" published also by Hannah Humphrey.

https://t.co/V9ql2oMO6h

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2020-12-20

Published “Le trénis contredanse” London Pub. Dec. 12, 1818 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St. (left). The BM has a corresponding print (right) published in Paris in 1802-12.

LWL: https://t.co/seW1UGNP8C
BM: https://t.co/DvNC5YGlht

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2020-12-13

Pub'd 1800 "The Vision of the 3 Cats" George III as the sultan "...The fat Cat represents the thriving s[t]ate of your Ministers-the lean Cat is a Symbol of the People-& the blind Cat, is an emblem of the most magnificent Sultaun himself" https://t.co/88FNLbmZBj

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2020-12-09

For this here are a Hogarth 1st state & some Hogarth LWL Curator Cynthia Roman wrote about "Copying The Sleeping Congregation" in "Hogarth's Legacy" (Yale Univ. Press 2016). Can you tell which of these is the Hogarth print?

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2020-12-08