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The foundling hospital for wit. Intended For the Reception and Preservation of such Brats of Wit and Humour, whose Parents chuse to Drop them. Containing All the Satires, Odes, Ballads, Epigrams, &c. that have been wrote since the Change of the Ministry, many of which have never before been Printed. Number I. To be continued Occasionally.
Silence, Samuel.Date: 1743- Books
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The posthumous works of Mr Samuel Butler, (author of Hudibras) compleat in one volume: Written in the Time of the Grand Rebellion, and in the Reign of King Charles II. being a collection of Satires, speeches, and Reflections, upon those Times. Publish'd from original M.SS. and Scarce and Valuable Pieces formerly Printed. To which is added, A key to Hudibras by Sir Roger L'Estrange.
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.Date: 1754- Books
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The true Englishman's miscellany, in two parts. Part I. The false guardians outwitted: a ballad opera, Containing Twenty one Airs. With A Prologue and Preface, giving some Account of the Author, and his Reasons for this Publication. Part II. Containing a collection of dismal songs, Pleásant Satires, Bitter Encomiums, Terrible Poems, Epigrams, Epitaphs, &c. Never before publish'd. By W. G.
W. G. (William Goodall), active 1740.Date: [1740]- Books
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The sentimental connoisseur: or, pleasing and entertaining novelist. Being an elegant and new assemblage of lively effusions of fancy, polite tales, Diverting Essays, Droll Adventures, Pleasing Stories, Entertaining Novels, Comic Characters, Facctious Histories, Affecting Examples, Striking Remarks, Pointed Satires, &c. &c. Entirely calculated to form in the Mind the most virtuous Sentiments: And Adapted to promote a love of Virtue and an abhorrence of Vice.
Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The satires of Juvenal, translated into English verse, with a correct copy of the original Latin ON The Opposite Page: Cleared Of All The Most Exceptionable Passages, And Illustrated With Marginal Notes From The Best Commentators. Also Dr. Brewster's Persius; With The Original ON The Opposite Page, and notes from Casaubon To Illustrate The Design And Method AS Well AS The Sense Of His Several Satires. In two volumes. By E. Owen, M. A. Rector of Warrington, And master of the free school in that Town.
Juvenal.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Pictures
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Left, the sun depicting Disraeli is setting on a devastated land; right, the sun depicting Gladstone is rising, bringing hope and a blooming economy. Lithograph, 1879.
Date: [1879]Reference: 568558iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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A Lancashire burglar, dressed in rags and smoking a pipe, with his dog, represented as a supporter of the Conservative Party. Lithograph (?), March 1880.
Date: March 1880Reference: 568613iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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Gladstone is being confronted by J.S. Blackie regarding his foreign policy; Lord Rosebery wearing a crown and holding an umbrella in the background. Engraving, 1880.
Date: 1880Reference: 568600iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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Benjamin Disraeli as a blackface minstrel wearing a crown and holding an umbrella. Engraving by W. Dewane, 1879.
Dewane, William D.Date: 1879Reference: 568562iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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A steeplechase race: Gladstone's horse "Tynecastle" refuses to jump a fence and is led by the horse "Auldhouse". Lithograph, ca. 1880.
Date: 1880Reference: 568630iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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The Midlothian campaign of 1879-1880: William Gladstone is saluting a crowd; his opponent the Earl of Dalkeith is hiding behind a tree in order to throw faggots at him. Engraving by A. Mantrop, 1879/1880.
Mantrop, J. Bert.Date: 1879/1880Reference: 568574iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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William Gladstone standing in a wheelbarrow. Engraving, March 1880.
Date: March 1880Reference: 568633iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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William Gladstone as a clown. Lithograph by "Karl Goethe", ca. 1880.
Date: [1880]Reference: 568636iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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Gladstone is welcomed home by a woman who could not cope with her four children any longer, representing the parliamentary constitutency of Midlothian; Disraeli as Lord Beaconsfield ploughs a field in the background. Lithograph, ca. 1879.
Date: [1879?]Reference: 568599iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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The Midlothian campaign of 1879-80; a horserace between Lord Rosebery riding a horse with the face of Gladstone (the Liberal candidate) and Benjamin Disraeli riding a horse with the face of Lord Dalkeith (the Conservative candidate). Engraving by A. Mantrop, 1879/1880.
Mantrop, J. Bert.Date: 1879/1880Reference: 568581iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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William Gladstone, amid clouds, dressed as an angel with a sword. Engraving, ca. 1880.
Date: [1880?]Reference: 568638iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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Benjamin Disraeli, wearing a crown and a barrel on his head, is delivering a speech. Engraving by W. Dewane, March 1880.
Dewane, William.Date: March 1880Reference: 568606iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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William Gladstone about to hit with a hammer the statue of Disraeli as a sphinx; pyramids in the background. Engraving, ca. 1878.
Date: [1878]Reference: 568643iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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Lord Rosebery as a racehorse-owner conversing with his trainer (William Patrick Adam) about the prospects of a horse ridden by Gladstone, dressed as a jockey. Engraving after L. Sambourne, ca. 1880.
Sambourne, Linley, 1844-1910.Date: 1880Reference: 568556iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
William Gladstone carrying a bundle on which is written "rejected addresses". Engraving, ca. 1880.
Date: 1880Reference: 568623iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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The Midlothian campaign of 1879-1880: William Gladstone runs to relieve an old woman of her burden; representing his intention to relieve Midlothian of the burden caused by fraudulent voting and land laws. Wood engraving by A. Mantrop, 1879/1880.
Mantrop, J. Bert.Date: 1879/1880Reference: 568577iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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W.E. Gladstone and his Liberal allies, dressed as Roman soldiers, are about to defeat the Conservatives, who throw themselves from the citadel marked "Counties". Lithograph, ca. 1880.
Date: [1880?]Reference: 568598iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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William Gladstone with Charles Bradlaugh who is splilling the content of a cup on which is written "Fruits of philosophy Bradlaugh" on to Rosebery's face; William Adam is shown behind. Engraving, ca. 1880.
Date: [1880?]Reference: 568622iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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The Midlothian campaign of 1879-1880; left, Gladstone, holding a cornucopia, is acclaimed by a crowd as he acknowledges the needy; right, Lord Dalkeith and Stafford Northcote are supporting Disraeli as a ragged and lame man, representing the Conservative government. Engraving by A. Mantrop, 1879/1880.
Mantrop, J. Bert.Date: 1879/1880Reference: 568594iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli, Gladstone and John Bright depicted as bees around a beehive; representing the United Kingdom General Election of 1880. Engraving by W. Dewane after himself, March 1880.
Dewane, William.Date: March 1880Reference: 568609iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.