Political satire
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Satire on a Scottish Baillie - "The Hermit's Visit to the New Jail", New Calton Jail, Edinburgh
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1714
Scope and Contents
This satirical illustration entitled "The Hermits [sic] Visit to the New Jail" shows what is assumed to be a Baillie (bearded, with top-hat and walking with a stick) holding a large key... presumably to open the jail or to lock it. The castellated building is in the background. There are posters on a wall...: "Waterloo subscription", "Self-Defence Taught", and "List of Improvements in the City and Suburbs".
In pencil below the drawing is written "Baillie Johnson, January 1817".
Dates:
1817
Satirical illustration, 'The balance of public favor', showing Sir Walter Scott
Fonds — Box CLX-D-33, Folder: Coll-1770 / SC-Acc-2016-0126
Identifier: Coll-1770
Scope and Contents
Coloured lithograph, some marginal browning. 394 x 267 mm.
Dates:
1827
Song collection book entitled "Recueil de chansons choisies depuis 1656 jusques à present 1736"
Fonds — Box CLX-A-385
Identifier: Coll-2052
Content Description
This is a song book entitled "Recueil de chansons choisies depuis 1656 jusques à present 1736", France, 1736. It contains a collection of selected popular songs covering 80 years of French satire and current affairs. The book features some 135 songs, and there are 73 tunes written with musical notation. The songs are helpfully annotated with names and explanations to margins, and indexed by the names mentioned. When a tune is to be used in another song, the compiler puts in a cross-reference...
Dates:
1736