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Mirth and Friendship, 1768-1772

Mirth and Friendship, 1768-1772

Frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin's poem The Temple of Nature, an engraving based on a drawing by Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1803.

The Temple of Nature, 1803

"A lock'd jaw for John Bull", 'Pubd Novr 23 1795 by S W Fores N° 50 Piccadilly the Corner of Sackville Street - Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening', British Museum (1868,0808.6479).

"A lock'd jaw for John Bull", 1795

A D-e [Devonshire] rout or Reynard in his element", 1784. Lewis Walpole Library.

A Devonshire rout or Reynard in his element", 1784

Frontispiece of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Wit a-la-mode; or, Lord Chesterfield's witticisms ... London: R. Newport, and A. Mallard, 1778.

Wit a-la-mode, 1778

William Hogarth, O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’), 1748.

O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’), 1748

Richard Cosway, ‘Timon of Athens Before His Cave’, B1976.1.32, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, ca. 1805.

Timon of Athens Before His Cave, ca. 1805

James Gillray, 'Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion', © The Trustees of the British Museum, 1868,0808.6554, 1796.

Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion, 1796

Thursday, March 1, 1711. The first issue of The Spectator, 1711. Printed on both sides on a single sheet of paper. From the website: The Open Anthology of Literature in English. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

The first issue of The Spectator, 1711

Reciprocity

Réciprocité

Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, 1684

Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, 1684

Traveltopia, ‘Footprint in the Sand’, FreeImagesLive.

Footprint in the Sand, undated

J.-M. Moreau & J.-B. Simonet, ‘Voilà la règle de la nature’. 1777-78. Collection complète des œuvres de J. -J. Rousseau, Londres [Bruxelles], J.-L. De Boubers, 1774-83, tome 3. Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal.

Voilà la règle de la nature, 1777-78

C. P. Marillier & J. Dambrun, ‘Discours sur l’origine de l’inégalité’. 1801. Rousseau, Œuvres, Paris, Didot-Bozerian, 1801.

Discours sur l’origine de l’inégalité, 1801

‘Title page of Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees’, Wikimedia Commons, 1714.

Title page of The Fable of the Bees, 1714

John Smith, ‘Three Arcadians’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D11802, circa 1683-1729.

Three Arcadians, circa 1683-1729

Hennin, Michel, ‘Constitution de la France’, Gallica BnF, 1789.

Constitution de la France, 1789

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ‘La Lettre d’amour’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49.7.49, 1770s.

La Lettre d’amour, 1770s

Stowe: A Description of the House and Gardens of the Most Noble and Puissant Prince Richard Grenville Nugent Chandos Temple (Buckingham: J. Seeley, 1817)

William Henry Brooke, ‘The anti-royal menagerie’, Wikimedia Commons, 1812.

The Anti-royal Menagerie, 1812

George Stubbs, ‘Lion and Lioness’, Museum of Fine Arts, M. Theresa B Hopkins Fund, 49.6, 1771.

Lion and Lioness, 1771

George Stubbs, ‘Two Leopards’, Wikimedia Commons, 1776.

Two Leopards, 1776

George Stubbs, ‘The Kongouro from New Holland’, Wikimedia Commons, 1772.

The Kongouro from New Holland, 1772

Anti-Pamelas, 1741, 1741, 1742

From Anti-Pamela to Joseph Andrews, 1741, 1742, 1742

Jonathan Swift, ‘Frontispiece to the fifth edition of The Battle of the Books’, 1710 [1704], WikiCommons, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_the_Books#/media/File:Battle_of_the_Books_(woodcut).jpg

‘Frontispiece to the Fifth Edition of The Battle of the Books, 1710

Richard Samuel, ‘Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 4905, 1778.

Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo, 1778

Abraham Bosse, ‘Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes’, Wikimedia Commons, 1651.

Leviathan, 1651