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Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford

Also known as: Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford; primary name: Walpole, Robert; other name: (Earl of) Orford
Details: individual; politician/statesman; British; Male
Life dates: 1676-1745
Biography: Prime Minister

355 related objects

drawing; architectural drawing

Museum number: 1865,0610.1341 |
Producer name: BIOG48458 Drawn by:Sir James Thornhill |
Production date: 1730

drawing

Museum number: 1920,0214.4 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Joseph GoupyFormerly attributed to:Philippe Mercier |
Production date: 1723-1742

drawing

Title: The Motion |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3648 |
Producer name: Drawn by:George Perfect HardingAfter:H Franks |
Production date: 1798

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1850,1014.476.1-9.+ |
Producer name: BIOG35081 Print made by:Jakob Christoph Le Blon |
Production date: 1725 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

medal

Museum number: 1885,0311.9 |
Producer name: BIOG75489 Designed by:Johann Lorenz Natter |
Production date: 1741-1751 |
Production place: Made in:Germany

medal

Museum number: M.8460 |
Production date: 1742 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: G3,IP.1152 |
Producer name: BIOG75489 Designed by:Johann Lorenz Natter |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.8483 |
Producer name: BIOG106464 Designed by:Jacques Antoine Dassier |
Production date: 1744 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.8484 |
Producer name: Designed by:John MiltonMade by:Georg Vallentin Bauert |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.8455 |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: MG.1453 |
Production date: 1741

medal

Museum number: BNK,EngM.208 |
Producer name: BIOG75489 Designed by:Johann Lorenz Natter |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.8461 |
Producer name: BIOG75489 Designed by:Johann Lorenz Natter |
Production date: 1742 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: 1885,0311.8 |
Producer name: BIOG75489 Designed by:Johann Lorenz Natter |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Made in:Germany

medal

Museum number: M.8454 |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: MG.1459 |
Production date: 1733

medal

Museum number: M.8456 |
Producer name: BIOG75489 Designed by:Johann Lorenz Natter |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: BNK,EngM.190 |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: 1934,0201.5 |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.8455.+ |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medallion

Museum number: 1895,0603.29 |
Production date: 1753-56 |
Production place: Made in:StaffordshireDecorated in:Liverpool

medallion

Museum number: 1890,0810.20

photographic print

Museum number: 1933,0228.1 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 After:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1728-1850

print

Title: The Rt Honble Sr Robt Wallpole |
Museum number: 1902,1011.5201 |
Producer name: BIOG47903 Print made by:Joseph Sympson II |
Production date: 1726-1736

print

Title: The Right Honble Horatio Walpole Esq |
Museum number: 1864,0813.244 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Carle Van Loo |
Production date: 1741

print

Title: Sr Robert Walpole &c &c &c Kitcat Club |
Museum number: 1902,1011.1643 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Faber the YoungerAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1733

print

Title: The Right Honble Sr Robert Walpole |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4365 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Hans Hysing |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: The Right Honble. Sr. Robert Walpole |
Museum number: 1887,0406.133 |
Producer name: BIOG134734 Published by:John Cooper |
Production date: 1725-1735

print

Title: The Right Honble Horatio Walpole Esq |
Museum number: 1948,0315.7.89 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Carle Van Loo |
Production date: 1741

print

Title: The Right Honble Sr Robert Walpole |
Museum number: 1892,0314.148 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gerhard BockmanAfter:Thomas Gibson |
Production date: 1715-1742

print; broadside

Title: An Elegy, on the...death...of Robert Earl of Orford |
Museum number: 1850,1109.6 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1745

print; broadside

Title: A clear Stage and no Favour |
Museum number: Y,1.131 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1731

print; satirical print

Title: The Naked Truth |
Museum number: Y,1.2 |
Producer name: BIOG178015 Published by:John Brett |
Production date: 1739

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: To the Glory of the Rt. Honble. Sr. Robert Walpole |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3536 |
Producer name: Print made by:Paul FourdrinierAfter:F Dumouchel |
Production date: 1730

print; satirical print

Title: The Norfolk Dumplin. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3746 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1744

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: The Protest |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3659 |
Producer name: BIOG48566 Published by:John Tinney |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Daedalus & Icarus Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Ll,6.12 |
Producer name: After:Charles Le BrunPrint made by:George Sigmund Facius |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; medley

Title: The Cardinal in the Dumps, With the head of the Colossus. |
Museum number: J,1.129 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1740 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1868,0808.3558 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1733

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: Bristol and Nottingham against London: or, the Fun Bristol and Nottingham Instructions |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3713 |
Producer name: BIOG153966 Published by:W Webb |
Production date: 1742 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Promotion |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3682 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1742

print

Title: The Modern Duel The Political [Calendar?] |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3823 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles MosleyAfter:Gravelot |
Production date: 1747 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The sportsman Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Kk,4.21 |
Producer name: After:Gaspard DughetPrint made by:John Browne |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Helena Forman, Rubens's Second Wife Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1872,0113.890 |
Producer name: After:Peter Paul RubensPrint made by:Thomas A E Chambars |
Production date: 1767 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The motive, or Reason for his Honour's Triumph. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3652 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: The Reason |
Museum number: 1868,0208.88 |
Producer name: BIOG144002 Published by:Thomas Cooper |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: U,9.60 |
Producer name: Print made by:James MasonAfter:Gaspard Dughet |
Production date: 1778 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: John, Duke of Montagu. |
Museum number: 1920,1211.1027 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry RobinsonAfter:Jarvis |
Production date: 1835 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The races of the Europeans, with their keys. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3642 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1740 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside

Title: The Patriot-Statesman |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3624 |
Producer name: After:Francis HaymanPrint made by:Gerard van der Gucht |
Production date: 1740 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Spring Gardens, Vaux-hall |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3665 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1868,0808.3543 |
Producer name: Print made by:John van der GuchtPublished by:Richard Francklin |
Production date: 1731 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Sir Thomas Gresham Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1853,0112.1529 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Baptiste MichelAfter:Antonis Mor |
Production date: 1778 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.5074 |
Producer name: BIOG29656 After:Gravelot |
Production date: 1739 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Rubens's wife Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Ll,6.7 |
Producer name: After:Peter Paul RubensPrint made by:Jean Baptiste Michel |
Production date: 1778 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside

Title: The Ceremony of the Marriage of Princess Royall with the Prince of Orange |
Museum number: Mm,2.149 |
Producer name: BIOG153955 Published by:Elizabeth Foster |
Production date: 1734 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1868,0808.12382 |
Producer name: After:GravelotPublished by:Richard Francklin |
Production date: 1739 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside

Title: The Patriot-Statesman |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3625 |
Producer name: After:Francis HaymanPrint made by:Gerard van der Gucht |
Production date: 1740 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The European Race |
Museum number: 1866,1114.618 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles MosleyPublished by:Philip Overton |
Production date: 1738 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; medley

Title: The [Cha]mpion; or Even[ing] Adver[tiser] by Capt Hercules Vinegar, of Pall-mall |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3630 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1744 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: Britannia Excisa Britannia Excisa. Part II. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3556 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1733

print; satirical print

Title: A new state picture | The antcraftsman unmask'd |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3723 |
Producer name: BIOG168411 Print made by:A Moore |
Production date: 1736 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Joconda Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1875,0710.3080 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Baptiste MichelAfter:Leonardo da Vinci |
Production date: 1774 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Sr. Robert Walpole, / Earl of Orford. |
Museum number: 1920,1211.1028 |
Producer name: BIOG148426 Published by:John Hinton |
Production date: 1757 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: The Reason |
Museum number: J,1.140 |
Producer name: BIOG144002 Published by:Thomas Cooper |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Title: Sir Robert Walpole Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1856,0308.46 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonAfter:Jean Baptiste Van Loo |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The true Contrast |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4058 |
Producer name: BIOG24516 Published by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1757 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; medley

Title: The Cardinal in the Dumps With the head of the Col The Preferment of the Barber's Block |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3636 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1740 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A sea port Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Kk,4.11 |
Producer name: After:Claude LorrainPrint made by:Pierre Charles Canot |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Kk,4.54 |
Producer name: After:Gaspard DughetPrint made by:James Mason |
Production date: 1778 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Captain of Banditti Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Kk,4.42 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Baptiste MichelAfter:Salvator Rosa |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mendicants Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Kk,4.37 |
Producer name: Print made by:James PeakeAfter:Giacomo Cortese |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: In Place |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3601 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1738

print; satirical print

Title: The Modern Orpheus |
Museum number: K,66.49 |
Producer name: Print made by:David SmithAfter:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1807

print; satirical print

Title: The Stature of a Great Man, or the Scotch Colossus |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4449 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1762 1740

print; satirical print

Title: The late Prime Minister |
Museum number: 1849,1003.57 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1743

print; satirical print

Title: The Festival of the Golden Rump |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3588 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1737

print; satirical print

Title: Robin's Progress in eight scenes, from his first coming up from Oxford to London to his present situ |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3555 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1733

print; satirical print

Title: Robin's Progress in eight scenes, from his first coming up from Oxford to London to his present situ |
Museum number: 1867,0309.791 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1733

print; satirical print

Title: The Screen. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12379 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1742

print; satirical print

Title: The C[our]t Shittle-Cock. |
Museum number: R,9.41 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1740

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Museum number: Cc,3.108 |
Producer name: BIOG178032 Print made by:Thomas Gardner |
Production date: 1740

print; satirical print

Title: Robin's Progress in eight scenes, from his first coming up from Oxford to London to his present situ |
Museum number: 1867,0309.790 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1733

print; book-illustration

Title: Walpole Earl of Orford. |
Museum number: 1853,0112.1593 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas A E ChambarsAfter:Jean Baptiste Van Loo |
Production date: 1757

print; satirical print; puzzle-picture

Title: An Hieroglyphic Epistle from [rebus for 'Beelzebub'] to Lord [Chatham] |
Museum number: 1871,1209.6467 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1766

print; book-illustration; satirical print

Title: Tale of a tub. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12486 |
Producer name: BIOG85362 Published by:Bentley & Co |
Production date: 1791

print; satirical print

Title: The Tables turn'd or, The Lurchers Lurch'd and Monsieurs Whip'd |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3703 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1742

print; satirical print

Title: The differance of times, between those times, and these times. |
Museum number: 1864,0813.255 |
Producer name: BIOG178015 Published by:John Brett |
Production date: 1739

print; satirical print; pamphlet

Title: Britannia Excisa: Britain Excis'd |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3557 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1733

print; satirical print

Title: The Screen |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3686 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1742

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: The C[a]rd[i]nal Dancing-Master, Or Pl[a]ce-M[a]n in Leading-Strings |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3720 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1742

print; satirical print

Title: The political vomit for the ease of Britain. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3718 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1742

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1853,0813.107 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1731

print; broadside

Title: To the Author of the London Evening-Post |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3591 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1737

print; satirical print

Title: Sawney Below Stairs |
Museum number: 1849,1003.42 |
Producer name: BIOG75786 After:Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale |
Production date: 1763

print; satirical print

Title: Bror Robert under his last Purgation |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3687 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1742

print; satirical print

Title: Robin's Progress in eight scenes, from his first coming up from Oxford to London to his present situ |
Museum number: J,1.92 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1733

print; satirical print

Title: The Claims of the Broad Bottom |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3730 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1743

print; satirical print

Title: Robin's Progress in eight scenes, from his first coming up from Oxford to London to his present situ |
Museum number: 1867,0309.789 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1733

print

Title: Robert Walpole, / Gross Britann. Ober Schatz Commissarius / und Cantzler von Exchequer |
Museum number: 1858,0213.193 |
Producer name: BIOG33965 After:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1757