Robert Walpole Gallery

Idol-Worship or the Way to Preferment, 1740 (engraving)

XJF863053 Idol-Worship or the Way to Preferment, 1740 (engraving) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Prime Minister Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745) at the entrance to St James's Palace bending forward so an ambitious young man can kiss his naked bottom, while another bowls a hoop parading Walpole's vices through an arch of his legs leading to the Treasury, Exchequer and Admiralty
); English, out of copyright

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The House of Commons in the Eighteenth Century, 1730, (1947). Creator: Unknown

The House of Commons in the Eighteenth Century, 1730, (1947). Session of parliament in the Palace of Westminster, London. The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, is on the left. Speaker Arthur Onslow is in the Speaker's Chair. Walpole (1676-1745) served as Britain's de facto first Prime Minister between 1721and 1742. After Speaker Arthur Onslow calling upon Sir Robert Walpole to speak in the House of Commons, a painting of 1730, in the National Trust collection at Clandon Park, Surrey. From "The House of Commons", by Martin Lindsay M.P. [Collins, London, 1947]

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Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford. From the original of Jarvis, in the

Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1725, (early-mid 19th century). Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, English statesman. Although the title was never used to refer to him at the time, Walpole (1676-1745) is regarded as Britain's first Prime Minister. His administration lasted from 1721 until he resigned in 1742, longer than that of any Prime Minister since. Engraving after a painting by Charles Jervas commissioned by Walpole in 1725 as a gift for his one of his supporters, it shows him as Chancellor of the Exchequer standing beside the embroidered silk purse of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Seal. From the original of Jarvis, in the collection of Thomas Walpole, Esquire'. [The London Printing and Publishing Company, London]

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