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1.
Agility and elegance [art original].

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
Published / Created:
[1810?]
Call Number:
Drawings H437 no. 1 Box D128
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. A lanky man attempts to dance with a corpulent woman but steps on her dress hem in the process
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attributed to William Heath by curator., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dance, Clumsiness, and Obesity
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Agility and elegance [art original].

2.
Ah! those happy days are fled forever [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1825]
Call Number:
825.00.00.10
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A couple sit in two chairs, the man with his back to his wife is asleep with his hands resting on his large belly. The woman thin and with a forelorn look on her face sits in a large comfortable chair, looking out, her book at her side and a handkerchief in her hand
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Distress, Marriage, and Obesity
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ah! those happy days are fled forever [graphic].

3.
Ardour & dignity Precision & ease. [art original]

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
Published / Created:
[1810?]
Call Number:
Drawings H437 no. 5 Box D128
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An image of two couples who appear to be dancing. The couple on the left includes a short, stocky man and a large buxom woman. The man is standing on his toes looking up to the woman while she gazes beyond his head. The couple on the right includes a lanky gentleman who is holding onto the index figure of a woman wearing a large plume in her hair
Alternative Title:
Precision & ease and Ardour and dignity ; Precision and ease
Description:
Titles written in ink below each image., William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840., and Sheet has a long crease down the center.
Subject (Topic):
Couples and Dance
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ardour & dignity Precision & ease. [art original]

4.
Doing the amiable [art original].

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
Published / Created:
[1810?]
Call Number:
Drawings H437 no. 6 Box D128
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A couple, caricatured and shown full-length, stand with the feet intertwined as the man clasps the woman under her arms. He has long legs and arms and a jutting chin; she, somewhat older than the man, is sharp-featured and appears to be falling
Description:
William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Couples and Courtship
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Doing the amiable [art original].

5.
Grace and sentiment [art original].

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
Published / Created:
[1810?]
Call Number:
Drawings H437 no. 2 Box D128
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. The woman (left) wears a pink dress and holds a heart-shaped pruse. She rests her arm on the shoulders of the man as he wraps his arm around her waist
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Mounted on paper the verso of which shows a map of the estate, Ballygorn, of John Henry Keogh, Esq., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Couples and Dance
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Grace and sentiment [art original].

6.
Petticoat government, or, The Scripture fulfilled [graphic]

Published / Created:
[ca. 1778]
Call Number:
778.00.00.43
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionably dressed woman with elaborate coiffure decorated with ribbons and ostrich plumes, holds a whip in the left hand and reins in the right, as she rides on the back of a corpulent man with horns. He leans on his walking stick, the reins in his mouth, regarding the viewer with a doleful expression. Beneath the title, a quote from 1 Corinthians 7:4: "The husband hath not power over his own body - but the wife."
Alternative Title:
Scripture fulfilled
Description:
Title from item., Signed in lower left of image IM, i.e. John Hamilton Mortimer?, and Date conjectured by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Cuckolds, Couples, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Petticoat government, or, The Scripture fulfilled [graphic]

7.
Sure such a pair were never seen so justly form'd to meet by nature!!! [art original]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
Published / Created:
1818.
Call Number:
Drawings C889 no. 3 Box D115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man and a woman are shown in profile, half-length; their facial features fit together likes pieces of a puzzle
Description:
Signed in ink lower left: GCk., Original drawing, basis for a publish print: Sure such a pair were never seen so justly form'd to meet by Nature!!! See British Museum. Catalogue of political and personal satires, v. 9, 13131., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist, 1792-1878., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dandies, British, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sure such a pair were never seen so justly form'd to meet by nature!!! [art original]

8.
The gentle-rebuke [art original].

Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 25 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An injured husband with bandaged arm resting in a sling and eye covered by a patch cautiously confronts and reproves his unloving wife who previously kicked the former down stairs. In the foreground a hostile cat chases and swipes at a fleeing dog reflecting the quarrel of the married couple
Description:
Title from inscription below image in black ink in the artist's hand., Date supplied by cataloger., Attributed to Woodward., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Quarreling, Blaming, Confrontations, Wounds & injuries, and Eye patches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The gentle-rebuke [art original].

9.
The old mans folly [art original].

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
Published / Created:
[1810?]
Call Number:
Drawings H437 no. 4 Box D128
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A caricature showing a couple full-length as they dance. The older man with a very large and balding forehead holds the arm of a young girl; both are standing on their toes. She is holding a fan and looking away from the man
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attributed to William Heath by curator., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, and Dance
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The old mans folly [art original].

10.
The walk! [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1832?]
Call Number:
832.00.00.44
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man with a large nose and holding a walking stick walks arm-in-arm with a fashionably dressed young lady who holds a umbrella over her head. A woman holding the hands of two children walk toward them from the right; they all wear hats and the woman has her nose in the air. Behind the couple (left) is a man who holds a basket and makes a mocking gesture at the couple
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Four lines of verse pasted on sheet: Now, whether his nose had two corners or three, unlucky! I did not heed them but I thought, form its length, the better 'twould be as a handle by which to lead him., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Hats, Noses, Teasing, Umbrellas, and Walking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The walk! [graphic].