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1. Gin, two-penny & tobacco [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grinagain, Giles, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [25 July 1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.07.25.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Three women, two standing and one sitting smoking a pipe, converse outside a shop, 'Fine Cordial Gin, two penny & best Virginia'.
- Alternative Title:
- Gin, two-penny and tobacco
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and From the Renier Collection; on verso ms. notes in black ink 'Renier' and monogram 'AR'.
- Publisher:
- Pub. July 25, 1802, by S. Howitt, Panton Street, Haymarkt
- Subject (Topic):
- Baskets, Carts & wagons, Pipes (Smoking), Stores & shops, Street vendors, Women, and Tobacco
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Gin, two-penny & tobacco [graphic]
2. How to obtain a request [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grinagain, Giles, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.02.01.07
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A social satire: a beggar wearing ragged clothes and leaning on a crutch hold his hat out towards a old, well-dressed woman as he says, "My angelic young lady! Heaven preserve your ladyship's beautiful shape and countenance these thousand years! Give a halfpenny to a poor old man." Her face is caricatured, with a large pig-like nose from which long hairs protrude and with growths on her face, but she carries a parasol and is fashionably dressed and wears a feather and flower in her hair and earrings and large beaded necklace
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On verso ms. notes in black ink: 'Renier' and monogram 'AR'.
- Publisher:
- Published Febry. 1st, 1802, by S. Howitt, Panton Str., Haymarket
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Beggars, Clothing & dress, Crutches, Flattery, Ugliness, and Umbrellas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > How to obtain a request [graphic]
3. The restive Pegasus, or, The dramatic author foiled in his attempt to ascend Parnassus [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grinagain, Giles, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [25 July 1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.07.25.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man in ragged but quasi-fashionable dress rides (right to left) an ass through a river which flows past a steep mountain. The animal jibs, with ears set back; the rider raises a whip in each hand. He wears, and uses, three pairs of spurs, and attached to his shoulders and to the ass is a monstrous pile of bladders inscribed respectively 'Repartee', 'Nonsensical Verses', 'Catastrophe', 'Sentiment', 'Blasphemies', 'Puns', 'Duels', 'Double Entendres', 'Metaphors', 'Ghosts', 'Melting Speeches', 'Squibs', 'Dialogue', 'Daggers Poisons'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state.*
- Alternative Title:
- Dramatic author foiled in his attempt to ascend Parnassus
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by S.W. Fores in 1804. Cf. No. 10334 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. July 25, 1802, by S. Howitt, Panton Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, British, Donkeys, Literature, and Spurs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The restive Pegasus, or, The dramatic author foiled in his attempt to ascend Parnassus [graphic]
