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1. A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [art original].

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:: [ca. July 1801]
Call Number:: Drawings N736 no. 7 Box D205
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with such force that it lifts the cat off the ground and bends the candle. Above the fireplace is a broadside entitled: The storm by Mr. Dodd, cease rude boreas balstering railes ... On the table below the window (left) is a bowl labeled "Pease porridge" and a wig on a stand. On the ground at her feet lies a corset, shoes and other garments. Above the bed are boxed and breeches; a man's coat is hung on the back of the chair to the right of the hearth
Description:: Title from note in artist's hand above image., Artist name from dealer's description., Study (or copy) for a print of the same title that was published July 1801 by W. Holland. Not reversed., and John Nixon (ca. 1750 - 1818), city merchant and amateur watercolourist (topography) and designer and maker of satirical prints; honorary exhibitor in RA between 1781 and 1815.
Subject (Topic):: Bed, Boxes, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Cats, Corsets, Couples, Fireplaces, Flatulence, Single women, and Sleepwear
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [art original].

2. A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [graphic].

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:: July 1801.
Call Number:: 801.07.00.05+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with such force that it lifts the cat off the ground and bends the candle. Above the fireplace is a broadside entitled: The storm by Mr. Dodd, cease rude boreas balstering railes ... On the table below the window (left) is a bowl labeled "Pease porridge" and a wig on a stand. On the ground at her feet lies a corset, shoes and other garments. Above the bed are boxed and breeches; a man's coat is hung on the back of the chair to the right of the hearth
Description:: Title etched above image., Artist attribution from dealer's description., and Study for a print of the same title that was published July 1801 by W. Holland.
Publisher:: Pub'd by Wm. Holland, Oxford street
Subject (Topic):: Bed, Boxes, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Cats, Corsets, Couples, Fireplaces, Flatulence, Single women, and Sleepwear
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [graphic].

3. Amsterdam, Shanks Leggs servant shaving him [art original].

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1790]
Call Number:: Drawings N736 no. 12 Box D141
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A scene in a bedroom, the bed in a niche behind a curtain, one man sits as he is being shaved by his servant, as a companion stands with his arms crossed. To their left is an open trunk wotj slippers and boots on the ground on the far left. A fourth man stands apart arrange his queue(?), two pistols on the floor to his right beside an open duffle bag. On the right wall hangs a portrait of Emperor Joseph above a large fireplace; on the left wall hangs a portrait of a woman in profile
Alternative Title:: Shanks Leggs servant shaving him
Description:: Title from ink inscription in lower margin, in the artist's hand., Date from dealer's description., Two additional ink inscriptions by the artist, to the left ("J. Nixon") and right ("G. Nixon") of the title, identify figures depicted in the scene., and Window mounted on to a slightly larger sheet.
Subject (Name):: Nixon, John, -1818,
Subject (Topic):: Artists, British, Shaving, Servants, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, and Fireplaces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Amsterdam, Shanks Leggs servant shaving him [art original].

4. An electioneering procession from the M-n House to G-d Hall [graphic]

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:: [25 October 1781]
Call Number:: 781.10.25.01+
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: "An election procession of thirteen patriots walking from right to left wearing the colours of Sir Watkin Lewes, elected M.P. for the City, 29 Sept. 1781, see British Museum satire no. 5849. Two flags are carried, one "Lewes & Freedom", the other, "No Ministerial Influence", in reference to Lewes' speech on his election on 29 Sept. Two of the men are playing flutes, a third blows a horn. The figures are probably portraits; two are butchers wearing aprons, their steels hanging from their waists; beside one of them walks a muzzled dog with a collar inscribed "Liberty"; this butcher is eating as he walks. One man drinks a glass of wine, holding a lump of food in his left hand. One with a swathed and gouty leg walks on crutches. All have election favours in their hats, these are inscribed respectively "Lewes for ever"; "Sr Watkin for ever"; "Freedom"; "Lewes"; "No Bribery"; "Lewes"; "No Corruption". In the hat of the butcher with the dog is "Freedom's my plan Sr Watkin is the Man". The background is formed by the lower part of the façade of two houses in a street, the front of two shops being indicated. On the pavement (left) four little chimney-sweeps are shouting and waving their hats and brushes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Electioneering procession from the Mansion House to Guildhall
Description:: Title etched below image. The 'o' in 'electioneering' has been inserted above the line., Signed in the image "J.N." JN is the monogram of John Nixon., and Verses following title: These stanch friends to freedom you here do behold, Will be bribe'd with good eating tho' they spurn at yr gold. For offer them money it's such a disgrace, 'Tis a thousand to one they dont spit in your face. But give them pudding & beef with compliments civil, To serve you they'll go ay e'en to the devil."
Publisher:: Pubd. Octr. 25, 1781 by W. Wells No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):: England, London, and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821 and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):: Political activity, Elections, Butchers, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Clothing & dress, Corruption, Dogs, Muckraking, Musical instruments, Political parades & rallies, Slogans, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An electioneering procession from the M-n House to G-d Hall [graphic]

5. Ascot races [art original]

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:: 29 June [17]91.
Call Number:: Drawings N736 no. 3 Box D141
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Watercolor depicting a scowling elderly merchant wearing a floppy hat and apron. She stands a table on which her wares are laid; she leans on a knife, stabbed point-down into the table's surface. On the table are a crude balance scale for weighing the various goods on offer, a bucket and cutting board, and piles of oranges and cherries. Behind her (right) walks a disheveled passerby carrying a rolled document under his arm; on the left monkey climbs a ladder to reach a banner with a fierce hyena image and a title: The laughing hyena from Patria quite alive. A parrot is perched up high on the right edge of the banner
Description:: Title from caption penned near lower edge of sheet.
Subject (Topic):: Food vendors, Hyenas, and Parrots
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Ascot races [art original]

6. At Exeter Cathedral [art original]

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:: [1809]
Call Number:: Drawings N736 no. 5 Box D141
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A large, masculine-looking woman with spectacles and a hat, stands before stool on which sits an open book of music. She holds in her right hand a baton which rests on the open page
Description:: Title in artist's hand, lower right corner of image. and Signed with his monogram 'J.N." and dated by the artist.
Subject (Topic):: Eyeglasses, Music, and Women
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > At Exeter Cathedral [art original]

7. Ben Holbrook, a walking stationer [art original]

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:: [1783]
Call Number:: Drawings N736 no. 11 Box D141
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Benjamin Holbrook, shown full-length in profile, walking to the left, holding with a long white staff in his right hand, clutching two memorandum books in his left hand, heading towards Fleet Market, with the west front of St. Paul’s Cathedral visible in the background. His eyes being closed and the presence of the staff indicate his blindness, and the patched elbow of his three-quarter-length coat his poverty
Description:: Title from ink inscription in lower left portion of image., Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower right corner., Numbered "25" in top center., For the related print, entitled "Ben Holbrook, the walking stationer" and published 16 July 1783 by William Wells, see Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 542, no. 1., and Mounted with narrow paper mount.
Subject (Name):: Holbrook, Benjamin, active 1783, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Peddlers, Blind persons, Staffs (Sticks), and Stationery
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Ben Holbrook, a walking stationer [art original]

8. Hospitality kicking avarice out of doors, or, New tenants at a mansion house [art original]

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:: [1799]
Call Number:: Drawings N736 no. 8 Box D305
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A caricature of the new Lord Mayor of London: Harvey Combe stands centerd in the a hall, surrounded by a desperate looking group of people both rich and poor, who kneel and beg. A skeletal man (buthcher?) holds a knife in one hand and a scroll in the other enscribed with a large order for meat: "12 haundres vension, 6 necks do., 8 turtles, 20 brace partridges, 20 pheasants, 20 brace woodcocks, 16 sirloins beef bacon(?) &"". In the foreground lies another sheet which readss "Tripe Soup. Liver & Crow. Fried Tripe. Bill of Fare for 8 Novr." The outgoing Lord Mayor, Sir Richard Glyn, who was notoriously spendthrift during his period in office, is seen being kicked out of the Mansion House holding large money bag with the word "Saving" written on it. The two cats on the left and the dog following the butcher are also thin from malnorishment. Two large spiders have spun large webs below the archway on the left below a two cupids holding a heart molded above the archway
Alternative Title:: New tenants at a mansion house
Description:: Title written below image., Signed with initials and dated by the artist in lower left corner., "Sold by all the printsellers in London, Nov. 9, 1799"--Written in above title., and Original design for a print published 9 November 1799.
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Combe, Harvey Christian, 1752-1818 and Glyn, Richard Carr, Sir, 1755-1838
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Pleading (Begging), Kicking, Poor persons, Interiors, Cats, and Dogs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Hospitality kicking avarice out of doors, or, New tenants at a mansion house [art original]

9. Maiden speeches in the new Parliament of 1796 [graphic]

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:: Feby. 18, 1797.
Call Number:: 797.02.18.02++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A satire showing caricatured figures, full-length, demonstrating different styles of making speeches. Above each figure a humorous parody of maiden speeches
Description:: Title from caption below image., Text above upper left figure begins: I remember Sir a few years ago I vent vith my vife and darter to Calais ..., Design consists of four figures on one plate, each with several lines of text etched above., One of two plates with same title on the same theme published on the same day by William Holland., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Later printing based on watermark: 1809.
Publisher:: Pub. by Willm. Holland, No. 50, Oxford Strt
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):: Politicians and Public speaking
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Maiden speeches in the new Parliament of 1796 [graphic]