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1.
A rotation office [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[8 June 1774]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A London justice of peace seated behind a table in his office, his hands clasped. On his right and left are three men holding their hats and canes, who may be either justices or visitors. At the end of the table (left), sits the justice's clerk writing with his left hand. On the wall over the presiding justice's head is a placard, "Robbery, Murder ... Beware of Justice"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., The initials "H.W." suggest the design is after Henry Wigstead. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Annotated with price "6 d." in lower right corner, in ink in a contemporary hand., and Formerly mounted on leaf 3 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. June 8th, 1774, by H. Humphry, Bond Street
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A rotation office [graphic]

2.
Every sous begad! [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 10 June 1774]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 111. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on an unlucky gambler: a man standing facing to left looking dejected with his hands in his breeches pockets and a riding whip under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state, before publication line added and before additional drypoint shading. For a later state with the publication line "Publish'd 10th June 1774", see no. 4720 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted on page 111 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gamblers, Whips, and Sadness
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Every sous begad! [graphic]

3.
High life below stairs as it was represented at Cashiobury, the seat of the Earl of Essex

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 23d Feby. 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 71. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bench in a kitchen on which are seated, from left to right: the coachman, half asleep; the huge cook seated facing us, arms akimbo; and a rather drowsy black boy. A shelf with pots and pans on it is on the wall to the left. At the extreme right is a grandfather clock. There are two drawings pinned to the wall
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of dialogue etched below title: Coachman: You go." Cook: Hang me if I go." Kingston: Mollsey, Pollsey go.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Theater: High life below stairs -- Amateur theatricals -- Domestic service: Coachman -- Kingston -- Black foot-boy -- Reference to William Ann Holles, earl of Essex, 1732-1799., Mounted on page 71 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.6 x 29.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Townley, James, 1714-1778.
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Coach drivers, Cooks, Servants, Longcase clocks, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > High life below stairs as it was represented at Cashiobury, the seat of the Earl of Essex / [graphic]

4.
Mutual accusation [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life., Mounted on page 89 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 23.7 x 30.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mutual accusation [graphic]

5.
Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham the seat of the Honourable Mr. Walpole / [graphic]

Creator:
Rooker, Edward, -1774, printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 1st, 1774.
Call Number:
49 2523
Collection Title:
Second leaf following title page. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View from the east of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham; with two men pulling a lawn roller across the grass
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on second leaf following title page in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 15.8 x 20.1 cm, inlaid to 21 x 27 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament G. Kearsly in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Dwellings, and Estates
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham the seat of the Honourable Mr. Walpole / [graphic]

6.
The village doctor [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[8 June 1774]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A village doctor's house indicated by the sign of a pestle and mortar over the door, and by the placard, "Probe Surgeo[n and] Man Midwife". From a casement window above the door the doctor in night-cap and shirt leans out, shaking his fist at a man who has knocked him up and is standing below, gaping with astonishment at the doctor's anger. The doctor holds his breeches in his right hand. A wall (left) with trees and a building behind it and low railings in front, complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 2 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 8th, 1774, by H. Humphry, Bond Street
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The village doctor [graphic].

7.
What's! this my boy Tom [graphic].

Published / Created:
Jany. 1, 1774.
Call Number:
774.01.01.06+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 46. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printed on one sheet with a companion print: What's! this my girl Nan., Temporary local subject terms: Male fashion, 1774., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly
Subject (Topic):
Farmers, Pipes (Smoking), and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > What's! this my boy Tom [graphic].

8.
[A French country girl] [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 20th Jany. 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 95. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman in rustic dress, walking to left, twisting slightly from the viewer but with her head in profile, a large basket in her right hand, swinging her left arm ahead of her as she moves, wearing a mob-cap, with her apron looped up into her waist-band; after Bunbury; one of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 95 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants and Baskets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A French country girl] [graphic]

9.
[A French country girl] [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1774]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 95. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman in rustic dress, walking to left, twisting slightly from the viewer but with her head in profile, a large basket in her right hand, swinging her left arm ahead of her as she moves, wearing a mob-cap, with her apron looped up into her waist-band; after Bunbury; one of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Variant (early?) state lacking publication line. For a state with "Publish'd 20th Jany. 1774" scratched in lower left corner of plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.819., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 95 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching and drypoint in sepia ink on laid paper ; sheet 24.8 x 17.1 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants and Baskets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A French country girl] [graphic]

10.
[A dancing bear] [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st April 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 87. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 87 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Trained animals, Chains, Wind instruments, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A dancing bear] [graphic]