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1.
A French emigrant cook begging for a slice of English beef [graphic].

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1 March 1794]
Call Number:
794.03.01.04
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in a kitchen showing a French male cook on his knees beside a cross-looking female cook holding a spatula. In the background, a roaring fire in the hearth with a slab of beef on a spit
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st March 1794 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Kitchens, Cooks, and Pleading (Begging)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A French emigrant cook begging for a slice of English beef [graphic].

2.
A famous cook! : One eye on the pot & the other on the table!!

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1840s?]
Call Number:
840.00.00.85
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A cook stirring a liquid from a bottle into his bowl, his right eyeball looking down at the table and his left eyeball looking to the side at a pot steaming on the hot fire in the hearth
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cooks, Cookery, Pots & pans, Tables, and Fireplaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A famous cook! : One eye on the pot & the other on the table!!

3.
A hard case [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1820?]
Call Number:
820.00.00.93+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A cook berating a lazy servant
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cooks, Servants, Laziness, and Questioning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A hard case [graphic].

4.
Desire [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 January 1800]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A hungry boy (left) holding the string of a bag over his shoulder, scratches his hair under his hat, as he looks in a window. On the otherside of the window, a grinning cook holds up a large plum pudding on a platter
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Cooks, Plum puddings, and Starvation
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Desire [graphic]

5.
Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat canto 2d. [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1787]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Aga...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
Subject (Topic):
Cooks, Servants, Poultry, and Dogs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat canto 2d. [graphic]

6.
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...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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]

7.
Is this, your louse [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:
[1787]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The King, Queen, and three princesses are seated at a small dinner-table, on which is a soup-tureen, &c. The King holds a plate on which is an insect, turning round to address angrily a cook (right), who stands trembling beside him. Two alarmed serva...
Description:
Title etched below image; source of the title "Lousiad canto 1st" as indicated.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Subject (Topic):
Princesses, Cooks, Dining rooms, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Interiors, and Servants
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Is this, your louse [graphic].

8.
Mock turtle Puff paste / [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 20 November 1810]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 12
Collection Title:
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two designs on one plate, divided by the first title (Mock turtle). The first design shows the profiles of an ugly, elderly couple (he has a large carbuncular or bulbous nose) sticking out their tongues to touch; between them is a large bowl and above...
Description:
Titles from text below images.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Cooks, Couples, Courtship, Doves, and Food
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mock turtle Puff paste / [graphic]

9.
Mock turtle Puff paste / [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 20 November 1810]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 11
Collection Title:
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two designs on one plate, divided by the first title (Mock turtle). The first design shows the profiles of an ugly, elderly couple (he has a large carbuncular or bulbous nose) sticking out their tongues to touch; between them is a large bowl and above...
Description:
Titles from text below images.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Cooks, Couples, Courtship, Doves, and Food
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mock turtle Puff paste / [graphic]

10.
Morning, or, The man of taste [graphic]

Published / Created:
[10 October 1781]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 55. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Design in a circle. A man and wife seated at a circular breakfast-table. The man, who is obese and a gourmand, sits in profile to the right. holding a bowl with a spoon in it in one hand, a bill of fare in the other inscribed "Soup . . . Turbot. Duck...
Alternative Title:
Man of taste
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. the 10th, 1781, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Etiquette, Table settings & decorations, Eating & drinking, Food, Tea, Obesity, Servants, Cooks, Dogs, and Screens
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Morning, or, The man of taste [graphic]

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