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2.
Articles to be taxed large bonnets & small waists, false curls & bustles, false teeth, mustachios

Creator:
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1831]
Call Number:
Maidment Se521 no. 5 Box 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"ARTICLES TO BE TAXED (16864) See also British Museum Satires 16591, &c. [1] 'Large Bonnets & Small Waists'. A lady (three-quarter length) wearing a wide-brimmed hat trimmed with ostrich-feathers, and much larger than an umbrella, with an hour-glass ...
Description:
Titles from text above and below the individual images.
Publisher:
T. McLean and Printed by C. Motte, 23 Leicester Sqr
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Key, John, 1794-1858 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Politicians, Clothing & dress, Taxes, Bonnets, Hairstyles, Dentures, Mustaches, Correspondence, Pots & pans, Fire, Mayors, Bishops, Banquets, Eating & drinking, Donkeys, Horses, Falling, Carriages & coaches, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Cigars, Fireplaces, Coal, Candles, Newspapers, and Textiles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Articles to be taxed large bonnets & small waists, false curls & bustles, false teeth, mustachios worn by fops not military nor civil ; Swing ; First Friday in Lent ; The man of many falls ; Benefits of the budget : cheap tobbacco [sic], cheap advertisements, cheap coals - a real blessing, cheap candles, cheap printed cotton. [graphic]

3.
Iphigenia's late procession from Kingston to Bristol [graphic]

Creator:
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779, printmaker
Published / Created:
Apl. 15, 1776 [not before 16 May 1776]
Call Number:
Quarto 53 C46 776
Collection Title:
After page 16. Trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, attending her trial for bigamy. The maids of honour hold a bottle marked "cordial". They are followed by a fat chaplain, a physician with a bigwig and sword, and a lean apothecary with a big enema syringe
Description:
Elizabeth Chudleigh married the Hon. Augustus John Hervey secretly in 1744; the marriage was not registered until 1759. In 1769 a consistory court declared her unmarried, after which she married Evelyn Pierrepoint, 2nd Duke of Kingston, in 1770. She w...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 and Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Physicians, pharmacists, physicians, chaplains, Chaplains, Trials (Bigamy), Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, and Clergy
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Iphigenia's late procession from Kingston to Bristol [graphic]

4.
Justice Woodcock seated and his macaroni son ousted [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1775]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Opposite page 108. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A man wearing his hat and holding his walking stick is seated in a chair before a fireplace enjoying the embrace of a lady seated to his right and with a high coiffure and feathered hat. A younger man with a tall egg-shaped toupée is being ushered ou...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Couples, Clothing & dress, Interiors, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Justice Woodcock seated and his macaroni son ousted [graphic]

5.
L'heureuse rencontre de la Marquise Testonniere et du Vicomte de la Bredache pensionnaire des

Published / Created:
[1770s?]
Call Number:
770.00.00.192
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A parody on the French fashions: The woman wears a gigantic headdress, the top of which incorporates a windmill, battlements, and a small man defecating over her forehead. She walks carefully on the cobblestone street in high heeled shoes and holds a...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Children, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Headdresses, Windmills, and Defecation
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > L'heureuse rencontre de la Marquise Testonniere et du Vicomte de la Bredache pensionnaire des petites Maisones celebre auteur des Nouvelles modes de nos petits Maîtres Français

6.
Mon Seigneur Le Cox with his snuff & snuff box treating Madam Durème with a snuff of the same

Published / Created:
[18 March 1774]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Opposite page 104. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 18th, 1774, by H. Bryer, London
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Snuff
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mon Seigneur Le Cox with his snuff & snuff box treating Madam Durème with a snuff of the same. [graphic]

7.
The Newmarket macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:
publish'd as the act directs [...?] [1772?]
Call Number:
42 W67 852B
Collection Title:
Volume 2, after page 270. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in riding dress stands on the right, bending forward to take the hand of a young woman on the left, who leans away from him. He wears spurred top-boots and holds a whip in his left hand; a long queue protrudes from under his hat. The woman has a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Dandies, British, Riding habits, Whips, Boots, and Fans (Accessories)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Newmarket macaroni [graphic].

8.
The Pantheon macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:
[ca. 1772]
Call Number:
772.00.00.55
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of three half length figures. Two ladies of meretricious appearance seated at a tea-table, a man with a large Macaroni club of hair is handing one of them a cup of tea. One holds a fan and looks coyly towards the man, the other leans over her...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Tea, Tea services, and Fans (Accessories)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Pantheon macaroni [graphic].

9.
The five orders of perriwigs as they were worn at the late coronation, measured architectonically

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[15 October 1761]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 64. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Five rows of wigs classified as "Parsonic", "Old Peerian or Aldermanic", "Lexonic", "Composite" and "Queerinthian"; at the bottom of the sheet a row of womens heads with, on the left, that of the newly-crowned Queen Charlotte; the wigs are annotated ...
Alternative Title:
Five orders of periwigs
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 15, 1761 by W. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804, and Stuart, James, 1713-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The five orders of perriwigs as they were worn at the late coronation, measured architectonically [graphic].

10.
The five orders of perriwigs as they were worn at the late coronation, measured architectonically

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[15 October 1761]
Call Number:
Paulson 761.10.15.01.3+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Five rows of wigs, or periwigs, classified as "Parsonick", "Old Peerian or Aldermanic", "Lexonic", "Composite" and "Queerinthian"; at the bottom of the sheet a row of womens heads with, on the left, that of the newly-crowned Queen Charlotte; the wigs...
Alternative Title:
Five orders of periwigs
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 15, 1761 by W. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804, and Stuart, James, 1713-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The five orders of perriwigs as they were worn at the late coronation, measured architectonically [graphic].

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