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1.
A lady in the newest full dress and another in the most fashionable undress [graphic].

Published / Created:
[ca. 1778]
Call Number:
778.00.00.08
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an outdoor setting before arches and columns, an elegantly coiffed and dressed lady faces to the right holding a fan, while in the foreground stands another woman wearing a bergère hat and shawl
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Hats, Clothing & dress, and Hairstyles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A lady in the newest full dress and another in the most fashionable undress [graphic].

2.
Can you forbear laughing [graphic].

Creator:
Dawe, Philip, printmaker
Published / Created:
as the act directs 14 June 1776.
Call Number:
776.06.14.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady stands at her dressing-table (right), her hair in an enormous pyramid decorated with feathers torn from a peacock, an ostrich and a cock. A young girl wearing a hat holds the peacock by a wing; another wearing a cap tugs hard at one of its tai...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Chickens, Clothing & dress, Feathers, Hairdressing, Hairstyles, Ostriches, Peacocks, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Can you forbear laughing [graphic].

3.
Chloe's cushion, or, The cork rump [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1 January 1777]
Call Number:
777.01.01.02+
Collection Title:
Leaf 2. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In outdoor setting with a lake in the background, a full length view of young lady facing right with her enormous heart-shaped coiffure topped by a hat trailing long ribbons behind. Her dress, bearing several layers of ruffles, is extended in the back...
Alternative Title:
Cork rump
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Fashion, Skirts, Dogs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Chloe's cushion, or, The cork rump [graphic].

4.
Chloe's cushion, or, The cork rump [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1 January 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 2. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In outdoor setting with a lake in the background, a full length view of young lady facing right with her enormous heart-shaped coiffure topped by a hat trailing long ribbons behind. Her dress, bearing several layers of ruffles, is extended in the back...
Alternative Title:
Cork rump
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Fashion, Skirts, Dogs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Chloe's cushion, or, The cork rump [graphic].

5.
Fashionable ties, or, Modern neckcloths [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1810]
Call Number:
810.00.00.83+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A macabre caricature divided into two compartments, The Dandy and The Dangle. On the left, a strutting dandy ties his neckcloth in front of a mirror saying: 'I declare these large Neckcloths are monstrously handy, They [serve] for a shirt too and make...
Alternative Title:
Modern neckcloths
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Great Britain, Clothing & dress, Crowds, Dandies, Mirrors, Neckties, and Hangings (Executions)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Fashionable ties, or, Modern neckcloths [graphic].

6.
Les incommodites de Janvier 1786 [graphic]

Creator:
Barlow, Inigo, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 February 1786]
Call Number:
786.02.20.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady stands in profile to the right, her hands in an enormous globular muff, on which rests the projecting gauze which covers her breast. Her petticoats project at the back in the fashionable manner, but scarcely balance the muff. Her wide-brimmed ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Feby. 20th 1786 by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Hats, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Les incommodites de Janvier 1786 [graphic]

7.
Matters of taste, as regards, walking sticks [graphic].

Published / Created:
[ca. 1835]
Call Number:
824.00.00.38+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Numerous studies of men carrying different sorts of walking stick."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
As regards, walking sticks
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published at Hodgson's Wholesale Print Warehouse, 111 Fleet Street and Lithographed by W. Clerk, 202 High Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Fashion and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Matters of taste, as regards, walking sticks [graphic].

8.
Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].

Creator:
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
Call Number:
Folio 53 D18 828
Image Count:
40
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the...
Description:
In English and French.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
Subject (Topic):
Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].

9.
Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].

Creator:
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
Call Number:
Folio 53 D18 828
Image Count:
57
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the...
Description:
In English and French.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
Subject (Topic):
Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].

10.
The equilibrium [graphic]

Creator:
Rushworth, R., active 1785-1786, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 February 1786]
Call Number:
786.02.01.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady stands in profile to the right wearing an enormous false bosom covered with gauze, which is balanced by the projection of her petticoats at the back. The wide brim of her hat droops on to these excrescences. This inflated silhouette is support...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 1st, 1786 by [S.]W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Clothing & dress, and Hats
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The equilibrium [graphic]