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1.
A new way to find out a customer!! [art original]

Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 22 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An innkeeper uses a bellows to clear heavy dense tobacco smoke from the tavern interior in response to a servant trying to identify his master in the crowd. The innkeeper proclaims "You say you want a little gentlemen in a brown wig. I have really so ...
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand.
Subject (Topic):
Smoking, Tobacco pipes, Bellows, Taverns (Inns), and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A new way to find out a customer!! [art original]

3.
Betty Canning revived, or, A peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 March 1791]
Call Number:
791.03.25.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a room in a cottage. General Gunning (left) as an old gipsy-woman, but wearing a military coat, is seated (on a drum) at a table, facing his daughter. In place of a sword he wears a broom. He seals a letter, a number of seals and a le...
Alternative Title:
Peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1791, by J.M. Fobes [sic], N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773., Squires, Mary, -1762., Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),, Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),, Gunning, John, -1797, and Minifie, Margaret
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Brooms & brushes, Card games, Cauldrons, Devil, Drums (Musical instruments), Fireplaces, Grooms (Weddings), Playing cards, and Torches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Betty Canning revived, or, A peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family [graphic].

4.
Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[22 April 1783]
Call Number:
783.04.22.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Lord North, sitting on a large roll inscribed "Budget" offers Charles Fox a spoonful of broth from a bowl in his lap. He warns Fox to "... Be cautious! - a little of my Broth goes a great way ..." Fox, with a fox's head, sits on "Pandora's Box," his r...
Alternative Title:
Devil's the best of the bunch and Devil is the best of the bunch
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 22d, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Devil, Pandora's box, Fireplaces, Bellows, and Cauldrons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]

5.
Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[22 April 1783] and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 2. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Lord North, sitting on a large roll inscribed "Budget" offers Charles Fox a spoonful of broth from a bowl in his lap. He warns Fox to "... Be cautious! - a little of my Broth goes a great way ..." Fox, with a fox's head, sits on "Pandora's Box," his r...
Alternative Title:
Devil's the best of the bunch and Devil is the best of the bunch
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 22d, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Devil, Pandora's box, Fireplaces, Bellows, and Cauldrons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]

6.
Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily [graphic]

Published / Created:
[28 January 1807]
Call Number:
807.01.28.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. It is inscribed 'Tis expected every' and (round her neck) 'will do his duty'. She watches a servant holding a fo...
Alternative Title:
Miraculous recovery of the unfortunate Miss Baily
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1807 by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily [graphic]

7.
Here Nicodemus bauls with hissing tone, old bellows-es to mend" before I'm gone [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
647 803C
Collection Title:
Leaf 12r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man holding several bellows stands under an arch at one end of Blackfriars Wynd in Edinburgh's Old Town. Another man is seen in the background, standing at the other end of the dark, narrow lane
Alternative Title:
Head of Blackfriars Wynd
Description:
Title from verses etched below image.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Bellows, and Tenement houses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Here Nicodemus bauls with hissing tone, old bellows-es to mend" before I'm gone [graphic].

8.
Hocus pocus, or, Searching for the philosophers stone [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[12 March 1800]
Call Number:
800.03.12.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is ...
Alternative Title:
Searching for the philosophers stone
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Jews, Fireplaces, Bellows, Fraud, Laboratories, Mortars & pestles, and Thermometers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hocus pocus, or, Searching for the philosophers stone [graphic]

9.
Hocus pocus, or, Searching for the philosophers stone [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[12 March 1800]
Call Number:
Print00183
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is ...
Alternative Title:
Searching for the philosophers stone
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Jews, Fireplaces, Bellows, Fraud, Laboratories, Mortars & pestles, and Thermometers
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Hocus pocus, or, Searching for the philosophers stone [graphic]

10.
Imponit multis ars alcumistica fallax ... [graphic].

Creator:
Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1559]
Call Number:
Print00922
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text in lower margin.
Publisher:
Egenolff
Subject (Name):
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Metallurgy, Smelting, Bellows, Furnaces, Anvils, Metalworking, Metalworkers, Scientific equipment, Eyeglasses, and Retorts
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Imponit multis ars alcumistica fallax ... [graphic].

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