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1.
A bagnio scene with a white-leggd chicken coaxking [sic] an old dotard. [graphic]

Published / Created:
as the act directs, 2nd March, 1778.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men in a brothel, one sitting on the right uncorking a bottle, the other putting his arm around the shoulder of a prostitute, leering as she adjusts his cravat, urged by the Madam who rises from a sofa in front of a round table with punch-bowl an...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Furnishings, Interiors, Paintings, Prostitutes, and Screens
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A bagnio scene with a white-leggd chicken coaxking [sic] an old dotard. [graphic]

2.
Building houses with cards [graphic] : from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens

Published / Created:
[approximately 1750]
Call Number:
750.00.00.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In a room, a group watching as a man sitting at a round table builds a house of cards, which tumbles down as a figure leans in at right, the man and a man standing in outdoor clothes behind looks at him with dismay; in the right foreground two young ...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Children, Dogs, Drawing rooms, Furniture, Interiors, Playing cards, Screens, Tables, and Toys
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Building houses with cards [graphic] : from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens

3.
Building houses with cards engraved after the original painting in Vaux Hall Garden / [graphic]

Creator:
Truchy, L., 1731-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1764]
Call Number:
764.00.00.35+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a room, a small group of women and children watch as a man sitting at a round table builds a house of cards, which tumbles down as a figure leans in at the right; a man standing in outdoor clothes behind looks at him with dismay. On a chair on the ...
Description:
Publication date from Carington Bowles's entry in Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic], and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Cards, Chairs, Children, Dolls, Furnishings, Games, Interiors, Screens, Tables, and Upholstery
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Building houses with cards engraved after the original painting in Vaux Hall Garden / [graphic]

4.
Byng's ghost to the triumvirate [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1757]
Call Number:
757.03.00.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the affair of Admiral Byng, showing his ghost appearing to Newcastle, Anson and Hardwicke who are seen through a transparent screen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Byng, John, 1704-1757, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, and Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
Subject (Topic):
Ghosts, Chandeliers, Screens, and Chairs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Byng's ghost to the triumvirate [graphic].

5.
Corporal Trim reading the sermon to Mr. Shandy, Uncle Toby, and Doctor Slop [graphic].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Published / Created:
3 Jan. 1785.
Call Number:
785.01.03.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Crutches, Screens, Furniture, Tables, Chairs, Stools, Interiors, Military uniforms, British, Staffs (Sticks), and Smoking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Corporal Trim reading the sermon to Mr. Shandy, Uncle Toby, and Doctor Slop [graphic].

6.
Don't have a pretty servant, if you can avoid it ... [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1845?]
Call Number:
845.00.00.04
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pretty, young servant girl serves an older couple tea on a tray. The man wears a monocle to eye the servant with pleasure as his wife looks on in horror. Behind them is a folding screen and on the wall a framed picture
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
W. Follit, Publisher City Repository of Arts, 63 Fleet St. and Printed by W. Kohler
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Lust, Monocles, Screens, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Don't have a pretty servant, if you can avoid it ... [graphic]

7.
How d'ye do? [graphic]

Published / Created:
[20 October 1786]
Call Number:
Print00205
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly invalid sits in an armchair, his gouty legs swathed, a shawl over his head, a pair of bands shows that he is a parson. He turns to his visitor, an elderly lady seated next him in a similar armchair, wearing a hooded cloak over her cap, and...
Alternative Title:
Comfort & relief often found in relating one's complaints and Comfort and relief often found in relating one's complaints
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20 Octr. 1786 by E. Jackson, Mary-le bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Visiting the sick, Muffs, Older people, Clergy, Sick persons, Visiting, Complaining, Servants, Interiors, Screens, and Mirrors
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > How d'ye do? [graphic]

8.
Military man-trap [graphic].

Published / Created:
as the Act directs 25 Sepr. 1780.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A well-dressed prostitute lounges on a sofa inside a tent in a military camp; behind her is a sword and a gorget. Behind the sofa is a screen with the same embroidered design; the ground is covered with an ornate rug. She holds a letter in her right h...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Subject (Topic):
Military camps, Prostitutes, Rugs, Screens, Sofas, and Tents
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Military man-trap [graphic].

9.
Military man-trap [graphic].

Published / Created:
1. Octr. 1788.
Call Number:
788.10.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A well-dressed woman lounges on a sofa inside a tent in a military camp; behind her is a sword and a gorget. Behind the sofa is a screen with the same embroidered design; the ground is covered with an ornate rug. She holds a letter in her right hand a...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Subject (Topic):
Military camps, Prostitutes, Screens, Sofas, and Tents
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Military man-trap [graphic].

10.
Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberryhill [art original].

Creator:
Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:
[1758 or 1759?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3585 leaf 55r Box 4
Collection Title:
Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A drawing of a design for the screen in the Holbein Chamber at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex. With additions in pencil above and below. One of three designs for the screen included in Walpole's album of Bentley drawin...
Alternative Title:
Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink at bottom of sheet.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts and Screens
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberryhill [art original].

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