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1. A bawd on her last legs [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1784]
- Call Number:
- Print10028
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A fat old woman leans back in an armchair, her left leg thrust forward. She pulls up her petticoat to display the bare leg, on which is a running sore, to an aged doctor (right), who bends over it, holding his spectacles to his eyes. Her desperate plight is apparent in the fixed stare with which she looks up and to the right. By her side (left) is a bottle and glass. A pretty young courtesan, resting her left arm on the back of the chair, leans forward to hold a candle above the leg."--British Museum online catalogue, description of reissued state
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Early state, before imprint added in lower margin. For a later state with imprint "Pubd. 1st June 1785 by E. Jackson, No. 14 Marybone Street, Golden Sqr.", see Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 810132., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate reissued by publisher S.W. Fores in 1792; see no. 8197 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 311-12., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skin lesions.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Prostitution, Skin, Diseases, Courtesans, Physicians, Candles, Eyeglasses, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A bawd on her last legs [graphic]
2. Bookseller & author [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 September 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.09.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the center of a book-lined room the bookseller, with a pen behind his ear, his hands in his pockets, glasses pushed to the top of his head, stands looking down disdainfully at a manuscript being offered to him by a thin, timid looking man who stands nervously with his hat tucked under his arm. A clergyman with spectacles, his back to the two other gentlemen, perusing the shelves, stops to examine a volume. In the left foreground on the floor, in front of a library step stool, is a pile of books. Another pile of books lies in the right foreground in front of a door with a glass panel and curtains in the top half. To the left of the door is a slooping writing table with paper, ink stand, and pen
- Alternative Title:
- Bookseller and author
- Description:
- Title from item. and Attributed by Grego and George to Rowlandson who occasionally published under Henry Wigstead's name.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Septr. 25, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, Bookstores, Clergy, and Publishers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bookseller & author [graphic]
3. Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia [graphic].
- Creator:
- Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.00.00.79+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to British Museum Satires nos. 6700, 6701, 6703. An enormous balloon not completely inflated rests on a platform suspended between two masts; it is exploding, flames and thick clouds of smoke pour from a crease in its contour, a number of men with faggots on their backs run from the balloon, others are on the platform, which is covered by a large cloth or net which hangs in folds. In the air (left), as if having sprung from the exploding part of the balloon, is a small balloon in the form of a head, identical with that in British Museum Satires No. 6704, with the same inscription and passenger. From it streams, in place of a rope, the tail of a kite. This evidently represents the bursting of Keegan's balloon in the garden of Foley House. A circle of posts with a rope keeps the spectators, who are fashionably dressed, from the balloon. Two men inside the barrier (right), probably Blanchard and Sheldon, who was to be pilot (see British Museum Satires No. 6703) run towards the balloon shouting directions through speaking-trumpets. In the foreground is one of the small balloons which were commonly sent up on the occasion of an ascent, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6668. In the background are trees. A number of spectators watch from the top of the high garden-wall (left). [Foley House was noted for its extremely high wall. 'Town and Country Magazine' xvi, 625] Behind are houses, evidently those in or near Portland Place. Sheldon's projected ascent ended in disaster on 25 Sept. 1784. He attempted to fill a balloon more than three times the size of Lunardi's by heated or rarefied air produced by a furnace suspended below the balloon. The balloon was supported on two masts and on a platform; it burst while it was being filled. See 'London Chronicle', Sept. 24, 28, 29. Except for the contour of the balloon which appears to burlesque human posteriors, and for the little balloon in the shape of a fool's head, this is probably a realistic rendering of the scene, see British Museum Satires No. 6703."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to 33 x 43 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809., Sheldon, John, 1752-1808., and Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Balloons (Aircraft), Aircraft accidents, Fires, and Spectators
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia [graphic].
4. Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill [graphic]
- Creator:
- Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1784]
- Call Number:
- SH Views Ed25 no. 2 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Also signed in image: E.E. 1783., and Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For earlier state with the imprint "London : Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1784, by F. Jukes, No. 1 Great Marylebone Street," see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3582.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Estates and Outbuildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill [graphic]
5. Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill [graphic]
- Creator:
- Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1784]
- Call Number:
- 49 2506A
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Also signed in image: E.E. 1783., Later state, with aquatint added. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Views Ed25 no. 8+., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 17 in Horace Walpole's Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1784, by F. Jukes, No. 1 Great Marylebone Street
- Subject (Name):
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Estates and Outbuildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill [graphic]
6. Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill [graphic]
- Creator:
- Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1784]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Also signed in image: E.E. 1783., Later state, with aquatint added. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Views Ed25 no. 8+., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 237 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and aquatint on laid paper ; sheet 20.8 x 25.2 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1784, by F. Jukes, No. 1 Great Marylebone Street
- Subject (Name):
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Estates and Outbuildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill [graphic]
7. Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill [graphic]
- Creator:
- Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1784]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Also signed in image: E.E. 1783., Later state, with aquatint added. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Views Ed25 no. 8+., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 187 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1784, by F. Jukes, No. 1 Great Marylebone Street
- Subject (Name):
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Estates and Outbuildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill [graphic]
8. Melpomene [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 December 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.12.06.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mrs. Siddons stands on the stage, her head turned in profile to the left, her left hand outstretched to take a heavy purse which hangs on a pitchfork emerging from clouds. To take it she has dropped a dagger which falls to the ground. In her left hand is a cup whose contents she is pouring on the ground. The panniers of her dress fly backwards revealing two bulging pockets, one full of guineas, the other of notes or cheques inscribed '£1000, £300', &c. She is saying: "Famish'd & spent relieving others woe, Your poor devoted Suppliant only begs, This morsel for to buy a bit of Bread." The black clouds of smoke from which the pitchfork projects rise in a pillar of cloud from the pit of the theatre where flames are indicated, from which come the words 'Encore! Encore!' In the background a temple of Fame on a mountain-top is collapsing, the pillars shattered; the figure of Fame falls backward, dropping his trumpet."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology -- Melpomene (Mythological character) -- Purses of money -- Falling figure of Fame -- Temple of Fame -- Symbols: daggers -- Symbols: goblets -- Theater stage., and Counter watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1784, by J. Ridgeway, No. 196 Piccadilly, London
- Subject (Name):
- Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
- Subject (Topic):
- Purses, Coins, Pitchforks, Temples, Drinking vessels, and Daggers & swords
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Melpomene [graphic].
9. Resurrection, or, The frighted nurse [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1784]
- Call Number:
- Print00218
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man supposed to be dead arising from his coffin and surprising his wife (?). The coffin is placed on trestles next to a four-poster bed (the deathbed of a rich man?). The lid of the coffin bears an elaborate brass plaque inscribed "Mr Gripe departed this life Ague" (last word indistinct). Arising from out of the coffin, Mr. Gripe disturbs the woman who was reading a large book (presumably a business ledger). On the ground, a soup bowl, a bottle and a glass, suggesting that she had poisoned him."--Wellcome Library online catalogue, no. 533361i (a later state).
- Alternative Title:
- Frighted nurse
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in description of earlier state in Grego., Early state of the plate, before the change in title and before the addition of imprint and more extensive aquatint shading. For a later state with the title changed to "The dead alive!" and the imprint "London, Publish'd by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt., July 1795" added, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 390., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Death, Coffins, and Canopy beds
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Resurrection, or, The frighted nurse [graphic]
