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1. Doing the amiable [art original].
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1810?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H437 no. 6 Box D128
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A couple, caricatured and shown full-length, stand with the feet intertwined as the man clasps the woman under her arms. He has long legs and arms and a jutting chin; she, somewhat older than the man, is sharp-featured and appears to be falling
- Description:
- William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples and Courtship
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Doing the amiable [art original].
2. Dropsy courting Consumption [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [25 October 1810]
- Call Number:
- Print00265
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An obese man and a tall lean woman, symbolical figures of 'dropsy' and 'consumption', flirting outside a mausoleum; another couple promenade before a statue of Hercules in the background and "A grotesquely obese man (his hat placed under his plump knees) kneels at the feet of an ugly and bedizened woman, fantastically lean and tall. She holds up a fan, and looks down alluringly at her lover to whom she gives her left hand. They are in the circular portico of a 'Mausoleum' (right). In the background is an avenue and a statue of Hercules, towards which a fat woman and a lean parson of the Dr. Syntax type are walking arm-in-arm. The muscular Hercules is contrasted with the four other types of physique represented."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "Price one shilling coloured.", and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dropsy -- Consumption.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. October 25th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Hercules (Roman mythological character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Tuberculosis, Ascites, Costume, Courtship, Obesity, Edema, Sculpture, Fans (Accessories), Clergy, Covered walks, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Dropsy courting Consumption [graphic]
3. Sorrow's dry, or, A cure for the heart ache [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- Sept. 2, 1802.
- Call Number:
- Print00254
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man cavorting with a young woman, while his recently deceased wife lies in a coffin in the background. Lying next to a treasure chest is an open book which reads: "A smokey house and a scolding wife are the plague of mans life. Oh what pleasure well about when my wife is laid in ground".
- Alternative Title:
- Cure for the heart ache
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted text below title: "Were I not resolv'd against the yoke of hapless marriage, never to be curs'd with second love, so fatal was the first, to this one error I might yield again. Dryden., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life.
- Publisher:
- Design'd and pubd. by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St., Adelphi
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Marriage, Death, Coffins, Courtship, Sexual attraction, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, and Costume
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Sorrow's dry, or, A cure for the heart ache [graphic].
4. The courteous baronet, or, The Windsor advertiser
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 20 May 1799]
- Call Number:
- Folio LWL Mss Vol. 187
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Windsor advertiser
- Description:
- Title from etching in the center of the letterpress broadside., Etching originally published on February 16, 1799, by C. Knight, and here inset within a letter printed in letterpress in the left and right margins. The letter's title "To the fair ladies of Great Britain, old or young" is printed above plate. Signed "John Dinely" and dated "Windsor Castle, May 20th, 1799" below the plate. The whole is in ornamental border and decorated with emblematic woodcuts in each of the four corners., Two lines of verse etched below the plate's title: How happy will a lady be, to have a little baronet to dandle on her knee., Another very similar broadside using the same plate was published October 23d, 1799 by C. Knight. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9446., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- C. Knight
- Subject (Name):
- Dineley, John, Sir, 1729-1808?
- Subject (Topic):
- Courtship
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The courteous baronet, or, The Windsor advertiser
5. The hall of infamy, alias the Oyster Saloon in Bridges St., or, New Covent Garden Hall [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1825]
- Call Number:
- 825.01.01.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center figure, a young man assiled by a woman, appears to be R.C. See British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- New Covent Garden Hall
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication erased from sheet. For complete imprint statement cf. no. 14950 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 16 x 24 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Sherwood Jones & Co.
- Subject (Name):
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
- Subject (Topic):
- Chandeliers, Courtship, Eating & drinking, Fighting, and Parties
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The hall of infamy, alias the Oyster Saloon in Bridges St., or, New Covent Garden Hall [graphic]
6. [The hall of infamy, alias the Oyster Saloon in Bridges St., or, New Covent Garden Hall] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1825]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C9 824 no. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center figure, a young man assailed by a woman, appears to be Robert Cruikshank. See British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- New Covent Garden Hall
- Description:
- Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 14950 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 1, page 399.
- Publisher:
- Sherwood Jones & Co.
- Subject (Name):
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
- Subject (Topic):
- Chandeliers, Courtship, Crowds, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Intoxication, and Parties
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The hall of infamy, alias the Oyster Saloon in Bridges St., or, New Covent Garden Hall] [graphic].
