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1. A point of honour [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 July 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.07.10.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing for this print in the Huntington Library collection., and Temporary local subject terms: Pistols -- Eye glasses -- Duelists.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd 10th July 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Dueling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A point of honour [graphic].
2. A smoking club [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 81. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Four men smoking long pipes sit stiffly in upright wooden chairs. One (left) in profile to the right, very obese, is an old military officer with a wooden leg; next is a lean man in back view, next a stout man sits full face, and on the right is a thin man in profile to the left seated beside a rectangular table on which is a glass and a large jug. All have expressions of solemn vacuity. They emit clouds of smoke from mouth or pipe which fill the upper part of the bare room. On the wall (right) is a print of Fox, whole length, declaiming with right arm raised."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 81 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd May 1st, 1792, by W. Dickinson, engraver, No. 24 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clubs, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Amputees, Peg legs, Chairs, Tables, Pitchers, and Drinking vessels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A smoking club [graphic]
3. Blouzelind [graphic]
- Creator:
- Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 November 1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 83. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a field, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet, behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Printmaker attribution to Charles Knight from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.831., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., The name "Gay" follows title, etched in small letters., Illustration to John Gay's poem 'The shepherd's week'., Companion print to: Black-eyed Susan., and Mounted on page 83 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1792, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Spinning apparatus and Corsages
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Blouzelind [graphic]
4. Colley Cibber anno aetatis 67 / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Miller, John, 1715-1790?, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Colley Cibber aged 67, after Van Loo, bust-length, turned to the right, with long curly wig, in oval frame with cartouche and laurel wreath at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched in bottom portion of image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Possibly the frontispiece to: Cibber, C. An apology for the life of Colley Cibber ... London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ..., [1756]. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 7 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Colley Cibber anno aetatis 67 / [graphic]
5. Colly Molly Puff [graphic]
- Creator:
- Taylor, W. John, active 1790-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [11 September 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.09.11.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of pastryman, shown from the side and slightly behind, full-length walking to the right with a basket of breads or patries covered with a cloth, balanced on his head. He wears an apron and carries a walking stick
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Illustration to Old cries of London, Spectator, v. xxv, p. 12., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs, Sepr. 11, 1792, by J. Caulfield, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Bakers, Baskets, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Colly Molly Puff [graphic]
6. Comedy [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cheesman, Thomas, 1760-, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 February 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.02.16.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Companion print published by Tomkins on the same day: Tragedy., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Comedy -- Masks: Satyr's face., and Watermark: lower right side, illegible.
- Publisher:
- Published Feby. 16, 1792, by J. F. Tomkins, New Bond Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Comedy [graphic]
7. Female quadroon slave of Surinam [graphic]
- Creator:
- Perry, John, active 1791-1812, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.12.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young quadroon (person of one quarter black ancestry) shown full-length standing on a shore beside a blooming bush, holding her hat on with her right hand and a handkerchief in her left. Two women are shown in the distance on the left. The one (an enslaved woman) holds a large umbrella over her mistress walking ahead of her
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Imprint from other illustrations in this publication., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., Plate from: Stedman, J. G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813., and Offset from letterpress text on verso.
- Publisher:
- J. Johnson
- Subject (Geographic):
- Suriname. and Guiana.
- Subject (Topic):
- Slavery, Indians of South America, and Enslaved persons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Female quadroon slave of Surinam [graphic]
8. Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation [graphic]
- Creator:
- Benedetti, Michele, 1745-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.12.01.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young Arawak native American woman, shown full-length and wearing a beaded apron and standing with her right foot posed on a small rock. She holds a parrot held high in her right hand and a bow and arrow in her left. On the left in the distance another Arawak is shown ready to shoot his his arrow
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., Plate from: Stedman, J. G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813., and Offset from letterpress text on verso.
- Publisher:
- Published Decr. 1st, 1792, by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
- Subject (Geographic):
- Suriname. and Guiana.
- Subject (Topic):
- Slavery, Indians of South America, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Hunting, and Parrots
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation [graphic]
9. John Gilpin [graphic]
- Creator:
- Pyet, D. B. (David Blackmore), 1758-, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.00.00.91
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from date etched below sundial on the barn in the image ('9' etched in reverse view)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns etched on both sides of title: whence straight he came with hat and wig ..., Reversed version of no. 6896 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: calenderer's house -- Trades: calenderers -- Fences -- Horses -- Donkeys -- Sundials - Wigs -- Dressing gowns -- Literature: illustration to Cowper's John Gilpin.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Gilpin [graphic]
