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2.
- Published / Created:
- [1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.04.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Six designs on one plate arranged in two rows, with borders in which the inscriptions are engraved. Johnny is a smartly dressed young man. There is a landscape background in Nos. 1 and 3 (in which Johnny wears a top-hat and top-boots). In Nos. 2, 4, 5 a boarded floor indicates an interior. [1] With folded arms and bowed head he approaches from behind a hideous and grinning negress who holds a tobacco-pipe. Above: Smitten with the charms of Mimbo Wampo a sable Venus, daughter of Wampo Wampo, King of the Silver Sand Hills in Congo. [2] Bare-legged he sits in a chair, his bare foot held by the negress who sits on the ground at his feet. Above: Delicately declaring his Love to the aimable Mimbo Wampo, while she is picking his Cheqoes. "You lub me Massa" eh! eh!? [3] Johnny and an old negro wearing only breeches face each other. Beside the latter is a large jar inscribed Feathers, Grave Dirt, Egg Shells, &c. Above: Consulting Old Mumbo Jumbo the Oby Man, how to get possession of the charming Mimbo Wampo. "Lets me alone for dat Massa." [4] He kneels at the feet of the negress taking her hand; she sits on a stool smoking a pipe. Four comparatively handsome women stand in a row watching, two are black, two are white but negroid. Above: Mr Newcome happy, Mimbo made Queen of the Harem. [5] He embraces Mimbo; two other negresses stand behind her, one holding two pale-skinned black-haired infants, the other with a third infant held on her head in a tray. Two other children stand by their mother. Above: Mr Newcome taking leave of his Ladies & Pickaneenees, previous to his departure from Frying Pan Island to graze a little in his Native land. [6] Portrait heads of the children, numbered I to 9, arranged in three rows. Above: A few of the Hopeful young Newcomes. Below the whole design: J. Lucretia Diana Newcome, a delicate Girl very much like her Mother; only that she has a great antipathy to a pipe, and cannot bear the smell of Rum. 2 Penelope Mimbo Newcome. 3 Quaco Dash Newcome prodigiously like his father. 4 Cuffy Cato Newcome. 5. Caesar Cudjoe Newcome. 6 Helena Quashebah Newcome. 7 Aristides Juba Newcome. 8 Hector Sammy Newcome, a child of great spirit, can already Damnme Liberty and Equality and promises fair to be the Toussaint [see No. 10090] of his country. 9 Hannibal Pompey Wampo Newcome
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Companion print: West India luxury!!, and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill. Countermark: 1825.
- Publisher:
- Published April 1808 by William Holland, Cockspur Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- West Indies.
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Johnny Newcome in love in the West Indies [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1830?]
- Call Number:
- 825.00.00.34
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Romeo and Juliet
- Description:
- Title from caption below image; series title above image., Date of publication based on publisher' s date of activity., Two lines of dialogue below other title: Romeo. How silber sweet, sounds lubber tongues by night like sorptest music to attending ears ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1831.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by W.H. Isaacs, Charles St., Soho
- Subject (Topic):
- African Americans, Afro-Americans, and Clothing & dress. |2 lctgm
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Romeo & Juliet [graphic]
4.
- Published / Created:
- [1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.00.00.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Social satire; a tall thin man with a tasselled tricorn hat in one hand and wearing a sword, wig, buckled shoes and rings on both hands steps forward towards a large lady with a wreath in her hair, beauty spots, several rings, a cupid's bow and arrow on a ribbon round her neck, a large muff, and a very low decolletage; behind them their two dogs mimic their actions; the man asks "Beauty need note de foraine aid of ornamen but ees ven unadorn adorn de mos.", to which the woman replies "I really cannot resist the pleasing truth of the bewitching Markeee. - - ah! Sweet Sir I yield, ah!""--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Cruikshank on unverified card catalog record., Imprint burnished from plate. Originally published in 1798., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Song is an allusion to the Roast beef of Old England., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Bracelets, Courtship, Dogs, Dandies, French, Jewelry, Miniatures (Paintings), Obesity, Pendants (Jewelry), and Rings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A French invasion on the fashionable dress of 1798 [graphic]
5.
- Creator:
- Cawse, John, 1779-1862, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- 800.01.08.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Blood and bone
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Cawse in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Later printing, with Fores's imprint burnished from plate. Cf. No. 9655 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Horseback riding -- Starvation -- Reference to Hyde Park -- Male dress, 1800., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Blood & bone!!! [graphic].
6.
- Published / Created:
- [1825?]
- Call Number:
- 804.11.07.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Social satire: two gentlemen with guns cry to heaven for mercy when they think they have shot a cherub in a graveyard; a man in a smock nearby says "Rot it now, if these had not been your Lononers wha they 'zay be zo knawing I should ha zworn it had been an Owl", which in fact it is."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Murdered cherub, or, The Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed and Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reissue, with imprint statement mostly burnished from plate, of a print originally published 7 November 1804 by S.W. Fores. For the earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.388., Publication date from watermark., Printseller's announcement following title: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the ev[ening]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printseller's identification blind stamp located in lower right corner of sheet: S·W·F., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
- Publisher:
- S.W. Fores
- Subject (Topic):
- Cemeteries and Owls
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The murder'd cherub, or, The Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed [graphic].
7.
- Creator:
- Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 1, 1810. and [printed ca. 1825]
- Call Number:
- 810.06.01.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Four young naval officers, two being mere boys and apparently midshipmen (though the scene is unlike the cramped squalor of the midshipmen's berth), dine at a tilting table, from which decanters, a capon, &c., have fallen to the ground. A cabin-boy struggles up the slanting desk with a ham. One of the very flimsy chairs is overturned. A gun projecting through a port-hole is marked 'Clyde'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Fetching lee-way, or, One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November and One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Later printing. Date of printing based on watermark., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Sailors, British, and Ships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dinner. Fetching lee-way, or, One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November [graphic]
8.
- Published / Created:
- [1825?]
- Call Number:
- 825.00.00.15
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A hunter tracking a game bird trips in the woods and as he falls accidently shoots his dog
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 1., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published, by H. Fores, No. 16 Panton Street, Haymarket
- Subject (Topic):
- Hunting accidents and Hunting dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > All in the wrong [graphic].
9.
- Published / Created:
- [1825?]
- Call Number:
- 825.00.00.16
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 2., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published by H. Fores, 16 Panton Street, Haymarket
- Subject (Topic):
- Hunting accidents
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A slight shock [graphic].
10.
- Published / Created:
- [1825?]
- Call Number:
- 825.00.00.18
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 5., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published by H. Fores, No. 16 Panton Street, Haymarket
- Subject (Topic):
- Hunting accidents
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Queer feelings [graphic].