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1. A criminal of the name of Hog claiming relationship to Lord Justice Bacon [art original].

Published / Created:: [1796?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 58 Box D165
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A courtroom scene with solicitors and jury snickering and laughing in response to a witty pun the judge offered following the defendent's plea for mercy. The criminal on trial in the far right is dishevled and dressed in the style of a sailor. The judge, on the far left, wears a black and gold-trimmed robe and leans intensely over the bench glaring at the accused
Description:: Title from pen and ink caption inscribed below image., Date from unverified local card catalog record., and Possibly the work of Isaac Cruikshank.
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Topic):: Courtrooms, Criminals, Judges, Judicial proceedings, and Lawyers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A criminal of the name of Hog claiming relationship to Lord Justice Bacon [art original].

2. A perspective view and section of an engine propos'd to be built by subscription, which will shave sixty men in a minute, also oyl comb and powder their wigs [graphic]

Creator:: Booth, Thomas, active 1743-1746, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 November 1749]
Call Number:: 749.11.29.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "This engraving represents a circular building, with conical roof of tiles, shown in two sections, and partly in perspective. Within the building is a large wheel turned by a horse and giving motion to a considerable number of spindles, to which are attached disks; on each of the disks are several razors, which are thus set in action on the faces of the men who apply their cheeks to openings in the inner wall of the building. Exterior to this inner wall is a gallery where stand the men who are thus expeditiously shaved; their hats hang on pegs, each over the hole to which the owner has applied himself. In the gallery several men are finishing or preparing for their toilettes. The operation of dressing a wig is shown below the wheel, on our right, where many combs are placed on a drum which revolves like a water-wheel before a man's wig, placed on a block near it."--British Museum catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:: Title engraved below image., Text following title: See the explanation., "Price 6d."--Bottom of plate, centered., For an earlier state published in 1745, see no. 2687 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, and English short title catalogue no. T42881., and With watermark of fleur-de-lis. Ms. note on verso in black in ink: Mr. Freeman, Arlington Street.
Publisher:: Publish'd according to act of Parliament Novr. [the] 2, 1749, and sold by J. Dubois at [the] Golden Head [the] corner of Burleigh Street near Exeter Chanc[...]
Subject (Topic):: Horses, Shaving, Razor blades, Machinery, and Wigs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A perspective view and section of an engine propos'd to be built by subscription, which will shave sixty men in a minute, also oyl comb and powder their wigs [graphic]

3. An advertisement for a husband! [art original]

Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:: [1803]
Call Number:: Drawings W87 no. 40 Box D215
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A footman leads a parson and six prospective suitors that have arrived in response to an advertisement for a husband posted by an 'old maid'. The bachelors include a Welshman, a Scotsman, and a doctor that offer flatteries while waiting, "Splutter hur, how pretty she looks, she pe [sic] a nice wench", "Leave a Scotch laddie alone for carrying off the sillar", and "From my conscience, she looks like a Venus of medicine!" respectively. The footman leans forward to shout into the elderly woman's ear trumpet, "Please your ladyship all these gentlemen be[?] come about an advartisement [sic] for a husband and to lose no time they have brought the Parson with them; please your Virginship what am I to say to em?" The elderly woman responds, "Say to them, why the men are mad, if I was so inclined do they think I would marry six husbands at once!!" A hissing cat followed by a litter of kittens stand beside the woman's chair
Description:: Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Publication line inscribed in ink below image for possible later print: London, Pubd. Jany. 1, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, removed from Oxford Street.
Subject (Topic):: Bachelors, Cats, Hearing aids, Marriage proposals, Older people, and Single women
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An advertisement for a husband! [art original]

4. Dangit sir, I wish you would just blow your nose ... [art original].

Published / Created:: [183-?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 30 Box D160
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A slender man (left) reading a book complains to a second man (right) sitting opposite him, "Dangit sir I wish you would just blow your nose". The second man, who is very fat and has a very large, bulbous and ruddy nose that extends over the first man's book, replies, "Blow it your self it is as near you as it is me." They sit on upholstered chairs under a window in a small space, the large man's legs positioned between the thin man's two legs
Description:: Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on costume., Caption continues: ... Blow it your self it is as near you as it is to me., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Noses, Obesity, and Reading
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Dangit sir, I wish you would just blow your nose ... [art original].

5. I am offended Tom [art original].

Published / Created:: [183-?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 29 Box D160
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A male cat standing erect on his hind legs and fashionably in a morning coat and holding a top hat rests his left paw on the shoulder of a female cat dressed in women's puffed-sleeved dress and wearing a cap. She is seated in a chair and sewing; beside her is a sewing case on a pedestal side table. Both wear serious expressions
Description:: Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on costume., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Cats, Animals in human situations, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > I am offended Tom [art original].

6. Les étrennes, ou, La petite vèrole [graphic]

Published / Created:: [approximately 1815?]
Call Number:: 815.00.00.18
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A well-dressed young woman visiting her smallpocked uncle, delivers three oranges. Dressed in a robe and nightcap, he sits in a upholstered chair with his feet on a pillow, his face and hands covered in pustules; beside him is a table with a pitcher, glass and carafe. On the wall behind is a landscape; to the left a fireplace
Alternative Title:: Petite vèrole
Description:: Title engraved below image., An 'E' enclosed within a heart, etched lower left below image., Date from Bibliothèque nationale de France., "Déposé à la direction Gale.", and Mounted on secondary support.
Publisher:: Chez Gautier rue Poupée, no. 7
Subject (Geographic):: France.
Subject (Topic):: Smallpox, Diseases, Sick persons, Clothing & dress, Sick, and Visiting the sick
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Les étrennes, ou, La petite vèrole [graphic]

7. Oh! You are a duck!!! [art original].

Published / Created:: [183-?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 28 Box D160
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: At the edge of a small pond, a mallard duck (left) formally dressed in a morning coat and top hat flaps his wings at a female turkey (right) wearing a shawl and bonnet. She looks back over her shoulder at him with a coy expression
Description:: Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on costume., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Ducks, Turkeys, and Animals in human situations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Oh! You are a duck!!! [art original].

8. Sailors exhibiting a shark!! [art original]

Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1800]
Call Number:: Drawings W87 no. 39 Box D210
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A gathering of countrymen, lawyers, and sailors stare with shock and consternation at the carcass of a shark laying on a table before them. A countryman begins the dialogue with an exclamation, "Dang it if I ever saw such a thing in my life, why it would swallow a man alive!" while an attorney continues with a question, "Neighbor Stump says very true, I never saw anything like it in the whole course of my practice as a country attorney. Pray my friend what do you call it?" A sailor smugly jests, "Why it is a shark d'ye see according to the lubbers lingo on shore, but we gemmen in his Majesty's service call him a sea lawyer!!!
Description:: Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image., Artist's signature in black ink below image., and Date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):: Sailors, British, Sharks, and Lawyers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Sailors exhibiting a shark!! [art original]

9. The club law [art original].

Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1790]
Call Number:: Drawings W87 no. 7 Box D170
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A young fashionably dressed man casually swings a club around him which knocks an older lady and her apple cart clear into the air. From the caption: ... the manner of using it is the fashionable swing, as directed in the first article; it may be necessary to observe that the practitioner should be a person of some rank in life, to give the proceedings an eclat this with a proper portion of common assurance, aided by inebriety, will enable him to knock down men, women, children, and apple stalls with impunity and at the same time preserve a perfect sang froid on the occassion
Alternative Title:: Six different methods of carrying a stick with their effects compartment no. 6
Description:: Title from letterpress caption below image., Pen and ink drawing on a broadside with typeface and ornamental border., Nine lines of typeface caption below title: Is the last distinction, and most to be dreaded; a little stick well knotted about three feet in length, or shorter, as may be found convenient must be provided ... This is a pleasing study for city apprentices, who wish to ape the fashionable manners of the West End of the town., One of a series of six drawings by Woodward with the same typescript heading., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.), Staffs (Sticks), and Etiquette
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The club law [art original].