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28. Village clerk [art original].

Published / Created:: [1840?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 46 Box D160
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: Half-length portrait of a man shown in profile looking left, wearing a hat over long hair and smoking a short-stemmed pipe
Description:: Title from text inscribed in graphite pencil above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Pipes (Smoking) and Smoking
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Village clerk [art original].

29. Public house politician 1797 [art original].

Published / Created:: [1840?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 44 Box D160
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A man in profile to right wearing a floppy-brimmed hat and a long coat sits in a wooden chair and leans forward onto his crossed legs, seemingly engaged in an absorbing conversation
Description:: Title from text inscribed in ink above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Public house politician 1797 [art original].

30. The good old times 1797. A good tempered landlady [art original].

Published / Created:: [1840?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 45 Box D160
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: A three-quarter length caricature of a middle-aged woman in bonnet and plain dress carrying a large decorative bowl of soup with a laddle protruding over the side
Description:: Title from text inscribed in black ink above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The good old times 1797. A good tempered landlady [art original].

31. Independent tradesman [art original].

Published / Created:: [1840?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 43 Box D160
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Half-length portrait in profile to right of a man smoking a long-stemmed tobacco pipe
Alternative Title:: Jolly landlord
Description:: Title from inscription in graphite pencil over image., Title 'Jolly landlord' struck through and replaced with title 'Independent tradesman'., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on other drawings in the series., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Tobacco pipes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Independent tradesman [art original].

32. Oxonians in 1797 day after ordination [art original].

Published / Created:: [1840?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 42 Box D160
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Quarter-length portrait in profile to left of a fashionably dressed Oxonian wearing a subtlyhaughty expression on his face
Description:: Title from text inscribed in black ink above image., Date from note inscribed in pencil below image: 1840., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward, One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Oxonians in 1797 day after ordination [art original].

33. Oxonians in 1797. Day before ordination [art original].

Published / Created:: [1840?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 41 Box D160
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Quarter-length portrait in profile to right of a fashionably dressed Oxonian in cap and gown, serious expression, and long curly hair
Description:: Title from text inscribed in black ink above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and from inscribed note., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Scholars
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Oxonians in 1797. Day before ordination [art original].

34. An exact copy of a bill for the sum of ten shillings & ten pence sent by a bricklayer to a gentleman for whom he had worked (the bricklayer could not write). [art original]

Published / Created:: [1840?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 37 Box D160
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A copy of an illiterate bricklayer's bill that was written with pictographs; the artist included a narrative description of its meaning below the image. The pictographs included three different sized stick-figures (two men and one boy), a four-square grid with three of the four squares filled with dots (three quarters of a day), two "Y" shaped symbols (hods of mortar), two "X" shaped symbols (10 shillings & 10 pence), and a sketch of a hanged man (a settled bill).
Description:: Title from text inscribed with black ink within image., Date from note inscribed with graphite pencil below image., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Symbols
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An exact copy of a bill for the sum of ten shillings & ten pence sent by a bricklayer to a gentleman for whom he had worked (the bricklayer could not write). [art original]

35. The itinerant chancellor [art original]

Creator:: M., M. S., artist
Published / Created:: [March 1839]
Call Number:: Drawings M999 no. 1 Box D205
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A copy of the caricature of the British Statesman and High Lord Chancellor Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), that appeared in the center of an print that was published on 1 October 1834 in Every body's album & caricature magazine, no. 19. He is depicted as a very thin traveller wearing a Scottish tam over his wig and using a broom as a walking stick; his shoe is worn through. He carries a wooden post labelled "Scratching post", a box stamped "Containing the freedoms of all the Scotch towns" and a bag with the words "Broken victuals the leavings of the Edinburgh blow out". Around his waist is another bag, "Oat meal". Above the image framed in lines in gold ink: “I flatter myself I've made a tolerable good job by my “Starring it” with Old Grey in the North! Sold all my numbers of the Penny Magazine, and well puff'd it through every town I went. Made little less than one hundred speeches about, I forget now, Received some score of Burgesses, Freedoms, and Invitations to as many dinners, where I blew my own trumpet & obtained plenty of orders from our Usefull Knowledge Society! Now, woe to the unstamn'd when I get home! I must have a good scrub at my skin presently; I reckon I have got a taste of the fiddle through my itch for travelling!
Description:: Title written in ink below image., Drawn after a print by C.J. Grant, published ca. 1833 by G. Drake as No. 56 in The political drama series; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.11156. A nearly identical image also appears among several designs in Every body's album & caricature magazine, No. 19 (1 October 1834); see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 834.10.01.01+., and Additional text written within speech box above image: I flatter myself I've made a tolerable good job ...
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Subject (Topic):: Ethnic stereotypes, Government officials, and Judges
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The itinerant chancellor [art original]

36. 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].