A shield with four quarterings: first quarter contains a pair of boxing gloves; the second quarter is drawn showing a man uncorking a bottle. The third and fourth quarters show different moments in a fight. Above the shield is a clenched hand surrounded by laurels, with two "Bottle-holders" supporting either side
Description:
Image was used as the basis for a print published by George Humphrey in 1819: The Boxer's arms., See Catalogue of political and personal satires, v. 9, 13395., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist, 1792-1878., and For further information, consult library staff.
Page 14. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Floor plan of the chancel in St. Mary's Church, Sundridge, Kent, with the footprint of the altar at the top and nearest to the right the footprint of a tomb labeled "Lady Ayesbury" with measurements; in front on the right a footprint also with measurements is labeled "Vacant grave", but in a different and later hand updated with the information "now The Honble. Anne S. Damer, May 28, 1828, aet. 80". To the left of the altar an annotation reads "At this spot are the graves of Lord and Lady Frederick Campbell".
Description:
Title written in ink above image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Anne Seymour Damer, who possibly assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., and Mounted on page 14 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
Subject (Geographic):
Kent (England)
Subject (Name):
Ailesbury, Caroline Campbell, Countess of, 1721-1803. and Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828.
Page 7. Reminiscences, written in MDCCLXXXVIII, for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of the cottage on the grounds of Horace Walpole's estate Strawberry Hill, seen in the middle distance surrounded by trees. The entrance and its portico face the viewer; a large bow window faces right. Smoke rises from one of the two chimneys atop the pitched roof
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner., and Bound in as page 7 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Reminiscences, written in MDCCLXXXVIII, for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry ... London : Printed by Richard Taylor and Co., 1805.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Estates, and Outbuildings
A satirical coat of arms for the "Dandy." The shield is a dandy's tail-coat, supported by two monkey's dressed in clothes. The crest is a stay and a top hat. Underneath the shield, are written the words "Dandi, Dando, Dandum" below which a puppy is suspended
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Inscription in ink in image: Coat of Arms. Azure. The Sexes impaled improper between two Butterflies - Two flances; on the dexter flanch three pair of Stays, argent, the sinister flanch charged with Rouge Pomat & smellg bottle, On the Canton, Dexter a frill rampant in the sinister Canton a false collar rampant - small cloaths passive in pile supported by pins - Supporters- Two Monkies - proper - Crest, a pr of Stays full padded - supporting a Cravat & Collar Rampant proper, holding a blockhead argent & gules, wingerd with asses ears proper the whole under cover of a Sable Bever., Basis for print published as: The dandies coat of arms, See British Museum Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, vol. 9, 13394., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist, 1792-1878., For further information, consult library staff., and Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. 15, p. 143.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 4 Box D170
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A loquacious gentlemen holding a raised walking stick vertically in front of his body prepares to strike the foot of a passerby by feigning a blunder. From the caption: Provide a good stout stick (the heavier the better), well loaded with iron, and sally forth at the business time of the day ... enter on a long story and at the end of every marked sentence, make a sudden plunge with your stick downwards, which must be managed with great velocity, and at proper periods; by these methods your friend cannot fail feeling the force of your observations; and every person's toes must suffer that come within the reach of the argument
Alternative Title:
Six different methods of carrying a stick with their effects. Compartment no. 3
Description:
Title from letterpress caption below image., Pen and ink drawing on a broadside with typeface and ornamental border., Letterpress capation in fourteen lines below title: The person who has a desire to put this grace in practice, must be consciousness of possessing an unconquerable habit of talking incessantly, if that is not a leading trait in his character, he had better decline the study; but if hef finds himself master of so neccessary a qualification ..., 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 Conversation
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 5 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a cottage with an old woman asleep in a chair, her feet resting on a low footstool in front of open door (left); in her lap she holds an open book and a pair of spectacles. On the right, a boy in a smock stands on a stool in front of an open cupboard eating from a full bowl. Along the back wall is a pair of casement windows with a drop leaf table below and pictures on the wall to the left. A cat walks across the center of the scene looking up at the boy
Description:
Title from caption in artist's hand written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Watermark on paper: J. Rump 1825., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Cats, Cupboards, Dwellings, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Sleeping, and Women
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.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 8 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man with a queue wig and wearing spectacles (right) sits expectantly at a small round tea table set for two; his hands on the table glench his knife and fork, his napkin tied around his neck like a bib. He leans forward as he eyes the food approach carried by a woman in a mop cap and wearing spectacles who stands full lengh (left) holding a long handled frying pan heaped high with dark ashes. He says, "Come, come, Dame is'nt my eggs and bacon done yet. I'm literally famish'd in waiting." She replies, "I am very sorry to inform your worship that just as I had done 'em so nice all this here soot fell into the pan."
Description:
Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Cookery, Eating & drinking, Dining tables, Starvation, and Tableware
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
Page 25. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the monument in St. Mary's Church, with the bust of the Countess of Ailesbury sitting on a pedestal at center, head shrouded. Columns supporting an ornate roof flank the bust on either side, the area between their bases decorated with a pattern of quatrefoils. A winged cherub head hangs from the bottom of each column. A scale bar runs along the bottom of the sheet
Alternative Title:
Monument of the Countess of Ailesbury in the church at Sundridge, Kent
Description:
Title written in ink at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on watermark: A. Blackwell & G. Jones 1802., and Mounted on page 25 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
