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2.
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1805]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 44 Box D215
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man riding horseback has a significant accident that topples the horse and throws the rider forward against the horse's neck and head losing his hat and wig in the process. A caption above the image informs: This I pressume is by way of proving to a certainty that two and two makes four!!
- Description:
- Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink below image., and Date supplied by cataloger.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses, Horseback riding, and Accidents
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An arithmetician!! [art original]
3.
- 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]
4.
- Creator:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The foot compressor [art original].
5.
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 23 Box D180
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A burly and ragged Englishman with a wooden leg sits on the knee of a fat and grotesque Irishwoman; they kiss, his right arm round her neck, both her arms round his shoulders. A poverty-stricken room is indicated by a low casement window with broken panes, bricks showing through broken plaster, and a rough plank door (right). On a table is an enormous tankard and a small measure of gin
- Alternative Title:
- Union between England and Ireland
- Description:
- Title from inscription below image in black ink in the artist's hand., Future [?] imprint statement inscribed in black ink: London, Pubd. Jany. 1800., Image associated with Thomas Rowlandson's etching. Union between England & Ireland. Published 1799. Cf. George., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9462., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Kissing, Peg legs, and Drinking vessels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Union between England & Ireland [art original].
6.
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 46 Box D215
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A dour woman wearing a feathered headdress stands before a preacher and his clerk as they exclaim respectively, "O Lord, save this lady, thy servant" followed by "Who putteth her ladyship's trust in thee."
- Alternative Title:
- Churching a lady
- Description:
- Title inscribed in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Date supplied by cataloger.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Great Britain, Preaching, Religious services, and Churches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Village aristocracy, or, Churching a lady [art original]
7.
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 50 Box D215
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Six sketches arranged across two rows depicting rotund red-faced countrymen riding horses poorly or in various states of humorous accidents. Captions include: How to be obstinate; The most approved method of sliding; How to stick in a ditch; How to prevent being run away with; A Cheshire kick; How to slip from your saddle with ease to yourself and horse
- Description:
- Title and date devised by cataloger. and Sheet trimmed cropping artist's signature and title.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses, Horseback riding, Accidents, and Country life
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Lessons in horsemanship] [art original]
8.
- Creator:
- Williams, Edward, 1782-1855, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1843]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W721 no. 1 Box D170
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Pen and ink drawing divided into two parts, with an alderman on the left and a chamberlain on the right, framed in a elaborate border (suggesting a tent or fortress) of checkerboard and geometric designs. The stout alderman, spoon and fork in hand, wears a napkin pinned around his neck; he has a full spoon at his mouth and a plate of food and a mostly empty glass decanter rest upon the table in front of him. On the right the chamberlain, dressed in fur-lined robes and wearing his glasses raised up to his bald forehead, is shown with one arm raised and subtley pointing upwards while the left arm rests upon a large document entitled: This indenture wit. A coat of arms is displayed at the top of the design
- Alternative Title:
- Chamberlain
- Description:
- Title in artist's hand at top of design; artist signature and date inscribed in pen and black ink below image. Subtitle in banner below design.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Alderman. The chamberlain veluti in speculum / [art original]
9.
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker, collector
- Published / Created:
- [between 1782 and 1810]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Image Count:
- 123
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A folio album of 144 caricatures mounted on 87 sheets, mostly etchings, with some aquatints and other satirical prints, some hand-colored, and one pen-and-ink drawing laid in.
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Laid in, a wood engraving: Principal characters, in the new play of the road to royalty! [London] : Printed and published by T. Rockliffe, 65 Ratcliff Highway, [1829]., Laid in, an etching: Rats in the barn, or, Iohn Bull's famous old dog Billy astonishing the varment / [figure of Paul Pry] Esqr. [London] : Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [1829]., Laid in, an etching: Funeral of the constitution. [London] : Pubd. March 1809 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [1809]., Laid in, a lithograph: View of the Houses of Lords and Commons : destroyed by fire on the 16th Octr. 1834. [London] : Pub. by W. Soffe, 380 Strand, [ca. 1834]., Laid in, a pen and ink drawing on watermark paper G. Pike, 1817: The savior of this grateful country : to Kingston 1 mile to London x miles. [England], [ca. 1817]., Note on front pastedown: This book contains the caricatures published by Sayers during his life. This was his own copy and was presented to me after his death. [Signed] Eldon., With Lord Eldon's bookplate., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Folio album of 144 caricatures] [graphic].
10.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1800?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings R79 no. 6 Box D145
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Count Przobosky wildly rears a horse in a grand room knocking over furniture to the shock and astonishment of distrressed onlookers
- Description:
- Title from caption inscribed in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., Attributed to Rowlandson., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses, Jumping (Horsemanship), and Trick riding
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Presented with a famous horse by Count Przobosky with which he performs many extraordinary feats [art original].
