- None1
You Searched For
« Previous
| 1 - 9 of 15 |
Next »
Search Results
1. A monument dedicated to posterity in commemoration of [the] incredible folly transacted in the year 1720 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.45+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Originally published by Thomas Bowles in 1720. See the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Publication date of this edition inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered in lower right corner: 89., Nine lines of text below image: Here is represented Fortune conducted by Folly who is well known, by her ordinary attributes and her ample hoop petticoat, which is also a folly of the times. The chair is drawn by the principal company's who began this pernicious trade as [the] Mississippi with a wooden leg, South Sea with a sore-leg and a ligament upon another ..., Later state, by a different publisher. Cf. No. 1629 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: car -- Personifications: Fame -- Folly -- Bank of England -- Assurance -- East India Company as a Chinese man -- Mississippi Company as a native man with a wooden leg -- West Indies Company as a native (Indian) man -- Devil -- Emblems: serpent -- Furniture: table -- Ladderback chairs -- Mottoes: desinit in luctum species formosa superne., Watermark: Band., and Window mounted to 27 x 35 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard
- Subject (Name):
- East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720 and Crowds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A monument dedicated to posterity in commemoration of [the] incredible folly transacted in the year 1720 [graphic].
2. Kitty fleecing the old Jew [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764. Cf. I. Maxted's London book trades, 1775-1800, p. 25., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Thievery: "fleecing" -- Dishes -- Chocolate pot -- Chocolate mill or molinet -- Mugs -- Jewelry: earrings -- Male dress: dressing gown and nightcap., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR(?) below.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Kitty fleecing the old Jew [graphic].
3. Playing at put [graphic]
- Creator:
- Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.24
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men sit on benches at a low table playing cards (putt) as a third person looks on.
- Alternative Title:
- Playing at putt
- Description:
- Title etched below image., C. Corbutt is one of the many pseudonyms of Richard Purcell., Copy of: The game of putt?, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Card games
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Playing at put [graphic]
4. The congress [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1764]
- Call Number:
- 762.09.00.03.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Restrike of a print originally published in The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered '27' in upper right corner. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3887., and Temporary local subject terms: Negotiations -- Seven Years War: reference to British territorial concessions -- British Lion -- Emblems: petticoat for the Princess of Wales -- Emblems: jack-boot for Lord Bute -- Flags: Petticoat and a jack-boot as a standard of England -- Frenchmen.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Treaties and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The congress [graphic].
5. The exercise of see saw, La balançoire from the original painting in Vaux-hall Garden / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Truchy, L., 1731-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.36+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Balançoire
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, probably based on other prints reproducing paintings in Vauxhall., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered "8" in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Outdoor scenes -- Pastimes: see-saw -- Architecture: ruins held by supports --Male dress: boy's coat, ca. 1740 -- Vauxhall Gardens: paintings in Vauxhall.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The exercise of see saw, La balançoire from the original painting in Vaux-hall Garden / [graphic]
6. The freemasons surpriz'd, or, The secret discover'd a true tale from a masons' lodge in Canterbury. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.77+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Secret discover'd, Secret discovered, and Freemasons surprised
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from Carington Bowles's entry in Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., In lower right corner: Price 6d, cold. 1s., Five columns of verse below title: The chamber maid Moll, a girl very fat, lay hid in a garret as sly as a cat ..., Cf. No. 3796 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Freemasonry -- Freemasons: Canterbury Lodge -- Secret meetings -- Clergy: parson -- Domestic service: chambermaid -- Accidents -- Furniture: chairs -- Emblems: freemasons symbols -- Lighting: candleholders -- Smoking pipes -- Architectural details: lath construction -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Maps: wall map of the world., Watermark: countermark I W., and Mounted to 31 x 46 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The freemasons surpriz'd, or, The secret discover'd a true tale from a masons' lodge in Canterbury. [graphic]
7. The military nurse, or, Modern officer [graphic]
- Creator:
- Attwold, R., active 1750, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A tall soldier with a pike in his right hand, holds in his left one the leading strings of a child officer. The officer, moving with an awkward gate, is trying to balance on his thigh a pole of an enormous British flag. His oversized sword dangles below his knees. Behind the two of them, in the background, several soldiers with muskets on their shoulders march by.
- Alternative Title:
- Modern officer
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Earliest publication date of this edition based on that of Carington Bowles's separation of his own business from his father's. See: Maxted, I. London book trades., Two columns of verse below title: By dear mama's petition, and good papa's purse Jacky gets a commission ..., Companion print to: The naval nurse, or Modern commander., Temporary local subject terms: Nursemaids: 'military nurse' -- Union Jack - Escutcheons., and Watermark: Royal arms at top of sheet; countermark band at bottom of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Army.
- Subject (Topic):
- Nepotism, Corruption, Military uniforms, Flags, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The military nurse, or, Modern officer [graphic]
8. The naval nurse, or, Modern commander [graphic]
- Creator:
- Attwold, R., active 1750, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A boy officer in cabin sitting by a bowl of punch and smoking, with servant."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Modern commander
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date based on Carington Bowles's separation of his own business from his father's. Cf. I. Maxted. London book trades., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of verse below title: From Mid: to Lieutenant, bluff, quickly doth rise ..., Companion print to: The military nurse, or Modern officer., Copy of a print of the same title published in 1750. Cf. No. 3089 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Mounted to 29 x 21 cm., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and England
- Subject (Name):
- Warren, Peter, Sir, 1703-1752
- Subject (Topic):
- Promotions, Cannons, Military uniforms, British, and Ships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The naval nurse, or, Modern commander [graphic]
9. The pease-soup eater, or, Pain and laughter [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dixon, John, 1740-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.74+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Pain and laughter
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date probably after 1764, when Carington Bowles removed his business from Cornhil. See London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted, p.25-26, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Families -- Children: toddlers -- Dress: peasant dress, ca. 1771 -- Dishes: bowls -- Cutlery: spoons -- Food: pease-soup .
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The pease-soup eater, or, Pain and laughter [graphic]
