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1.
A promenade in St. James's Park, or, Fashions of the day [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1 August 1796]
Call Number:
796.08.01.05+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two fashionably dressed women with large feathers in their hats. One lady carries a parasol; the other's arm is held by an equally fashionable gentleman. A dog jumps excitedly at their feet. They stand in the lane in a park (presumably St. James's) before a bench; an allée in the background on the right
Alternative Title:
Fashions of the day
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '329' on left below image., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 1st Augt. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Saint James's Park (London, England), and England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Benches, Dogs, Hats, Parks, Umbrellas, and Walking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A promenade in St. James's Park, or, Fashions of the day [graphic].

2.
Anticipation, or, Taxes as they will be!! [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 June 1796]
Call Number:
796.06.01.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In seven scenes in a design of two tiers, citizens dispute the oppressive fees imposed by a zealous tax collector who taxes bugs, pets, a bulbous nose and a runny nose, corns on a foot, and a man's skin. In the scene on the upper right, the tax collector penalizes a man whom he accuses of evading tax as he defecates in a bush
Alternative Title:
Taxes as they will be!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank by Krumbhaar., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Black people, Birds, Birdcages, Cats, Defecation, Dogs, Servants, Single women, and Tax payers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Anticipation, or, Taxes as they will be!! [graphic]

3.
How very blue the candle burns!! [graphic]

Published / Created:
[30 July 1796]
Call Number:
796.07.30.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A family, grouped round a small round table, see with consternation that the candle has a large blue flame. They are an elderly woman who is sewing, an elderly man in a smock frock, a youth, a small child, and a dog, whose raised head appears in the foreground. Behind the woman (left) stands a ghost in white drapery, with a beard and corpse-like face, glaring down at the group."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of carricatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: J Whatman 1794., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. July 30, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Families, Tables, Ghosts, Candles, Candlesticks, Sewing, Sewing equipment & supplies, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > How very blue the candle burns!! [graphic]

4.
Itinerant dealers in Dunstable ware [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
Decr. 17, 1796.
Call Number:
796.12.17.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item,, Numbered 'Plate 44' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 107' in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Women -- Itinerant pedlars -- Dishes: Dunstable ware -- Walking staves.
Publisher:
Pubd by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Baskets and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Itinerant dealers in Dunstable ware [graphic]

5.
John Bull & his dog Faithful "Among the faithless, faithful only found". [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 April 1796]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull, blind, maimed, and ragged, walks (right to left) near a chasm, the edge of which stretches across the foreground of the design. His wooden right arm terminates in a hook to which is attached a cord from the collar of a lean greyhound with the head of Pitt (as in BMSat 8794). Pitt drags him forward and slightly towards the gulf; in his mouth is a large bare bone, his collar is inscribed 'Licenc'd to Lead'. In John Bull's left hand is a staff, on his back a burden inscribed 'Loans'. He has a wooden leg, which a dog with the head of Sheridan and a collar inscribed 'Licenc'd to Bite' is biting savagely. Behind and on the extreme right is a dog with the head of Grey, and a collar inscribed 'Grey Hound'; he bites John Bull's coat. Fox, a mastiff with a fox's brush, stands behind Pitt, glaring fiercely, on his collar is 'Licenc'd to Bark'. Behind is grass and a tree (left) and in the distance the roofs and spires of London, showing St. Paul's."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull and his dog Faithful
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., A satire on a Dog Tax, April 1796., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 35.7 cm, on sheet 28.8 x 39.5 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 8 of volume 4 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxation of personal property, Artificial limbs, Blindness, Debt, Dogs, and People with disabilities
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > John Bull & his dog Faithful "Among the faithless, faithful only found". [graphic]

6.
John Bull & his dog Faithful "Among the faithless, faithful only found". [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 April 1796]
Call Number:
796.04.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull, blind, maimed, and ragged, walks (right to left) near a chasm, the edge of which stretches across the foreground of the design. His wooden right arm terminates in a hook to which is attached a cord from the collar of a lean greyhound with the head of Pitt (as in BMSat 8794). Pitt drags him forward and slightly towards the gulf; in his mouth is a large bare bone, his collar is inscribed 'Licenc'd to Lead'. In John Bull's left hand is a staff, on his back a burden inscribed 'Loans'. He has a wooden leg, which a dog with the head of Sheridan and a collar inscribed 'Licenc'd to Bite' is biting savagely. Behind and on the extreme right is a dog with the head of Grey, and a collar inscribed 'Grey Hound'; he bites John Bull's coat. Fox, a mastiff with a fox's brush, stands behind Pitt, glaring fiercely, on his collar is 'Licenc'd to Bark'. Behind is grass and a tree (left) and in the distance the roofs and spires of London, showing St. Paul's."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull and his dog Faithful
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., A satire on a Dog Tax, April 1796., and Mounted to 31 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxation of personal property, Artificial limbs, Blindness, Debt, Dogs, and People with disabilities
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Bull & his dog Faithful "Among the faithless, faithful only found". [graphic]

7.
Love at first sight [graphic]

Creator:
Shepheard, George, 1770-1842, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 January 1796]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 93. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A soldier admires a young woman who holds out her skirt to hold fish she is buying from a fisherman."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury that were first published by Thomas Macklin., For a mention of the reissued set of plates published 1 January 1809 by J. Deeley, see no. 11456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted on page 93 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Horses, Baskets, Fishermen, Fish, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Love at first sight [graphic]

8.
Paddy O'Blarney [graphic].

Published / Created:
[20 September 1796]
Call Number:
790.00.00.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint and song verses below title. Imprint statement supplied from: A catalogue of 18th-century British mezzotint satires in North American collections., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Cherry venders -- Irishmen -- Female costume: high-waisted dresses -- Reticule -- Miniature portrait as a brooch -- Pets -- Architectural details -- Wrought iron fences -- Songs: Patty O'Blarney.
Publisher:
Published 20th Sepr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Peddlers, Baskets, Hats, Miniatures (Paintings), Dogs, Doors & doorways, Fountains, and Children
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Paddy O'Blarney [graphic].

9.
Real inhabitants of this earth [graphic]

Creator:
Shepheard, George, 1770-1842, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 January 1796]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 95. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly man, his profile caricatured, dressed as a military officer, inspects through a glass a fat man and boy (left), both Dutch, wearing baggy breeches and sabots, who lean against a rail, the man smoking a pipe. A pretty young woman, wearing a high-waisted travelling dress and small hat, takes the officer's arm; her left hand is in a large muff. Behind are the masts of a vessel backed by chalk cliffs, showing that the rail edges a small creek or harbour; on the right are a beam and pulley."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury that were first published by Thomas Macklin., For a reissue published 1 January 1809 by J. Deeley, see no. 11456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted on page 95 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Military uniforms, Hand lenses, Ethnic stereotypes, Pipes (Smoking), Muffs, Dogs, and Pulleys
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Real inhabitants of this earth [graphic]

10.
The rivals [graphic]

Creator:
Shepheard, George, 1770-1842, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 January 1796]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 94. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A pretty fisherwoman (?) kneeling by a basket is approached by a sailor to right, and a soldier bending over her, a younger sailor looming behind the latter taps him on the shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury that were first published by Thomas Macklin., For a mention of the reissued set of plates published 1 January 1809 by J. Deeley, see no. 11456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted on page 94 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, Soldiers, Baskets, Dogs, and Ships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The rivals [graphic]