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282.
- Published / Created:
- [1809?]
- Call Number:
- 809.00.00.36
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., "Plate II". One of 12 plates to Sterne's "Sentimental Journey" after Rowlandson?, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Yorick at the grave of Father Lorenzo [graphic].
283.
- Published / Created:
- [1809?]
- Call Number:
- 809.00.00.41
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., "Pl. VII". One of 12 plates to Sterne's "Sentimental Journey" after Rowlandson?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples --- Horses -- Shelves -- Crockery.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Yorick feeling the Grisset's pulse [graphic].
284.
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [February 1809]
- Call Number:
- 809.02.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mrs. Clarke stands before a large doorway inscribed Clark and Company. She wears a white short-sleeved dress with plumed cocked hat, gorget, and military sash, sword-belt and scabbard. The sword she holds over her head, saying, Now Gentlemen you had better be quick I have a few bargains to dispose of. as the partnership is disolving. She holds out a paper: List of Prices at Clark and Co's Warehouse--Majority--£900. Company --7oo. Lieutenancy 400. Through the doorway behind her are seen great stacks of papers in her 'warehouse'. These are labelled: Captains Commissions 500 each, Half-pay Commissions 200 each, Lieutenant, Colonel, Major, Cornet. On the wall is a notice: NB a sum wanted by way o Loan, terms to be seen within. On the right stands a man playing a fiddle, and saying with a sly smile, If you want de commission, you must give me de Note den I go play de Fiddle to de white petticoat. From his coat-pockets hang papers: Pay Sigr Cor[ri] for [word illegible] 200; and a piece of music: The Petticoat [see British Museum Satires No. 11220]. Beside him lies a large Note Book. Above his head hangs upside down a portrait: The Dukes Head; the upper part only of the Duke of York's profile is visible, defaced by a black mark, the rest of the picture being cut off by the upper margin of the design. On the left two military bandsmen play a drum and fife. One asks: What tune shall we play now Jack the Duke of Yorks Marck [sic]? Answer: No No lets play she's off with another."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Commission warehouse
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Imperfect; the word "York" at beginning of title has been erased from sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. February 1809 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
- Subject (Name):
- Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
- Subject (Topic):
- Daggers & swords, Musicians, Violins, Drums (Musical instruments), Military bands, Military uniforms, British, Price lists, Warehouses, and Portraits
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > York commission warehouse [graphic].
285.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1809?]
- Call Number:
- 809.05.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three highwaymen beset the Doctor, pointing pistols; one seizes his horse. The scene is a rough track between trees."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Doctor Syntax stopt by highwaymen
- Description:
- Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Originally published 1st May, 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts., Sheet trimmed within plate mark. All text trimmed from sheet., Plate from: Combe, W. Tour of Doctor Syntax., and Mounted to 28 x 36 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Combe, William, 1742-1823.
- Subject (Topic):
- Criminals and Robberies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Doctor Syntax stopped by highwaymen] [graphic].
286.
- Published / Created:
- [1809]
- Call Number:
- 53 C599 S809
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print shows a design in five numbered ovals, with a central medallion portrait atop a pillar featuring the Duke of York ("The Aga"), surrounded by four smaller medallions featuring a portrait of Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke ("Fatima pinning up a new list"), Mrs. Clarke's confidante and coauthor of her memoirs, Elizabeth Taylor ("Tailoriska"), Captain Huxley Sandon, who testified as a witness at the Duke of York's rial in 1809 ("Captn. Sandonasso"), and emblematical design showing "Cupid the Arbitrator of promotions", wearing an officer's bicorne hat, holding a sword in one hand and a bishop's miter in the other, and seated beside a cornucopia of coins; at the foot of the design is the head of Medusa crowned with serpents
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., Illustration to the satirical piece "The trial of Fatima Clarkis. A fragment of an oriental tale", by "Barnaby Sketchwell", which concerned the 1809 trial of the Duke of York, the king's second son and commander-in-chief of the army, for his alleged involvement in the sale of commissions by his former mistress, Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke., Plate from: Sketchwell, B. London characters, or, Fashions and customs, of the present century. London : Printed for the booksellers in Bond-street ..., 1809, v. 2, facing page 317., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Lettered below image: 1. The Aga. 2. Fatima pinning up a new list. 3. Tailoriska. 4. Captn. Sandonasso. 5. Cupid the Arbitrator of promotions., "Vide, page 317"--Lower right., and Mounted on recto of first front flyleaf.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Taylor, Elizabeth, active 1800, Sandon, Huxley, and Cupid (Roman deity),
- Subject (Topic):
- Medusa (Greek mythology), Mistresses, Adultery, Scandals, Columns, Cornucopias, Coins, Daggers & swords, and Miters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Medallion portraits of the Duke of York, Mary Anne Clarke, Elizabeth Taylor, Captain Huxley Sandon, and "Cupid the Arbitrator of promotions"] [graphic].
