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1. Traveling by steam [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 46. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Two Thames watermen stand on the river bank gaping at the explosion of a steam packet-boat, whose stern is inscribed 'For Richmond'. Wreckage flies into the air carrying with it a number of passengers, men and women, who are flung about in a dense cloud of steam high above the boat. A lady falls near an elegant wooden seat, a boy sits astride a funnel. Against the bank lies the watermen's wherry, the carved back behind the cushioned seat is inscribed: 'The Swiftsure T. Tugg Lambeth'. One says: "My Eye Ned there they go!!" The other: "Aye and a going rather out of the Road! d--ce they are got into Ayrshire insead [sic] of Surry!!""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Travelling by steam
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 12920 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published in 1817; see British Museum catalogue., and On leaf 46 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):: Steamboats, Steamboat accidents, and Explosions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Traveling by steam [graphic].

2. Le retour de Paris, or, The neice [sic] presented to her relatives by her French governess [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: Augt. 1st, 1835.
Call Number:: 835.08.01.05+ Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Neice presented to her relatives by her French governess and Niece presented to her relatives by her French governess
Description:: Title from caption below image., Numerous lines of dialogue in English and French on either side of title: Well-a-day Aunt! What monstrosities are these? ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 12922 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9; originally published Jan. 3, 1817, by H. Humphrey., Temporary local subject terms: Hatboxes -- Education., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 121.
Publisher:: Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):: Cats, Dogs, and John Bull (Symbolic character)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Le retour de Paris, or, The neice [sic] presented to her relatives by her French governess [graphic]

3. Adoniram Byfield from an unique print in the collection of Strawberry Hill / [graphic]

Creator:: Cooper, Robert, active 1795-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1817 and 1824]
Call Number:: SH Contents C776 no. 1 Box 100
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Satirical portrait of Adoniram Byfield, with the Devil at his shoulder blowing at a child's toy windmill fixed on Byfield's hat; the vanes are labelled "Hypocrisy", "Lust", "Pride" and "Covetousness". Lettered with speech ribbons: the Devil saying, "He do's my business bravely"; Byfield, "Needs must when the Devil drives."
Description:: Title from caption below image. and Date of publication based on active dates of the Baldwyns.
Publisher:: Published by Charles & Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street
Subject (Name):: Byfield, Adoniram, -1660,
Subject (Topic):: Devil
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Adoniram Byfield from an unique print in the collection of Strawberry Hill / [graphic]

4. Landlord & tenant [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1817 and 1819?]
Call Number:: 817.00.00.25+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A dandy (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029), with a handsome profile, wearing knee-breeches, advances with a mincing step and outstretched hands towards an ugly farmer who stands facing him with a large stick and wearing top-boots and broad-brimmed hat. The tenant holds a money-bag and is fiercely prognathous. The landlord: "My dear Sir--I am rejoiced to see you--I hope your lovely family are well--You are a charming Man--correct in every point--in short your countenance is an index to your mind." The farmer: "You certainly are flattering me--here is your Rent.--as to my family--thanks to the Lord, my Wife, and all the brats, be gone to kingdome come." There is a carpeted floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Landlord and tenant
Description:: Title from text below image., Artist identified as Capt. Hehl in the British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and "One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819 ..."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Dandies, British, Farmers, Hats, Staffs (Sticks), Bags, and Landlord & tenant relations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Landlord & tenant [graphic].

5. The Graces they were culling posies and found young love among the roses [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1817 and 1819?]
Call Number:: 817.00.00.24+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Three grotesquely ugly old maids stoop delightedly over a Cupid who sleeps against a rose-bush, arrow in hand, his unstrung bow beside him. On the back of one sits an ape; a lap-dog is beside her. A parrot sits on the bonnet of another, the third kneels. On a mound (right) a cock stands crowing: 'Cock a doodle doo.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., "One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1111.2137., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: C. Wilmot 1815.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Older people, Single women, Roses, Putti, Cupids, Monkeys, Dogs, Parrots, and Roosters
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Graces they were culling posies and found young love among the roses [graphic].

6. Bon ton [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1817 and 1819?]
Call Number:: 818.00.00.56+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A dandy (left), opera-hat in hand, bends towards a lady to inspect her necklace through his glass. He has the short waist, high collar, and conspicuous watch-ribbon of the dandies, with long tight pantaloons to the ankle (cf. No. 13029). She wears a short white ball-dress, and holds up a closed fan, a shawl over her left arm. She stands at the foot of a staircase on which are flowering plants in ornamental pots. Below the title: '"Pon honor Lady Caroline, You appear a "divinity! -by Jove those Jewels are of the premiere "qualité, did Love furnish them? "On my truth Sir William You are a gay Man.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., "One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819 ... She resembles Lady Caroline Lamb, the most conspicuous Lady Caroline of the day. There was a jeweller named Love."--British Museum curator's comment., Attributed to Captain Hehl in British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828
Subject (Topic):: Dandies, British, and Jewelers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Bon ton [graphic].

7. Consultation of physicians [graphic]

Published / Created:: [approximately 1817]
Call Number:: Hogarth 817.00.00.24 Box 140
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. A version of the print also published with lettering "The company of undertakers". The three named quacks occupy the top, twelve other 'doctors' are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal while another holds it.
Description:: Title engraved below image., Date of publication from watermark., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered "138" in lower left corner., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 144., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2299., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1817.
Publisher:: Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Mapp, Sarah, -1737,, Taylor, John, 1703-1772,, Ward, Joshua, 1685-1761,, Taylor, John, 1703-1772., and Ward, Joshua, 1685-1761.
Subject (Topic):: Physicians, Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Staffs (Sticks), Wigs, and Costume
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Consultation of physicians [graphic]

8. The city dispute, or, Milk Street in an uproar [art original].

Published / Created:: [1817]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 95 Box D166
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A "line and dot" series of caricatures featuring scenes with stick figures (or "pin men"), both male and female, engaged in some form of public violence, arranged in two rows, each grouping individually titled. In the first row the designs are titled: "You lie, sir!", "Proceeding to blows", "Friends ending the dispute" and then a larger group of figures with the title "Dispute at cards: ending in a round game". In the second row: "In love I perceive", "Prick'd to the heart. She's gone, she's gone!", "Met to part no more", "O! Thou false wretch", "O, Sophia fairest of women", "How you teaze me Charles" and "I'll seek revenge", and a pair of designs labeled above "The effects of jealousy" and on the left "Now for the fatal blow" and "Keep your distance fellow."
Alternative Title:: Milk Street in an uproar
Description:: Title from text in upper left., Unidentified artist., Date conjectured from that of the published print of the same design., Similar to a print, published by G. Blackman in 1817, and attributed to George Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue. Cf. Nos. 12955 and 12956 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., and The genre was perhaps originated by G.M. Woodward who designed two plates of acrobatic feats, &c., entitled 'Multum in Parvo, or Lilliputian Sketches shewing what may be done by lines and dots'. See Curator's note to British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1935,0522.10.220.b
Subject (Topic):: Fighting, Card games, Couples, and Envy
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The city dispute, or, Milk Street in an uproar [art original].

9. The city dispute, or, Milk Street in an uproar [graphic].

Published / Created:: [30 July 1817]
Call Number:: 817.07.30.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A "line and dot" series of caricatures featuring scenes with stick figures (or "pin men"), both male and female, engaged in some form of public violence, arranged in two rows, each grouping individually titled. In the first row the designs are titled: "You lie, sir!", "Proceeding to blows", "Friends ending the dispute" and then a larger group of figures with the title "Dispute at cards: proceeding to a round game". In the second row: "In love I pereceive [sic]", "Prick'd to the heart. She's gone, she's gone!", "Met to part no more", "O! Thou false wretch", "O, Sophia fairest of all women", "How you teaze me Charles" and "I'll seek revenge", and a pair of designs labeled above "The effects of jealousy" and on the left "Now for the fatal blow" and "Keep your distance fellow."
Alternative Title:: Milk Street in an uproar
Description:: Title from text in upper left., Similar prints, also published by G. Blackman in 1817, are attributed to George Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue. Cf. Nos. 12955 and 12956 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., The genre was perhaps originated by G.M. Woodward who designed two plates of acrobatic feats, &c., entitled 'Multum in Parvo, or Lilliputian Sketches shewing what may be done by lines and dots'. See Curator's note to British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1935,0522.10.220.b, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Pubd. July 30, 1817, by G. Blackman Junr., 362 Oxford Strt
Subject (Topic):: Fighting, Card games, Couples, and Envy
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The city dispute, or, Milk Street in an uproar [graphic].