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28. The night mare [graphic].

Published / Created:: [13 August 1795]
Call Number:: 795.08.13.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: John Bull lies on his back in bed, his mouth gaping; Pitt, a goblin creature, sits on his chest in profile to the right, holding above his upturned head a loaf inscribed '13 Pence'. Pitt has a huge head, much caricatured, with starting eyeballs; his hair stands up and the bag of his queue, inscribed 'Taxes', flies out behind him. Through a casement window (left) looks a fantastic French republican, with bulging eyeballs and fang-like teeth, glaring at John Bull; from his neck hangs the model of a guillotine. Behind his head is a waning moon. Beside him are the words: 'Republic War and Famine for Ever.' Beneath the bed is a chamber-pot inscribed 'John Bull'; beside it is a chair on which stands a candle
Alternative Title:: Nightmare
Description:: Title etched below image., A satire, on the burderns of war and dearth in 1795, alluding to Henry Fuseli's "The Nightmare"., Tentatively attributed to West in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Publisher:: Pub. Augst. 13, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain. and France
Subject (Name):: Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character), Hair powder, Taxation, History, Foreign public opinion, British, Chamber pots, and Demons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The night mare [graphic].

29. The old cheese [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1 February 1798]
Call Number:: 798.02.01.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Heading to verses printed in two columns. After the title: 'An Original Tale, recited by Mr. Fawcett, at Covent-Garden Theatre'. A farmer in top-boots stands at the head of his dinner-table, about to hurl a large cheese; other cheeses fly about the room, and have broken plates and a window-pane. Six alarmed guests sit at the table. The farmer's wife sits opposite him. The verses relate the tale of a loutish and hen-pecked husband who gives an exhibition of his domestic authority to impress his guests, but is finally quelled by his wife
Description:: Title from item., After an original drawing by Isaac Cruikshank in the Huntington Library., Title continues below plate in letterpress: An original tale recited by Mr. Fawcett at Covent-Garden Theatre., Text of the tale in two columns: Young Slouch, the farmer, had a jolly wife, that knew all the conveniences of life ..., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:: Published 1st February 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):: Birds, Cats, Cheese, Couples, Dining tables, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Farmers, Farmhouses, and Interiors
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The old cheese [graphic].

30. The vision

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [15 May 1786]
Call Number:: 786.05.15.09+ Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, and Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Nightmare -- Headless spectre.
Publisher:: Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):: Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The vision

31. The way to preferment [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1758?]
Call Number:: 758.00.00.21+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in some loss of design on left., Six lines of verse below image: Nym boldly fought in hopes to gain, a halbert to reward his pain ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military camps -- Military equipment: tents -- Military officers -- Soldiers in camp -- Food: onions -- Geese -- Animals: dogs -- Bundle of wheat on tent top -- Female dress: open robe, ca. 1758 -- Officer's uniform, ca. 1758 -- Knapsack -- Military uniforms -- Soldier's uniform, ca. 1758 -- Motherhood -- Children: nursing infant -- Preferment -- Weapons: halberd -- Bribery -- Baskets with provisions., and Watermark: British arms(?) with initials G R below.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The way to preferment [graphic].

32. [Pedlars] [graphic]

Creator:: Gulston, Eliza B., 1749 or 1750-1779 or 1780, printmaker
Published / Created:: publish'd as [the] act directs, 2d March 1772.
Call Number:: 772.03.02.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A freely drawn sketch of three figures. A Jew in profile to the right holds a glass show-box which is supported by a strap round his shoulders. Facing him in profile to the left is a man with a large pack tied to his back, he is looking at the Jew's wares, one hand held up as in surprise. Between them, and full-face, stands a Dutchman (?) wearing trousers and smoking a pipe; he is looking at the Jew's show-case. [In 1765 Cole compared the Paris shop-windows to the show-cases carried about by Jews. 'Cole's Paris Journal', 1931, p. 50.] Above the heads of the figures a devil is flying, he holds two strings, one of which is attached to the neck of each pedlar."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Peddlers
Description:: Title supplied from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: street pedlars -- Dutchmen -- Pedlars' show-boxes., and Watermark: countermark crowned royal cipher G R.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Jews, Ethnic stereotypes, Peddlers, Pipes (Smoking), and Devil
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Pedlars] [graphic]