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1. An exquisite taste, with an enlarged understanding [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, George, active 1824-1831, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1827?]
- Call Number:
- 827.00.00.39
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1825.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by Geo. Hunt, 18 Tavistock St., Covent Garden
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An exquisite taste, with an enlarged understanding [graphic]
2. Moll Handy with a letter of recommendation to a service. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1740] and [printed approximately 1825]
- Call Number:
- 740.00.00.63+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on housemaids showing a figure composed from implements connected with their work: 1. A Pattapan (the crown of her hat); 2. Elm platter (the brim): 3. Thimbles (her eyes); 4. Pepperbox (her nose); 5. Puter [sic] Plate (her face); 6. Round Towel (her hair); 7. Hair Sive[sic] (her neck); 8. Elm bowl (her shoulders); 9. Two China basons (her breasts); 10. Two Quart Mugs (her upper arms); 11. a Bunch of Matches (her right hand); 12. a Piked Stair Bursh[sic] (her stomacher); 13. Rowling Pin (Her left forearm); 14. Dusting Cloths (her cuffs); 15. Trencher Bruch[sic] (her left hand); 16. Weapon of Defence (her spit); 17. Iron Scuer[sic] (her right ulna); 18. A Payl (the upper part of her torso); 19. Porrige Pot (her lower torso); 20. Cabbage Net ; 21. Nutmeg grater (these last two fastened at her waist); 22. Crack in ye Pot (her genitals); 23. Bellows (her thighs); 24. Scrubing Brush (her left foot); 25. Thrum mop (her right foot); 26. Pudding Stire (the radius of her right arm); other domestic utensils lie on the ground, within a rococo frame, a cartouche below containing the title and key; beneath is a "letterof Recommendation to a Service" from "Margery Makefree" addressed "To the Lady Crosspatch" extolling the maid's good qualities and making little of the fact that she "had ye Misfortune by a fall to be Crack'd & is become Pot Belly'd"; "P.S. She will come for small wages"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched within image., Later state with imprint burnished from plate., Original publication attributed by Stephens to Bickham and dated ca. 1740., Publication date of this state from watermark., One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade., Six lines of a 'letter of recommendation' etched below the cartouche containing key to the implements: To the Lady Crosspatch! Madam, I have lately brought to town a poor wench ..., Cf. No. 2472 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Watermark: J Whatman 1825., and Window mounted to 36 x 23 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Arcimboldesque figures, Equipment, Servants, and Women domestics
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Moll Handy with a letter of recommendation to a service. [graphic]
3. Paul Pry among the bankers [graphic].
- Creator:
- Madeley, George Edward, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1824 and 1829?]
- Call Number:
- 826.00.00.73
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in a bank: actor John Liston as the comic character Paul Pry, quizzing glass raised to his eyes, stands at the desk of a red-faced banker (left) who sits with quill pen in hand, another behind his ear, lower lip jutting out as he glares at his customer. A second customer enters the door of the bank (right) with papers in-hand. Paul Pry is a character from a John Poole farce of the same name. Pry is characterized as a man consumed with curiosity, a busybody unable to mind his own business. Pry wears striped trousers, hessian boots, tail coat and top hat, and carries an umbrella that he leaves behind so that he would have an excuse to return and eavesdrop
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Possibly by George Edward Madeley. Cf. Mr. Liston as 'Billy Lackaday" in "Sweethears & wives"., Date of publication based the entry for partnership, Ingrey & Madeley whose earliest recorded imprint is 1824 and latest 1829., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1825.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by Ingrey & Madeley, Lithogc. Office, 310 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Poole, John, 1786?-1872.
- Subject (Topic):
- Characters, Actors, British, Bankers, and Banking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Paul Pry among the bankers [graphic].
4. Pleasing pastime, or, A Christmas quadrille party [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- 1826.
- Call Number:
- 826.00.00.22
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Four men skating, colliding with each other in a mangle, one of them about to fall head first into a whole in the ice, holding a man's skate with his right hand and another's coat with his left, his right foots hitting the man who's coat he is holding on the forehead, this man in turn hits another's nose; a sing of 'Dangerous' to the left, and other figures on the background."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Christmas quadrille party
- Description:
- Title from text above and below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Topic):
- Ice skating and Accidents
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Pleasing pastime, or, A Christmas quadrille party [graphic]
5. Remember the post-boy your honor [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, George, active 1824-1831, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1828?]
- Call Number:
- 828.00.00.28
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1828.
- Publisher:
- Published by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Remember the post-boy your honor [graphic]
6. [Morning and in low spirits. A scene in a lock up house] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1825]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C9 824 no. 17
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Hayne sits, pen in hand, at a table, nervously facing a burly ruffian holding a large key who proffers a paper headed 'items'. Other debtors sit by the fire or gaze from the padlocked window of the sponging-house. There are pictures of the two chief debtors' prisons, 'Bench' and 'Fleet', and a framed table of 'House Fees. Fire 0 2.6. Candles 0.2.6. Bed 0.10.6. Warming do. 0.1.0. Breakfast 0.7.6. Eggs 0.2.0. Total £1.7.0. See British Museum catalogue
- Description:
- Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 2, Page 240. Note came originally up to nose, then change in plate. Watermark 1825., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1825.
- Publisher:
- Sherwood & Co.
- Subject (Topic):
- Debt
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Morning and in low spirits. A scene in a lock up house] [graphic].
