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- Published / Created:
- [1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.04.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Six designs on one plate arranged in two rows, with borders in which the inscriptions are engraved. Johnny is a smartly dressed young man. There is a landscape background in Nos. 1 and 3 (in which Johnny wears a top-hat and top-boots). In Nos. 2, 4, 5 a boarded floor indicates an interior. [1] With folded arms and bowed head he approaches from behind a hideous and grinning negress who holds a tobacco-pipe. Above: Smitten with the charms of Mimbo Wampo a sable Venus, daughter of Wampo Wampo, King of the Silver Sand Hills in Congo. [2] Bare-legged he sits in a chair, his bare foot held by the negress who sits on the ground at his feet. Above: Delicately declaring his Love to the aimable Mimbo Wampo, while she is picking his Cheqoes. "You lub me Massa" eh! eh!? [3] Johnny and an old negro wearing only breeches face each other. Beside the latter is a large jar inscribed Feathers, Grave Dirt, Egg Shells, &c. Above: Consulting Old Mumbo Jumbo the Oby Man, how to get possession of the charming Mimbo Wampo. "Lets me alone for dat Massa." [4] He kneels at the feet of the negress taking her hand; she sits on a stool smoking a pipe. Four comparatively handsome women stand in a row watching, two are black, two are white but negroid. Above: Mr Newcome happy, Mimbo made Queen of the Harem. [5] He embraces Mimbo; two other negresses stand behind her, one holding two pale-skinned black-haired infants, the other with a third infant held on her head in a tray. Two other children stand by their mother. Above: Mr Newcome taking leave of his Ladies & Pickaneenees, previous to his departure from Frying Pan Island to graze a little in his Native land. [6] Portrait heads of the children, numbered I to 9, arranged in three rows. Above: A few of the Hopeful young Newcomes. Below the whole design: J. Lucretia Diana Newcome, a delicate Girl very much like her Mother; only that she has a great antipathy to a pipe, and cannot bear the smell of Rum. 2 Penelope Mimbo Newcome. 3 Quaco Dash Newcome prodigiously like his father. 4 Cuffy Cato Newcome. 5. Caesar Cudjoe Newcome. 6 Helena Quashebah Newcome. 7 Aristides Juba Newcome. 8 Hector Sammy Newcome, a child of great spirit, can already Damnme Liberty and Equality and promises fair to be the Toussaint [see No. 10090] of his country. 9 Hannibal Pompey Wampo Newcome
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Companion print: West India luxury!!, and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill. Countermark: 1825.
- Publisher:
- Published April 1808 by William Holland, Cockspur Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- West Indies.
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Johnny Newcome in love in the West Indies [graphic]
3.
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1825]
- Call Number:
- 807.00.00.80
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Social satire: an elderly woman with glasses and stick standing by her chair and table with her dog."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reissue, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate. For an earlier state published 1 March 1815, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.226., Date of publication based on watermark., Nine lines of text below title: Formerly there existed in the families of most unmarried men or widowers of the rank of Gentlemen, residents in the country, a certain antiquated female either maiden or widow, comonly [sic] an aunt, or a cousin ... Grose's Olio., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1825.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Holland, Cockspur Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Older people, Staffs (Sticks), and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > My aunt!! [graphic].
4.
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- August 1, 1826.
- Call Number:
- 825.08.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Characters of the Hand and Glove club
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date of publication altered. Ms. '6' added over last digit in 1825., and Watermark partially trimmed: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1825.
- Publisher:
- Published by Sherwood & Co.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The bowling alley, Worcester, or, Characters of the Hand and Glove club [graphic]
5.
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1825]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C9 824 no. 12
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in the Abbey Cloisters. Westminster schoolboys in cap and gown terrify a poor woman and a watchman by turnip-headed ghosts, and by one of their number on stilts who is masked and smoking a flaming pipe. Another, seated on a lamp-bracket, discharges a squirt at the frightened woman who falls, clutching at the fleeing watchman. 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. 15204 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: Page 76, Vol. 2. Watermark 1825., and Watermarked: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825.
- Publisher:
- Sherwood, Jones & Co.
- Subject (Topic):
- Boys, Fear, Couples, School children, and Watchmen
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Westminster frolics] [graphic].
