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1. Lawyer Flam, his wife, and Flam's ghost sung with unbounded applause, by Mr. Dowton in the comic opera called "Up all night, or the smuggler's cave" performed at the English opera, Lyceum Theatre, Strand. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [24 August 1809]
- Call Number:
- 809.08.24.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Scene in a lawyer's office with writing-desk, books, &c. An old man, flinching from a grotesque hairy Devil, who beckons him to Hell, is supported by a pretty young woman. On the wall are a print: 'Pilgrims Progress', a tiny figure surrounded by demons and flames; a notice inscribed 'Stamps'; and a pictorial '[Alm]anack'. On the chimney-piece a figure holds a (tilted) pair of scales and a candle gutters."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Two columns of verse in letterpress below title: Old Flam was a lawyer so grim, he married his maid, people say ..., Plate numbered '509' in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: John Hall 1805.
- Publisher:
- Published 24 Augt. 1809 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Ghosts, Crutches, Fireplaces, Devil, and Scales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lawyer Flam, his wife, and Flam's ghost sung with unbounded applause, by Mr. Dowton in the comic opera called "Up all night, or the smuggler's cave" performed at the English opera, Lyceum Theatre, Strand. [graphic]
2. Miseries of human life [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [October 1807]
- Call Number:
- Print00209
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- From her bed with bed curtains, an ill-looking woman with an imploring look on her face from her bed reaches for her nurse who is asleep in an armchair with her back to her patient and her feet on a cushion. She is very fat and coarse looking as she sits in front of a fire. The candle stick has fallen from the table and lies unobserved smoking on the floor at her feet, the snuffer also on the floor beside a cat who grabs the food from a plate that has also fallen to the floor. The table by the nurse's elbow holds medicine bottles as well as dishware. More medicine bottles are on the mantel and at her feet. A pot warms over the fire
- Alternative Title:
- While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Five lines of text below title: While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse, who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort, leaves your door wide open, stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 32.3 x 23.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published Octr. 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Medicines, Nurses, Accidents, and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Miseries of human life [graphic]
3. Miseries of human life [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [October 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.10.00.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- From her bed with bed curtains, an ill-looking woman with an imploring look on her face from her bed reaches for her nurse who is asleep in an armchair with her back to her patient and her feet on a cushion. She is very fat and coarse looking as she sits in front of a fire. The candle stick has fallen from the table and lies unobserved smoking on the floor at her feet, the snuffer also on the floor beside a cat who grabs the food from a plate that has also fallen to the floor. The table by the nurse's elbow holds medicine bottles as well as dishware. More medicine bottles are on the mantel and at her feet. A pot warms over the fire
- Alternative Title:
- While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Five lines of text below title: While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse, who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort, leaves your door wide open, stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark: John Hall 1805
- Publisher:
- Published Octr. 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Medicines, Nurses, Accidents, and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of human life [graphic]
4. Young gentlemen in the dress of the year 1798 [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- Janry. 6, 1798.
- Call Number:
- 798.01.06.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Companion print to his "Young ladies" published also in 1798., Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Furniture: garden bench -- Literature: Chesterfield, Philip Dorner Stanhope, Letters -- Quizzing glasses -- Male dress: spencer., and Watermark: John Hall 1805.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs and Hand lenses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Young gentlemen in the dress of the year 1798 [graphic]
