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1.
"Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties" [graphic].

Creator:
Ducôté, A., active 1829-1832, lithographer
Published / Created:
1834.
Call Number:
834.00.00.15
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on a working man's interest in reading: On a city street, a laborer with a large load of furniture -- desk, chairs, brooms, etc. -- is distracted with the paper he is reading and hits a gentleman in the face with the leg of the desk
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Ducote & Stephen's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Topic):
Accidents and Reading
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties" [graphic].

2.
A continuation of the humorous effects of cross-reading the news-papers

Published / Created:
[1770?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC., First line of text: "The Right. Hon. the Speaker -"., In two columns with the title centered above both; the columns are not separated by a rule., Refers to Mr. Wilkes's 'History of England', vol. 1 of which was published in 1768, and to "Sermons for young women, in 2 vol. 12mo.", which may be a reference to James Fordyce's collection, which went into a large number of editions in 1766 and 1767., A selection of statements on contemporary events, made ridiculous by their association with other events., Mounted on leaf 35. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Wit and humor and Reading
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A continuation of the humorous effects of cross-reading the news-papers

4.
A tale of love [graphic]

Creator:
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 March 1786]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 56. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group in a garden room listening to a girl read, seated in the centre with the book in her lap, two woman sitting on either side of her, one patting a dog at right, the other with solemn expression, which has been noticed by a man standing against the wall at right, gesturing towards her, another standing directly behind her looks on with concern, a child sitting on the floor beside a large sleeping dog, his eyes raised up; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse, from William Shenstone's ballad 'Jemmy Dawson', engraved below title: Come listen to my mournful tale, ye tender hearts and lovers dear; nor will you scorn to heave a sigh, nor need you blush to shed a tear. Vide Shenston., Dedication engraved above imprint statement: To the Countess Sutherland this plate after an original Drawing by Mr. Bunbury, in her Ladyship's possession, is with the greatest respect dedicated by her Ladyship's most obliged humble servant, James Bretherton., and Mounted on page 56 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published 3 March 1786 by James Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Shenstone, William, 1714-1763.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Children, Courtship, Dogs, and Reading
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A tale of love [graphic]

5.
An agreeable group of young gentlemen, otherwise old bachelors turn'd asses [graphic]

Creator:
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Published / Created:
[22 August 1797]
Call Number:
797.08.22.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Five elderly men dressed in the fashion of youth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Numbered '196' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Morning Herald -- Literature: reference to Ovid's Art of Love -- Magnifying glasses -- Pince-nez -- Walking staves -- Duelling: crossed foils -- Placards., and Watermark (partial).
Publisher:
Published 22nd August 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Older people, Newspapers, Reading, Staffs (Sticks), Signs (Notices), Hand lenses, and Mirrors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > An agreeable group of young gentlemen, otherwise old bachelors turn'd asses [graphic]

6.
Cross readings [graphic]

Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1 November 1800] and [printed approximately 1822]
Call Number:
800.11.01.02++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two rows with five characters in each row, both women and men from different professions, shown reading
Description:
Title from caption below image., Restrike. Date of printing based on watermark., Design consists of twelve figures in two rows, each with lines of text etched above., 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 1822.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 1, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Topic):
Reading
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Cross readings [graphic]

7.
Dame Andrews : a ballad

Creator:
More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Published / Created:
[1795 or 1796]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Cheap Repository
Description:
Caption title., Anonymous. By Hannah More., This form of imprint was used between May 1795 and January 1796 (Spinney)., Verse begins: Near Lechlade town, in Glostershire ..., This edition has all except the price within a border consisting of intertwined ropes, one of leaf-like ornaments, the other of open ornamental dots; the words "Cheap Repository" interrupt the border in the center at the top; the two columns of text are separated by a vertical double rule., Below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price below the border: Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.---1s. 3d. for 50.---9d. for 25., Above imprint and below text, in italics: Entered at Stationers Hall., Entered in the Stationers' Register to Hannah More, 31 August 1795., The woodcut shows a family sitting by a fire at night in a room with a candle., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3 (no. 35)., Mounted on leaf 26. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, at no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country
Subject (Topic):
Candles, Fireplaces, Sewing, and Reading
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Dame Andrews : a ballad

8.
Dangit sir, I wish you would just blow your nose ... [art original].

Published / Created:
[183-?]
Call Number:
Drawings Un58 no. 30 Box D160
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A slender man (left) reading a book complains to a second man (right) sitting opposite him, "Dangit sir I wish you would just blow your nose". The second man, who is very fat and has a very large, bulbous and ruddy nose that extends over the first man's book, replies, "Blow it your self it is as near you as it is me." They sit on upholstered chairs under a window in a small space, the large man's legs positioned between the thin man's two legs
Description:
Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on costume., Caption continues: ... Blow it your self it is as near you as it is to me., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Noses, Obesity, and Reading
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Dangit sir, I wish you would just blow your nose ... [art original].

9.
Debates on palmistry from an original sketch in oil by Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Saml

Creator:
Haynes, Joseph, 1760-1829, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 February 1782]
Call Number:
Hogarth 782.02.01.01.2+ Box 210
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of men sitting around a table, one in the centre pointing at his own palm, while two others on the right watch attentively and a third on the left holds out his palm but looks back at a maid holding a staff who approaches an owl perched on a stand nearby; with a fifth man standing behind the others, holding a staff and reading a paper through spectacles and a suit of armour in the background to right; after Hogarth's sketch known as 'Debates on Palmistry'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted to 323 x 475 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782 at No. 3 Clements Inn
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Fortune telling, Newspapers, Owls, Reading, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Debates on palmistry from an original sketch in oil by Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Saml. Ireland / [graphic]

10.
Debates on palmistry from an original sketch in oil by Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Saml

Creator:
Haynes, Joseph, 1760-1829, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 February 1782]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of men sitting around a table, one in the centre pointing at his own palm, while two others on the right watch attentively and a third on the left holds out his palm but looks back at a maid holding a staff who approaches an owl perched on a stand nearby; with a fifth man standing behind the others, holding a staff and reading a paper through spectacles and a suit of armour in the background to right; after Hogarth's sketch known as 'Debates on Palmistry'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Wretched stuff., and On page 214 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782 at No. 3 Clements Inn
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Fortune telling, Newspapers, Owls, Reading, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Debates on palmistry from an original sketch in oil by Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Saml. Ireland / [graphic]

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