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1.
This ticket intitles the bearer to be admitted to the ball at Cordwainers Hall on the [blank] day

Published / Created:
[18--?]
Call Number:
646 802 M243 v.4 pt.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Ticket to a ball at Cordwainers' Hall, London
Alternative Title:
This ticket entitles the bearer to be admitted to the ball at Cordwainers Hall
Description:
Title from item., Entirely engraved; illustrated with the arms of the Company of Cordwainers at top, the image and text enclosed within a decorative border., Printed in blue ink., Text at bottom: NB. You are paricularly requested to order your carriage to enter Distaff Lane from the Old Change., Form completed in manuscript, with the date and time of the ball specified as 18 October 1827 at 9 o'clock; signed at bottom by the Master "Josh. Newson.", Mounted to 27.2 x 21 cm; mounted above is a small (sheet 42 x 46 mm) hand-colored etching of the arms of the Company of Cordwainers., and Mounted opposite page 532 in volume 4 part 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Worshipful Company of Cordwainers of the City of London.
Subject (Topic):
Coats of arms, Guilds, and Balls (Parties)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > This ticket intitles the bearer to be admitted to the ball at Cordwainers Hall on the [blank] day of [blank] 18[blank] at any time after [blank] o'clock but not sooner. [blank] Master

2.
Le triomphe mondaine [graphic].

Creator:
Besnard, Paul Albert, 1849-1934, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1886]
Call Number:
Print20153
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the third state, a black ribbon appears on the neck of the woman in the foreground; drypoint lines are added to her fur stole. Three faces appear above the figure bending over to kiss the ladie's hand; they are two men and one woman
Alternative Title:
Worldly triumph
Description:
In pencil bottom edge of sheet: Le Triomphe mondain; 3 etat., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and In pencil lower margin: Tiré à 100 ; A Besnard.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Rich people, Balls (Parties), Carriages & coaches, Horses, and Kissing
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Le triomphe mondaine [graphic].

3.
[Le triomphe mondain] [graphic]

Creator:
Besnard, Paul Albert, 1849-1934, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1886]
Call Number:
Print20152
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by catalogue raisonné., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., In pencil lower right margin: A Besnard., Plate VII from Les Femmes., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Rich people, Balls (Parties), and Carriages & coaches
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Le triomphe mondain] [graphic]

4.
An election ball [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
Augt. 1st, 1835.
Call Number:
835.08.01.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 12138 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9; originally published Apr. 28, 1813, by H. Humphrey., Temporary local subject terms: Election balls -- Lighting: Chandeliers., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 67.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Balls (Parties), Chandeliers, Couples, Dance, and Musicians
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > An election ball [graphic]

5.
Caracature [sic] of Lady Sykes as she appeared at a ball at Hasting [art original].

Published / Created:
Dec. 28, 1832.
Call Number:
Drawings Un58 no. 64 Box D165
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A solemn looking Lady Henrietta Sykes possibly attending the 1832 ball at Hasting is dressed in a puffy dark-black gown cinched tight at the waist with a gold colored belt and accessorized with whilte gloves. She wears a gold and silver crown and red flowers in her somewhat unkempt brunette hair
Alternative Title:
Caracature of Lady Sykes as she appeared at a ball at Hasting and Caricature of Lady Sykes as she appeared at at a ball at Hasting
Description:
Title from ms. inscription in black ink in contemporary hand on verso. and Date from graphite pencil inscription below image.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Ball dresses, Balls (Parties), and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Caracature [sic] of Lady Sykes as she appeared at a ball at Hasting [art original].

6.
Run neighbours, run, St. Al-ns is quadrilling it [graphic]

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 1829.
Call Number:
829.05.00.08+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Duchess of St. Albans, immensely fat, florid, and bejewelled, and a stout elderly naval officer wearing loose wide trousers, and apparently doing hornpipe steps, his hands on his hips, dance side by side with rollicking abandon. The others of the set: one man and two ladies on the left and one lady and two men on the right dance rigidly erect, and watch the central pair with hauteur; the men are dandies, the women slim and fashionable. The duchess has a swirling paradise-plume in her towering loops of hair, above tossing ringlets."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Run neighbours, run, St. Albans is quadrilling it
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., British Museum curator's note: The naval officer is (unconvincingly) identified by E. Hawkins as Sir George Warrender (1782-1849), a Huskissonite M.P. who was never in the navy; he was a Lord of the Admiralty 1812-22; he appears, in back view, in a "Sketch of a Ball at Almack's, 1815" (Gronow, 'Reminiscences', 1892, ii, frontispiece). Perhaps Lord Amelius Beauclerk (1771-1806), her husband's uncle. Cf. 'Croker Papers', 1884, ii. 200., and Watermark: 1827.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Beauclerk, Amelius, 1771-1846, and Warrender, George, 1782-1849
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Obesity, Balls (Parties), and Dance
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Run neighbours, run, St. Al-ns is quadrilling it [graphic]

7.
[The Cyprian's ball at the Argyle Rooms] [graphic].

Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1825]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C9 824 no. 10
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Men of fashion waltz with elegant courtesans in a magnificent pilastered room. A large orchestra is on a platform (right). Harriette Wilson (right) takes Stockdale's arm. Many names are given in the text of the published state. 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. 15201 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 48, Vol. 2. Watermark 1824., and Watermarked: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1824.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Wilson, Harriette, 1786-1846.
Subject (Topic):
Ballroom dancing, Balls (Parties), Courtesans, Couples, and Orchestras
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The Cyprian's ball at the Argyle Rooms] [graphic].

8.
The Cyprian's ball at the Argyle Rooms [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:
March 1, 1825.
Call Number:
825.03.01.04
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Men of fashion waltz with elegant courtesans in a magnificent pilastered room. A large orchestra is on a platform (right). Harriette Wilson (right) takes Stockdale's arm. Many names are given in the text of the published state. See British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Wilson, Harriette, 1786-1846.
Subject (Topic):
Ballroom dancing, Balls (Parties), Courtesans, Couples, and Orchestras
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Cyprian's ball at the Argyle Rooms [graphic]

9.
Low life above stairs, or, The humours of the great baby at B***ht*n [graphic].

Creator:
Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
Published / Created:
Jany. 24th, 1821.
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Heading to an engraved broadside. A servants' ball in the Pavilion, the musicians in the gallery being Ministers (left to right): Sidmouth and Liverpool play a duet at a square piano, gaping at each other; Eldon blows bagpipes; Castlereagh plays a harp. George IV waltzes with a fat, plainly dressed cook; he says: "How poor a thing may do a noble office!" A black footman dances with a fat lady; another lady dances amorously with a fat footman. One courtier (Bloomfield) dances with and embraces a fat cook, another has a more elegant partner. In the foreground stands Lady Conyngham (left), distressed and alarmed, her husband's antlered profile is just behind her; both wear coronets. She says: "Ah! with his scullion! Titles & rank are my defence But what can save her insolence!" He says: "If he has turn'd up my Wife I indeed may say--[citing Wolsey] "Farewell a long farewel to all my greatness!"" The wall and gallery are patterned with Chinese figures. The verses begin: 'Releas'd from all the toils of State . . .' The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 10th of 12 verses: '"I've supp'd within my kitchen range, "But I'll descend no more;* "The scene this night I'll wholly change, "Upstairs--invite uproar. "No virtuous women visit me-- "They dread to lose their name-- "I'll condescend--with those make free "Who never blush'd with shame. "Twas wrong when C--e eat perchance, With Vassali and Bergami-- "I'll eat with Cooks, with Scullions dance-- "I can't do wrong [see British Museum Satires No. 14133], G--d d--n me." . . . And Cunning-one moved not a limb, But stood amazed with wonder! To see the K--g's disgraceful whim, And, Vow'd she'd pull 'm asunder. . . ."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Humours of the great baby at B***ht*n and Humours of the great baby at Brighton
Description:
Title etched in center of plate, below image and above verses., Printmaker attribution to Marks from the British Museum catalogue., Twelve stanzas of verse in two columns below title, beginning: Releas'd from all the toils of state, From care and sorrow free ..., Text in lower margin, beneath verses: *See Marks's caricature of "He stoops to conquer, or, R-l George sunk" [British Museum Satires No. 13210]., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 48 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Lady Conyngham," "Ld. Bloomfield," and "George IV" identified in pencil at bottom of image; figures of "Sidmouth," "Liverpool," "Eldon," and "Londonderry" idenfied in pencil above print on mounting sheet. Date "24 Jan. 1821" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet. Typed extract of ten lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pub. by J.L. Marks, No. 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Balls (Parties), Adultery, Musicians, Servants, Dance, and Antlers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Low life above stairs, or, The humours of the great baby at B***ht*n [graphic].

10.
Presenting a dropt garter honi soit qui mal y pense [graphic]

Creator:
Dighton, Richard, 1795-1880, printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 10, 1821.
Call Number:
821.11.10.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Presenting a dropped garter
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Couples, and Dancers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Presenting a dropt garter honi soit qui mal y pense [graphic]

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