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1. The representation of Thomas Topham the strong man before thousands of people, in Bath-Street, Cold-Bath-Fields / [graphic] : who lifted three hogsheads of water, weighing 1836 £, the 28th of May 1741, in honour to Admiral Vernon
- Creator:
- Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 June 1741]
- Call Number:
- 741.06.29.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Thomas Topham, taken on 28 May 1741; full length, standing slightly to right on high scaffold, preparing to lift three hogsheads full of water in Bath Street, London, in honour of Admiral Vernon's attack to capture Cartagena; after a drawing by Leigh."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Representation of Thomas Topham the strongman ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., "Price six-pence"--Following imprint., and Watermark: Countermark "IV".
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 29, 1741, and sold by W.H. Toms, engraver, in Union Court, Holbourn
- Subject (Name):
- Topham, Thomas, approximately 1710-1749, and Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bodybuilders, Lifting & carrying, and Barrels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The representation of Thomas Topham the strong man before thousands of people, in Bath-Street, Cold-Bath-Fields / [graphic] : who lifted three hogsheads of water, weighing 1836 £, the 28th of May 1741, in honour to Admiral Vernon
2. Love in a tub, or, The old miser outwitted
- Published / Created:
- [between 1754 and 1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Old miser outwitted
- Description:
- Verse - "Let every one that is to mirth inclin'd,"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the imprint is at the foot of the last, below a row of type ornaments; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 75. 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:
- Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow Lane, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Bathtubs & showers, Barrels, and Hiding
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Love in a tub, or, The old miser outwitted
3. Brittanias pocket pickd by mercenaries The choice spirits, or, Puffers for Sig Mingotas operas ; Prussia mounting the German Eagle. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.40
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Britanias pocket pickd by mercenaries, Britanias pocket picked by mercenaries, and Britannia's pocket picked by mercenaries
- Description:
- Titles etched below each image., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., and None of designs recorded in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 1709-1762, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Byng, John, 1704-1757, and Mingotti, Regina, 1722-1808.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Ammunition, Barrels, Cannons, Crowns, Eagles, Eclipses, Flags, British, Mercenaries (Soldiers), Musical instruments, National emblems, French, German, and Scepters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Brittanias pocket pickd by mercenaries The choice spirits, or, Puffers for Sig Mingotas operas ; Prussia mounting the German Eagle. [graphic]
4. The brewers charity to the publick [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1761]
- Call Number:
- 761.01.28.01.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the proposed introduction of a tax on beer showing members of the public in front of a large brewery: a brewer promises not to raise his prices thus pleasing a coachman, a soldier laments his daily pay of only 5d., a porter with a knot on his shoulder complains, a hackney coachman says he will drink good porter, two gentleman feel that the cost would be borne by the poor and so is likely to be altered, two old women think that the price of gin should be lowered if that of beer is to be raised; on a hill in the background three asses with human heads represent brewers, including Sir William Calvert, are only interested in their own promotion; a drayman hauls a barrel on a sled."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Brewers charity to the public
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Later state, by a different publisher and without date, of no. 3805 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Date of publication based on that of earlier state., Imprint from 1st state partially burnished from plate., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Breweries., and Watermark and countermark: royal cipher.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament, by C. Dicey & Co. in Aldermary Church Yard, London
- Subject (Name):
- Calvert, William, Sir, ?1703-1761
- Subject (Topic):
- Brewing industry and Barrels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The brewers charity to the publick [graphic].
5. [The gin drinkers] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1763]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A confrontation in a bedchamber between a black woman in a nightgown in bed and four men who surround her canopy bed. One man holds a candle. The woman is slapping the one man to her right on the cheek while another pulls him away. A fourth man is pointing towards her shoulder
- Description:
- Title from ms. note. Date from curator., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above sheet: Gin-Drinkers. Spurious., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below sheet: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 429., and On page 154 in volume 2.
- Subject (Topic):
- Barrels, Boys, Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Pipes (Smoking), Taverns (Inns), Urination, and Vomiting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The gin drinkers] [art original].
6. [Performing dog and players] [art original]
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1765?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Four men stand at center, in front of an exterior wall or fence and beside a barrel on the left. One man plays a horn, in response to which a dog on the far right stands on its hind legs
- Description:
- Title and date from local card catalog record., Signed with the artist's initials in lower right portion of image., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Subject (Topic):
- Trained animals, Dogs, Wind instruments, and Barrels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Performing dog and players] [art original]
7. [A satire on gin-drinking] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1766?]
- Call Number:
- 766.00.00.08+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire on gin drinking: In a cellar distillery with a large cask a group of male figures with the heads of monkeys and women with heads of cats are drinking heavily with some vomiting
- Alternative Title:
- Gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny ...
- Description:
- Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print., Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II., Reversed copy of a print published ca. 1730. Publication information for this later version based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766; see no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Publisher alternatively identified as John Bowles; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.29, Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: The gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny, are those, who in such manner use it, as if their study was t'abuse it ..., and Plate numbered '8' in lower left corner. Plate number indicates that it may be one of a series of reissues of Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger's satires of people with animal heads, published in the 1760s.
- Publisher:
- Robert Sayer?
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Basements, Gin, Barrels, Drinking vessels, Lanterns, Light fixtures, Torches, Crutches, Amputees, Vomiting, Peg legs, Pipes (Smoking), and Smoking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A satire on gin-drinking] [graphic].
8. [A satire on gin-drinking] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1766?]
- Call Number:
- 766.00.00.08+ Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire on gin drinking: In a cellar distillery with a large cask a group of male figures with the heads of monkeys and women with heads of cats are drinking heavily with some vomiting
- Alternative Title:
- Gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny ...
- Description:
- Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print., Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II., Reversed copy of a print published ca. 1730. Publication information for this later version based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766; see no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Publisher alternatively identified as John Bowles; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.29, Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: The gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny, are those, who in such manner use it, as if their study was t'abuse it ..., Plate numbered '8' in lower left corner. Plate number indicates that it may be one of a series of reissues of Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger's satires of people with animal heads, published in the 1760s., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 29 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 41.3 x 30.3 cm., and Printed on wove paper; hand-colored. Number '8' mostly erased from sheet.
- Publisher:
- Robert Sayer?
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Basements, Gin, Barrels, Drinking vessels, Lanterns, Light fixtures, Torches, Crutches, Amputees, Vomiting, Peg legs, Pipes (Smoking), and Smoking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A satire on gin-drinking] [graphic].
9. An Holland smock to be run for by any woman born in this county the best woman in three heats / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the act directs, 1770.
- Call Number:
- 770.00.00.38+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on village life. A country fair in which three young women are running for the prize of a smock; the third in line has tripped over a dog and is being helped up by a man. In the foreground, left to right: a young couple embrace beneath two trees hung with drapery; a small girl fills a mug of beer from a cask on which leans the village constable, asleep, with an empty mug in his lap; a small girl beside him holds a book lettered, "Compleat Peace Off[ice]r."; a dog steals food from a plate discarded on the ground; an old man stands on tip-toe holding his eye-glass to read a notice lettered, "To be Run for by Men in Sacks, A Flitch of Bacon on Tuesday next" which is pinned to one of the trees; a sailor sits on a branch of the tree holding up the hem of the prize smock which hangs on a pole at either end of which is a three-cornered hat; another sailor lounges on the ground looking at the runing women, a large jug near his foot; a chimney boy grabs a gingerbread crown from a boy who is holding a donkey by a chain; a small girl holds a younger child who waves another gingerbread crown while a dog jumps up to reach it. Behind the area roped off for the race is a crowd of spectators and a farm cart which a woman climbs into with the help of two men and another woman already in the cart; a man with a cockade in his hat waves a small flag on a pole, perhaps indicating the start of the race; a larger flag with a cross flies behind; other villagers are gathered in and around a makeshift tent; a one-horse carriage driven by a woman and carrying a gentleman comes into the scene from the right; behind the carriage two men are fencing. Women watch from upper windows of a large house in the background; on its walls are two bird-bottles and a dove-cote which a cat is eyeing with interest from a window sill; beyond is a windmill."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Country fairs -- Buildings -- Prizes: Holland smock -- Tricorne hats -- Constables -- Barrels with spiggots -- Beer -- Food: gingerbread -- Vehicles -- Chaise -- Animals -- Trades -- Donkey-driver -- Dishes: tankards -- Dove-cot -- Placards: race notice -- Customs: allusion to the "Flitch of bacon" -- Quizzing glasses -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform., and Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Jno. Smith, No. 35 in Cheapside, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Country life, Fairs, Running races, Windmills, Hats, Barrels, Beer, Flags, British, Daggers & swords, Carts & wagons, Carriages & coaches, Dogs, Horses, Cats, Donkeys, Chimney sweeps, Pitchers, Birdhouses, Signs (Notices), and Hand lenses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An Holland smock to be run for by any woman born in this county the best woman in three heats / [graphic]
10. Sr. Bibo Bulky [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Decr. 1, 1773.
- Call Number:
- 773.12.01.03.1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 43. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A short fat man standing on a stool in a cellar by a wine barrel, from which a stream of fluid pours directly into his mouth."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Sir Bibo Bulky
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "21" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Containers: Tun of wine -- Containers: Basket -- Tools: Hammer -- Furniture: Footstool., and Mounted to 27 x 32 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. accord. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Wine cellars, Barrels, Wine, Obesity, and Eating & drinking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sr. Bibo Bulky [graphic].