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1. A new way to find out a customer!! [art original]
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 22 Box D175
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An innkeeper uses a bellows to clear heavy dense tobacco smoke from the tavern interior in response to a servant trying to identify his master in the crowd. The innkeeper proclaims "You say you want a little gentlemen in a brown wig. I have really so much smoking business in my parlour that 'till I make use of the bellows I can never distinguish a customer, I believe that is the gentleman you mean." The servant excitedly responds in a Cockney dialect "Yes, Yes, sure enough that be Master, but before he vanishes again, tell him that Missis has sent the street door key."
- Description:
- Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Signed by the author's in black ink below image., Future imprint statement for print based on this image inscribed in brown ink: London : Pubd. March 1800 by Willm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Smoking, Tobacco pipes, Bellows, Taverns (Inns), and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new way to find out a customer!! [art original]
2. Antique bellows in the armoury, Strawberry Hill. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1842]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents Un58 no. 20 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
- Publisher:
- Smith and Robins
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections and Bellows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Antique bellows in the armoury, Strawberry Hill. [graphic]
3. Betty Canning revived, or, A peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 March 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.03.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a room in a cottage. General Gunning (left) as an old gipsy-woman, but wearing a military coat, is seated (on a drum) at a table, facing his daughter. In place of a sword he wears a broom. He seals a letter, a number of seals and a letter 'To D------ of M------' [Marlborough] are on the table beside him. Miss Gunning holds a pack of cards (the ace of spades uppermost) to her lips, saying, "I Swear that I never wish'd or tried directly or indirectly to get a Coronet; that I never saw or writ to Lord B------[Blandford] or Lord L--------- [Lorne], in all my Life; - that Men are my aversion; - & that I never had any thing to do with, with the Groom, in all my born days; - Will that do, Dad?" He answers, "Well done, Bett! we'll get thro' the Business I'll warrant you; - we can write with all sorts of hands, we've got all kinds of Seals, & with the assistance of our old Friend under the Table, we shall be able to gu them yet daughter but I must be Mum". Through a hole in the boards under the table the Devil emerges, surrounded with flames, he holds up a torch exultantly, saying "Swear!" Gunning melts his sealing-wax in the torch, the right is an open hearth over which hangs a cauldron full of coronets. Beside it (left) sits Mrs. Gunning, blowing the fire with a pair of bellows formed of a book: 'Letter to the D------ of A' (see BMSat 7983). She says: "That's right, my sweet innocent Angel! say Grace boldly! make haste my dear little lovely Lambkin! - I'll soon blow up the Fire, while Nauntee-Peg helps to cook up the Coronets; we'll get you a nice tit-bit for Dinner, before we've done, my dear little deary." Opposite her and on the extreme right an old woman, dressed in rags stands over the cauldron with a spoon, saying, "Puff away, Sister! the Soup will soon boil - law's me, how soft the Green Peas do grow, & how they Jump about in the Pot when you Puff your Bellows!" Behind her is a placard: 'Waltham Abbey - by Peg Niffy'. (Mrs. Gunning, née Minifie, was said in the Press to have written a novel called Waltham Abbey, this she denied. 'Letter . . .', p. 89.) On the wall behind Miss Gunning is a print of the pillory (the punishment for perjury) and a bill: 'Affidavit of Eliz: Canning.' Behind her father are 'The Life of a Soldier', 'The Man of Honor a Catch', and 'The useful Groom a new song'. Through a door (left) behind Gunning is seen a groom holding a horse; he says, "I'm ready to ride, or swear, or any thing". A signpost points 'to Blenheim'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll -- Allusion to George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll -- Allusion to George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough -- Allusion to George Spencer, 5th Duke of Marlborough -- Literature: allusion to Susannah Gunning's Waltham Abbey -- Interiors: cottage -- Pictures amplifying subject: title page of Waltham Abbey -- Pictures amplifying subject: pillory -- Furniture: tables -- Military drums -- Coronets -- Utensils: ladles -- Inkpots -- Seals -- Sealing-wax -- Minifie, Margaret "Auntee Peg"., and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis on top and initials G R below.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 25th, 1791, by J.M. Fobes [sic], N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773., Squires, Mary, -1762., Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),, Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),, Gunning, John, -1797, and Minifie, Margaret
- Subject (Topic):
- Bellows, Brooms & brushes, Card games, Cauldrons, Devil, Drums (Musical instruments), Fireplaces, Grooms (Weddings), Playing cards, and Torches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Betty Canning revived, or, A peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family [graphic].
4. Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 April 1783] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 2. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Lord North, sitting on a large roll inscribed "Budget" offers Charles Fox a spoonful of broth from a bowl in his lap. He warns Fox to "... Be cautious! - a little of my Broth goes a great way ..." Fox, with a fox's head, sits on "Pandora's Box," his right arm round North's shoulder, saying, " ... give me a sup of your soup ..." To the right, a devil squatting on a low stool in front of a fireplace blows bellows at the fire under a large cauldron with more broth in it. A large coalition medal (cf. BMSat 6183) with the likenesses of North and Fox hangs above the mantel
- Alternative Title:
- Devil's the best of the bunch and Devil is the best of the bunch
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6219 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 47., and On leaf 2 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 22d, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Devil, Pandora's box, Fireplaces, Bellows, and Cauldrons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]
5. Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 April 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.04.22.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Lord North, sitting on a large roll inscribed "Budget" offers Charles Fox a spoonful of broth from a bowl in his lap. He warns Fox to "... Be cautious! - a little of my Broth goes a great way ..." Fox, with a fox's head, sits on "Pandora's Box," his right arm round North's shoulder, saying, " ... give me a sup of your soup ..." To the right, a devil squatting on a low stool in front of a fireplace blows bellows at the fire under a large cauldron with more broth in it. A large coalition medal (cf. BMSat 6183) with the likenesses of North and Fox hangs above the mantel
- Alternative Title:
- Devil's the best of the bunch and Devil is the best of the bunch
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 24 x 33 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 22d, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Devil, Pandora's box, Fireplaces, Bellows, and Cauldrons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]
6. Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [28 January 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.01.28.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. It is inscribed 'Tis expected every' and (round her neck) 'will do his duty'. She watches a servant holding a foppish and elderly naval officer, while he flourishes a cudgel. Bellows lie on the ground. The servant had discovered Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, had fetched the object of her affections and compelled him to marry her."--British Museum online catalogue. On the wall is a painting of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
- Alternative Title:
- Miraculous recovery of the unfortunate Miss Baily
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Later printing, not before 1812., Possibly also the work of Isaac's son George., One line of text immediately below title: A ballad by W.J. Donne., Five numbered stanzas of verse arranged in two columns in lower portion of print: A lady fair in deep despair, who pleas'd the beaux in singing, From off the tester of her bed, one morning she was singing..., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls, plate numbered: 456., and Watermark: [Turke]y Mill 1812?
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1807 by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily [graphic]
7. Here Nicodemus bauls with hissing tone, old bellows-es to mend" before I'm gone [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1803]
- Call Number:
- 647 803C
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 12r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man holding several bellows stands under an arch at one end of Blackfriars Wynd in Edinburgh's Old Town. Another man is seen in the background, standing at the other end of the dark, narrow lane
- Alternative Title:
- Head of Blackfriars Wynd
- Description:
- Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- L. Scott
- Subject (Geographic):
- Scotland and Edinburgh.
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life, Peddlers, Bellows, and Tenement houses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Here Nicodemus bauls with hissing tone, old bellows-es to mend" before I'm gone [graphic].
8. High life below stairs [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1770]
- Call Number:
- 770.00.00.103+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and supported by a young man, while a seated man wearing a tricorn smiles and points at her and an elderly woman stands with her arms folded under her apron, a dog at her heels; two posters pasted on the wall behind, shelves, bellows and other kitchen implements in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of the same design
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Publisher and approximate date of publication from smaller version in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.344., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark., A depiction of a scene from a performance of High life below stairs (1759), the popular Georgian comedy by James Townley., For a related drawing, attributed to Francis Grose, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Drawings G877 no. 1., and Laid down on stiff sheet.
- Publisher:
- Carington Bowles?
- Subject (Name):
- Townley, James, 1714-1778.
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Interiors, Kitchens, Servants, Peg legs, Violins, Bellows, Dogs, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > High life below stairs [graphic].
9. Hocus pocus, or, Searching for the philosophers stone [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 March 1800]
- Call Number:
- Print00183
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is a crucible; various retorts, alembics, and other paraphernalia of the 'black arts,' are scattered about, as well as a formula for 'changing lead into gold'; although the alchemists at best could only contrive to accomplish the reverse transmutation. Suggestive prints are hung on the walls of this chamber of mystery, such as the portrait of the notorious 'Count Cagliostro, discoverer of the Philosopher's Stone,' and the figure of the spurious 'Bottle Conjurer.' A military officer, in the next apartment, is turning his opportunities to more practical advantage by embracing, with a certain display of ardour, a pretty maiden who is nothing loth, the daughter, it appears, of the philosophically minded investigator."--Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist
- Alternative Title:
- Searching for the philosophers stone
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed in image, lower left., Traces of burnished lettering in lower right corner of design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hoaxes: allusion to bottle conjurer -- Male costume -- Furniture: chest -- Philosopher's stone., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior., 1 print : aquatint with etching, hand-colored ; sheet 25.8 x 32.1 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from lower left. The title is also separated from the rest of the sheet, having been trimmed away and then mounted beneath the design.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Jews, Fireplaces, Bellows, Fraud, Laboratories, Mortars & pestles, and Thermometers
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Hocus pocus, or, Searching for the philosophers stone [graphic]
10. Hocus pocus, or, Searching for the philosophers stone [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 March 1800]
- Call Number:
- 800.03.12.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is a crucible; various retorts, alembics, and other paraphernalia of the 'black arts,' are scattered about, as well as a formula for 'changing lead into gold'; although the alchemists at best could only contrive to accomplish the reverse transmutation. Suggestive prints are hung on the walls of this chamber of mystery, such as the portrait of the notorious 'Count Cagliostro, discoverer of the Philosopher's Stone,' and the figure of the spurious 'Bottle Conjurer.' A military officer, in the next apartment, is turning his opportunities to more practical advantage by embracing, with a certain display of ardour, a pretty maiden who is nothing loth, the daughter, it appears, of the philosophically minded investigator."--Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist
- Alternative Title:
- Searching for the philosophers stone
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed in image, lower left., Traces of burnished lettering in lower right corner of design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hoaxes: allusion to bottle conjurer -- Male costume -- Furniture: chest -- Philosopher's stone., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior., and Matted to 46 x 52 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Jews, Fireplaces, Bellows, Fraud, Laboratories, Mortars & pestles, and Thermometers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hocus pocus, or, Searching for the philosophers stone [graphic]
11. Imponit multis ars alcumistica fallax ... [graphic].
- Creator:
- Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1559]
- Call Number:
- Print00922
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text in lower margin., From: Francisci Petrarche, des hochweisen fürtrefflichen Poeten und Oratorn, zwei Trostbücher, Von Artznei und Rath beyde im guten und widerwertigen Glück, Frankfurt am Main: Egenolff, 1559., Image is from Cap. CXI, page XCVII verso., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- Egenolff
- Subject (Name):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Metallurgy, Smelting, Bellows, Furnaces, Anvils, Metalworking, Metalworkers, Scientific equipment, Eyeglasses, and Retorts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Imponit multis ars alcumistica fallax ... [graphic].
12. Iohn Bull's house sett in flames [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
- Call Number:
- 762.09.02.01.1+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times Plate 1' (Paulson 211) contrasting particular elements of that print to suggest that Lord Bute is creating faction within the country while Pitt and his supporters attempt to calm the situation. St James's Palace is ablaze; flames issuing from the gate set fire to an inn sign of the globe lettered "New Lost Land" (a reference to the recent loss of Newfoundland). On the left, Bute, wearing a tartan night shirt, holding a large pair of bellows, runs away from the fire but encourages it by breaking wind; two other Scots, crouching, also break wind, one of them addressing the other as "Brother Small Wit" (i.e., Tobias Smollett); Henry Fox runs away from Bute's supporters crying, "D[am]n the Dogs how they stink I'll turn my tail on them". On the right, Pitt stands on a fire engine directing a jet of water on the fire (in contrast to Hogarth's print where he stands on stilts fanning the flames while a supporter of the king is the chief fire fighter); the pump is manned by the Dukes of Newcastle and Cumberland and sailors who parallel the prominent sailor in Hogarth's print. Cumberland complains that the "machine is sadly out of Order" (meaning government) to which Newcastle responds "Yes ever since you left it", referring to Cumberland's resignation from military command. The sailors allude to Pitt's letter of October 1761 to William Beckford in which he explains his resignation "in order not to remain responsible for measures which I was no longer allowed to guide" (published in the Annual Register, 1761, p.300); they compare Pitt as the "Master [who] Guides it well" with Bute whose action is a wind that "encreases the Flame" and "comes from a very foul quarter". Charles Churchill, in clerical dress, walks towards the Pitt's group carrying a bucket labelled "North Briton" and offering to "help without hope of a Pension", an allusion to payments made by the Crown both to Hogarth and to Pitt. In the background, to left, a group of men look on saying the "Squire" (the king) and his family are "safe on the other side" (implying they have joined the opponents of Lord Bute, which was not in fact the case); one man continues to encourage Bute, "Blow away my Lad they will expend all their Water soon". Etched verses below describe the scene in scurrilous terms suggesting that the fire began in "the Welch Ladys Bed Room", i.e., that of Princess Augusta, and call for quenching of the "Fire of Party."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- John Bull's house set in flames
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Three columns of verse below titie: Iohn Bulls hous in flames, to whom is this owing, / That's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing / New lost land is done for, and all the worlds going ..., "Price 6d.", Temporary local subject terms: Buildings -- London: St. James's Street -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Seven Years' War: reference to the loss of Newfoundland -- Signboards -- Fire-engines., and Watermark: countermark I V.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Saint James's Palace (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Fires, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), Bellows, Flatulence, Fire fighting, and Sailors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Iohn Bull's house sett in flames [graphic].
13. Modern moonshine, or, The wonders of Great Britain [graphic]
- Creator:
- Terry, Garnet, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1 September 1774]
- Call Number:
- Print00777
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A scene on the sea-shore. A hoven cow, that is, a cow dangerously distended by eating green food, is being operated upon by a man who stands on a raised platform and pierces her flank with a pole; in his right hand is a curved pipe for the injection of smoke. Three country-people and a child gape in astonishment holding up their hands; a fat alderman in a furred gown does the same; from his pocket hangs a paper inscribed, "Nine Days he liv'd in Clover". On the right. three doctors or apothecaries are attending an emaciated and seemingly-dead woman (right), who lies on straw, dressed only in a shift: one puffs smoke from a tobacco-pipe up her nostrils, another applies a pair of bellows, the third listens through an ear-trumpet. It appears that while the cow suffers from a surfeit, the woman dies of starvation. On the ground lies the hat of one of the doctors, in which is a letter, "To Mr Blake Plymoth". Three spectators (left) watch the efforts of the doctors: one, an oriental, wearing a turban and draperies, holds out his hands in astonishment; he appears to represent the wisdom of the East (or the noble savage) confronted with the effects of English civilization. His two companions, fashionably dressed Englishmen, look on unmoved. Behind the sick woman (right) is the wall of a building, probably a theatrical booth; along it runs a narrow gallery where Punch is strutting; he points to a placard on which is a representation of the bottle-imp emerging from his bottle, the great hoax of the century, see British Museum Satires Nos. 3022-7, 5245. Beneath the bottle is a placard, "Subscriptions taken in here for reducing the price of provisions". Other placards on the booth are inscribed, "Marybone Gardens Fete Champetre"; "Mr R-s Letters from [the] Dead", this is behind the dead woman; "Hearing Trumpets on a new Construction", behind the doctor with the ear-trumpet; "Cox's perpetual motion, or the Elephant & Nabob", an allusion to Cox's Museum, see British Museum Satires No. 5243, his jewelled clockwork toys had been destined for an Indian prince; they are described in what Walpole calls "immortal lines" in Mason's 'Epistle to Shelburne', see 'Mason's Satirical Poems', ed. P. Toynbee, 1926, pp. 29, 112, 122, see British Museum Satires No. 5243. At this placard an oafish countryman (right) is gaping while a boy picks his pocket. In the background is the sea; on the beach is a boat raised on stocks but already breaking up; this is inscribed "The New Adelphi". The building of the Adelphi had been an unprofitable speculation, partly owing to the financial crisis of 1773, and the Adam brothers obtained a private Act in that year to enable them to dispose of the new buildings by a lottery, which took place in 1774. Across the water on the further side of a bay is a town inscribed "A View of Plymouth". A rope extends from a church steeple on the extreme left, behind the spectators, to a distant spire in Plymouth, down this a man is gliding."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Wonders of Great Britain
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: The Whimsical repository. London : Printed for R. Snagg ..., v. 1, no. 1 (August 1794).
- Publisher:
- Engrav'd for the Whimsical Repository, Septr. 1st, 1774, publsh'd according to act of Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Poverty, Cows, Veterinary medicine, Bellows, Sick persons, Physicians, Pharmacists, Pipes (Smoking), and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Modern moonshine, or, The wonders of Great Britain [graphic]
14. Morning preparation [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 February 1785] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 10. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, with "Gillray fecit" added in lower left corner. For an earlier state of the plate, see no. 6790 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 72., and On leaf 10 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic]
15. Morning preparation [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 February 1785]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Verso of leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Publication date of 25 April 1785 supplied by the British Museum catalogue for an impression lacking the imprint statement; this date apparently based on that of the companion print entitled: Evening consolation., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchairs -- Broken bellows -- Lighting: Dark lantern -- Emblems: Dark lantern of conspiracy -- Bellows as emblem of Ld. North., Mounted on verso of leaf 91., and 1 print : aquatint and etching on laid paper ; plate mark 36 x 25.6 cm, on sheet 39.3 x 25.9 cm, mounted to 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic].
16. Morning preparation [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 February 1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.02.25.01+
- Collection Title:
- Verso of leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Publication date of 25 April 1785 supplied by the British Museum catalogue for an impression lacking the imprint statement; this date apparently based on that of the companion print entitled: Evening consolation., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchairs -- Broken bellows -- Lighting: Dark lantern -- Emblems: Dark lantern of conspiracy -- Bellows as emblem of Ld. North., Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman., and Mounted to 37 x 31 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic].
17. Scientific researches! New discoveries in pneumaticks!, or, An experimental lecture on the powers of air [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 May 1802]
- Call Number:
- Print00727 copy 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A satire on the fashionable lectures at the Royal Institution. The audience are in a semicircle facing the lecturer's table, which is covered with apparatus. The lecturer, probably not Garnett but Thomas Young who succeeded him as Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Institute in July 1801, and who delivered thirty lectures there between January and May 1802, is experimenting on Sir J. C. Hippisley (left). Holding him by the nose, he applies to his mouth a tube from a series of retorts in which a gas has been made. The result is a violent explosion of flame and smoke from the victim's breeches. Next Young stands Humphry Davy, assistant lecturer to the Institute since July 1801. Holding a pair of bellows with vapour and gas spouting from its nozzle, he watches the experiment with a sardonic smile. Facing the table from the right, Count Rumford (see British Museum Satires No. 9565) stands a little apart from the audience, looking on with a complacent and proprietary smile; he wears an order. On the extreme right the audience are Isaac D 'Israeli, wearing spectacles over half-closed eyes, Lord Gower, watching impassively, and Lord Stanhope, looking intently through an eyeglass. Beside him on the padded green bench is an open book: 'Hints on the nature of Air requir'd for the new French Diving Boat.' (Fulton's submarine was tried in Brest harbour in 1801, and a small vessel was blown up by a torpedo; Stanhope's experiments with steam navigation had been unsucces-ful, cf. British Museum Satires No. 8640.) Two unidentified ladies watch open-eyed. Immediately in front of Stanhope sits Lord Pomfret, enormously stout, his eyes almost shut. These watch from the right. Facing the lecturer sit (right to left) Sir H. Englefield, holding note-book and pencil, and a thin and elderly lady turned in profile, taking notes earnestly, but not watching the experiment. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Experimental lecture on the powers of air
- Description:
- Title etched at top of image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Scientific lectures., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 256 x 354 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 23d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829, Hippisley, John Cox, 1748-1825, Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829, Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814, Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758-1833, Englefield, Henry, Sir, 1752-1822, Sotheby, William, 1757-1833, Pomfret, George Fermor, Earl of, 1768-1830, Denys, Peter, 1760-1816, and Royal Institution of Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Nitrous oxide, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Flatulence, Interiors, Lecture halls, Public speaking, Scientific equipment, and Bellows
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Scientific researches! New discoveries in pneumaticks!, or, An experimental lecture on the powers of air [graphic]
18. Sure cure! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1890]
- Call Number:
- Print01364
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Published in Puck, 9 April 1890., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Fainting; Politics, U.S.A.
- Publisher:
- J. Ottmann Lith. Co. Puck Bldg. N.Y.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States
- Subject (Topic):
- Free trade, Syncope (Pathology)., Sick persons, Bellows, Fans (Ephemera)., and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Sure cure! [graphic]
19. The French king in a sweat, or, The Paris coiners 1759 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1759]
- Call Number:
- 759.12.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the French king and his nobles melting valuables to make coin to pay war expenses in reaction to the disasters of the year 1759. Louis XV stands on the left holding a broken sceptre that he prepares to add to the crucible; Marshal Belle-Isle crouches on the right cutting up a candlestick; Madame de Pompadour works the bellows. Items of plate lie on the floor, including a vase lettered, "Germain fec" and a box lettered, "Messonier Inv"; on the wall hang portraits of W[illiam] P[itt], lettered "Terror of France", into which a sword is stuck, Newcastle and Fox, the latter two covered by a large cobweb."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Paris coiners 1759
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject headings: Reference to George Germain, Viscount Sackville, 1716-1785., and Mounted to 24 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. accordg. to act by MDarly, Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764, Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
- Subject (Topic):
- Bellows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The French king in a sweat, or, The Paris coiners 1759 [graphic].
20. The alchemist or, "The magic of patience!" [graphic]
- Creator:
- Swain, 19th century, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- November 22, 1879.
- Call Number:
- Print00622
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title and date from item., Published in Punch, or the London Charivari, 22 November 1879., Bradbury & Evans were publishers of Punch at the time, and were located in London., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- Bradbury & Evans
- Subject (Name):
- Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881 and St. Cyres, Stafford Harry Northcote, Viscount, 1869-1926
- Subject (Topic):
- Great Britain, Politics and government, Economic conditions, Alchemy, Politicians, Chemicals, and Bellows
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The alchemist or, "The magic of patience!" [graphic]