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1.
Geography [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 53. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men converse in an interior next to a fireplace. The figure at right rises and points to a portrait over the fireplace, a dog looking up to follow the gesture. The other figure, seated, holds a glass of wine. A grinning classical bust on the bookcase, lettered "Aristhoph..."."--Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Restrike. For an earlier issue, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.1816., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Frontispiece to part 20 of: The Wits magazine, and Attic miscellany. London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, [1818], Five lines of text below title: Foote, who had a sovereign contempt for his wife, said to Murphy, You may learn geography from her face ..., and On leaf 53 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Fireplaces, Portrait paintings, Dogs, Drinking vessels, Sculpture, and Bookcases
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Geography [graphic].

2.
The cat's-paw! [graphic]

Published / Created:
[approximately 1832]
Call Number:
832.00.00.52
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire of William IV's involvement in the debate leading up to the Reform Act of 1832: A cat with the face of William IV is being persuaded to pull a hot chestnut from a blazing fire by a bewigged monkey (Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham). The fire is labelled with words such as 'rights', 'reform', and 'popularity'. A portrait of Whig Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, hangs above the fireplace
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date inferred from the subject matter of the print. Publisher Marianne Humphrey, the widow of George Humphrey, operated her late husband's publishing business from 1831 to 1835; see British Museum online catalogue., Five lines of verse below title: A cat and a monkey tired of play ..., For an 1821 print of similar composition, entitled "The man of the woods & the cat-o'-mountain" and satirizing the relationship between Queen Caroline and Sir Matthew Wood, see no. 14131 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Marianne Humphreys, St. James's Stt
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845,
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Cats, Monkeys, Fireplaces, Bookcases, Irons (Pressing), and Portraits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The cat's-paw! [graphic]

3.
Bumpology [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 February 1826]
Call Number:
Print00044
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A phrenologist, De Ville, in his consulting room, feels the forehead of a loutish gaping youth who kneels on a cushion at his feet. Behind the boy stands his stupid-looking mother, grinning with delight at her son. De Ville, who wears plain old-fashioned dress, has a grotesquely shaped skull fringed with scanty hair; his left hand rests on an open book on his table on which is a skull, numbered phrenologically and resting on a paper: Thurtell [murderer] shown to be Craniologically an Excellent Character. Behind him stands an assistant with a porcine profile writing in a note-book: Very large Wit N° 32. A large book-case covers much of the wall (right). There are also portrait heads illustrating grotesque misshapen features, and a bust on a pedestal with a satyr-like profile."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of quoted text below title: "Pores o'er the cranial map with learned eyes, Each rising hill and bumpy knoll descries, Here secret fires, and there deep mines of sense, His touch detects beneath each prominence.", and For an earlier state before aquatint added, see no. 15157 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 24th, 1826, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Strt., London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
De Ville, J. and Thurtell, John, 1794-1824.
Subject (Topic):
Phrenology, Costume, Caricatures and cartoons, Bookcases, and Muffs
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Bumpology [graphic]

4.
The cunning and happy family [graphic]

Creator:
Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately November 1822]
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"George IV sits on Lady Conyngham's lap, kissing her amorously; he wears a dressing-gown with ungartered stockings. Lady Elizabeth (right) bends over him, supporting his elbow, while her sister, Lady Maria Harriet, stands behind the sofa, close to her mother. All three women are in evening dress. In the foreground (right) Lord Francis, tall and fashionable, stands directed to the right, looking furtively over his right shoulder. He holds a large purse, and is slipping coins from it into his trouser-pocket; he says: Well as this Purse must go to Knight-on [the K scored through] I'll make the most of it. At his feet is an open book: Lord C . . . Advice to his Son * Get money . . . it Honest if you can--. The words are partly hidden by a smaller book: Cunningham Poems. Behind, on the extreme left, and directed to the left, Lord Conyngham, with small horns and large ass's ears, sits on a chamber-pot inscribed Chamberl . . . [ain], holding a long wand of office. He scowls over his shoulder at his family, saying, It's a Blessing to be Happy and Contented. Behind him is a (pictorial) fire-screen mounted on a pole which terminates in a crown: Conyngham crawls on hands and knees, blindfolded and bound; his wife sits on his back, with the King on her lap, embracing her. Behind the closely grouped heads of the King and the three ladies are hanging bookshelves, two of the books being open: A Lecture upon Horns facing a stag's antlers, and Jerry Sneak [the hen-pecked husband in Foote's Mayor of Garratt]. On the floor in the foreground are an open book: A Mothers advice to her Daughters [cf. British Museum Satires 14401] and a paper: A List of Choice Plays She stoops to Conquer. All in the Wrong. Bold stroke for a Wife. Every Man in his Humour--Careless Husband. Way to keep Him, Tender Husband, School for Wives [scored through], Inconstant &c &c &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint truncated; publisher's name possibly erased from plate., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 25 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Ld. Conyngham," "Lady Conyngham," and "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image; date "Nov. 1820" written beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by [...]
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Huntly, Elizabeth, Marchioness of, 1799-1839, Athlumney, Harriet Maria Somerville, Lady, -1843, Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Marquess, 1797-1876, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Marquess, 1797-1876., and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Families, Mistresses, Kissing, Purses, Bookcases, Horns (Anatomy), and Chamber pots
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The cunning and happy family [graphic]

5.
Tugging at a eye-tooth [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 1, 1821.
Call Number:
Print00034
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The dentist, short, fat, and bald, stands in back view on a low stool, his knees pressed against the chair, his left arm round the victim's neck; he tugs at an upper tooth. The thin elderly patient raises her left leg in agony, overturning the folding wash-stand on which the dentist's appliances are spread. These include a basin, cup (both spilling their contents), a double set of teeth, a hammer, and a stoppered jar which falls against a large pier-glass, starring it. Both are unaware of the accident, though a little dog barks from under the table. The glass reflects dentist and patient, showing the latter gripping the arm of the chair. There is a window (right), the lower part screened by a slatted green shade. Above this dangle teeth with large blood-stained roots. On a chest of drawers-bookcase are laid out sets of false teeth. The books are Warbler; Winter in London; Lock on the Gums; Miseries of Human Life [Beresford, see See British Museum catalogue No. 10815, &c]; Bible; Tales of the Devil; Tommy Two Shoes; Treatise on Tooth Powder & Brushes; Feast of Wit; Tales of Terror, and two big volumes of Frankensteiv [sic] [Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published 1818]. The room is carpeted to the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tugging at a high tooth
Description:
Title etched below image., The word "high" in title remains visible but was scored through and replaced with "eye"., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dentists -- Tooth extraction -- Dentures., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.0 x 34.3 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Topic):
Bookcases, Dental offices, Dentistry, Dogs, Mirrors, Pain, and Reflections
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Tugging at a eye-tooth [graphic]

6.
Tugging at a eye-tooth [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 1, 1821.
Call Number:
821.11.01.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The dentist, short, fat, and bald, stands in back view on a low stool, his knees pressed against the chair, his left arm round the victim's neck; he tugs at an upper tooth. The thin elderly patient raises her left leg in agony, overturning the folding wash-stand on which the dentist's appliances are spread. These include a basin, cup (both spilling their contents), a double set of teeth, a hammer, and a stoppered jar which falls against a large pier-glass, starring it. Both are unaware of the accident, though a little dog barks from under the table. The glass reflects dentist and patient, showing the latter gripping the arm of the chair. There is a window (right), the lower part screened by a slatted green shade. Above this dangle teeth with large blood-stained roots. On a chest of drawers-bookcase are laid out sets of false teeth. The books are Warbler; Winter in London; Lock on the Gums; Miseries of Human Life [Beresford, see See British Museum catalogue No. 10815, &c]; Bible; Tales of the Devil; Tommy Two Shoes; Treatise on Tooth Powder & Brushes; Feast of Wit; Tales of Terror, and two big volumes of Frankensteiv [sic] [Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published 1818]. The room is carpeted to the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tugging at a high tooth
Description:
Title etched below image., The word "high" in title remains visible but was scored through and replaced with "eye"., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dentists -- Tooth extraction -- Dentures.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Topic):
Bookcases, Dental offices, Dentistry, Dogs, Mirrors, Pain, and Reflections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tugging at a eye-tooth [graphic]

7.
Cuckold Cunning**m frightend. at his w-f-s caricature [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1820?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Lord Conyngham stands by the counter of Benbow's shop holding out an open book to the shopman with a terrified gesture: "Mr Benbow, Pray who is this!" Benbow, behind the counter, touches the antlered figure of British Museum Satires No. 14029, and one of the fat ladies, answering, "This is Lady H----d and this is Lady C----m." His right hand rests on a pile of caricatures on the counter. A grinning shopman behind the L-shaped counter (right) holds up two fingers to simulate horns above Lord Conyngham's head. The walls of the shop are lined with books; by the counter three bills are displayed, one above the other: [1] 'Just Published 1s 6d Sultan Sham and his Seven Wives' [British Museum Satires No. 14029]; [2] 'Cobbett's Register Sold here also Peep at the Peers' [? British Museum Satires No. 14108]; [3] 'The K. the determiner of the Q'; [4] 'Queen & her Pawns agains the King and his Pecc' [sic, British Museum Satires No. 13946]."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
Alternative Title:
Cuckold Cunningham frightened at his wife's caricature
Description:
Title etched below image; the word "Cuckold" is partially scored through., Date from that assigned in the British Museum catalogue to another version of the same design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four numbered stanzas of verse below title: 1. Twas the eye of a cucold [sic] of fame and renown ..., For another version of the same design, etched by J.L. Marks and published by W. Benbow, see No. 14030 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 90 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and "Ld. Conyngham" identified in pencil below image; date "1820" written in ink beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834., and Benbow, William, 1787-1864.
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Stores & shops, Interiors, Counters, Caricatures, Bookcases, and Books
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Cuckold Cunning**m frightend. at his w-f-s caricature [graphic].

8.
Nobody see's it [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1814]
Call Number:
814.00.00.27
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from that of book; see British Museum catalogue., One of 14 plates from: Something concerning nobody / edited by Somebody. London : R. Scholey, 1814., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered "4"., and Watermark trimmed.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Women domestics, Kissing, and Bookcases
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Nobody see's it [graphic].

9.
The library [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1813]
Call Number:
813.00.00.24
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in a fashionable library with ladies and gentlemen conversing with attendants at the counters on either side. On the left a woman looks in a book while her male companion converses with a clergyman, as the woman behind the counter consults a book. On the right, a man sits in a chair as a lady discusses her choices with the man behind the counter who reaches for a book below a sign 'Stamp'. Behind him is another sign "Just published [...]" An older woman with a walking stick approaches the counter on the right, followed by a Black servant and a dog. The windows are filled with books and prints. Through the open door a woman with an umbrella is silhouetted; to the left another sign "History Westminster and its monuments."
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from the volume in which this plate was issued., Plate from: Poetical sketches of Scarborough / illustrated by twenty-one engravings ... made upon the spot by J. Green and etched by T. Rowlandson. London : Printed for R. Ackermann by J. Diggens, 1813., Aquatint probably added to this plate and others in the volume by J.C. Stadler and J. Bluck. See: Hardie, M. English coloured books., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark, partially trimmed: [J. Wha]tman [18]14.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann
Subject (Geographic):
Scarborough (England) and Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Interiors, Libraries, Books, Bookcases, Window displays, Light fixtures, Dogs, and Stores & shops
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The library [graphic]

10.
The poet and the bookseller [graphic].

Published / Created:
[5 December 1811?]
Call Number:
811.00.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Year of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Copy of no. 11686 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Publisher:
Pubd. Dec. 5th by E. Howitt, 73 Wardour Street, Soho
Subject (Topic):
Bookcases
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The poet and the bookseller [graphic].

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