A busy scene in a farm yard. In the left foreground a woman (Aestas?) sits on a rock, while at her feet a woman spoons soup from a large bowl. She leans toward the boy at her side who holds a full soup bowl in his hands. To her left a young man approaches with two fowl hanging from the pole over his shoulder. Sheep mull about in the center foreground while on the right an old man sheers a sheep held by another young boy. In the background a man cuts rushes (?) which are loaded into a cart (with ox). In the left background stands a hut in front of which a group of men work at thatching a roof
Description:
Title written in brown ink above image, some letters very faint: Æstas., Signed in the lower right corner: Mary Walpole fecit., Upper left corner scortched with some loss at the margin., and For further information, consult library staff.
A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. A lanky man attempts to dance with a corpulent woman but steps on her dress hem in the process
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attributed to William Heath by curator., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
Pen and ink drawing divided into two parts, with an alderman on the left and a chamberlain on the right, framed in a elaborate border (suggesting a tent or fortress) of checkerboard and geometric designs. The stout alderman, spoon and fork in hand, wears a napkin pinned around his neck; he has a full spoon at his mouth and a plate of food and a mostly empty glass decanter rest upon the table in front of him. On the right the chamberlain, dressed in fur-lined robes and wearing his glasses raised up to his bald forehead, is shown with one arm raised and subtley pointing upwards while the left arm rests upon a large document entitled: This indenture wit. A coat of arms is displayed at the top of the design
Alternative Title:
Chamberlain
Description:
Title in artist's hand at top of design; artist signature and date inscribed in pen and black ink below image. Subtitle in banner below design.
Alecto, a fantastic hag, stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holding a long pike surmounted by a cap of 'Liberty' and holding out to John Bull, a yokel, a handful of 'Assignats'. Hissing serpents form her hair and serpents suck at the pendent breasts which her ragged garments do not cover. She has webbed wings, and wears a French cocked hat with a tricolour cockade inscribed 'Liberty'. She says: "Come on my brave Lad, take this bounty-money, & enter into my Company of Gentlemen Volunteers enlisted in the cause of Liberty - I'll find you present pay and free quarters, & I'll lead you where you shall fill your knapsack with Plunder; - nay Man, never talk about your old Master the Farmer, I'll find you Hundreds of Masters as good as he; Zounds I'll make you one of the Masters of England yourself: - come on, I say, keres riches for you, - come on; the glorious 14th of July is approaching, when Monarchs are to be crush'd like maggots, & brave men like yourself are to be put in their places - here hold your hand, enter boldly in the cause of Freedom, & cry Huzza - Vive la Nation! Huzza". John Bull stands on the left, scratching his head with a puzzled grin; he wears a smock and very wrinkled gaiters; his hat and a pitchfork are in his left hand. He answers: "Wounds, Measter Sarjeant, an I should enter into your sarvice, what'll Varmer-George say to I, for leaving of 'en without warning? - and yet I is half in love with the sound of your drum; & wishes to leave off Ploughing & dunging, & wear one of your vine cockades, & be a French Gentleman; - & yet, dangs it, it goes against ones heart to leave the Varmer; - ah Varmer George has been a rare good Measter to I! - but, am I to have all them fine paper Moneys - but to leave my old Measter! Ah me! I dozes'nt know what to do, not I!" -- British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution's Service, Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonium, and Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonuim, or, The recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution Service
Description:
Title inscribed in brown ink below image., 'Imprint statement' inscribed in brown ink above title: Pub. July 4th, 1791 by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly., Description of published Gillray print in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7889., Wright, T. Description of published Gillray print in Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 130., Wright, T. Description of published Gillray print in Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 56., and A 'counterprint' or transfer in brown ink from another print on verso of mount: The hopes of the party prior to July 14th.
Subject (Name):
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Revolution Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Drums (Musical instruments), Demons, Witches, and Fire
Portrait of Pope Alexander VI; half length, in profile to the right; wearing a red mozetta and a red zucchetto trimmed in white (the Camauro).
Description:
Title inscribed below image, in ink in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 91 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Portrait drawing of Afonso de Albuquerque; bust length, turned slightly left; with a long beard; wearing a black hat; the hilt of a sword just visible at bottom of image
Description:
Titled above image in ink over pencil., Signed in ink over pencil in lower left corner., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in with three other drawings at page 85 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with three other drawings to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 54 Box D305
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Ten figures arranged in two rows depicting dwarfs or 'Lilliputians' dressed and acting in a variety of roles indicated by a respective caption: A Lilliputian actress; a Lilliputian candidate; a Lilliputian voter; a Lilliputian woman of fashion; a Lilliputian man of fashion; a Lilliputian dowager; a Lilliputian alderman; a Lilliputian vicar; a Lilliputian man of consequence; a Lilliputian informer!!
Description:
Title from ink inscription in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., Date supplied by cataloger., and Three sheets of paper pasted on a mount in two rows forming one coherent design.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 40 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A footman leads a parson and six prospective suitors that have arrived in response to an advertisement for a husband posted by an 'old maid'. The bachelors include a Welshman, a Scotsman, and a doctor that offer flatteries while waiting, "Splutter hur, how pretty she looks, she pe [sic] a nice wench", "Leave a Scotch laddie alone for carrying off the sillar", and "From my conscience, she looks like a Venus of medicine!" respectively. The footman leans forward to shout into the elderly woman's ear trumpet, "Please your ladyship all these gentlemen be[?] come about an advartisement [sic] for a husband and to lose no time they have brought the Parson with them; please your Virginship what am I to say to em?" The elderly woman responds, "Say to them, why the men are mad, if I was so inclined do they think I would marry six husbands at once!!" A hissing cat followed by a litter of kittens stand beside the woman's chair
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Publication line inscribed in ink below image for possible later print: London, Pubd. Jany. 1, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, removed from Oxford Street.
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Cats, Hearing aids, Marriage proposals, Older people, and Single women
Drawing of one side of an ivory comb that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill. Rows of teeth run along the upper and lower edges on the comb; a decorative motif runs along the right and left edges. In the center of the comb, between the rows of teeth, are depictions of two scenes. On the left, a figure sits in the bath holding a flower while another figure pours water into the bath from a pitcher; the sun shines above. On the right, a figure stands in front of a bed
Alternative Title:
Ancient ivory comb, size of the original
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 118 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1805]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 44 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man riding horseback has a significant accident that topples the horse and throws the rider forward against the horse's neck and head losing his hat and wig in the process. A caption above the image informs: This I pressume is by way of proving to a certainty that two and two makes four!!
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink below image., and Date supplied by cataloger.
