A caricature of the new Lord Mayor of London: Harvey Combe stands centerd in the a hall, surrounded by a desperate looking group of people both rich and poor, who kneel and beg. A skeletal man (buthcher?) holds a knife in one hand and a scroll in the other enscribed with a large order for meat: "12 haundres vension, 6 necks do., 8 turtles, 20 brace partridges, 20 pheasants, 20 brace woodcocks, 16 sirloins beef bacon(?) &"". In the foreground lies another sheet which readss "Tripe Soup. Liver & Crow. Fried Tripe. Bill of Fare for 8 Novr." The outgoing Lord Mayor, Sir Richard Glyn, who was notoriously spendthrift during his period in office, is seen being kicked out of the Mansion House holding large money bag with the word "Saving" written on it. The two cats on the left and the dog following the butcher are also thin from malnorishment. Two large spiders have spun large webs below the archway on the left below a two cupids holding a heart molded above the archway
Alternative Title:
New tenants at a mansion house
Description:
Title written below image., Signed with initials and dated by the artist in lower left corner., "Sold by all the printsellers in London, Nov. 9, 1799"--Written in above title., and Original design for a print published 9 November 1799.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Combe, Harvey Christian, 1752-1818 and Glyn, Richard Carr, Sir, 1755-1838
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Pleading (Begging), Kicking, Poor persons, Interiors, Cats, and Dogs
A male cat standing erect on his hind legs and fashionably in a morning coat and holding a top hat rests his left paw on the shoulder of a female cat dressed in women's puffed-sleeved dress and wearing a cap. She is seated in a chair and sewing; beside her is a sewing case on a pedestal side table. Both wear serious expressions
Description:
Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on costume., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Animals in human situations, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 37 Box D210
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A monkey wears a white bonnet and sits on a chamber pot with arms crossed across her lap in imitation of an elderly woman facing opposite with her dress raised sitting upon a 'closet stool'. The pair stare and grin at each other
Description:
Title from inscription below image in the artist's hand., Date devised by cataloger., and Attributed to Woodward.
Subject (Topic):
Chamber pots, Monkeys, Imitation, Bonnets, Women, Urination, and Defecation
Half-length portrait in profile to right of a man smoking a long-stemmed tobacco pipe
Alternative Title:
Jolly landlord
Description:
Title from inscription in graphite pencil over image., Title 'Jolly landlord' struck through and replaced with title 'Independent tradesman'., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on other drawings in the series., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Bust-length portrait of the German printer John Frobenius, nearly in profile, facing left; wearing a fur-trimmed garment
Alternative Title:
John Frobenius, printer
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after a drawing in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 113 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Froben, Johann, -1527, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk; turned slightly left
Alternative Title:
John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after the copy by E. Edwards that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 115 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Norfolk, John Howard, Duke of, 1430?-1485, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1807]
Call Number:
Folio 24 27 798
Collection Title:
Opposite page 308. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Jean-Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, duc d'Epernon; bust-length, turned slightly right; wearing armor with a sash and a broad white collar edged with lace
Alternative Title:
Jean Louis de la Valette, Duke of Epernon
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed with initials and dated in lower right portion of image; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., and Mounted opposite page 308 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ... From: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, MDCCXCVIII [1798].
Subject (Name):
Epernon, Jean-Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, duc d', 1554-1642,
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 96a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Joan, Baroness Bergavenny, looking left; wearing an English gable hood and a dress decorated with a cross and embroidery and holding a flower in her left hand
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed by the artist at bottom of image., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., Probably drawn after the painting in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., and Inlaid on page 96a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Subject (Name):
Bergavenny, Joan de Beauchamp, Baroness, 1375-1435, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Portrait drawing of John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett, as a boy; three-quarters length, shoulders turned right and head turned left; with long hair; wearing a red shirt with white collar
Alternative Title:
John 2nd Earl of Powlett and John Second Earl of Powlett
Description:
Title inscribed on mount 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 page 75 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 to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
