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Creator:: Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:: [29 April 1777]
Call Number:: 777.04.29.01+
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: In a park with trees, a fashionably dressed man and woman encounter each other near the footpath. The man wears a sword, large shoe-buckles, and enormous buttons which flash at the lady who recoils from their brightness. She is dressed in a tight-wais...
Alternative Title:: Coup de bouton
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: Pubd. 29 April, 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Buttons (Fasteners), Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Steel buttons Coup de bouton / [graphic] =

Creator:: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 April 1777]
Call Number:: 777.04.01.06+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An enormously fat man holds a walking stick in his right hand as he stands before a lake or river. He wears a tricorne hat and gloves, together with the huge buttons and shoe buckles popular around 1777. Possibly a caricature of Sir Watkin Lewes
Alternative Title:: Sir William Waddle
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: Pubd April 1. 1777 by M Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821,
Subject (Topic):: Obesity, Buttons (Fasteners), Clothing & dress, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Sr William Waddle [graphic] / MD [monogram].

Published / Created:: Feb. 7, 1777.
Call Number:: 777.02.07.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A young man with a large nosegay in his lapel, holding a tasselled walking stick in his left hand and facing right wears the oversized shoe buckles and enormous buttons of the day, as well as a round hat with the brim held up on the sides by bands loo...
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: Pub. by MDarly
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Dandies, British, Hats, Buttons (Fasteners), Staffs (Sticks), and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Buckles and buttons I am the thing. Dem-me. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [24 February 1787]
Call Number:: 787.02.24.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A fashionably dressed man and woman (half length) face each other in profile. The outline of the man's projecting shirt-frill resembles that of projecting gauze which covers the lady's bust, see British Mumeaum Satires Nos. 7021, 7099, &c. In the spa...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Publish'd Feby. 24th, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Buttons (Fasteners), Clothing & dress, and Pigeons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cock and hen pouters [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1770]
Call Number:: 770.07.00.02 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Subject (Topic):: Tailor shops, Scissors & shears, Buttons (Fasteners), and Irons (Pressing)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Carlton House botchers [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1707]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title:: Volume 1, page 51. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Figure of an ancient pair of buttons
Description:: Title from ink inscription above image.
Subject (Topic):: Buttons (Fasteners)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The figure of an antient pair of buttons [art original] : joined together by one firme solid neck ...

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