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1. A view of St. Georges Church, Hanover Square, from Conduit Street, London Vuë de l'Eglise de Saint George dans le Carré de Hanover, prés du Côté Rue Conduit à Londres. [graphic] =
- Published / Created:
- [between 1750 and 1771]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 155. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View on George Street, looking towards the square, St. George's Church on the right with large Corinthian portico, fat farmer driving sheep in street at center, sedan chair to right
- Alternative Title:
- View of Saint Georges Church, Hanover Square, from Conduit Street, London and Vuë de l'Eglise de Saint George dans le Carré de Hanover, prés du Côté Rue Conduit à Londres
- Description:
- Titles engraved below image, in English and French., Titled 'View of St. George's Church, Hannover Square, published by Jefferys' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc, London, 1829., Date range for publication based on publisher's street address and death date; Thomas Jefferys moved to the corner of Charing Cross in 1750 and died in 1771. See British Museum online catalogue., "Publish'd according to act of Parliamt."--Below image., For a variant state published by John Boydell, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.4534., Title in English and French, with publication line in English., Folded to 30.2 x 25.5 cm., and Tipped in at page 155 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Jefferys, the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London, London (England), and London.
- Subject (Name):
- St. George's Church (Westminster, London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Church buildings, Plazas, Churches, City & town life, Sedan chairs, and Herders
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view of St. Georges Church, Hanover Square, from Conduit Street, London Vuë de l'Eglise de Saint George dans le Carré de Hanover, prés du Côté Rue Conduit à Londres. [graphic] =
2. Amorous, clamorous, uproarious & glorious [graphic]
- Creator:
- Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1824]
- Call Number:
- 824.00.00.60+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Scene outside the closed iron gate of Covent Garden Theatre. A smartly dressed man swaggers tipsily and jovially along, both arms raised; clutching his arm is a dejected companion in a drunken torpor, fashionably dressed, and wearing a blue cloak lined with red over his evening suit. In the foreground (right) a well-dressed man reclines against a step, drunk and jovial, a battered top-hat on the pavement beside him. An old watchman stoops to lift him up. Behind them a fourth toper is jovially attempting to fight a watchman holding lantern and rattle, while a brother-watchman raises his staff. On the left a fat John Bullish fellow tries to waltz with a pretty little courtesan, while a second girl picks his pocket and holds up in triumph a watch and seals. Both are smartly dressed, wearing big feathered hats. Behind them an old bawd walks along taking by the arm a seedy rake. On the wall are playbills both headed Theatre Royal Covent Garden, [1] Tomorrow Night The Blue Devils [1798] Love's Labour Lost [2] The Road to Ruin [1792, see BM Satires 8074] Fortune's Frolic [1799]."--British Musem online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Amorous, clamorous, uproarious and glorious
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Quote below title: All coming from a public dinner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life, Handbills, and Intoxication
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Amorous, clamorous, uproarious & glorious [graphic]
3. An electioneering procession from the M-n House to G-d Hall [graphic]
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, artist
- Published / Created:
- [25 October 1781]
- Call Number:
- 781.10.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "An election procession of thirteen patriots walking from right to left wearing the colours of Sir Watkin Lewes, elected M.P. for the City, 29 Sept. 1781, see British Museum satire no. 5849. Two flags are carried, one "Lewes & Freedom", the other, "No Ministerial Influence", in reference to Lewes' speech on his election on 29 Sept. Two of the men are playing flutes, a third blows a horn. The figures are probably portraits; two are butchers wearing aprons, their steels hanging from their waists; beside one of them walks a muzzled dog with a collar inscribed "Liberty"; this butcher is eating as he walks. One man drinks a glass of wine, holding a lump of food in his left hand. One with a swathed and gouty leg walks on crutches. All have election favours in their hats, these are inscribed respectively "Lewes for ever"; "Sr Watkin for ever"; "Freedom"; "Lewes"; "No Bribery"; "Lewes"; "No Corruption". In the hat of the butcher with the dog is "Freedom's my plan Sr Watkin is the Man". The background is formed by the lower part of the façade of two houses in a street, the front of two shops being indicated. On the pavement (left) four little chimney-sweeps are shouting and waving their hats and brushes."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Electioneering procession from the Mansion House to Guildhall
- Description:
- Title etched below image. The 'o' in 'electioneering' has been inserted above the line., Signed in the image "J.N." JN is the monogram of John Nixon., and Verses following title: These stanch friends to freedom you here do behold, Will be bribe'd with good eating tho' they spurn at yr gold. For offer them money it's such a disgrace, 'Tis a thousand to one they dont spit in your face. But give them pudding & beef with compliments civil, To serve you they'll go ay e'en to the devil."
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Octr. 25, 1781 by W. Wells No. 132 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London, and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821 and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Political activity, Elections, Butchers, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Clothing & dress, Corruption, Dogs, Muckraking, Musical instruments, Political parades & rallies, Slogans, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An electioneering procession from the M-n House to G-d Hall [graphic]
4. For the benefit of Spiller [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1794]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 794.00.00.162 Box 125
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Benefit ticket for Spiller: the comedian stands in the center under a set of scales; he supports a burning taper; at his feet is a pile of tickets for his benefit performance labelled 'Pit', 'Gallery', and 'Box'. He offers the tickets to people on the left who put their payment on that side of the balance, while a bailiff on the right taps him on the shoulder, holding out a 'Writ' and creditors add their bills for 'Tripe', 'Gin', Tobacco', 'Snuff', 'Ale', 'Beer' and "The Taylor's bill" to the other side of the balance. A scroll looped over the top of the scales is a banner labelled 'For the Benefit of Spiller', its ends reaching a window of a tavern on the left and the window of a debtor's prison on the right ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Ticket for the benefit of Spiller
- Description:
- Title etched within image., See description of original print. No. 1815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 2.
- Publisher:
- Samuel Ireland
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Spiller, James, 1692-1729.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, Bailiffs, Jails, City & town life, and Scales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > For the benefit of Spiller [graphic]
5. For the benefit of Spiller [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1788]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 86K(f) Box 125
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Benefit Ticket for Spiller: the comedian stands in the center under a set of scales; he supports a burning taper; at his feet is a pile of tickets for his benefit performance labelled 'Pit', 'Gallery', and 'Box'. He offers the tickets to people on the left who put their payment on that side of the balance, while a bailiff on the right taps him on the shoulder, holding out a 'Writ' and creditors add their bills for 'Tripe', 'Gin', Tobacco', 'Snuff', 'Ale', 'Beer' and "The Taylor's bill" to the other side of the balance. A scroll looped over the top of the scales is a banner labelled 'For the Benefit of Spiller', its ends reaching a window of a tavern on the left and the window of a debtor's prison on the right--See description in the British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Ticket for the benefit of Spiller
- Description:
- Title etched within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 2.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd May 1st 1788, by Molton & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Spiller, James, 1692-1729.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, Bailiffs, Jails, City & town life, and Scales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > For the benefit of Spiller [graphic]
6. For the benefit of Spiller [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Benefit Ticket for Spiller: the comedian stands in the center under a set of scales; he supports a burning taper; at his feet is a pile of tickets for his benefit performance labelled 'Pit', 'Gallery', and 'Box'. He offers the tickets to people on the left who put their payment on that side of the balance, while a bailiff on the right taps him on the shoulder, holding out a 'Writ' and creditors add their bills for 'Tripe', 'Gin', Tobacco', 'Snuff', 'Ale', 'Beer' and "The Taylor's bill" to the other side of the balance. A scroll looped over the top of the scales is a banner labelled 'For the Benefit of Spiller', its ends reaching a window of a tavern on the left and the window of a debtor's prison on the right--See description in the British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no 1815., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 2., Title and date supplied by curator., Ms. note above in Steevens's hand: Spiller's Ticket. His ms. note in pencil above: See Nichol's Book, 3d edit. p.44 p. 444. His ms. note in pencil below: Sold for £5.5.0., and On page 86 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Spiller, James, 1692-1729.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, Bailiffs, Jails, City & town life, and Scales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > For the benefit of Spiller [graphic]
7. Grievances of London [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1812]
- Call Number:
- 830.00.00.123
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Frontispiece from 'Metropolitan Grievances; or, a serio-comic glance at minor mischiefs in London and its Vicinity', 1812. A crowded street scene, with the corner of a tripe-butcher's on the right: 'Gilbert. Gall Tripem[an]', a lean-to shop, in which the butcher bargains over sheeps' trotters and offal with an elderly woman. Outside this is a pavement along which a little boy bowls a hoop between the legs of an elderly lady on the extreme right who totters on high-heeled shoes, having dropped a lap-dog from her muff. A little chimney-sweep is much amused. Above the butcher's a woman at a window empties a pan: the contents splash on to the pent-house roof and pour through a spout over the white stockings of a fashionably dressed passer-by who registers horror, holding up an eyeglass. The stream splashes the unconscious woman who chaffers with the tripe-man. A street-lamp projecting from the corner of the house is broken. Over the uneven cobbles an old woman pushes a barrow of cat's-meat, shrieking her wares; two dogs bark at the barrow, a cat miaows. Near her stands a ragged, bare-legged man, with grievously twisted and misshapen legs (showing the effects of rickets); he sells 'The Last Dying Sp[eech] . . .', with a print of bodies on a gibbet, shouting from a cavernous mouth in a subhuman face. Behind him a jovial crossing-sweeper plies his broom. On the left is a caricature shop, the window-panes filled with prints, among which one of 'the Hottentot Venus', Saartjie Baartman, see No. 11577, &c., is conspicuous. There are also large comic heads. A fashionably dressed woman leaves the shop, holding her nose (assailed by the cat's-meat). Four men gaze at the window; one is a countryman whose pocket is being picked. Heavy flower-pots are about to fall on their heads from a projecting ledge. A woman leans from a first-floor window trying vainly to stop the fall, and letting her watering-pot discharge its contents on the still unconscious window-gazers. On the wall is the disk of the 'Sun' Fire Office, with the date '1812'. The next house is a small gin-shop with a bunch of grapes for its sign and the inscription '. . Arsnic--Best Cordial Gin'. Three dram-drinkers stand at the door. The last house, a corner one, is dilapidated and shored up with a beam. The ground floor belongs to 'D. Dip Tallow Chandler'; against the window is a stall or bulk. The top floor is that of 'Ling--Dyer &c'; a pole projects from a window with dyed garments and a length of material hanging out to dry. On the corner of the house is the notice: 'F P 20 Ft'. In the background the dome of St. Paul's rises above the roofs of houses in the middle distance."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date based on information from the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. G. Smeeton, 139 St. Martin's Lane
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Baartman, Sarah,
- Subject (Topic):
- Butchers, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, People with disabilities, and Window displays
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Grievances of London [graphic]
8. Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies, or, Man of pleasure's kalendar, for the year 1773 : containing an exact description of the most celebrated ladies of pleasure who frequent Covent-Garden, and other parts of this metropolis
- Published / Created:
- MDCCLXXIII [1773]
- Call Number:
- 646 773 H24B
- Image Count:
- 91
- Description:
- Page 104 misnumbered '103'., Signatures: A⁶(-A1) B-N⁶ ²A-B⁶ (- ²B6) [$3 signed (-A2, -G2, 3, -K2, 3, ²B3; A2 signed 'A3')]., Half-title wanting?, Verso of the title page: Contents to the Supplement, for 1773., Caption title on p. [1], second sequence: Supplement to Harris's list for 1773., Description based on imperfect copy: final leaf (²B5?) mutilated with loss of upper half. Page numbering based on Contents listed on verso of title page., Untitled frontispiece, signed in lower left "J. June invt. sculpt." shows a young gentleman approaching a prostitute with the arcade at Covent Garden behind them and a crowd of other men and women engaged in similar activities., Supposed to have been composed by Jack Harris, waiter at the Shakespear's Head; first edition 1760. Cf. Lowndes who says "Benjamin" Harris., and For further information including E.J. Burford's description of the British Library's 1st ed., consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed for H. Ranger, Temple Exchange Passage, Fleet-Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- English wit and humor, Prostitution, Almanacs, English, Sex, City & town life, Couples, and Prostitutes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies, or, Man of pleasure's kalendar, for the year 1773 : containing an exact description of the most celebrated ladies of pleasure who frequent Covent-Garden, and other parts of this metropolis
9. Matches [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [25 April 1804]
- Call Number:
- 804.04.25.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A boy stands selling long matches from a basket, outside the Mansion House, London."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Mansion House
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Alternative title etched above image: The Mansion House., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to 'Cries of London', reprint of the 'London Cries' section of Phillips's 'Modern London'; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1938,0307.6., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published April 25, 1804, by Richard Phillips, 71 St. Paul's Church Yard
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Mansion House (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life and Peddlers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Matches [graphic].
