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1. "Brother John and I" the polite grocers of the Strand / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [21 May 1805]
- Call Number:
- 805.05.21.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men at a shop counter in a tea and coffee retail shop using scales to measure out coffee beans and "Two elderly men, whose family resemblance is pronounced, sit directed to the left, behind a counter running diagonally across the design. They are manipulating small scales; one (left) has his hand in a canister of 'Coffee'. Close behind them is the wall, showing the arrangement of a grocer's shop: deep drawers interspersed with shelves on which are sugar-loaves and canisters of tea. The latter are inscribed respectively: 'Hyson', 'Bloom', 'Hyson', '[Souc]hong', 'Congo', 'Bohea'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Polite grocers of the Strand
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Artist attribution to Andrew Bell and printmaker attribution to Edmund Scott suggested in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.7364, Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right side., "While [Dorothy] George identifies the brothers as John and Richard Twining, [Sir Ambrose] Heal identifies them as John and Aaron Trim, grocers and tea-dealers in the Strand. This is backed up by another plate in the Heal collection that names Aaron and John Trim under their portrait (see Heal,Portraits.194)."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,Portraits.193., and Probably a plate from: Kirby's wonderful and eccentric musuem; or, Magazine of remarkable characters.
- Publisher:
- Published May 21, 1805, by R.S. Kirby, 11 London House Yard, St. Pauls
- Subject (Geographic):
- Strand, The (London, England), England, London, and The Strand.
- Subject (Name):
- Twining, Richard, 1749-1824., Twining, John, 1760-1827., Trim, Aaron, active 1793-1807., and Trim, John, active 1793-1807.
- Subject (Topic):
- Coffee industry, Tea trade, Grocers, Stores, Retail, Brothers, brothers, Scales, Coffee, Tea, and Counters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Brother John and I" the polite grocers of the Strand / [graphic]
2. A morning ramble, or, The milliners shop [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Published as the Act directs [not before 20 May 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.05.20.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Shop interior with three milliners in frilled caps behind the counter, one seated and two sewing. Behind them the window to the left displays their work, while to the right shelves hold boxes labelled Feathers, Love, Coxcomb and Mode. Two fashionable men and a Pomeranian dog are before the counter, one man seated upon it and the other handing the ladies a "Masquerade Ticket".
- Alternative Title:
- Milliners shop
- Description:
- Title from item., Date erased from print., Numbered 478 in lower left margin., and Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, v.5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles."
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Millinery, Interiors, Counters, Clothing & dress, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A morning ramble, or, The milliners shop [graphic].
3. Billing and cooing at the jelly shop [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1798]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 3. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man and woman sit facing each other beside the counter, which stretches across the design; he holds a jelly-glass and puts a spoonful to her mouth; she sits with open mouth and folded arms, a closed fan in one hand. A third customer leans on the counter, holding a jelly-glass and admiring through a lorgnette his own reflection in a mirror; this is the centre of the wall behind the counter, dividing two sets of shelves on which are neatly ranged canisters, glasses, packets, &c. A shop-girl (right) also gazes at the pair. All are fashionably dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After an original drawing by Isaac Cruikshank in the Huntington Library., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "219" in lower left corner., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm; pasted beneath is a 1750s newspaper clipping advertising "How's Chocolate and Jelly House in Half-Moon-Court joining to Ludgate"., and Mounted on page 3 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:
- Published 4th June 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Stores & shops, Interiors, Counters, Preserves, Spoons, Couples, Eating & drinking, Fans (Accessories), Mirrors, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billing and cooing at the jelly shop [graphic].
4. Choleraphoby [graphic].
- Creator:
- Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1831]
- Call Number:
- Print01101
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Distraught customers besiege an apothecary's counter. A fat man pounds with a pestle in a mortar; a dandified shopman serves; another, with a knowing wink, takes a canister from a shelf. A boy holds out a coin: 'I wants a pennorth O Camphor'. A man with a bottle demands 'Spirits of Wine and mustard'. A woman says 'I feel very poorly'. A man and a woman both call for 'Camphor' and a man with a jug says 'Soap Sir'. (For the cholera epidemic see British Museum Satires No. 16922, &c.)"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Attributed to Robert Seymour in the British Museum catalogue., One of three individually-titled Illustrations on page 2 of: McLean's monthly sheet of caricatures, or, The looking glass. No. 24 (1 December 1831)., Sheet trimmed with loss of the other two llustrations issued on the same page., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior.
- Publisher:
- T. McLean
- Subject (Topic):
- Cholera, Drugstores, Interiors, Mortars & pestles, Counters, and Consumers
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Choleraphoby [graphic].
5. Scotch fiddle [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1830]
- Call Number:
- Print01318
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene inside an apothecary’s shop, with a surprised looking apothecary standing behind the counter serving a shifty looking male customer wearing a Scottish bonnet cap and tartan trousers. Behind the counter is a labelled drug run (a set of drawers for storing medicinal ingredients) and labelled drug jars (for storing prepared medicines); on and in front of the counter are pestles and mortars. The shop has carboys and drug jars on display in the windows to the right. The apothecary holds a plaster iron in his hand and is in the process mixing a preparation. See: Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum online, Attitudes to Health Collection, Reference 997.17.7.
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of dialogue etched below title: Please Dockthar to gee me a baubee's worth o' brimstane, its no for mysel but for anither gentleman thats outside., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior.
- Publisher:
- Published 1830 by S. Gans, Southampton St.
- Subject (Topic):
- Drugstores, Dermatology, Skin, Diseases, Itching, Interiors, Pharmacists, Counters, Stools, Mortars & pestles, Clothing & dress, Scotland, and Ethnic stereotypes
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Scotch fiddle [graphic]
