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11.
A duett at the Hanover Square concert [graphic]

Published / Created:
Augst. 5, 1789.
Call Number:
789.08.05.01
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two women stand on a balcony, mouths open in song and eyes cast downward at their music sheet. They wear corsetted dresses and feathered head wear. A satire of the duet performed by Harriet Abrams (1758-1821), the English soprano and composer, and her...
Alternative Title:
Duet at the Hanover Square concert
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Abrams, Miss, approximately 1758-1821
Subject (Topic):
Singers, Concerts, Balconies, and Headdresses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A duett at the Hanover Square concert [graphic]

12.
Refreshment at St. James's [graphic]

Creator:
Stubbs, George Townly, -1815?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately June 1789]
Call Number:
789.06.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Elegant and affluent customers enjoy ices in a grand room in London's fashionable St. James's. The female server behind the counter is elegantly dressed and looks with ease out of the window. A finely dressed gentleman leans against the counter at rig...
Alternative Title:
Refreshment at Saint James's
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
G.T. Stubbs
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Ice cream & ices, Eating & drinking, and Fireplaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Refreshment at St. James's [graphic]

13.
Sola experientia vera medicamina docet [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1789]
Call Number:
Print10018
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on medicine: to right, a man sits on a close stool holding a steaming glass vessel; behind him a doctor reads from a large volume propped against the lid of the stool; he wears a tall hat, large glasses and an ermine-trimmed robe which is held...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Candles
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Sola experientia vera medicamina docet [graphic]

14.
Mercury and his advocates defeated, or, Vegetable intrenchment [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 November 1789]
Call Number:
Print10029
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A quack doctor (right) stands outside his house surrounded by a pyramid of bottles inscribed 'Velnos Syrup', one of which he holds up, demonstrating its virtues with a complacent smile to a band of rival practitioners (left) who are furiously threate...
Alternative Title:
Vegetable intrenchment and Vegetable entrenchment
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 29, 1789, by W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Swainson, Isaac, 1746-1812
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Interpersonal confrontation, Physicians, Mercury, Patent medicines, Bottles, Sculpture, Medical equipment & supplies, and Mortars & pestles
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Mercury and his advocates defeated, or, Vegetable intrenchment [graphic].

15.
Ornaments of Chelsea Hospital, or, A peep into the last century [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[19 January 1789]
Call Number:
Print10011
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A three quarter length portrait of Dr. Messenger Monsey walking towards the spectator; his right arm rests on the shoulder of a Chelsea pensioner; both men walk with sticks. Monsey wears a hat and wig, the pensioner holds his hat in his right hand. T...
Alternative Title:
Peep into the last century and Epitaph on the late Dr. Monsey, supposed to be written by himself
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 19th, 1789, by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Monsey, Messenger, 1693-1788 and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Clocks & watches, Physicians, Crutches, and Veterans
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Ornaments of Chelsea Hospital, or, A peep into the last century [graphic].

16.
A mis-fire at the Constitution [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[12 January 1789]
Call Number:
789.01.12.01.1+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 47. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Fox (right) has just fired a musket at the British Lion (left), who lies beneath a cushion on which are the crown and sceptre; in his paws is a large scroll: 'The Rights of the People'. Fox takes deliberate aim, resting his musket on the back of his ...
Alternative Title:
Misfire at the Constitution
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publ. 12th Jany. 1789 by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Regency, Crowns, Horses, Rifles, Scepters, Slogans, National emblems, British, and Hanoverian
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A mis-fire at the Constitution [graphic]

17.
Loose principles [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[21 January 1789]
Call Number:
789.01.21.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Fox rises from a close-stool; Sheridan (left) is about to apply a syringe, inscribed 'R------ts [Regent's] Clyster', to his rectum. Burke (right), wearing a Jesuit's biretta (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6026), gropes in the close-stool, holding in...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 21, 1789, by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Regency, Defecation, Medical equipment & supplies, and Bookcases
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Loose principles [graphic].

19.
Refreshment at St. Giles's [graphic]

Creator:
Stubbs, George Townly, -1815?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 June 1789]
Call Number:
789.06.01.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three women and a man stand drinking gin in an interior in St Giles's, London; the woman on the left grabs a bottle from a shelf, to her right a woman holds up a gin cup; the man stands behind the three women leaning against a clock and a fireplace."...
Alternative Title:
Refreshment at Saint Giles's
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st, 1789, by G.T. Stubbs, No. 2 Compton Street, Soho
Subject (Geographic):
St. Giles in the Fields (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Bottles, Gin, Longcase clocks, and Fireplaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Refreshment at St. Giles's [graphic]

20.
A peep behind the curtain at Drury Lane [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
14 Jany. 1789.
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Verso of leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Sheridan (left) speaks through a small aperture in the curtain which he holds open, addressing the musicians, some of whom are seen on the right, saying, with a conspiratorial scowl, "D-n em dont play God Save the King". Behind the musicians are the ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Regency, Musicians, Musical instruments, National songs, and Theaters
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A peep behind the curtain at Drury Lane [graphic]

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