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Published / Created:: [between 1820 and 1840]
Call Number:: 75 D285 820
Image Count:: 24
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A collection of 24 proof sheets, mostly eight images per sheet, surrounded by typographic border. The images include a wide range of insects, aquatic animals, and mammals, both those common in England as well as those found in Africa and parts of the ...
Description:: William Davison (1781-1858), printer in Alnwick, as well as a pharmacist, newspaper produce and local philanthropist; a partner with John Catnach until 1808. Davison's output included notepaper and handbills, newspapers, chapbooks, an illustrated bibl...
Publisher:: Published by W. Davison, Bondgate Street, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):: Birds, Fairy tales, Fish, Insects, Landscapes, Mammals, and Reptiles
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Proof sheets of illustrations for publications by William Davison of Alnwick [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.88
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A country woman in an apron and cloak, hands on her hips, laughs as she watches the havoc caused by a sow and her piglets who run in all directions on the road. A horse rears in panic and topples acouple and their buggy. Another man on horseback is pi...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):: Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Country life, Robberies, and Swine
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The misfortune [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.87 Impression 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A politician sits center in a chair before a table with a single candlestick on top. He holds the candle itself in his hand as he closely examines a sheet of paper, oblivious to the fact that the candle is burning a hole in the brim of his hat. Behin...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):: Foreign relations, Maps, and Politicians
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The politician [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.93 Impression 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A dejected-looking man stands barefoot, his shirt open, next to a stump of a tree, pulling a louse from his chest. In the distance is a walled city with two church spires
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Printed and published by W. Duvison [that is, Davison], Alnwick
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Spaniard lousing [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.107 Impression 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An ugly woman with only two teeth and with holes in her sleeve, shown half-length to left, a scarf over her head and tied under her chin, one hand around a tankard, holding up the other hand with thumb and forefinger pinched together, a small round sn...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):: Snuff, Drinking vessels, Older people, and Poverty
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Snuff and twopenny [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.112 Impression 3
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a pla...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Name):: Columbus, Christopher,
Subject (Topic):: Dogs, Eggs, and Legends
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Columbus breaking the egg [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.86 Impression 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An austere-looking man with a shaved head and ragged clothes, kneels in prayer before his simple meal, unaware that as he recites his blessing, his cat is drinking from his bowl. On the table is a book on which lay his spectacles; his hat hangs off th...
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):: Benedictions, Cats, and Prayer
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The blessing [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.114 Impression 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print shows a man and a boy chasing a pig in the yard of a country alehouse. In the background, another man pauses to remove his hat and wipe his brow, while a fourth has evidently tripped and lies sprawling on the ground. A dog barks at the commotion...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):: Dogs, Games, Swine, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Country sport [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.92 Impression 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A poet sits at a table, pen in hand, posed to write on the sheet of paper before him. On the floor is a discarded piece of paper. His hat and coat hang from a peg on the wall beside the chimney above which is a shelf of books and a picture of a Greek...
Alternative Title:: Distressed poet
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):: Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Writing
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The distrest poet [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.112 Impression 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a pla...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Name):: Columbus, Christopher,
Subject (Topic):: Dogs, Eggs, and Legends
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Columbus breaking the egg [graphic].

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