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1. A beau at Billingsgate "All fashion." "No weight" / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 April 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.04.24.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An old man and three fishwives toss a well-dressed young gentleman in a blanket. The latter wears a sword and huge buttons on his coat. Tubs of oysters and fish occupy the background with some large fish in the foreground
- Alternative Title:
- All fashion, no weight
- Description:
- Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark with some loss to image., Signed in plate by engraver(?) WH, probably William Humphrey., and Inlaid to 29 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 24 April 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Fishmongers, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A beau at Billingsgate "All fashion." "No weight" / [graphic]
2. A hint to [the] husbands, or, The dresser, properly dressed [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- 14 Augst. 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.08.14.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady sits at her dressing table, her elaborate mountain of hair being combed by her equally coiffed hair-dresser who stands behind her. The lady turns to see her husband who has just entered the room in riding dress, his whip upraised. Behind him in the doorway, the housemaid, winking at the viewer, raises two fingers above his head. Two portraits hang on the wall in the background
- Alternative Title:
- Hint to the husbands and Dresser properly dressed
- Description:
- Title from item. and A reduced copy of no. 5467 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires; tentatively attributed by George to P. Dawe.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Cuckolds, Couples, Hairdressing, Dressing tables, Boudoirs, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A hint to [the] husbands, or, The dresser, properly dressed [graphic].
3. A lodging house lady of Bath [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- July 16, 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.07.16.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An etching of a young lady in an elegant dress, wearing a gigantic hat with by two large plumes. She holds a lapdog under her right arm and in her left hand, a book
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed in plate at lower left "MD", i.e. Matthias Darly., Second state, numbered in plate at top: 2, V.2. Cf. LC copy, unnumbered first state., and The initials 'MD' of publisher's name form a monogram.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bath (England) and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Social life and customs, Hats, Dogs, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A lodging house lady of Bath [graphic]
4. A man cook in Paris [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- as the Act directs June 5, 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.06.05.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Facing left and wearing an ankle-length apron, a cook walks holding saucepan in his left hand and a covered tureen in his right. He wears a bag wig, lace cuffs and patterned stockings. Protruding from the back of his coat are a spoon and other cooking utensils
- Description:
- Title from item., Imperfect; cropped into plate mark with loss of text at lower edge., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Cooks, Cooking utensils, Aprons, Wigs, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A man cook in Paris [graphic]
5. A march of the train bands [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 April 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.04.10.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Seven members of the City Militia march out of step towards the right, 2 birds flying overhead. A short fat drummer begins the procession, followed by an officer with sword in left hand, 2 pairs of soldiers carrying bayoneted muskets, and in the rear, a hunchback carrying a spear
- Description:
- Title from item., Soiled at top and trimmed into image with partial loss of artist's name., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Signed (by engraver?) in plate MD (i.e. Matthias Darly), and MD of publisher's name form a monogram.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 10, 1777 by MDarly ...
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Militia, Militias, Military uniforms, British, Drums, and Musketeers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A march of the train bands [graphic]
6. A new fashion'd head dress for young misses of three score and ten [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dawe, Philip, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published as the Act directs, 8 May 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.05.08.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A richly dressed but grotesque and balding old lady sits before her dressing table holding a lap dog and attended by a leering hairdresser and his assistant. The former places on her head a huge wig with side curls, flowers on the front and a profusion of ostrich plumes on top. Draperies adorn the dressing table and window, and patterned wall paper and carpet are visible
- Alternative Title:
- New fashioned head dress for young misses of three score and ten
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles, No. 13 in Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Hairdressing, Clothing & dress, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new fashion'd head dress for young misses of three score and ten [graphic]
7. A speedy & effectual preparation for the next world [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Mattina, active 1764-1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.05.01.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the right, a lady (Mrs. Catherine Macaulay) with an aquiline profile and wearing a morning gown, sits at a dressing-table; she is dipping a brush into a pot marked 'Rouge', other toilet implements and a looking-glass on the table. Her hair is in a grotesquely caricatured erection, with side curls, intended to ridicule the fashions of the day; on the top of it is a hearse drawn by six horses, decorated with enormous ostrich-feathers. Similar feathers adorn the heads of the horses. On the left behind the lady, a skeleton stands at a rectangular table grasping with both hands an hour-glass whose sands have run into the lower glass out the bottom onto the table. On the table there is also a knife. The base of the skeleton's spine is transfixed by a large arrow. On the wall behind the lady's dressing-table is a portrait bust of a clergyman, in profile to the right (Dr. Wilson).
- Alternative Title:
- Speedy and effectual preparation for the next world
- Description:
- Title from item., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 3, v.2.
- Publisher:
- Pub May 1, 1777 by MDarly 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791. and Wilson, Thomas, 1703-1784.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Death, Hairstyles, Hearses, Skeletons, Hourglasses, Dressing tables, Clothing & dress, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A speedy & effectual preparation for the next world [graphic]
8. A young wanton [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- June 1, 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.06.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young woman wearing a semi-transparent and low-cut dress sitting with her arm on the back of her chair, fingers knit together, glancing coquettishly towards the viewer, while a man enters the room in the background to left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Two lines of text from Proverbs VI:25-6 engraved below title: Lust not after her beauty in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eye-lids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread., and For a similar droll with the same title and quotation, engraved by John Raphael Smith and published 12 June 1776 by Carington Bowles.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, map & printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs, Clothing & dress, Floor coverings, Lust, and Prostitutes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A young wanton [graphic].
9. Afternoons amusement [graphic]
- Creator:
- Albanesi, Angelo, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publishd. according to act of Parliament the 30 Octobr. 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.10.30.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A print showing the front elevation of a brothel, with a sign over the door "Young Ladies Educated & Board." At the threshold of the establishment, the brothel keeper (possibly Charlotte Hayes) stands at the front door talking with a young man who holds a riding crop (possibly her common-law husband, Dennis O’Kelly.) The two windows on the ground floor show, on the left, a woman entertaining a portly gentleman, and, on the right, two pretty, young woman, one leaning out the window to view the scene at the door. In the two windows on the upper, left and center, two other women are already entertaining men (one of whom is a clergyman) while on the right, two pretty women look down at the scene on the brothel threshold. On the left, a man reads handbills in a covered alley identified as "Kings Place." On the sidewalk (left) a pedestrian holds a monocle to his eye to better see the women; in his pocket is a paper with a title "Economical Lowe[r?]. On the sidewalk to the right, a flower girl in ragged clothes holds out a bunch of flowers to the young man addressing the madam. A woman (dwarf) crier holds a sheet titled "The Harlot's Progress."
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Hayes, Charlotte, 1725-1813, and O’Kelly, Dennis, 1725-1787,
- Subject (Topic):
- Prostitution, Humor, Brothels, Prostitutes, Prostitutes' clients, Clergy, Dogs, Doors & doorways, Dwarfs, Windows, Signs (Notices), and Peddlers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Afternoons amusement [graphic]
10. Archd. Robertson, print-seller and drawing-master, in Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's auction room sells great variety of Italian, French and Dutch prints and drawings; best Swiss-crayons, variety of drawing paper, port crayons, all sorts of Italian and French chalks ... [graphic]
- Creator:
- Robertson, Archibald, 1765-1835
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1777]
- Call Number:
- File 66 777 R649
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- "Trade card of Archibald Robertson, drawing master, at Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's Auction Room; a street with Robertson's shop to the right, figures on the pavement, an arched passageway at the end of the street; in oval with figures at the bottom corners; text below."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Archibald Robertson, print-seller and drawing-master ...
- Description:
- Title from engraved text below image., Paul Sandby, who lived above Robertson's shop and collaborated with him, was possibly involved in the production of the image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,56.23., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text continues: ... colour boxes, the best black lead and hair pencils, indian ink, port-folios with or without leaves, ladies black tracing paper, and very fine transparent do. for etching, with copper plates prepared for do. etching needles &c. &c. &c. Visiting cards, engraved in the most elegant manner; great choice of paper hangings in the newest taste. NB: Sandby's works in aqua tinta, to be had complete, prints framed & glazed, and drawings neatly fitted up, all sorts of stationary wares., and Mounted on sheet with with notes from a previous owner about the card. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Archibald Robertson
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Robertson, Archibald, 1765-1835. and Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists' materials industry, Graphic arts equipment industry, Stationery trade, Artists' studios, and Stores & shops
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Archd. Robertson, print-seller and drawing-master, in Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's auction room sells great variety of Italian, French and Dutch prints and drawings; best Swiss-crayons, variety of drawing paper, port crayons, all sorts of Italian and French chalks ... [graphic]
11. Aristodemus, being elected King of Crete, is crowned by the venerable sages [graphic]
- Creator:
- Walker, William, 1729-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1 March 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.03.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A crown is being placed on the head of Aristodemus (center) as he is surrounded by soldiers and sages
- Description:
- Title engraved below image. and Mounted to 31.8 x 25.4 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by G. Kearsly, No. 46 Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Coronations and Supernatural beings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Aristodemus, being elected King of Crete, is crowned by the venerable sages [graphic]
12. Buckles and buttons I am the thing. Dem-me. [graphic]
- 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 looped around a large button on the top
- Description:
- Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Title varies slightly from that given in British Museum catalogue: "I'm the thing..."., and Numbered in plate at top: 23, V.2.
- 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]
13. Captain of banditti in the common parlour at Houghton / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Michel, Jean-Baptiste, 1748-1804, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1777]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 777.05.01.07
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 2 f. 1 i. by 2 f. 6 1/2 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XL from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1., and On same sheet: Francis Halls.
- Publisher:
- Published May 1st, 1777, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Captain of banditti in the common parlour at Houghton / [graphic]
14. Chloe's cushion, or, The cork rump [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1777]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 2. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- In outdoor setting with a lake in the background, a full length view of young lady facing right with her enormous heart-shaped coiffure topped by a hat trailing long ribbons behind. Her dress, bearing several layers of ruffles, is extended in the back by a huge bustle, forming a resting place on which reposes a small lap dog
- Alternative Title:
- Cork rump
- Description:
- Title from item., State without plate number., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., On leaf 2., and 1 print : etching & engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Jany. 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Fashion, Skirts, Dogs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Chloe's cushion, or, The cork rump [graphic].
15. Chloe's cushion, or, The cork rump [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.01.01.02+
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 2. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- In outdoor setting with a lake in the background, a full length view of young lady facing right with her enormous heart-shaped coiffure topped by a hat trailing long ribbons behind. Her dress, bearing several layers of ruffles, is extended in the back by a huge bustle, forming a resting place on which reposes a small lap dog
- Alternative Title:
- Cork rump
- Description:
- Title from item., State without plate number., and Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Jany. 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Fashion, Skirts, Dogs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Chloe's cushion, or, The cork rump [graphic].
16. Claude Le Lorrain [graphic]
- Creator:
- Boydell, Josiah, 1752-1817, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 March 1777]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3669.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Plate from: Liber veritatis, or, A collection of two hundred prints / engraved by Richard Earlom from the original drawings owned by the Duke of Devonshire. London: Boydell and Co., 1777., Josiah Boydell (1752-1817), English artist and publisher., and Probably one of the set owned by Horace Walpole and later dispersed. See A.T. Hazen, Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no 3669.
- Publisher:
- Published March 25th, 1777 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside London
- Subject (Name):
- Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Claude Le Lorrain [graphic]
17. Cleopatra [graphic]
- Creator:
- Strange, Robert, Sir, 1721-1792, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.00.00.43++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Text below title: E tabula Guidonis Reni, in Pinacotheca Domini De Montriblou armigeri conservata., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Egypt.
- Subject (Name):
- Cleopatra, Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania, 40 B.C.-
- Subject (Topic):
- Queens and Snakes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cleopatra [graphic]
18. Damn Bucephalus! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1777]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 109. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on betting on horses: a fat man seated in a chair looks angrily to right, a dog sits beside him."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Intermediate state of the plate, after additional drypoint shading added but before title changed. For an earlier state with less drypoint shading, see no. 4730 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. For a later state with the title "Damn Mambrino", see no. 4731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Date of publication from a brief mention of the print on page 278 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Gout -- Horse racing -- Horses: Becephalus., and Mounted on page 109 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Gambling, Anger, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Damn Bucephalus! [graphic]
19. Damn Bucephalus! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1777]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 109. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on betting on horses: a fat man seated in a chair looks angrily to right, a dog sits beside him."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Earliest state of the plate, before additional drypoint shading added and before title changed. For a later state with the title "Damn Mambrino", see no. 4731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Date of publication from a brief mention of the print on page 278 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Temporary local subject terms: Gout -- Horse racing -- Horses: Becephalus., and Mounted on page 109 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Gambling, Anger, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Damn Bucephalus! [graphic]
20. Deep ones [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 17, 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.06.17.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Seven profile portraits or caricature heads, 3 in ovals, only the upper center one tentatively identified by George as Lord Surrey, later Duke of Norfolk. Others include military officers, a dissenting clergyman, and a man wearing a bag wig
- Description:
- Title from item., MD of publisher's name form a monogram., Imperfect, cropped within plate mark., and Signed MD, probably Matthias Darly in lower left plate,
- Publisher:
- Pub. by M Darly 39 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Deep ones [graphic]
