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1.
The charm, or Which is the man

Creator:
Wicksteed, James, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 May 1787]
Call Number:
787.05.20.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Which is the man
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Beribboned picture frames -- Lighting: candlestick -- Female costume.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 20th, 1787 by J. Wicksteed, Henrietta Strt. Covt. Garden
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The charm, or Which is the man

2.
The blow up of the man-milliner the-thing may best ride the gossamour and yet not fall so light is

Creator:
Wicksteed, James, engraver
Published / Created:
[16 February 1787]
Call Number:
787.02.16.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Wicksteed as engraver from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; loss of text from imprint statement?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume -- Puffs -- Men milliners -- Altered Biblical quotation: "They are altogether lighter than vanity" from Psalm 62:9., and Mounted to 42 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 16, 1787 by J. Wicksteed, No. 30 Henrietta Strt. Covt. Gard
Subject (Topic):
Hats and Muffs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The blow up of the man-milliner the-thing may best ride the gossamour and yet not fall so light is vanity. [graphic]

3.
Some body & no body [graphic]

Creator:
West, Raphael Lamar, 1769-1850, engraver
Published / Created:
[15 February 1787]
Call Number:
787.02.15.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Somebody & nobody and Some body and no body
Description:
Title from item. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 15, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Some body & no body [graphic]

4.
A fat buck of Hyde Park [graphic].

Creator:
West, Raphael Lamar, 1769-1850, artist
Published / Created:
[1 January 1787]
Call Number:
787.01.01.10+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout man rides a trotting horse in profile to the right. followed by a dog. He rises from the saddle with his legsthrust forward, pulling hard at the curb with both hands; the snaffle rein lies on the lean horse's neck. He wears a broad-brimmed round hat and a coat buttoned across his chest by a single button."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Questionable attribution to West in local card catalog., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., In lower left corner of image: Gentlemens designs executed gratis., and Blue paper mounting partially removed.
Publisher:
Pub'd Jan. 1, 1787, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No.3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A fat buck of Hyde Park [graphic].

5.
Showing off

Creator:
West, Raphael Lamar, 1769-1850, artist
Published / Created:
[15 March 1787]
Call Number:
787.03.15.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two riders having trouble with their mounts on a country road with a sign on the left "to Rumpford 2." The rider on the left has lost his stirrups and is handing onto the horse's head. The rider to the right is taking a header and his horse has stumbled and gone down. At the extreme right is the cause -- a barking dog
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Horses -- Riders falling off -- Sign post to Rumpford.
Publisher:
Pub'd Mar[c]h 15, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Horses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Showing off

6.
City sportsmen address'd without permission to Mr. Common Hunt by his obedient humble servt. the

Creator:
Wells, fl. 1787, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1787]
Call Number:
Drawer 787.03.01.05
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: 'Cits'.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 1st, 1787 for the proprietor by Bull & Jeffryes Printsellers, No. 18 Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):
Fox hunting
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > City sportsmen address'd without permission to Mr. Common Hunt by his obedient humble servt. the proprietor / [graphic]

7.
The little hunchback dining with the taylor is choak'd with a fish bone Arabian nights

Creator:
Watts, Simon, active 1767-1787, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 February 1787]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 44. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"During a meal, a man falls back from his stool with arms waving and eyes wide with terror, a black servant behind leans towards him with bared teeth and hands raised to echo his actions, the choking watched with barely concealed delight by a man sitting on the edge of a bed at right, a woman standing beside him clearing the table; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Petit bossu en dinant avec le tailleur s'etoufe en avalant une arrête : Les contes arabs
Description:
Titles from text in English and French below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 44 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1787, by S. Watts, No. 50 opposite Old Round Court, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Falling, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The little hunchback dining with the taylor is choak'd with a fish bone Arabian nights entertainment = Le petit bossu en dinant avec le tailleur s'etoufe en avalant une arrête : Les contes arabs / [graphic]

8.
[The storm] [graphic]

Creator:
Trotter, Thomas, 1756-1803, printmaker
Published / Created:
[7 April 1787]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 63. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman in a bonnet hunching over and pulling her cloak around her against the high wind and rain, blowing her skirts from the left; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state., Early state, before addition of title and before alterations to publication year and publisher's street address in imprint. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.2427., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 63 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Title written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: The storm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 7th, 1787, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street
Subject (Topic):
Winds, Rain, and Bonnets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The storm] [graphic]

9.
[Jenny Deering] [graphic]

Creator:
Townley, Charles, 1737-1805, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 September 1787]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Nearly whole-length reclining at the foot of a tree in open country, with one arm pointing across her chest."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Place of publication transposed from end of publication statement., Mounted on leaf numbered 1 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1st 1787 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Jenny Deering] [graphic]

10.
Love & wine [graphic]

Creator:
Spooner, Charles, 1720-1767, printmaker
Published / Created:
[12 June 1787]
Call Number:
787.06.12.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young man lounges against a young woman, as they sit on a sofa; she holds his right hand in hers. With the left hand he pours wine into her glass which she holds with her left as they exchange amorous looks. They are both partially disrobed. On the table in front of them is a bunch of grapes and an apple, an upturned glass, and playing cards
Alternative Title:
Love and wine
Description:
Numbered '112' in lower right corner of plate., Below the title, four lines of verse in two columns: Heighten'd by Bacchus see the amourous flair ..., Cf. British Museum Catalogue, v. 4, no. 4524 by Spooner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published June 12th, 1787 by Robert Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Couples, Playing cards, Seduction, Wine, and Eating & drinking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Love & wine [graphic]

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