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1. All the world's a stage and one man in his time plays many parts, &c. &c. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 March 1824]
- Call Number:
- Print01075
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "George IV sits in an arm-chair, his gouty right leg in a bulky swathing rests on a cushion; the left leg is tightly bound between calf and ankle with a narrow bandage. He wears a loose fur-collared coat or gown over breeches and waistcoat. He leans back reflectively, an open book, Diversions of Purley [by Home Tooke, cf. British Museum Satires No. 9020], in his right hand. Phases of his past life are illustrated in a series of W.L. portraits on the wall behind him. [1] As a handsome young man he stands holding a long-bow, as if at an archery contest. [2] He stands, slightly obese, in his Light Horse uniform, see British Museum Satires No. 8800 (1796). [3] He stands in back view as in BM Satires 12803, facing a wall on which is a portrait of the Hottentot Venus [Saartjie Baartman], see British Museum Satires No. 11577, &c. [4] He stands in hussar uniform, with high curled wig and whiskers. [5] He stands directed to the right in Field Marshal's uniform (as 'especially in 1814). [6] He stands on the deck of a ship in yachting costume wearing loose jacket and trousers, his hands in his coat-pocket. The profile and paunch of Sir William Curtis are behind and on the extreme left. [7] The picture is partly concealed by a curtain, but the King sits near a chamber-pot. [8] He stands in coronation robes holding orb and sceptre (see British Museum Satires No. 14199). [9] He is in Highland costume (see British Museum Satires No. 14386). At the King's left hand is a small cheval-glass topped by a crown. His appearance has changed, he has no whiskers, and has a wig of lightly curled natural hair, parted in the middle, so that in place of the pear- or pineapple-shaped head resulting from a crest of curls and whiskers, as from c. 1811 [In caricature. An engraved H.L. portrait by Schiavonetti after T. Phillips, pub. Cadell & Davis, 11 Oct. 1809, has whiskers and crest of curls], his face seems rounder, and, in many prints, younger. His dress is less formal, and his appearance (confirmed by portraits from 1820) suggests a determination to depart completely from the appearance and costume of caricature."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Theater -- Hottentot Venus.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March 15, 1824, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812., and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fashion, Costume, History, Gout, Recluses, and Dandies
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > All the world's a stage and one man in his time plays many parts, &c. &c. [graphic]
2. Can you forbear laughing [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dawe, Philip, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- as the act directs 14 June 1776.
- Call Number:
- 776.06.14.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A lady stands at her dressing-table (right), her hair in an enormous pyramid decorated with feathers torn from a peacock, an ostrich and a cock. A young girl wearing a hat holds the peacock by a wing; another wearing a cap tugs hard at one of its tail feathers (which are very unlike peacock's feathers). An ostrich (left), which has lost most of its tail feathers, is about to pluck out those which ornament the lady's hair. A cock stands in the foreground (right), having lost almost all its tail feathers, many of which lie on the floor. A black servant wearing a turban stands on his mistress's right, handing feathers from a number which he holds in his left hand. The lady, who faces three-quarter to the right, is elaborately dressed in the fashion of the day. Her pyramid of hair is decorated with lappets of lace and festoons of jewels as well as with feathers. She wears large earrings, a necklace with a cross, her bodice is cut very low, and her elbow sleeves have lace ruffles. A pannelled wall forms the background."--British Museum online catalog
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Printmaker identified as Philip Dawe by Dorothy George. See British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Fashion, Chickens, Clothing & dress, Feathers, Hairdressing, Hairstyles, Ostriches, Peacocks, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Can you forbear laughing [graphic].
3. Fashionable ties, or, Modern neckcloths [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.00.00.83+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A macabre caricature divided into two compartments, The Dandy and The Dangle. On the left, a strutting dandy ties his neckcloth in front of a mirror saying: 'I declare these large Neckcloths are monstrously handy, They [serve] for a shirt too and make one a Dandy.' The right hand image is of a dandy, head covered in a cloth, dangling from a wooden beam with a tie around his neck. Behind him is a town square and in the foreground, a crowd looks on. The image is accompanied by the text: 'When a man comes to this there's little to hope, His neat Dandy Neckcloth is changed for a Rope'.
- Alternative Title:
- Modern neckcloths
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date from dealer's description., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Contemporary manuscript correction in ink of the leftmost speech bubble, with the omitted word "serve" inserted.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Fashion, Great Britain, Clothing & dress, Crowds, Dandies, Mirrors, Neckties, and Hangings (Executions)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fashionable ties, or, Modern neckcloths [graphic].
4. Matters of taste, as regards, walking sticks [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1835]
- Call Number:
- 824.00.00.38+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Numerous studies of men carrying different sorts of walking stick."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- As regards, walking sticks
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Date of publication from description of a variant state in the British Museum that has series numbering following the text "Matters of taste". Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1952,0517.43., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published at Hodgson's Wholesale Print Warehouse, 111 Fleet Street and Lithographed by W. Clerk, 202 High Holborn
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Fashion and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Matters of taste, as regards, walking sticks [graphic].
5. Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].
- Creator:
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 D18 828
- Image Count:
- 57
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the Neapolitan painter Luca Jordano signed by J.B. Catenaro, an unsigned portrait in red crayon of Cornelius Jansen, a pencil portrait of an unknown woman, and another small pencil drawing of a landscape. The first volume contains etchings and engravings of English villages and rural scenes including the farm house and printing house at Strawberry Hill and two vignettes of Strawberry Hill; topographical scenes in Surrey and Twickenham; etchings of Roman scenes; portraits of eminent historical and contemporary political figures and The second volume begins with a series of 192 small French engravings of women, which document the hair styles and hat fashions in the 17th and 18th centuries, all engraved by Dupin or Desrais. A second series of the 48 engravings from Wenceslaus Hollar's Theatrum mulierum depict the costumes of 17th century women (mostly) in Europe. These prints are followed by 29 small engravings by C. Heath of prominent British politicians and writers of the 18th century. The final pages include several portraits of contemporary British and French figures as well as the plates drawn and engraved by Henry Moses for A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume published in London by E. and C. M'Lean in 1823
- Description:
- In English and French. and Recovered in cloth with marble boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
- Subject (Name):
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
- Subject (Topic):
- Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].
6. Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].
- Creator:
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 D18 828
- Image Count:
- 40
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the Neapolitan painter Luca Jordano signed by J.B. Catenaro, an unsigned portrait in red crayon of Cornelius Jansen, a pencil portrait of an unknown woman, and another small pencil drawing of a landscape. The first volume contains etchings and engravings of English villages and rural scenes including the farm house and printing house at Strawberry Hill and two vignettes of Strawberry Hill; topographical scenes in Surrey and Twickenham; etchings of Roman scenes; portraits of eminent historical and contemporary political figures and The second volume begins with a series of 192 small French engravings of women, which document the hair styles and hat fashions in the 17th and 18th centuries, all engraved by Dupin or Desrais. A second series of the 48 engravings from Wenceslaus Hollar's Theatrum mulierum depict the costumes of 17th century women (mostly) in Europe. These prints are followed by 29 small engravings by C. Heath of prominent British politicians and writers of the 18th century. The final pages include several portraits of contemporary British and French figures as well as the plates drawn and engraved by Henry Moses for A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume published in London by E. and C. M'Lean in 1823
- Description:
- In English and French. and Recovered in cloth with marble boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
- Subject (Name):
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
- Subject (Topic):
- Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].
