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37. Statute Hall, or, The modern Register Office [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [10 April 1769]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 150. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a large room of an employment agency, prospective employers interview their potential hires. At the extreme right is a desk with the manager of the agency sitting behind it . On the desk is large open volume entitled "Order from Covent Garden for tid-bits". Next to it lies a note, "To Mr. Double Face, Statute Hall." In the foreground, next to the desk, a young man and woman sit on a bench waiting their turn. Numerous pairs around the room conduct interviews, including an older woman examining the face of a young manservant; a macaroni feeling the bosom of a maidservant; an old woman in spectacles poking the chest of a large coachman with a whip in his hand; a bishop leering at a young woman holding a box under her arm; and a pair in the background on the left holding a paper "Hell Fire Jack at the Bedford". In the background on the far right two young women stand against the wall, under an advertisement: "Two ladies want places with single gentlemen willing to do any thing." Other advertisements hang on the back wall
- Alternative Title:
- Modern Register Office
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a variant state bearing the imprint of Robert Sayer, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1860,0623.23., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Folded to 24.5 x 24.3 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 150 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by the inventor M. Darly accordg. to act of Parliament, April 10, 1769, at No. 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Employment agencies, Interiors, Interviews, Desks, Benches, Servants, Dandies, British, Women domestics, and Coach drivers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Statute Hall, or, The modern Register Office [graphic]
38. High life at five in the morning [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, May 1st, 1769.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 64. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print shows an interior view of a room; a duke has arrived home drunk at 5 a.m. (as shown on the longcase clock beside the door) accompanied by two attendants and watchman only to find his bedchamber occupied by another man. Through the open curtains around the bed can be seen a bare-breasted duchess. On the floor near the bed is an open book, "Memoirs of a woman of pleasure" (a reference to John Cleland's Fanny Hill ...) beside the chamber pot. As the duke with sword drawn, staggers forward, his rival climbs through a window in the background, leaving his clothes behind on a chair. A monkey dashes onto the table near the window on the heels of the husband's rival but pulls down the tablecloth causing the items on the table to be strewn across the floor in the foreground; a book opened to pages “Chastity in the nobility a farce. Dedicated to their Graces the Duke & Dutchess xxx”, breaking a broken mirror, and sending the bottles and jars onto the floor. The bottles have labels "Viper drops" and "Surfeit water" and the jar is labeled "Lip salve".
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Text preceding publication statement: A recent transaction., "Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of the Court Miscellany."--Following imprint., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: Persons in exalted station, Should patterns be of imitation; But if a duke must have his punk, And from the bagnio ride home drunk. What wonder if her wanton grace, Invites another in his place? He draws his sword raps out his oaths, But what redress? his rival's cloaths., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., The reference to the duke is probably Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, 1745-90., 1 print : engraving and etching ; sheet 22.2 x 33.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., On laid paper. Folded to 22.2 x 25 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 64 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Rake's progress, Adultery, Nobility, Intoxication, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Monkeys, Daggers & swords, Books, Longcase clocks, Draperies, Mirrors, and Poisons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > High life at five in the morning [graphic].
39. High life at noon [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 1st 1769.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 61. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a paneled room hung with mirrors and a clock, the master of the house, in dressing gown and nightcap, puts his hand on the bosom of a maid who serves him biscuits. Next to him a clergyman looks adoringly at the lady of the house on his left. In his hand is an open volume with text "A sermon, I am sick of love." She is dressed in a wrap and cap and, while smiling at the clergyman, surreptitiously takes a letter from a black servant boy who approaches from behind her chair. A parrot in a cage hanging above them sings, "Caesar and Pompey were both of them horned." A squirrel sits on a stool next to the table. In the foreground, a monkey sits on the floor, reading "A dissertation on winding up the clock, by Tristam Shandy." On the extreme left, a footman with a long unbraided queue is trying to push out of the room a bill collector who came in to present a tailor's bill
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: With touch indelicate His Grace, approaches that angelic place ..., Companion print to: High life in the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 22.5 x 34.2 cm, folded to 22.5 x 24.8 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of publication line from bottom edge., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 61 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Furniture, Mirrors, Longcase clocks, Women domestics, Clergy, Books, Servants, Parrots, Birdcages, Squirrels, and Monkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > High life at noon [graphic].
40. High life in the evening, or, Quality dinner hour [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 1st 1769.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Social satire, with references to the Duke of Grafton and Nancy Parsons and Lord Bute and Princess Augusta."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Quality dinner hour
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: The great in one eternal round, of folly and excess are found ..., Companion print to: High life at noon., Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: staircase -- Furnishings -- Dishes: covered dishes -- Hams -- Roasted fowl -- Pets: lapdog -- Male dress, 1769 -- Female dress, 1769., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 21.5 x 32.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of publication line from bottom edge., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 60 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, and Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, d. 1814 or 15
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Entrance halls, Kitchens, Stairways, Columns, Clocks & watches, Food, Dogs, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > High life in the evening, or, Quality dinner hour [graphic].
41. High life at five in the morning [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, May 1st, 1769.
- Call Number:
- 769.05.01.01+
- Collection Title:
- Page 64. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print shows an interior view of a room; a duke has arrived home drunk at 5 a.m. (as shown on the longcase clock beside the door) accompanied by two attendants and watchman only to find his bedchamber occupied by another man. Through the open curtains around the bed can be seen a bare-breasted duchess. On the floor near the bed is an open book, "Memoirs of a woman of pleasure" (a reference to John Cleland's Fanny Hill ...) beside the chamber pot. As the duke with sword drawn, staggers forward, his rival climbs through a window in the background, leaving his clothes behind on a chair. A monkey dashes onto the table near the window on the heels of the husband's rival but pulls down the tablecloth causing the items on the table to be strewn across the floor in the foreground; a book opened to pages “Chastity in the nobility a farce. Dedicated to their Graces the Duke & Dutchess xxx”, breaking a broken mirror, and sending the bottles and jars onto the floor. The bottles have labels "Viper drops" and "Surfeit water" and the jar is labeled "Lip salve".
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Text preceding publication statement: A recent transaction., "Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of the Court Miscellany."--Following imprint., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: Persons in exalted station, Should patterns be of imitation; But if a duke must have his punk, And from the bagnio ride home drunk. What wonder if her wanton grace, Invites another in his place? He draws his sword raps out his oaths, But what redress? his rival's cloaths., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., The reference to the duke is probably Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, 1745-90., and Probably a 19th century impression, based on the quality of the paper.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Rake's progress, Adultery, Nobility, Intoxication, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Monkeys, Daggers & swords, Books, Longcase clocks, Draperies, Mirrors, and Poisons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > High life at five in the morning [graphic].
42. High life in the evening, or, Quality dinner hour [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 1st 1769.
- Call Number:
- 769.07.01.01+
- Collection Title:
- Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Social satire, with references to the Duke of Grafton and Nancy Parsons and Lord Bute and Princess Augusta."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Quality dinner hour
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: The great in one eternal round, of folly and excess are found ..., Companion print to: High life at noon., and Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: staircase -- Furnishings -- Dishes: covered dishes -- Hams -- Roasted fowl -- Pets: lapdog -- Male dress, 1769 -- Female dress, 1769.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, and Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, d. 1814 or 15
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Entrance halls, Kitchens, Stairways, Columns, Clocks & watches, Food, Dogs, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > High life in the evening, or, Quality dinner hour [graphic].
43. High life at noon [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 1st 1769.
- Call Number:
- 769.06.01.01+
- Collection Title:
- Page 61. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a paneled room hung with mirrors and a clock, the master of the house, in dressing gown and nightcap, puts his hand on the bosom of a maid who serves him biscuits. Next to him a clergyman looks adoringly at the lady of the house on his left. In his hand is an open volume with text "A sermon, I am sick of love." She is dressed in a wrap and cap and, while smiling at the clergyman, surreptitiously takes a letter from a black servant boy who approaches from behind her chair. A parrot in a cage hanging above them sings, "Caesar and Pompey were both of them horned." A squirrel sits on a stool next to the table. In the foreground, a monkey sits on the floor, reading "A dissertation on winding up the clock, by Tristam Shandy." On the extreme left, a footman with a long unbraided queue is trying to push out of the room a bill collector who came in to present a tailor's bill
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: With touch indelicate His Grace, approaches that angelic place ..., Companion print to: High life in the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 27 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Furniture, Mirrors, Longcase clocks, Women domestics, Clergy, Books, Servants, Parrots, Birdcages, Squirrels, and Monkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > High life at noon [graphic].
44. Statute Hall, or, The modern Register Office [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [10 April 1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.04.10.01+
- Collection Title:
- Page 150. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a large room of an employment agency, prospective employers interview their potential hires. At the extreme right is a desk with the manager of the agency sitting behind it . On the desk is large open volume entitled "Order from Covent Garden for tid-bits". Next to it lies a note, "To Mr. Double Face, Statute Hall." In the foreground, next to the desk, a young man and woman sit on a bench waiting their turn. Numerous pairs around the room conduct interviews, including an older woman examining the face of a young manservant; a macaroni feeling the bosom of a maidservant; an old woman in spectacles poking the chest of a large coachman with a whip in his hand; a bishop leering at a young woman holding a box under her arm; and a pair in the background on the left holding a paper "Hell Fire Jack at the Bedford". In the background on the far right two young women stand against the wall, under an advertisement: "Two ladies want places with single gentlemen willing to do any thing." Other advertisements hang on the back wall
- Alternative Title:
- Modern Register Office
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a variant state bearing the imprint of Robert Sayer, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1860,0623.23., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 24 x 34 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge., and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by the inventor M. Darly accordg. to act of Parliament, April 10, 1769, at No. 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Employment agencies, Interiors, Interviews, Desks, Benches, Servants, Dandies, British, Women domestics, and Coach drivers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Statute Hall, or, The modern Register Office [graphic]
45. Grown ladies taught to dance [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1768]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 79. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A satire on pretensions to elegance showing a fine room in which a thin elderly dancing master teaches a stout young woman to dance, while an older woman sitting behind watches them. A man sits strumming a guitar to the left, books and sheets of music lie on the floor; a monkey plays with a fan; a little dog capers on its hind legs behind the dancing pair. On the wall behind are two pictures in ornate frames, one of a dancing couple and the other of a bear dancing with its keeper."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and publisher identified as Matthias Darly in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,5.80., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement and plate number. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "66" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Dancing lessons -- Music-books -- Bear-leaders -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Female costume -- Male costume -- Dancers., and Bound in opposite page 79 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, Jan. 1, 1768, Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Dance, Teachers, Musicians, Musical instruments, Guitars, Monkeys, Dogs, and Fans (Accessories)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Grown ladies taught to dance [graphic]
