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1. A Bath Adonis worshiping the idol of his affections [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1 February 1775?]
Call Number:: 775.02.01.05
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A man wearing laced coat and sword and holding a snuff box leans on an elaborately carved console table of the pump room at Bath, admiring himself in a mirror. An illustration for the "History of Captain S_: or, the Bath Adonis."
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date and publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Extended to 26 x 18 cm.
Publisher:: The Matrimonial Magazine?
Subject (Geographic):: Bath (England) and England
Subject (Topic):: Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Mirrors, Wallpaper, and Tables
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A Bath Adonis worshiping the idol of his affections [graphic].

2. A hint to married men [graphic].

Published / Created:: [12 May 1794]
Call Number:: 794.05.12.24
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '207' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female costume, 1794 -- Trades: hairdressers.
Publisher:: Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):: Furnishings, Canopy beds, Furniture, Dressing tables, Chairs, Couples, Wallpapers, and Hairdressing
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A hint to married men [graphic].

3. A morning frolic, or, The transmutation of sexes [graphic]

Published / Created:: publish'd as the Act directs [25 March 1780]
Call Number:: 780.03.25.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A soldier and a woman in deshabille swapping clothes; the woman standing hands on hips on the left wearing the sword and tricorn; the man sitting demurely on the right holding a fan and wearing a bonnet; tea-tray and four poster bed behind, a dog jumping up at a parrot on the left and a book open on the floor inscribed 'Ovid's Metamorphoses done into English';"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Transmutation of sexes
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate line., and Publication date from British Museum catalogue. Date burnished from plate.
Publisher:: Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Couples, Cross dressing, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Boudoirs, Tableware, Furniture, Pets, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A morning frolic, or, The transmutation of sexes [graphic]

4. A new mode of digestion [graphic]

Published / Created:: [1776]
Call Number:: 776.00.00.07
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A fat man, his wig turned upside down, sleeps in his chair, with a punch bowl, bottle and glass on the table by his elbow. Balanced on his enormous stomach is a see-saw, weighted down at the right by a diminutive boy and with a tiny girl seated on the raised end. On the wall behind him is a partly visible picture of someone playing bowls. A dog sleeps on the floor beneath the man's chair
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on sheet 23 x 19 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. as the Act directs 23.1776 by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square, London
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Seesaws, Wigs, Tobacco pipes, Bowls (Tableware), Tableware, Interiors, Tables, Obesity, Eating & drinking, Sleeping, Furniture, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A new mode of digestion [graphic]

5. Building houses with cards [graphic] : from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens

Published / Created:: [approximately 1750]
Call Number:: 750.00.00.03
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "In a room, a group watching as a man sitting at a round table builds a house of cards, which tumbles down as a figure leans in at right, the man and a man standing in outdoor clothes behind looks at him with dismay; in the right foreground two young children build their own house on a small table; doors open onto garden in background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title engraved below image., Publisher inferred from another print in the series: The king and miller of Mansfied., One of a series of engravings after paintings by Francis Hayman for the ballroom at Vauxhall Gardens in 1743., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting i`n loss of imprint.
Publisher:: Robert Sayer
Subject (Topic):: Chairs, Children, Dogs, Drawing rooms, Furniture, Interiors, Playing cards, Screens, Tables, and Toys
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Building houses with cards [graphic] : from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens

6. Corporal Trim reading the sermon to Mr. Shandy, Uncle Toby, and Doctor Slop [graphic].

Creator:: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Published / Created:: 3 Jan. 1785.
Call Number:: 785.01.03.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from text below image., Printmaker from plate no. 1., Series title from plate no. 1., No. 2 from the Dighton's series: Twelve prints representing the most interesting, sentimental and humourous scenes in Tristam Shandy., Plate is numbered "2" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Corporals' uniforms -- Male costume, ca. 1785.
Publisher:: Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Name):: Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):: Illustrations, Crutches, Screens, Furniture, Tables, Chairs, Stools, Interiors, Military uniforms, British, Staffs (Sticks), and Smoking
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Corporal Trim reading the sermon to Mr. Shandy, Uncle Toby, and Doctor Slop [graphic].

7. Der Schwitz-Kur [graphic]

Creator:: Zinke, Johann Wenzel, 1797-1858, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not after 1858]
Call Number:: Print00189
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title engraved below image., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Above image: Satyrisches Bild. No. 22., J. Cajetan may be a pseudonym for Anton Elfinger, 1821-1864., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:: im Bureau der Theaterzeitung, Rauhensteingasse No.926
Subject (Topic):: Hydrotherapy, Perspiration, Sick persons, Feather beds, and Furniture
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Der Schwitz-Kur [graphic]

8. 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].

9. 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].