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1. The overthrow of Dr. Slop [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [3 February 1773]
Call Number:: Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 63. Bunbury album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Obadiah (left) mounted on the coach-horse at full gallop attempts to pull up his horse, leaning back in the saddle, his cap in his right hand. On the ground is Dr. Slop's pony. Behind the pony on the right. Dr. Slop lies on his back; a spotted dog prances over him. The doctor lies under a sign-post terminating in a hand pointing "To Shandy Hall". Behind the coach-horse, which is wearing blinkers, is the angle of a high garden wall, in the distance (right) is a church spire among trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Overthrow of Doctor Slop
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of text below image, two on either side of title: "When Obadiah & his coach horse turn'd the corner rapid, furious, pop, full upon him ..." Vide vol. 1st, Tristram Shandy., One of a series of prints illustrating Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Physicians -- Coach-horse -- Male costume: Riding hats., and Mounted on page 63 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs, 3d February 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):: Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):: Illustrations, Horseback riding, Accidents, Horses, Dogs, Traffic signs & signals, and Garden walls
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The overthrow of Dr. Slop [graphic]

2. "A 'park wall' and 'back parlour'" [art original]

Creator:: Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:: [1885]
Call Number:: Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Collection Title:: Volume 12, page 214. Horace Walpole and his world.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing with two scenes: 'the back parlour" in an oval within a larger rectangular view of a 'park wall'. The park wall is covered in ivy and at its base, lush ferns and other plants and mushrooms, ferns and at the top a stand of trees. The oval inset in the lower right shows a man view from behind, sitting in a chair looking out a window at a city street scene and two birds at perched on the vine before a leadlight casement window
Description:: Title written below image, from a quotation by Horace Walpole's letter to Miss Berry December 1793: "A park-wall with ivy on it and fern near it, and a back parlour in London in summer, with a dead creeper and a couple of sooty sparrows, are my strongest ideas of melancholy solitude. A pleasing melancholy is a very august personage, but not at all good company.”, Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 288., and Bound in as page 214 in volume 12 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Subject (Topic):: Parlors, Garden walls, Casement windows, and Depression (Mental state)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > "A 'park wall' and 'back parlour'" [art original]

3. The Pall Mall concert [graphic].

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [31 January 1821]
Call Number:: Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 42. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Two cats on garden walls approach each other menacingly. One (left) is white, with the features of Queen Caroline, the other a dark tabby with the features of George IV. Each miaows, raising an angry paw. The Queen is on a 'Party Wall', at right angles to that of the King. In the garden below is a placard, 'Malbrou'. She says: "Meyough you -- you have no business to go Caterwalling." He says: "Meyough you B-- you have no business to come so near me." Below the design: 'Like two Cats on a Wall; They Quarrel & Snarl, To amuse the Weak Minds of the Nation. They Squander large Sums, Expose their bare Bums, For all which they deserve Castigation.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 42 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:: Pub. Jany. 31, 1821, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subject (Topic):: Cats, Fighting, and Garden walls
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Pall Mall concert [graphic].

4. Broad grins, or, A black joke [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [4 June 1812]
Call Number:: Print00190
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A woman in an advanced stage of pregnancy stands with folded hands, laughing, close to an elderly parson (right) of Dr. Syntax type who recoils in angry horror. Behind them is a high garden wall, with a notice: 'Man Traps laid in these Grounds'. Behind the woman (left) is a hole in the wall, through which looks the grinning head of a black servant. 'Broad Grins' is a collection of coarse comic songs by Colman, 1802, cf. British Museum Satires No. 11941."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Black joke
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Publd. June 4th, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):: Black people, Pregnancy, Laughing, Clergy, Garden walls, Signs (Notices), Servants, and Smiling
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Broad grins, or, A black joke [graphic]

5. Scene in a farce calld. The Quaker [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1783.
Call Number:: 783.00.00.08
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Four characters participating in the quintet of the first act finale of Dibdin's "The Quaker" are shown here: Gillian and Floretta look over the garden wall while Steady attempts to keep Solomon from conversation with them
Alternative Title:: Scene in a farce called The Quaker
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,57.124., Plate dated "1783" in lower left corner., and Design includes portraits of the actors John Bannister and William Parsons. See British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814., Bannister, John, 1760-1836, and Parsons, William, 1736-1795
Subject (Topic):: Singing, Garden walls, and Theatrical productions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Scene in a farce calld. The Quaker [graphic].

6. Scene in a farce calld. The Quaker [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1783.
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Four characters participating in the quintet of the first act finale of Dibdin's "The Quaker" are shown here: Gillian and Floretta look over the garden wall while Steady attempts to keep Solomon from conversation with them
Alternative Title:: Scene in a farce called The Quaker
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,57.124., Plate dated "1783" in lower left corner., Design includes portraits of the actors John Bannister and William Parsons. See British Museum online catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; plate mark 19.1 x 27.3 cm, on sheet 21.7 x 30.4 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 21 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814., Bannister, John, 1760-1836, and Parsons, William, 1736-1795
Subject (Topic):: Singing, Garden walls, and Theatrical productions
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Scene in a farce calld. The Quaker [graphic].

7. [The gallant's downfall] [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 January 1816]
Call Number:: Print00227
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The corner of a house seen from a walled garden. Death throws down a ladder which gave access to a window from which a distraught girl looks out; her lover, a young lieutenant, falls from it towards a pond, while an elderly colonel, the father, fires a blunderbuss towards cats on the wall, the charge being intercepted by the falling man. A prancing dog barks."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:: Assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd
Description:: Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: The assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 241., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:: Pub. Jany. 1 - 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):: Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):: Death (Personification), Accidents, Courtship, Military officers, British, Gardens, Garden walls, Skeletons, Ladders, Falling, Firearms, Dogs, Cats, and Lakes & ponds
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The gallant's downfall] [graphic].

8. A peep over the garden wall in Berkeley Square [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 March 1794]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Leaf 62. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The equestrian statue of George III dressed as Marcus Aurelius stands behind the brick wall of Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, London, watching the assembly in the garden through a spy-glass. Above the wall, hats with French republican cockades are being waved while invisible speakers express support shouting "Vive Barrere," and "C̦a ira," in reference to Lord Lansdowne's failed motion for peace with France in February 1794. In the background is the facade of the house
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 30.4 x 24 cm, on sheet 33.2 x 25.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 62 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:: Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and France
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Barère, B. 1755-1841. (Bertrand),, and Lansdowne House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Statues, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Sculpture, Horses, Garden walls, and Hats
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A peep over the garden wall in Berkeley Square [graphic]

9. A peep over the garden wall in Berkeley Square [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 March 1794]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 62. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The equestrian statue of George III dressed as Marcus Aurelius stands behind the brick wall of Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, London, watching the assembly in the garden through a spy-glass. Above the wall, hats with French republican cockades are being waved while invisible speakers express support shouting "Vive Barrere," and "C̦a ira," in reference to Lord Lansdowne's failed motion for peace with France in February 1794. In the background is the facade of the house
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 81 with one other print.
Publisher:: Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and France
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Barère, B. 1755-1841. (Bertrand),, and Lansdowne House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Statues, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Sculpture, Horses, Garden walls, and Hats
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A peep over the garden wall in Berkeley Square [graphic]