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1. "Gentle manners, with affections mild, "in wit a man, simplicity a child [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 November 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.11.04.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "General Manners walks in profile to the left, with knees flexed, bending forward, his hands clasped behind his back, a cane under his arm. He wears a round hat, small pigtail, and plain, old-fashioned dress."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Men -- Walking staves -- Literature: quotation from Epitaph on John Gay by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)., and Watermark: J Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 4th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Manners, Robert, 1758-1832
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Gentle manners, with affections mild, "in wit a man, simplicity a child [graphic].
2. "Gentle manners, with affections mild, "in wit a man, simplicity a child [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 November 1798]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "General Manners walks in profile to the left, with knees flexed, bending forward, his hands clasped behind his back, a cane under his arm. He wears a round hat, small pigtail, and plain, old-fashioned dress."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Men -- Walking staves -- Literature: quotation from Epitaph on John Gay by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.3 x 18.3 cm, on sheet 34.2 x 24.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 69 of volume 9 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 4th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Manners, Robert, 1758-1832
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Gentle manners, with affections mild, "in wit a man, simplicity a child [graphic].
3. "How do you find yourself dis hot weader Miss Chloe?" [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1830?]
- Call Number:
- 830.00.00.07
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption continues: "Pretty well I tank you Mr. Cesar only I aspire too much!", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Costume: 1830., Watermark: J Whatman., and Plate numbered in ms. near top of sheet: 237.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Fans (Accessories), Staffs (Sticks), and Umbrellas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "How do you find yourself dis hot weader Miss Chloe?" [graphic]
4. "Improvement in weights & measures", or, Sir John Seeclear discovering [the] ballance of [the] British flag [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.12.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sinclair, tall and thin, stands full-face, holding up in his right hand a balance (steelyard, or stilliard) inscribed 'Vive le Egalité'. A large British flag at the right end of the beam much outweighs a bunch of objects at the other; three documents: [1] 'Navy of England to be retaind viz: 50000 Seamen & half a Dozen Ships of War - 500000 Sailors to be sent to plant Potatoes.' [2] '10 000 heavy reasons for giving the Enemy a fair chance of getting out of their Ports.' [3] 'Advantages of cold oeconomy'. Below these are bunches of turnips, carrots, a cabbage, the whole terminating in a pendent bonnet-rouge. Sinclair is fashionably dressed, wearing a hat, half-boots, ill-fitting coat, and overcoat almost to the ankles. On a heavily draped writing-table (right) are three large volumes: 'Improvements in the Art of Political Dunging and Pursuits of Agriculture.' A paper: 'The Apostate Laird - a Parliamentary Romance - together with Loss of the Agricultural Arm' Chair. On the wall (right) is a picture of three pigs feeding at a trough of 'Democratic Verbosity'; this is 'Pigs Meat: or new method of feeding the Swinish Multitude' [see BMSat 8500, &c.]. Beside it is a placard: 'Table of Weights & Measures laid down upon the true democratic Principle of the Stilliards of Egalité'. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- "Improvement in weights and measures" and Sir John Seeclear discovering the ballance of the British flag
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Scales -- Flags: British flag -- Food: vegetables -- Bonnet rouge -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Writing materials: inkstand., Watermark: 1794 J Whatman., and Subject identified in contemporary hand below title.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Improvement in weights & measures", or, Sir John Seeclear discovering [the] ballance of [the] British flag [graphic]
5. "Improvement in weights & measures", or, Sir John Seeclear discovering [the] ballance of [the] British flag [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1798]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sinclair, tall and thin, stands full-face, holding up in his right hand a balance (steelyard, or stilliard) inscribed 'Vive le Egalité'. A large British flag at the right end of the beam much outweighs a bunch of objects at the other; three documents: [1] 'Navy of England to be retaind viz: 50000 Seamen & half a Dozen Ships of War - 500000 Sailors to be sent to plant Potatoes.' [2] '10 000 heavy reasons for giving the Enemy a fair chance of getting out of their Ports.' [3] 'Advantages of cold oeconomy'. Below these are bunches of turnips, carrots, a cabbage, the whole terminating in a pendent bonnet-rouge. Sinclair is fashionably dressed, wearing a hat, half-boots, ill-fitting coat, and overcoat almost to the ankles. On a heavily draped writing-table (right) are three large volumes: 'Improvements in the Art of Political Dunging and Pursuits of Agriculture.' A paper: 'The Apostate Laird - a Parliamentary Romance - together with Loss of the Agricultural Arm' Chair. On the wall (right) is a picture of three pigs feeding at a trough of 'Democratic Verbosity'; this is 'Pigs Meat: or new method of feeding the Swinish Multitude' [see BMSat 8500, &c.]. Beside it is a placard: 'Table of Weights & Measures laid down upon the true democratic Principle of the Stilliards of Egalité'. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- "Improvement in weights and measures" and Sir John Seeclear discovering the ballance of the British flag
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Scales -- Flags: British flag -- Food: vegetables -- Bonnet rouge -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Writing materials: inkstand., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.6 x 25.9 cm, on sheet 40.3 x 28.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 76 of volume 4 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Improvement in weights & measures", or, Sir John Seeclear discovering [the] ballance of [the] British flag [graphic]
6. "Is Miss Dinah at home ...?" [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1830?]
- Call Number:
- 830.00.00.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption continues: "Yes sir but she bery petickly engaged in washing de dishes ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject headings: Male costume: 1830., and Watermark: J Whatman.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Eyeglasses, Monocles, Servants, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Is Miss Dinah at home ...?" [graphic]
7. *"Monstrosities" of 1799 scene, Kensington Gardens. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 June 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.06.25.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two ladies (left) walk arm-in-arm to the left; a good-looking man, extravagantly dressed, stands (right) legs apart, head turned to inspect them as if they were strange specimens. One, short and fat, wears a round straw cap over a shock of hair which covers her eyes, she holds up a small jointed parasol to shield her face. The other, taller, wears a shovel-shaped scoop of straw tied to her head and projecting far beyond her face. Both have bare arms with long gloves, and transparent draperies which define the figure. The man wears an exaggerated Jean de Bry coat with high inflated sleeves, cut above the waist in front, with tails which show between his legs. A high swathed neck-cloth covers his chin and sets off bushy whiskers. His boots have high tasselled fronts above the knee and elongated toes. There is a background of trees with three other figures similarly dressed, one wears striped trousers of nautical cut instead of boots and pantaloons."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Explanation of title in lower left corner: *for the origin of the word consult the Johnnesonian dictionary, edition of 1799., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: high-waisted transparent dresses, 1799 -- Female dress: bonnets -- Parasols -- Male dress: tasselled boots -- Male dress: neck-cloth -- Male dress: Jean de Bry coat -- Kensington Gardens -- Reference to Thomas Johnes (1748-1816) -- Books: Allusion to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary -- Eyeglasses: quizzing glass.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 25th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > *"Monstrosities" of 1799 scene, Kensington Gardens. [graphic]
8. *"Monstrosities" of 1799 scene, Kensington Gardens. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 June 1799]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two ladies (left) walk arm-in-arm to the left; a good-looking man, extravagantly dressed, stands (right) legs apart, head turned to inspect them as if they were strange specimens. One, short and fat, wears a round straw cap over a shock of hair which covers her eyes, she holds up a small jointed parasol to shield her face. The other, taller, wears a shovel-shaped scoop of straw tied to her head and projecting far beyond her face. Both have bare arms with long gloves, and transparent draperies which define the figure. The man wears an exaggerated Jean de Bry coat with high inflated sleeves, cut above the waist in front, with tails which show between his legs. A high swathed neck-cloth covers his chin and sets off bushy whiskers. His boots have high tasselled fronts above the knee and elongated toes. There is a background of trees with three other figures similarly dressed, one wears striped trousers of nautical cut instead of boots and pantaloons."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Explanation of title in lower left corner: *for the origin of the word consult the Johnnesonian dictionary, edition of 1799., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: high-waisted transparent dresses, 1799 -- Female dress: bonnets -- Parasols -- Male dress: tasselled boots -- Male dress: neck-cloth -- Male dress: Jean de Bry coat -- Kensington Gardens -- Reference to Thomas Johnes (1748-1816) -- Books: Allusion to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary -- Eyeglasses: quizzing glass., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.4 x 36.5 cm, on sheet 28.8 x 38.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 10 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 25th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > *"Monstrosities" of 1799 scene, Kensington Gardens. [graphic]
9. A French hair dresser running through the streets to his customers [graphic].
- Creator:
- Stevenart, P., printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1771]
- Call Number:
- 771.03.01.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- French hairdresser
- Description:
- Title from item., Attribution to Stevenart. Tentatively attributed by British Museum catalogue to Henry William Bunbury., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdresser -- Male dress: hand-muff., Watermark: J Whatman., and Note on verso: 'Ld B' Album.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act, March 1, 1771, by W. Darling, engraver in Great Newport Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A French hair dresser running through the streets to his customers [graphic].