Subject Heading: Lifting & carrying - Yale University Library Search Results

Published / Created:: [10 April 1782]
Call Number:: 782.04.10.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Lord North, carrying a large sack labelled "budget, small beer, soap, tobacco, insurance, carriages, tea", references to his proposed taxes of 1782. The Devil stands behind helping support the sack, as North approaches an open window at which a fox (C...
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 10th, 1782 by W. Humphrey No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):: North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Economic conditions, Lifting & carrying, Devil, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Sailing to the house, wind full north [graphic].

Published / Created:: [24 February 1777]
Call Number:: 777.02.24.01+
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: Depicts an enormously obese gentleman transporting his protruding stomach by means of a wheelbarrow and mopping his brow with a handkerchief, while behind him in an extreme contrast, an emaciated and ragged porter follows carrying on his shoulder a la...
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: P. by MDarly Feby. 24, 1777 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Obesity, Wheelbarrows, Porters, Lifting & carrying, Poor persons, Rich people, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The burthens of plenty [graphic]

Creator:: Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:: [29 June 1741]
Call Number:: 741.06.29.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of Thomas Topham, taken on 28 May 1741; full length, standing slightly to right on high scaffold, preparing to lift three hogsheads full of water in Bath Street, London, in honour of Admiral Vernon's attack to capture Cartagena; after a draw...
Alternative Title:: Representation of Thomas Topham the strongman ...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 29, 1741, and sold by W.H. Toms, engraver, in Union Court, Holbourn
Subject (Name):: Topham, Thomas, approximately 1710-1749, and Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757.
Subject (Topic):: Bodybuilders, Lifting & carrying, and Barrels
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The representation of Thomas Topham the strong man before thousands of people, in Bath-Street, Cold-Bath-Fields / [graphic] : who lifted three hogsheads of water, weighing 1836 £, the 28th of May 1741, in honour to Admiral Vernon

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