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1.
Arithmetical terms being a frontispiece to "The tutors assistant". [graphic]

Published / Created:
[between 1832 and 1836?]
Call Number:
Maidment Un58 no. 14 Box 5
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of twenty-six small images, each with a caption below. The images are scenes punning on the mathematical terms of the captions
Description:
Title from text at top of design.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Lifting & carrying, Decapitations, Families, Alligators, Fencing, Singing, Wounds & injuries, Bandages, Counters, Peg legs, Amputees, and Mathematics
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Arithmetical terms being a frontispiece to "The tutors assistant". [graphic]

2.
John Bull carrying the Whigs into office [graphic]

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"First panel: John Bull carrying four Whigs on his back; second panel: Duke of Wellington with willow on his his hat feeding another politician on all fours like a donkey."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Titles from item.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Lifting & carrying, and Eating & drinking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Bull carrying the Whigs into office [graphic]

3.
The body snatchers, or, The resurrection of the Whigs [graphic]

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Queen and the King exhuming the Whigs' corpses in the night and carrying them away."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Resurrection of the Whigs
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Graves, Dead persons, Lifting & carrying, and Lanterns
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The body snatchers, or, The resurrection of the Whigs [graphic]

4.
A labourer in the good cause [graphic]

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately March 1828]
Call Number:
828.03.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Eldon stands with his shirt-sleeves rolled up, carrying a great stack of petitions under each arm. On his head is a porter's knot made of a pair of green bags (emblem of 'Old Bags', see British Museum Satires No. 12883); on this rests a third pile of...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
Subject (Topic):
Petitions, Bags, Head-carrying, and Lifting & carrying
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A labourer in the good cause [graphic]

5.
Too late to repent [graphic].

Published / Created:
[November 1820?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline: the Devil, holding a green bag, carries off Bergami [or George IV?] on his shoulders."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Benbow, 169 Strand
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron.
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Bags, Remorse, and Lifting & carrying
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Too late to repent [graphic].

6.
The slough of despond [graphic]

Published / Created:
[ca. March 1809]
Call Number:
809.03.00.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Wardle, in back view in civilian dress, walks off with Mrs. Clarke seated on his right shoulder; a paper, 'C. Wardle', projects from his pocket. She looks back to point derisively down at the Duke of York who is falling into a watery swamp. She says:...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Wetlands, Falling, Signs (Notices), Lifting & carrying, Temples, and Truth
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The slough of despond [graphic]

7.
[Man carrying a boat on his head] [art original].

Published / Created:
[1805?]
Call Number:
Drawings Un58 no. 25 Box D160
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man dressed only in tattered shorts with a sack tied around his waist carries a long canoe balanced on his head and a secondary supporting pole
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Bermuda Islands and Bermuda Islands.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Porters, Lifting & carrying, and Canoes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Man carrying a boat on his head] [art original].

8.
[Woman carrying a bag of laundry on her head] [art original].

Published / Created:
[1805?]
Call Number:
Drawings Un58 no. 24 Box D160
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A woman wearing a colorfully-dyed dress carries a large bag of laundry on her head while a toddler walks by her side
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Bermuda Islands.
Subject (Topic):
Children, Laundresses, Women, Lifting & carrying, and Laundry
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Woman carrying a bag of laundry on her head] [art original].

9.
[Man carrying a bundle of sticks on his head] [art original].

Published / Created:
[1805?]
Call Number:
Drawings Un58 no. 23 Box D160
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man dressed in tattered clothes and smoking a pipe carries a bundle on his bald head
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Bermuda Islands
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Porters, and Lifting & carrying
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Man carrying a bundle of sticks on his head] [art original].

10.
Buxoma

Creator:
Shepheard, George, 1770-1842, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1794]
Call Number:
794.00.00.220
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Buxoma, a character from John Gay's The shepherd's week, is seen carrying pales on a shoulder yolk through a rural landscape
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Milkwomen, Lifting & carrying, Country life, Rural women, and Yokes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Buxoma

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