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1. 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 bulky parchments. Round his right leg is an unfastened garter inscribed '. . . d Expects Every Man will do' [his duty]. He puffs; sweat streams down his forehead; he says: 'Hard work this--got plenty more to bring down yet--.' The petitions are inscribed 'Petition' [five times]; 'against Concession' [twice]; 'Petition against'; '30.000 Inhabitants'; 'Humbly Sheweth'; 'Petition against Concession--' [twice] '3.00 Inhabitants'; '4000 of the . . .'; 'signed by 130.000 Men Women & Children ; 60,000 Respectable Inhabitants'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 40 x 30.5 cm.
- 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]
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., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of first panel of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Design consists of two panels side by side, each individually titled., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "86" in brown ink in lower left corner of first panel of design., Mounted on yellow paper backing., and No. 86.
- 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. Sailing to the house, wind full north [graphic].
- 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 (Charles James Fox) is standing
- Description:
- Title from item., Attributed to Colley in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
- 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].
4. 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., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left corner of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "84" in brown ink in lower left portion of design., and No. 84.
- 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]
5. The burthens of plenty [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 large basket containing turtle, hare, bottles and other delicacies, as well as several more bottles under his arm. The gentleman is headed towards a wineshop on the right, over which a sign advertises "Good eating & cool rooms", while across the street stand a row of tenements, the closest bearing several signs; "I. Nabbem Taylor", "Shafe & cut hear" and "Dinners & shirt wash'd for 2 pence."
- Description:
- Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 12, V.2.
- 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]
6. 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
- 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 drawing by Leigh."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Representation of Thomas Topham the strongman ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., "Price six-pence"--Following imprint., and Watermark: Countermark "IV".
- 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
7. 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: "There goes his ------ Honor!!" He shakes his fist at the couple. Beside him are his cocked hat and a broken sword inscribed 'from Holland'. Wardle walks uphill towards the temple of 'Truth'; a (naked) figure holds out draperies. In the swamp is a board: 'A Caution'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., M. Dorothy George identifies "I Spy" as Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Date from British Museum catalogue.
- 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]
8. 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., Manuscript imprint "Published by Benbow, 169 Strand" added in ink in lower right portion of image. Impression at the British Museum (registration no.: 1990,1109.37) has a pencil note by Andrew Edmunds that records another impression he had seen that bore the manuscript address of Benbow., Date from manuscript annotation in lower right corner of sheet., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 15 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and The word "Suppressed" written in ink below title; date "Nov. 1820" added in lower right.
- 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].
9. [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., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly one of a series of small drawings of Black Bermudans., and For further information, consult library staff.
- 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].