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1.
The vision [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[15 May 1786]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Sheet trimmed within plate mark, Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110., Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Headless spectre., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 25 x 26.4 cm, on sheet 27.6 x 29.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 63 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Sleepwear, Axes, Fear, and Nightmares
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The vision [graphic].

2.
The vision [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[15 May 1786]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Sheet trimmed within plate mark, Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110., Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Headless spectre., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 23.2 x 25.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement., and Mounted on leaf 63 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Sleepwear, Axes, Fear, and Nightmares
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The vision [graphic].

3.
The vision [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[15 May 1786]
Call Number:
786.05.15.09+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Sheet trimmed within plate mark, Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110., and Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Headless spectre.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Sleepwear, Axes, Fear, and Nightmares
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The vision [graphic].

4.
[The incurable] [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 April 1784]
Call Number:
Print01204
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 250 x 305 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The incurable] [graphic].

5.
[The incurable] [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 April 1784]
Call Number:
784.04.04.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The incurable] [graphic].

6.
[The incurable] [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 April 1784]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 30.7 cm, on sheet 27.8 x 35.2 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 56 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [The incurable] [graphic].

7.
Frontispiece to the "musical book's" [graphic]

Creator:
Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
1835.
Call Number:
835.00.00.208
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of thirty-one small images, all of them individually titled, showing satirical scenes commenting on British social and political issues, many with visual puns, and depictions of stereotypes, both ethnic and social: dustman, Hottentotts, pickpockets, bishops, hunters, etc. Images are loosely arranged in three columns with the following headings at top (left to right): Hints to singers; A few favorite songs &c. &c.; Musical term's.
Description:
Title from text at top of design., "Price twopence"--Following publisher's statement and preceeding publication date in imprint., 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 26.8 x 19 cm., Printed on wove paper; mounted to 34 x 26 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Joseph Thomas, No. 1 Finch Lane, Cornhill and Printed by S. Straker, George Yd., Lombard St.
Subject (Topic):
Sleepwear, Courtship, Eating & drinking, Dance, Head-carrying, Indigenous peoples, Chimney sweeps, Military uniforms, Fireplaces, Debt, Bells, Singing, Bishops, Swine, Intoxication, Cats, Devil, Pitchforks, Rifles, and Donkeys
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece to the "musical book's" [graphic]

8.
The Sultan of Casgar's purveyor takes the corps of little hunch back (which is let down his chimney

Creator:
Jones, J. (John), approximately 1745-1797, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 December 1785]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 45. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In his kitchen, the angry sultan stands at right with a stick in his hand, ready to swing for the figure in the fireplace at left, which is actually the body of a man suspended by loops of rope under his arms, the sultan's wife standing behind at right; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 45 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Decr. 24, 1785, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street
Subject (Topic):
Sultans, Anger, Kitchens, Staffs (Sticks), and Fireplaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Sultan of Casgar's purveyor takes the corps of little hunch back (which is let down his chimney) for a robber Arabn. nights entt. / [graphic]

9.
Martin Folkes Esqr. [graphic]

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1742]
Call Number:
Kinnaird 44K(b) Box 100
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait seated slightly to left, half-length with his right hand raised, eyes to the front, wearing a long wig, landscape behind; before retouching
Description:
Title etched below image., State and publisher from Paulson., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Martin Folkes Esqr. [graphic]

10.
Martin Folkes Esqr. [graphic]

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1742]
Call Number:
Hogarth 742.00.00.01+ Box 200
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait seated slightly to left, half-length with his right hand raised, eyes to the front, wearing a long wig, landscape behind; before retouching
Description:
Title etched below image., State and publisher from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 332 x 237 mm, on sheet 484 x 347 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Martin Folkes Esqr. [graphic]

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