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1. An advertisement for a husband! [art original]
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1803]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 40 Box D215
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A footman leads a parson and six prospective suitors that have arrived in response to an advertisement for a husband posted by an 'old maid'. The bachelors include a Welshman, a Scotsman, and a doctor that offer flatteries while waiting, "Splutter hur, how pretty she looks, she pe [sic] a nice wench", "Leave a Scotch laddie alone for carrying off the sillar", and "From my conscience, she looks like a Venus of medicine!" respectively. The footman leans forward to shout into the elderly woman's ear trumpet, "Please your ladyship all these gentlemen be[?] come about an advartisement [sic] for a husband and to lose no time they have brought the Parson with them; please your Virginship what am I to say to em?" The elderly woman responds, "Say to them, why the men are mad, if I was so inclined do they think I would marry six husbands at once!!" A hissing cat followed by a litter of kittens stand beside the woman's chair
- Description:
- Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Publication line inscribed in ink below image for possible later print: London, Pubd. Jany. 1, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, removed from Oxford Street.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bachelors, Cats, Hearing aids, Marriage proposals, Older people, and Single women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An advertisement for a husband! [art original]
2. Avis aux amateurs, pour 1817. La tête de mort en bonne furtune. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [19th century]
- Call Number:
- Print00594
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Sheet trimmed., In lower right corner: Déposé., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Death (Personification)., Courtship, Marriage proposals, Death's head, Poor persons, Rich people, Money, and Harps
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Avis aux amateurs, pour 1817. La tête de mort en bonne furtune. [graphic]
3. Interested love [graphic]
- Creator:
- Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 September 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.09.03.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A clergy man with a bulbous nose and large wig (right) kneels before an elderly, well-dressed woman (left) who sits in a chair with a cat on her lap. She is very thin, with wrinkled face and pursed lips and wears multiple strands of pearls around her neck and wrist. Her cat hisses at her suitor
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Eight lines of verse, signed W.H., below title: Hear me, angelic object of my love ... ., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. September 3, 1793, by Will. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Clergy, Single women, Courtship, and Marriage proposals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Interested love [graphic]
4. Opposite motives [art original].
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 36 Box D210
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young male suitor kneels to offer a marriage proposal to an old maid sitting in a chair cooling herself with a fan
- Description:
- Title from contemporary pen and ink inscription on verso., Date supplied by cataloger., and Attributed to Woodward.
- Subject (Topic):
- Marriage proposals, Dandies, Single women, and Fans (Accessories)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Opposite motives [art original].
5. Popping the question to a devilish fine creature [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1829]
- Call Number:
- 829.00.00.94
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication information from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Tegg
- Subject (Topic):
- Devil and Marriage proposals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Popping the question to a devilish fine creature [graphic].
6. The Danites
- Published / Created:
- [1878?]
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc65 878da
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Print shows two separate scenes: on the left, a women in a group of men with one man asking the woman, "Married mum?," and on the right, the woman replying, "No sir!"
- Description:
- Signed within image: [indecipherable] Willard. and Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1878 by W.J. Morgan & Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Wash.
- Publisher:
- W.J. Morgan & Co.
- Subject (Topic):
- Danites (Mormon Church) and Marriage proposals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Danites
7. The declaration [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1850?]
- Call Number:
- 850.00.00.27
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The third in a series of scenes: A monkey dressed as a fine gentleman kneels before a well-dressed female monkey who looks away demurely behind her fan. The scene takes place in a formal garden
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Animals in human situations, Courtship, Gardens, and Marriage proposals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The declaration [graphic].
8. The parents scheme, or, Marriage consultation [graphic]
- Creator:
- Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1765 and 1775]
- Call Number:
- 765.00.00.88+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A Dutch interior with two Puritan men asking the parents of Saartje to marry her to Reinier Adriaansz. On the left in the background a young girl eavesdrops at the door. On the wall is a portrait of a girl and a seascape with two sailing vessels. On the right windows with curtains and another frames painting (or mirror?). A scene from the comedy "Jan Claasz. of de Gewaande Dienstmaagd".
- Alternative Title:
- Marriage consultation
- Description:
- Title engraved below image, with quotation on either side: Well, quoath her parents, be it so: Sukey was ready months ago. Had but an husband offer'd: Eighteen my friends, a ticklish time: Let Johnny take her in her prime ... The very thought my rage alarms, Shall Summer marry Winter., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., After the 1738 pastel by Troost in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, inv. no. 180., Imperfect: sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt Sayer, Print & Map Seller, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Marriage proposals, Parents, and Puritans
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The parents scheme, or, Marriage consultation [graphic]
