"A glutton lies in bed, asleep, assailed by the fish, flesh, and fowl of a City dinner. A huge turtle is on top of him, a lobster pinches his nose, a pheasant swoops to peck an eye. He holds in each hand a bottle labelled 'Wrights Cham[pagne]' [see British Museum Satires No. 15478], squirting the explosive contents at his assailants. A big frog points a spear on which three small frogs are spitted. On his bedside table besides candle, box of 'Dixon's Pills', basin, &c, is a bill of fare: 'Turtle & fresh Cod'; 'Roast beef & à la mode'; 'Veal and Mutton'; 'Pork and Venison'; 'Pheasants & Pigeons'; 'Lobster & Sturgeon'; 'Turkey and Capon'; 'Goose and Salmon'; 'Turbot & Ducks'; 'Shrimps in Pots'; 'Frogs à la Crapodine'; 'Anguille &c à la diabletine' [sic]. All these, shrimps excepted, are depicted; there is also a hare."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lord Mayor's Day nightmare and Fatal effects of gluttony
Description:
Title from text below image., Description based on impression in the British Museum., Text below title: Dedicated to all the city gourmands, to be had at all the taverns in the United Kingdom., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: Imperfect, sheet trimmed with loss of title above image and imprint; printmaker's intitials and printer information erased from sheet., and Window mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Printed by C. Motte, 23 Leicester Sqre
Subject (Topic):
Gluttony, Nightmares, Beds, Animals, and Champagne (Wine)
A man looks up in horror at the image of a demon, smoking a pipe and holding a lantern, sitting astride his sleeping wife beside him in their truckle bed. A horse looks on, his head poking through the casement window. Beside their bed is a candle, chamber pot, and a chair on which he has thrown his coat. Probably deriving (remotely) from Fuseli's 'Nightmare'.
Alternative Title:
Nightmare
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top and bottom., and Matted to 41 x 55 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Holland, October 26, 1794, No. 50 Oxford Steet [sic]
A comic nighttime scene: a man in his night cap stands in the entrance of his front doorway holding a blunderbuss under his arm and a lit candlestick in his hand. He and his dog both show alarm at the sight of a horse tied to the knocker on the door. In the background (left), around the corner of the house the moonlight reveals two young men who watch in amusement, one laughing behind his hand. On the ground are clam shells. A lantern above the door provides further light on the subject
Alternative Title:
Disturbed by the nightmare
Description:
Title engraved below image., Engraved after a painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1828; see Oxford Dictionary of national biography, entry for Theodore Lane., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Bulcock, 163 Strand, July 1, 1828, & at Paris by H. Rittner, Boulevard Montmartre
Sweet William's dream on his wedding night with the sudden death and burial of those noble lovers
Description:
Verse - "As it fell out upon a day,"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Imprint below last column., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 38. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-Lane, Loudon [sic]
Caption title., Slip song handbill; letterpress text with woodcut illustration., and Tipped onto a backing sheet. For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Date and printmaker supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Above image: L'imagination.; No. 10., Below image at left: L de Benard r. de l'Abbaye No.4., Originally published in Le Charivari, 21 May 1833., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters; Hypochondria., and Hand-colored.
Publisher:
On s'abonne chez Aubert galerie véro dodat and L de Benard r. de l'Abbaye No. 4.
Subject (Topic):
Illness anxiety disorder, Imagination, Sleeping, Nightmares, Death & burial, Undertakers, Coffins, Medicines, and Chamber pots
Title from item., Date and printmaker supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Above image: L'imagination.; No. 10., Below image at left: L de Benard r. de l'Abbaye No.4., Originally published in Le Charivari, 21 May 1833., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters; Hypochondria., and Trimmed with loss of legend to 26.9 x 19.2 cm.
Publisher:
On s'abonne chez Aubert galerie véro dodat and L de Benard r. de l'Abbaye No. 4.
Subject (Topic):
Illness anxiety disorder, Imagination, Sleeping, Nightmares, Death & burial, Undertakers, Coffins, Medicines, and Chamber pots
Title from item., In margin top right: Imagerie d'Épinal, No. 1156., Date supplied by curator., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters; Purgatives; Hypochondria; Apothecaries., and UL, LR corners missing. Edges torn and frayed. Creases from folding.
