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1. An evening party [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 February 1826]
- Call Number:
- 826.02.03.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The fashionable guests, many being probably portraits and almost all elderly and plain, stand in conversation except for four at a card-table in the foreground, and for a military officer (? Prince Leopold) who lounges on a sofa. The room is bare except for a huge pier-glass and for heavily fringed and draped curtains, and for a bust of Napoleon on a pedestal which dominates the guests. An ugly little embodiment of acrid pedantry gazes up at it. There is an elaborate gas chandelier."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 3d 1826 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Street St. James's
- Subject (Topic):
- Card games and Parties
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An evening party [graphic]
2. Involuntary thoughts more friends and less need of them ... / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1824.
- Call Number:
- 824.00.00.28
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from heading above image., Three scenes separately captioned within image area. Other title information from first scene's caption., Captions continue: ... Nights of pleasure ; and days of ease., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Topic):
- Eating & drinking and Parties
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Involuntary thoughts more friends and less need of them ... / [graphic]
3. Les tables et les têtes tournantes, -- par G. Doré Aspect des salons de Paris en mai 1853 / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1853]
- Call Number:
- Print00628
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title above image. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Spiritualism, Seances, Parties, Top hats, and Tables
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Les tables et les têtes tournantes, -- par G. Doré Aspect des salons de Paris en mai 1853 / [graphic]
4. Mrs. Crowdem's rout [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Nov. 28, 1829.
- Call Number:
- 829.11.28.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
- Publisher:
- Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket
- Subject (Topic):
- Parties
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Crowdem's rout [graphic].
5. Nouveau divertissement des soirées Parisiennes. Les ésprits de Mr. Hume ... / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 April 1857]
- Call Number:
- Print00405
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Place of publication from item., In image: h.D. 51., Date supplied by curator., Published in Le Charivari, 16 April 1857., "Mr. Hume" possibly refers to Daniel Dunglas Home, 1833-1886, a famous spiritualist in Europe at the time., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- Mon. Martinet, 172, r. Rivoli et 41, r. Vivienne and Lith. Destouches, 28, r. Paradis Pre. Paris
- Subject (Topic):
- Spiritualism, Hypnotism, Parties, Shaving, Seances, Hairdressing, Hairstyles, and Spectators
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Nouveau divertissement des soirées Parisiennes. Les ésprits de Mr. Hume ... / [graphic]
6. The city rout [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- May 20, 1776.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 28. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Persons standing in conversation at a party. The principal figures are two elaborately dressed ladies of plebeian, elderly, and unattractive appearance who face each other; one holds a card, the other a fan. Their hair is awkwardly dressed in the enormous mounds then fashionable, see British Museum Satires No. 5370, &c. On the left a short, fat, and awkward footman brings in a tray on which is a triple stand of jelly-glasses, a foaming tankard of beer, &c. The other guests are men; one wears a furred alderman's gown. In the centre of the back wall is a picture of a man with a distraught expression dressed as a seaman or working man, who is being devoured by two lions, one on each side. Above his head are the letters 'S.P.Q.L.' On the back of the print a note in a contemporary hand explains this as "Senatus populusque Londoniensis the Aldermen and Commoners of London". On the right wall is visible the lower part of a whole length portrait of a man in a furred livery gown."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., State without plate number. Cf. No. 5372 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Aldermen: Part of livery gown -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Lions devouring working man -- 'Senatus populusque Londoniensis' see S.P.Q.L. -- City rout -- Food: Jelly-glasses served on triple stand -- Dessert -- Footmen in livery -- Cards -- Beverages: Beer -- Tankards -- Tray: Dessert tray -- Glasses: Jelly glasses -- Headdresses., and On leaf 28.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. accog. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, and London
- Subject (Topic):
- Parties, Social life and customs, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Wigs, Fans, Servants, and Feathers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The city rout [graphic].
7. The city rout [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- May 20, 1776.
- Call Number:
- 776.05.20.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A social gathering, in which two elaborately dressed and coiffed old ladies stand conversing in the center foreground, as a short footman of unprepossessing appearance carries in a tray loaded with a tankard and a triple stand of jelly glasses. In the background groups of men converse. Behind them hangs a painting inscribed S.P.Q.L., depicting a man in a shirt between two lions who have seized him by the arms
- Description:
- Title from item., Later state, with plate number added., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in top left of plate: 32.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. accog. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, and London
- Subject (Topic):
- Parties, Social life and customs, Hairstyles, Wigs, Servants, Clothing & dress, and Feathers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The city rout [graphic].
8. The hall of infamy, alias the Oyster Saloon in Bridges St., or, New Covent Garden Hall [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1825]
- Call Number:
- 825.01.01.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center figure, a young man assiled by a woman, appears to be R.C. See British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- New Covent Garden Hall
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication erased from sheet. For complete imprint statement cf. no. 14950 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 16 x 24 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Sherwood Jones & Co.
- Subject (Name):
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
- Subject (Topic):
- Chandeliers, Courtship, Eating & drinking, Fighting, and Parties
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The hall of infamy, alias the Oyster Saloon in Bridges St., or, New Covent Garden Hall [graphic]
9. [The hall of infamy, alias the Oyster Saloon in Bridges St., or, New Covent Garden Hall] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1825]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C9 824 no. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center figure, a young man assailed by a woman, appears to be Robert Cruikshank. See British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- New Covent Garden Hall
- Description:
- Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 14950 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 1, page 399.
- Publisher:
- Sherwood Jones & Co.
- Subject (Name):
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
- Subject (Topic):
- Chandeliers, Courtship, Crowds, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Intoxication, and Parties
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The hall of infamy, alias the Oyster Saloon in Bridges St., or, New Covent Garden Hall] [graphic].
