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1. Dusty Bob - the parish dustman [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840
- Published / Created:
- [12 June 1829]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H438 829
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Peel, as a dustman, stands with legs apart, smoking a pipe and looking to the left. In his right hand is his hand-bell, marked with the Royal Arms, in the left broom and shovel. He is handsome and stalwart, the dress is becoming. Above: 'I dont, vunder I looks black I has all the dirty work in the Parish to do.'"--British Museum online catalogeue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Series title etched above image., and Paul Pry is the pseudonym of William Heath.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 12 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of P. Prys caricatures - none are original without T. McLeans name
- Subject (Name):
- Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
- Subject (Topic):
- Garbage collecting and People associated with manual labor
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dusty Bob - the parish dustman [graphic]
2. French liberty [graphic].
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately July 1793?]
- Call Number:
- 793.07.00.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An allegorical representation of France with Liberty as a young woman bound and being dragged from a temple, Libertas, by French soldiers to face a angry mob, two decapitated heads at the base of the stairs. One soldier breaks a staff with a liberty cap at the top. A woman kneels a fire which consumes a spinning wheel and is fed books carried by laborers. A crowd of artists, musicians, carpenters, smiths, weavers and other tradesmen are roughly pushed away from the temple by a soldier. In the background a church which has been turned into a theatre attracts a large crowd to a production of "The massacre at Paris."
- Description:
- Attributed to John Nixon. See British Museum catalogue, no. 8334., Trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., One line of text below title: This print is most respectfully dedicated to every true hearted Briton who's a friend to his king and country., Four lines from Churchill's poem, Independence, printed in two columns on each side of title: O thou poor country, weak and overpow'rd, By thine own sons, eat to the bone, devour'd ..., Nine lines of explanatory text below image: Liberty is torn from her temple by a hired band of ruffians ... ., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom with loss of contemporary ms. annotation.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and France.
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Artists, Book burning, Decapitations, Demons, Destruction & pillage, Fools & jesters, Liberty, People associated with manual labor, Trade, Revolutions, and Violence
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > French liberty [graphic].
3. Hard times [graphic]
- Creator:
- Moffat, James, 1775-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.00.00.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Four figures shown full-length
- Description:
- Title from caption., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initial W below.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- India.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Barbers, Cooks, People associated with manual labor, Tailors, and Undertakers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hard times [graphic]
4. Journeymen hatters dipping their master in the dye [graphic]
- Creator:
- Charles, William, 1776-1820, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- publishd. April 14th, 1806.
- Call Number:
- 806.04.14.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Four employees of a hatter force their employer into a bath of black dye. One of the journeymen holds a beaver by its tail as it cries "He robbed me of my coat, and blam'd others for it." A young apprentice entering from the right holds out a fish to the beaver. In the foreground a black demon whose speech balloon reads, "Push him through my lads. I'll adopt him as one of my children."
- Alternative Title:
- Advertising reward proved to be a bad plan, by dipping the master's made black as his man
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark: Ruse & Turner 1805.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Hat industry, People associated with manual labor, Employee-employer relations, Dyes, Demons, Beavers, Gallows, and Irons (Pressing)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Journeymen hatters dipping their master in the dye [graphic]
5. One of the poor employed to mend the high ways [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840
- Published / Created:
- [12 June 1829]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H438 829
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Lord Brougham shown in an apron and mopping his brow doing the work of a road mender. He holds a sledge hammer and faces a pile of rocks is labeled "Reform."
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Series title etched above image., Text etched within image above the figure digging: This is poor work after all I see you are tired of it Frank besides we have not improved the High Ways a bit - getting very hungry could swallow a whole batch of rolls., Paul Pry is the pseudonym of William Heath., and Not in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 12 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of P. Pry caricatures - none are original without his name
- Subject (Name):
- Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
- Subject (Topic):
- People associated with manual labor
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > One of the poor employed to mend the high ways [graphic]
6. The compliments of the season [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Jany. 1832.
- Call Number:
- 832.01.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man hunched over a fire in an empty room as eight tradespeople -- a chandler, a baker, a butcher, a dairy woman, a tailor, and a dustman -- fight to present their unpaid bills, long scrolls of paper that they show to the bankrupt man. He responds: ‘God bless me Wot a Posse of ye - I’m very Sorry to inform ye my good Folks that I’ve just been turn’d a Bankrupt’.
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publisher's advertisement on either side of title: The following laughable plates 1/- each colour'd, Tregear’s Flights of Humour 14 plates, Tenant at Will, Leaseholder, Living Cheap, Chip of the Old Block, Humourous Scraps, Matrimony, Burstyersides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Remnants of formerly mounted printed matter on verso.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by Tregear, Cheapside, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Debt, Garbage collecting, Interiors, Fireplaces, and People associated with manual labor
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The compliments of the season [graphic]
7. The lamplighter [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 9 Novr. 1790.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the center of a broad city street, a gaily-dressed lamplighter carries his ladder as he walks to the right. In his right hand he carries a can with burning end and a pair of scissors with a chain in a case hangs from his waist. In the distance (left) is a large building with a church spire rising behind, and on the right a pillar with a lamp and iron rail above a brick wall
- Description:
- Title from caption above verses etched below image: "By Mr. Dibdin.", Verse in three columns below title begins: "I'm jolly Dick the lamplighter, they say the sun's my dad, and truly I believe it sir, for I'm a pretty lad ...", Numbered "602" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Purchased by British Museum in 2010. For similar, see British Museum number 1935,0522.1.36 in the online catalogue., No. 41 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Cities & towns, Ladders, Lampposts, and People associated with manual labor
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The lamplighter [graphic].
8. To the Right Honorable William Pitt, first Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, Principal Secretary of State, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, this accurate perspective view of the outside of the Royal Exchange in London is (by permission) humbly dedicated by his most grateful, obedient, and most obliged humble servant, J. Chapman [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 August 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.08.12.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Exterior view of the Royal Exchange; looking down a busy street with carriages, carts and pedestrians, St Paul's Cathedral in the distance to the left, the prominent entrance of the Royal Exchange with tower to right; in right foreground a man enters a shop with the sign "John's Coffee"; after Loutherbourg and Chapman; published etched state."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Perspective view of the outside of the Royal Exchange in London
- Description:
- Title from dedication below image. and Companion print to: Perspective view of the inside of the Royal Exchange in London.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs August 12, 1788, & sold by Mr. Chapman at Mr. Christie's, Pall Mall
- Subject (Geographic):
- City of London (England), England, London, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806,, Royal Exchange (London, England),, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, Stock exchanges, Streets, Stores & shops, City & town life, People associated with manual labor, Carriages & coaches, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > To the Right Honorable William Pitt, first Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, Principal Secretary of State, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, this accurate perspective view of the outside of the Royal Exchange in London is (by permission) humbly dedicated by his most grateful, obedient, and most obliged humble servant, J. Chapman [graphic]
9. Who's afraid, or, The effects of an invasion!! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 November 1790]
- Call Number:
- 790.11.21.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Twelve standing figures arranged in two rows, their words etched above their heads. [1] A fat and prosperous citizen smoking a long pipe, smoke puffing from the corners of his mouth and his nostrils: 'I will be bound - with a dozen of our Club and a proper allowance of fire, and the best Virginia, to smoke the French Mounseers from Dover to Calais, in the turning of a Tobacco stopper, who's afraid?' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8220). The others, who make similar boasts of their ability to resist an invasion are: [2] A shambling journeyman tailor who speaks in the name of 'all united Taylors'. [3] A ragged cobbler, knock-kneed to deformity, who is also a preacher, cf. British Museum Satires No. 8026. [4] A 'Loyal Gypsy' with an (unnecessary) wooden leg. [5] A young woman (? Mrs. Concannon) as one of the 'Host of Faro, prepared to batter the enemy, with the remnants of our Reputations!' [6] A badly maimed officer, on stumps, with amputated right arm. [7] A doctor prepared to use his 'patent pills' on the enemy. [8] A Billingsgate virago. [9] A yokel: 'they had better keep away from our village . . . for I believe in my heart, the very Turkies would rise in a mass against them, who's afraid.' [10] A foppish apprentice: 'I am a tight dashing fresh water Sailor; - keep a funny row to Putney every Sunday - let me catch them above Bridge - thats all. who's afraid.' [11] An attorney prepared to present his bill to the enemy. [12] A stout man wearing a hat stands in back view, legs astride, coat-tails raised as if with his back to the fire: 'Lets teach em good manners D------mme who's afraid?'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Effects of an invasion!!
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides resulting in loss of title from lower edge. Title supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Manuscript title added in ink at bottom of image, above imprint: Who's afraid! or the effects of an invasion!!
- Publisher:
- Pub. Nov 21, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Public opinion, Pipes (Smoking), Tailors, Shoemakers, Disabled veterans, Amputees, Physicians, Pitchforks, Dandies, British, Lawyers, and People associated with manual labor
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Who's afraid, or, The effects of an invasion!! [graphic]
