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1. A family picture [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811
- Published / Created:
- [1781?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C22 781
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire on portrait painting: a middle-aged English couple sit together on a dais, each holding a bird in their hand. Their bored son, dressed as Cupid, is seated on a stool in front of them, yawning. They are being painted by an enthusiastic artist wearing spectacles and holding a brush and palette. Two oval portraits hang on the back wall
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date based on printmaker's known address., Variant of no. 5921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., No. 3 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Birds, Families, Paintings, and Pets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A family picture [graphic]
2. A morning frolic, or, The transmutation of sexes [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the Act directs [25 March 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.03.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A soldier and a woman in deshabille swapping clothes; the woman standing hands on hips on the left wearing the sword and tricorn; the man sitting demurely on the right holding a fan and wearing a bonnet; tea-tray and four poster bed behind, a dog jumping up at a parrot on the left and a book open on the floor inscribed 'Ovid's Metamorphoses done into English';"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Transmutation of sexes
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate line., and Publication date from British Museum catalogue. Date burnished from plate.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Cross dressing, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Boudoirs, Tableware, Furniture, Pets, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A morning frolic, or, The transmutation of sexes [graphic]
3. A poor man loaded with mischief, or, Matrimony [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [not before1762]
- Call Number:
- 760.00.00.89+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A large stout man, with an expression of resignation on his face, walking between village houses, staggers under the weight of a drunken woman reposing on his back, a glass marked 'gin' in her raised right hand, her bosom exposed. On her lap sits a monkey holding on to the man's wig and thus pulling it off his head. A magpie is sitting on monkey's shoulders. Around the man's neck is a heavy chain with a huge padlock inscribed 'wedlock' hanging in the center. Behind the group, from a pigsty attached to the house on the left and inscribed, 'She is as drunk as David's sow' a pig sticks out its head. From the roof of the same house is suspended a sighboard showing two cats and decorated at top with bull's horns. Above the horns is an inscription, 'The Christian mans arms, or, the cuckolds fortune.'
- Alternative Title:
- Matrimony
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date inferred from John Smith's address at Cheapside., Two columns of verse below image: A monkey, a magpuye & wife, is the true emblem of strife ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, & John Smith in Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Intoxication, Marriage, Pets, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A poor man loaded with mischief, or, Matrimony [graphic]
4. Boarding school education, or, The Frenchified young lady [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [19 October 1771]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 17. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young woman dances to the violin played by her dancing master while her proud mother looks on.
- Alternative Title:
- Frenchified young lady
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a variant state with plate number, see no. 4639 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Boarding school -- Dancing lesson -- Education: boarding school -- Dancing masters -- Lapdog -- Monkey -- Toys: sword and stick -- Musical instruments: kit -- Furnishings: mirror -- Furnishings: tasselled window curtains -- Music: music book., On leaf 17., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Oct. 19th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Boarding schools, Dandies, Dance, Musicians, Pets, and Draperies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Boarding school education, or, The Frenchified young lady [graphic].
5. Boarding school education, or, The Frenchified young lady [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [19 October 1771]
- Call Number:
- 771.10.19.01.1+
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 17. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young woman dances to the violin played by her dancing master while her proud mother looks on.
- Alternative Title:
- Frenchified young lady
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a variant state with plate number, see no. 4639 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Boarding school -- Dancing lesson -- Education: boarding school -- Dancing masters -- Lapdog -- Monkey -- Toys: sword and stick -- Musical instruments: kit -- Furnishings: mirror -- Furnishings: tasselled window curtains -- Music: music book.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Oct. 19th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Boarding schools, Dandies, Dance, Musicians, Pets, and Draperies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Boarding school education, or, The Frenchified young lady [graphic].
6. College breakfast [graphic]
- Creator:
- Laurie, Robert, 1755-1836, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 October 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.10.21.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- At one end of a long table, a cleric with crossed eyes and mortar board drinks tea. He appears to be suspended in the air (the chair is not drawn) and leans with his elbow on the Morning Herald on the table. At the other end, a yawning academic in an unbuttoned coat under his robe, is doing up his stockings. His loose garter draws the attention of a playful cat while a dog watches him impatiently. Next to him on the table is an open volume of Euclid's Elements. The maid standing behind the table looks at the cleric on the left and pours hot water on the floor missing the teacup. Above the fireplace hang two muskets and three silhouette portraits of women. The bookshelves on the right display works of English authors and philosophers; on the left hangs a painting of a reposing nude and a satyr
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Octr. 21st, 1783 by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Scholars, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Pets, Rifles, Hats, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > College breakfast [graphic]
7. Conjugal affection from the original picture presented to the city by Aldn. Boydell / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Thew, Robert, 1758-1802, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 September 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.09.29.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A wealthy middle class family gathered in a room, the father standing in the centre, leaning on the back of a chair which his youngest child stands upon, embracing him, a son standing beside pointing to an open book and the mother sitting at left, gazing to right while another daughter beside plays with a kitten, a bird in a cage on table beside; at right an older son looks out anxiously at the ships on river beyond, his coat over his arm.."--British Museum online catalogue and The paintings on the back wall of the room and the statue above the doorway amplify the moral subject of the print
- Description:
- Title from text in lower margin, centered., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Dedication engraved below image, on either side of title: To Their Most Excellent Majesties King George III, & Queen Charlotte, this print is most humbly dedicated by their most dutiful and loyal subject, Jno. Boydell.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Sept. 29, 1799, by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Families, Windows, Paintings, and Pets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Conjugal affection from the original picture presented to the city by Aldn. Boydell / [graphic]
8. Corporal Cartouch teaching Miss Camp-Love her manual exercise [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- 4th Jany., 1787.
- Call Number:
- 787.01.04.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A soldier with a sword in his right hand has his left hand under the chin of a young lady who holds his gun in her left arm. Another soldier grins from behind a chair on which sits a drum. A monkey sits on a music book on a stool
- Description:
- Title from item., Numbered '145' in lower right corner., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published by Robert Sayer, Chart, Map, & Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Drums, Parlors, and Pets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Corporal Cartouch teaching Miss Camp-Love her manual exercise [graphic]
9. Corporal Cartouch teaching Miss Camp-Love her manual exercise [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- 9 May 1780.
- Call Number:
- 780.05.09.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Drums, Parlors, Pets, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Corporal Cartouch teaching Miss Camp-Love her manual exercise [graphic]
