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1. A Negro market in the West Indies [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1831]
- Call Number:
- 831.00.00.51+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene of a busy market in the West Indies with enslaved, free Africans, and white mingling amongst the vendors: The Black vendors are seated on the ground with their wares displayed around them, including produce (mellons, pineapples, bananas, etc.), livestock (goats, pigs, poultry, etc.); one man (left) is holding a lizard (iguana?); a little boy holds a bird on his finger. One woman carries her chickens and a piglet in a basket balanced on her head. Customers, both Black and mixed-race, mingle with vendors. White women with umbrellas and white men wearing hats walk among the vendors; a horse and carriage and buildings are in the background
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Based on a 1806 etching with the title: Negroes Sunday Market at Antigua. Engraved by Cordon, Pub. by G. Tustolini, London, 1806. See National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK. Accession reference: National Maritime Museum, ZBA2594., Motte started publishing in 1818 in Paris, opened a branch in London in 1830, and moved to 70 St. Martin's Lane in 1831. See British Museum online catalogue., "From an original drawing taken in 1806."--Lower left, below design., After W.E. Beastall and the engraving by Cardon. Cf. Negroes Sunday market at Antigua / engraved by Cardon. Pub. by G. Tustolini, London, 1806. Accession reference: National Maritime Museum, ZBA2594., and Imprint partially burnished and illegible.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Motte, 70 St. Martins Lane
- Subject (Geographic):
- Antigua.
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Animals, Farm produce, Markets, Poultry, and Slave trade
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Negro market in the West Indies [graphic].
2. A certain personage in the character of a fool as he perform'd it at Whitchurch & elsewhere [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1770]
- Call Number:
- 770.08.00.09
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire on the the criminal conversation between the Duke of Cumberland and Lady Grosvenor with Cumberland wearing a fool's cap; a servant spills a glass of wine on the Duke. The scene takes place in a bedchamber with a curtain around the bed, with a table set with a meal including wine bottles, wine glasses, and roasted fowl. On the wall hangs a large mirror
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from that of the periodical for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 5 (1770), p. 75., Text above image: For the Oxford mag., and Mounted to 33 x 46 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790 and Grosvenor, Henrietta Grosvenor, Countess, -1828
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Interiors, Fools' caps, Fools & jesters, Table settings & decorations, Bottles, Drinking vessels, Wine, Intoxication, Poultry, and Chairs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A certain personage in the character of a fool as he perform'd it at Whitchurch & elsewhere [graphic].
3. A flight of parsons!! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 February 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.02.24.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A country yokel in a hat and smoking a pipe sits on a stool beside a simple table outside in a farm house opposite a pigsty wtih a large pig and her piglets and chickens and their chicks running around in alarm. In the upper left sky a flock of parson in the form of birds fly in various directions. A second man sits on the gate looking up at the clergy/birds
- Description:
- Also attributed to Isaac Cruikshank in unverified information from card., Publisher's statement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Paper watermarked T.W. 1795., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of plate: S.W.F.
- Publisher:
- Published Febry. 24, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Agricultural laborers, Clergy, Farms, Pipes (Smoking), Poultry, and Swine
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A flight of parsons!! [graphic]
4. British invalid driving foreign animals from proceeding to the camp [graphic]
- Creator:
- Austin, William, 1721-1820, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published as the Act directs, Jany. 1, 1780.
- Call Number:
- 780.01.01.04.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item. and Trimmed to plate line on top and bottom.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Military camps, Entertainers, Bears, Monkeys, Donkeys, and Poultry
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > British invalid driving foreign animals from proceeding to the camp [graphic]
5. City sportsmen, or, The first of September a ballad. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 September 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.09.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A group of sportsmen stand amongst the gravestones in a churchyard cemetary aiming their guns at a flock of birds. Their hunting dogs run toward the birds. In a grave behind a tombstone (left), a gravedigger cowers in fear, a skull and pick axe beside him. In the distance the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral (?).
- Alternative Title:
- First of September
- Description:
- Caption title printed in letterpresss below etching., Imprint engraved below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 45 x 29 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Sepr. 1st 1792 by J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Cemeteries, Game bird hunting, Gravedigging, Hunting dogs, Poultry, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > City sportsmen, or, The first of September a ballad. [graphic]
6. Cooks, scullions, hear me evr'y mother's son canto 2d. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1787]
- Call Number:
- 787.00.00.01.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Against the wall hang birds, &c., and a poster: Royal Bill of Fare ... second course."--British Museum catalogue, description of a variant state with different title
- Alternative Title:
- Cooks, scullions, hear me every mother's son and Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Variant state, with different title, of a plate issued with the title: Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat. Cf. No. 7187 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Peter Pindar's The Lousiad.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cooks, Servants, Poultry, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cooks, scullions, hear me evr'y mother's son canto 2d. [graphic]
7. Favourite chickens going to market [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [26 July 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.07.26.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young woman carries a basket of chickens in one hand and a brace of fowl in her other hand as she sets out to the market. She looks out at the viewer as she is watched by a woman in the doorway of a cottage on the right. She is accompanied by a litle girl who also holds a chicken. Another large basket sits on the ground on the right opposite a chicken with her three little chicks
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Publisher's stamp in lower right corner.
- Publisher:
- Published July 26, 1792, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Baskets, Dwellings, Girls, Poultry, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Favourite chickens going to market [graphic].
8. Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat canto 2d. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1787]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Against the wall hang birds, &c., and a poster: Royal Bill of Fare ... second course."--British Museum Catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Variant state of plate issued with the title: Cooks, scullions, hear me evr'y mother's son. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 204., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. The Lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto II. London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1787], Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 72 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cooks, Servants, Poultry, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat canto 2d. [graphic]
9. London market. Poultry / [graphic] : No. 3
- Creator:
- Dubourg, Matthew, active 1806-1838, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 May 1822]
- Call Number:
- 822.05.10.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of a poultry shop, displaying turkeys, geese, ducks, and, oddly, pigs and rabbits
- Alternative Title:
- Poultry
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of a set of four views of London markets, the other prints showing "Meat," "Fish," and "Fruit" markets., and For a related drawing at the Yale Center for British Art, see accesssion no.: B1977.14.4099.
- Publisher:
- Published May 10, 1822, by Edwd. Orme, Editor of Prints to the King, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Markets, Food vendors, Poultry, and City & town life
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > London market. Poultry / [graphic] : No. 3