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1. Obediah puzzled [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [1830?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 31 Box D160
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two Quakers conversing as if catechising, one wearing an extravagant waistcoat: 'Aminidab, how camest thou by that garment for the vain adornment of thine outward man?', '"I created it."', 'Created it friend?', '"Yea verily - for I said, "Let it be made, and it was made!!'.
- Description:
- Title from caption inscribed at bottom of design in black ink., Date based on published etching with this design, same title, and text: Pubd. Apl. 1830, by S. Gan's Southampton St. See British Museum online catalog. Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Quakers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Obediah puzzled [art original].
2. The fair Quaker of Cheltenham [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [2 October 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.10.02.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, plainly dressed and wearing a broad-brimmed hat, stands in profile to the right, addressing a pretty young woman (Hannah Lightfoot?) seated on a stile, a bucker at her feet. They are under a large tree on whose trunk is fixed a sign pointing 'To Cheltenham Spa'. A path from the stile leads to the village of Cheltenham in the background. Behind the tree Queen Charlotte watches the conversation, her hand pointing near her cheek. On a hill (left) is a pavilion on wheels
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of verse inscribed in two columns on either side of title: Did you know the Lad that Courts you He not long need sue in Vain Prince of Songs of Dance of Sports: You Scarce will meet his like again. Midas., and Watermark: J Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Oct. 2 1788 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadily [sic]
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Cheltenham (England)
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Lightfoot, Hannah, 1730-
- Subject (Topic):
- Quakers and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fair Quaker of Cheltenham [graphic].
3. The speaker [graphic]
- Creator:
- Peake, James, 1729-approximately 1782, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published according to act of Parliament, April 18, 1765 [that is, approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 65. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Quakers showing a woman and two men in a pew; the man in the centre, bare headed and in the throes of an earnest speech, clutches a handkerchief; the other man, his hat low over his eyes, rests his chin on a heavy walking stick."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 4129 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], and On leaf 65 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Quakers, Pews, Public speaking, Handkerchiefs, Hats, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The speaker [graphic]
