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1.
A bagnio scene with a white-leggd chicken coaxking [sic] an old dotard. [graphic]

Published / Created:
as the act directs, 2nd March, 1778.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men in a brothel, one sitting on the right uncorking a bottle, the other putting his arm around the shoulder of a prostitute, leering as she adjusts his cravat, urged by the Madam who rises from a sofa in front of a round table with punch-bowl an...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Furnishings, Interiors, Paintings, Prostitutes, and Screens
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A bagnio scene with a white-leggd chicken coaxking [sic] an old dotard. [graphic]

2.
Building houses with cards [graphic] : from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens

Published / Created:
[approximately 1750]
Call Number:
750.00.00.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In a room, a group watching as a man sitting at a round table builds a house of cards, which tumbles down as a figure leans in at right, the man and a man standing in outdoor clothes behind looks at him with dismay; in the right foreground two young ...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Children, Dogs, Drawing rooms, Furniture, Interiors, Playing cards, Screens, Tables, and Toys
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Building houses with cards [graphic] : from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens

3.
Building houses with cards engraved after the original painting in Vaux Hall Garden / [graphic]

Creator:
Truchy, L., 1731-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1764]
Call Number:
764.00.00.35+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a room, a small group of women and children watch as a man sitting at a round table builds a house of cards, which tumbles down as a figure leans in at the right; a man standing in outdoor clothes behind looks at him with dismay. On a chair on the ...
Description:
Publication date from Carington Bowles's entry in Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic], and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Cards, Chairs, Children, Dolls, Furnishings, Games, Interiors, Screens, Tables, and Upholstery
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Building houses with cards engraved after the original painting in Vaux Hall Garden / [graphic]

4.
Corporal Trim reading the sermon to Mr. Shandy, Uncle Toby, and Doctor Slop [graphic].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Published / Created:
3 Jan. 1785.
Call Number:
785.01.03.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Crutches, Screens, Furniture, Tables, Chairs, Stools, Interiors, Military uniforms, British, Staffs (Sticks), and Smoking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Corporal Trim reading the sermon to Mr. Shandy, Uncle Toby, and Doctor Slop [graphic].

5.
How d'ye do? [graphic]

Published / Created:
[20 October 1786]
Call Number:
Print00205
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly invalid sits in an armchair, his gouty legs swathed, a shawl over his head, a pair of bands shows that he is a parson. He turns to his visitor, an elderly lady seated next him in a similar armchair, wearing a hooded cloak over her cap, and...
Alternative Title:
Comfort & relief often found in relating one's complaints and Comfort and relief often found in relating one's complaints
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20 Octr. 1786 by E. Jackson, Mary-le bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Visiting the sick, Muffs, Older people, Clergy, Sick persons, Visiting, Complaining, Servants, Interiors, Screens, and Mirrors
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > How d'ye do? [graphic]

6.
Mr. King, Mrs. Abington, Mr. Smith and Mr. Palmer in the characters of Sir Peter and Lady Teazle

Creator:
Laurie, Robert, 1755-1836, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[12 May 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Collection Title:
Volume 1, opposite page 180. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole lengths, standing in a library, King on left, his hands clasped, before him a fallen screen, behind which, her back to a window, stands Mrs. Abington, elegantly dressed, holding fan before her face, Palmer points towards her with right hand whi...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 12th May 1778, by John Harris, map & printseller, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., King, Thomas, 1730-1805,, Abington, Mrs. 1737-1815, (Frances Barton),, Palmer, John, 1742?-1798,, and Smith, William, 1730-1819,
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Theatrical productions, Sets (Architectural elements), Interiors, Libraries (Rooms & spaces), Bookcases, Screens, and Fans (Accessories)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. King, Mrs. Abington, Mr. Smith and Mr. Palmer in the characters of Sir Peter and Lady Teazle, Joseph and Charles Surface, in the comedy of the School for scandal / [graphic]

7.
Work for Doctors'-Commons [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 26. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a luxuriously furnished room, across one corner of which is a large folding screen. Behind the screen (left) a man stands on a chair looking over it, while a footman in livery crouches beside him looking round it at a pair of lovers: ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Rowlandson, Strand, Feby. 1792, & S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Screens, Servants, Couples, Military officers, Fireplaces, Sconces, Mandolins, Clocks & watches, and Adultery
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Work for Doctors'-Commons [graphic].

8.
[The honey moon] [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 August 1814]
Call Number:
Print00225
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A pretty young wife sits beside an aged doting and rich husband, reading to him. He delightedly contemplates his glass, which is being filled by Death, who leans over a screen. The girl's left hand is held by a young officer who leans through the win...
Alternative Title:
Honeymoon and When the old fool has drank his wine and gone to rest, I will be thine
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death.
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 1, 1814, by R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Dance of death, Death (Personification), Marriage, Skeletons, Courtship, Adultery, Military officers, British, Eating & drinking, Alcoholic beverages, Windows, Interiors, Stringed instruments, Books, Dogs, Fireplaces, and Screens
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The honey moon] [graphic].