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1.
[A family group with children playing] [art original]

Creator:
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1770 and 1808?]
Call Number:
Drawings B373 no. 2 Box D100
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Mother and father depicted with three small children under a tree. The mother sews as the father plays with a small child. The older girl plays with a bucket in her lap, and the other small child slumbers in the foreground
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Families and Sewing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A family group with children playing] [art original]

2.
The seamstress [graphic]

Creator:
Cheesman, Thomas, 1760- printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1787]
Call Number:
Portraits H217a no. 1++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A print after Romney's portrait of Amy Lyon, mistress of The Honorable Charles Greville who, wanting a portrait of her, introduced her to Romney. She later became Emma, Lady Hamilton and still later, the mistress of Admiral Lord Nelson. She is shown ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1765-1815,
Subject (Topic):
Sewing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The seamstress [graphic]

3.
[The distressed poet] [graphic]

Creator:
Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818
Published / Created:
[1 October 1797]
Call Number:
Hogarth 797.10.01.02++ Box 310
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An untidy garret with a man in a dressing-gown working on a poem entitled 'Poverty' while his wife is confronted by a milkmaid with a lengthy tally who demands payment; a baby in bed is crying; a dog eats meat from a plate on a chair; behind the poet...
Alternative Title:
Studious he sate, with all his books around
Description:
Title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1st, 1797 by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Cats, Children, Crying, Dogs, Interiors, Milkwomen, Poets, Poverty, Sewing, Spouses, and Writing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The distressed poet] [graphic]

4.
Preparing the witnesses a view in Cotton Garden / [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:
[August 1820]
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Italian witnesses, in a large bare room or warehouse, where three are being washed in a large bath by Castlereagh, Sidmouth, and Liverpool. The bath is inscribed: 'Waters of Oblivion. Non mi Recordo [sic]--Ministerial Washing Tub--!' The three witnes...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 1820 by T. Dolby, 132 Strand
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Warehouses, Witnesses, Ethnic Stereotypes, Wash tubs, Bathing, Pails, Combs, Lawyers, Brooms & brushes, Trousers, Sewing, Card games, Smoking, Eating & drinking, Gin, Food, Barrels, Eggs, Daggers & swords, and Cannons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Preparing the witnesses a view in Cotton Garden / [graphic]

5.
The effects of extravagance & idleness [graphic]

Creator:
Darcis, Louis, -1801, printmaker
Published / Created:
publishd. March 25, 1800.
Call Number:
Drawer 800.03.25.08
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Poverty-stricken family in bare, attic interior; man seated at left beside table, skinny dog beside him, looking away from woman, standing in centre mending garment, watched by boy lying on floor and resting on stool at right, looking up from his rea...
Alternative Title:
Effects of youthful extravagance and idleness
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Dogs, Families, Interiors, Poor persons, Povery, Sewing, and Fireplaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The effects of extravagance & idleness [graphic]

6.
[Edward proposes marriage] [art original]

Creator:
Dodd, Daniel, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1752 and 1793]
Call Number:
Drawings D639 no. 5 Box D117
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The fifth drawing in a series of twelve that follow a tradition of producing a series on modern morals, a tradition established earlier in the 18th century by artists such as William Hogarth. In this series, twin brothers are bestowed an equal fortune...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Allegorical drawings, Buddhas, Courtship, Mirrors, Parables, Parlors, and Sewing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Edward proposes marriage] [art original]

7.
Morning preparation [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 February 1785] and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 10. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pa...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic]

8.
Morning preparation [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 February 1785]
Call Number:
785.02.25.01+
Collection Title:
Verso of leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pa...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic].

9.
Morning preparation [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 February 1785]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Verso of leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pa...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic].

10.
The distrest poet [graphic]

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[15 December 1740]
Call Number:
Kinnaird 28K Box 210
Collection Title:
Plate 29. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 29. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Riches a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and he...
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Cats, Children, Crying, Dogs, Interiors, Milkwomen, Poets, Poor persons, Poverty, Sewing, Spouses, and Writing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The distrest poet [graphic]

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