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1. A common sewer (sower). [graphic]

Creator:: Lisle, Joe, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1828]
Call Number:: 826.00.00.05
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from caption below image., Plate from book: Joe Lisle's play upon words, pub by Thomas McLean, 1828., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Thomas McLean
Subject (Topic):: Puns and punning, Tailors, Tailoring, and Sewing
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A common sewer (sower). [graphic]

2. Beauty and fashion [graphic].

Published / Created:: [24 January 1797]
Call Number:: 797.01.24.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Two well-dressed young women sit in chairs opposite each other over a table on which are placed scissors, fabric, and ribbon and other sewing notions. They each are sewing , the woman facing the views attaches a large feather to a hat. The room is well-furnished with wallpaper, a patterned rug and a mirror on the wall behind them
Description:: Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '383' in lower right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Publish'd 24th Jany 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Hats, Interiors, Parlors, Rugs, Sewing, and Wallpapers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Beauty and fashion [graphic].

3. Dame Andrews : a ballad

Creator:: More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Published / Created:: [1795 or 1796]
Call Number:: Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Alternative Title:: Cheap Repository
Description:: Caption title., Anonymous. By Hannah More., This form of imprint was used between May 1795 and January 1796 (Spinney)., Verse begins: Near Lechlade town, in Glostershire ..., This edition has all except the price within a border consisting of intertwined ropes, one of leaf-like ornaments, the other of open ornamental dots; the words "Cheap Repository" interrupt the border in the center at the top; the two columns of text are separated by a vertical double rule., Below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price below the border: Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.---1s. 3d. for 50.---9d. for 25., Above imprint and below text, in italics: Entered at Stationers Hall., Entered in the Stationers' Register to Hannah More, 31 August 1795., The woodcut shows a family sitting by a fire at night in a room with a candle., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3 (no. 35)., Mounted on leaf 26. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:: Sold by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, at no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country
Subject (Topic):: Candles, Fireplaces, Sewing, and Reading
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Dame Andrews : a ballad

4. Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress [graphic]

Creator:: Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1764]
Call Number:: 764.00.00.09+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A young woman sitting directed to left in a wicker-backed chair in a panelled room, wearing a gown with frills at the elbows and a mob-cap, sewing; with a ribbon box and pin cushion on a small table to left; after Heilmann."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Domestic amusement and Fair seamstress
Description:: Title from caption etched below image., Date from unverified card catalog., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Companion print to: Domestick amusement. The lovely spinner.
Publisher:: Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil, and Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):: Boudoirs, Chairs, Interiors, Sewing, Sewing equipment & supplies, and Young adults
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress [graphic]

5. Emma Corbett making childbed linen, during a voyage at sea. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [12 May 1794]
Call Number:: 794.05.12.18+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A dying young naval officer's widow, seated with right leg crossed over the other, in a ship's cabin, directed to right, head in profile, wearing a sprigged gown and plumed hat, making lace at a small work-table, naval coat and sword on the window-sill behind her, ship visible on the water through a second window to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state and "[Plate] extensively reworked to update the fashion: the hat altered to a small-brimmed tall hat with plumes, the gown to a sprigged empire-line gown and the hair looped in a head-scarf."--British Museum online catalogue, Curator's comments for variant state
Description:: Title engraved below image., Reissue; plate has been extensively reworked, subtitle "making childbed linen, during a voyage at sea" has been added below title, and publication line has been altered. For earlier state with the imprint "Publish'd 14 July, 1788, by Robr. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.995., For a variant state that is seemingly identical apart from being numbered "376" instead of "375", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.7373.+., and Plate numbered "375" in lower left corner.
Publisher:: Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):: Pratt, Mr. 1749-1814. (Samuel Jackson),
Subject (Topic):: Sewing, Staterooms, and Widows
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Emma Corbett making childbed linen, during a voyage at sea. [graphic]

6. How very blue the candle burns!! [graphic]

Published / Created:: [30 July 1796]
Call Number:: 796.07.30.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A family, grouped round a small round table, see with consternation that the candle has a large blue flame. They are an elderly woman who is sewing, an elderly man in a smock frock, a youth, a small child, and a dog, whose raised head appears in the foreground. Behind the woman (left) stands a ghost in white drapery, with a beard and corpse-like face, glaring down at the group."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of carricatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: J Whatman 1794., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:: Pub. July 30, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):: Families, Tables, Ghosts, Candles, Candlesticks, Sewing, Sewing equipment & supplies, and Dogs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > How very blue the candle burns!! [graphic]

7. I am offended Tom [art original].

Published / Created:: [183-?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 29 Box D160
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A male cat standing erect on his hind legs and fashionably in a morning coat and holding a top hat rests his left paw on the shoulder of a female cat dressed in women's puffed-sleeved dress and wearing a cap. She is seated in a chair and sewing; beside her is a sewing case on a pedestal side table. Both wear serious expressions
Description:: Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on costume., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Cats, Animals in human situations, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > I am offended Tom [art original].

8. Love's last shift [graphic].

Published / Created:: [26 February 1787]
Call Number:: 787.02.26.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A squalid domestic interior: the Prince of Wales (right) and Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) sit facing each other on each side of an open fireplace. A calf's head suspended from a string roasts before the fire. She mends a pair of breeches which he has taken off; on the breeches and on his left leg the word 'Honi' is conspicuous. He is out at elbows though fashionably dressed. Next to Mrs. Fitzherbert and on the extreme left is an infant in a wicker cradle, on rockers; the Prince negligently holds a string attached to the cradle. On the wall is a ballad: 'A Begging We will go &c.' The Prince of Wales' feathers also decorate the wall. On the extreme right is a small table, scantily laid for one. Weltje kneels beside it, unpacking a basket of potatoes. He looks round at George Hanger who stands behind the table in profile to the left holding a mug."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Domestic scene -- Furniture: chair -- Literary quotation: Colley Cibber's Love's last shift, or The fool in fashion -- Military uniform: Colonel in light infantry -- Roasting a calf's head -- Infant in wicker cradle -- Prince's debts -- Basket of potatoes.
Publisher:: Pub'd Feby. 26, 1787, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne,, Hanger, George,, and Weltje, Louis,
Subject (Topic):: Military uniforms, British, and Sewing
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Love's last shift [graphic].

9. 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 pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Restrike, with "Gillray fecit" added in lower left corner. For an earlier state of the plate, see no. 6790 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 72., and On leaf 10 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
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]