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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]

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]

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].

Creator:: Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not after 1768]
Call Number:: 765.00.00.89+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image. and Richard Purcell signed his works, among other names, as Charles Corbutt. See Bénézit's Dictionaire critique et documentaire des peintres, ... v. 11, p. 302.
Publisher:: Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):: Baskets, Fireplaces, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The seamstress [graphic]