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1. A city taylor's wife dressing for the Pantheon [graphic]
- Creator:
- Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [5 February 1772]
- Call Number:
- 772.02.05.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fashionably dressed woman sitting behind a table is taking a necklace out of a box; she has three large black spots on her face. She looks with disdain at her enraged husband in old-fashioned clothes and a nightcap, sitting next to her, his fists clenched and despair on his face. In his lap lies a pair of breeches he is sewing; above on the wall of their meagre abode hangs an advertisement placard next to which is drawn a small stag's head with antlers
- Description:
- Title engraved below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd 5th Feby. 1772 by W. Humphrey, St. Martin's Lane
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Couples, Jewelry boxes, Scissors & shears, Sewing equipment & supplies, Sexually transmitted diseases, Tailors, and Wall newspapers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A city taylor's wife dressing for the Pantheon [graphic]
2. A city taylor's wife dressing for the Pantheon [graphic]
- Creator:
- Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [5 February 1772]
- Call Number:
- 772.02.05.02.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fashionably dressed woman sitting behind a table is taking a necklace out of a box; she has three large black spots on her face. She looks with disdain at her enraged husband in old-fashioned clothes and a nightcap, sitting next to her, his fists clenched and despair on his face. In his lap lies a pair of breeches he is sewing; above on the wall of their meagre abode hangs a small stag's head with antlers
- Alternative Title:
- City tailor's wife dressing for the Pantheon
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Later state, with plate reworked to include an altered publication line and changes to the design. For an earlier state published by William Humphrey that has an advertisement placard present on the back wall among other differences, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 772.02.05.02+., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd 5th Feby. 1772 by Heny. Parker at No. 82 in Cornhill, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Couples, Jewelry boxes, Scissors & shears, Sewing equipment & supplies, Sexually transmitted diseases, and Tailors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A city taylor's wife dressing for the Pantheon [graphic]
3. A tailor in a high wind, or, L'embarras des richesses drawn from life on the cliff Brighton. [art original]
- Creator:
- Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1819?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings M362 no. 1 Box D135
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing of a caricatured tailor standing in profile to the left revealing an enormous paunch. He stands before a railing on a boardwalk with the ocean waves below. He desperately clutches a small girl in his left arm, a cane between his legs, and fumbles with an umbrella as a forcible gale blows away the remainder of his possessions including a pattern book, wig, hat, the child's bonnet, and tape measure. A dog crouches on his side in the lower left
- Alternative Title:
- Embarras des richesses
- Description:
- Title from ms. caption inscribed below drawing., Artist from British Museum catalogue., and Original drawing for a print by the same name etched by G. Cruikshank and published by G. Humphrey. Cf. no. 13435 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Brighton (England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Girls, Sewing equipment & supplies, Tailors, Wigs, and Winds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tailor in a high wind, or, L'embarras des richesses drawn from life on the cliff Brighton. [art original]
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. Domestick amusement. The lovely spinner [graphic]
- Creator:
- Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.10+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young woman seated in a caned armchair with cushions, directed to right, wearing a frilled cap, a dark apron over her gown with long sleeves and ruffles at the elbow, spinning and glancing at the viewer; a fireplace with a work bag hanging a fire screen in front of it, to the right; an urn on the mantel piece with a mirror on the wall, curtains behind on right and left; after Heilmann
- Alternative Title:
- Domestic amusement and Lovely spinner
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Date from unverified card catalog., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Companion print to: Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs, Fireplaces, Interiors, Mirrors, Purses, Sewing equipment & supplies, Spinning, Spinning apparatus, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Domestick amusement. The lovely spinner [graphic]
6. Home from school, or, The commencment [sic] of the holidays [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1835]
- Call Number:
- 835.08.01.21+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The mother sits beside an open work-table, receiving the children whom a black footman ushers in, looking round the door and grinning broadly. The eldest girl has rushed into her mother's arms; a little boy stands beside her, gleefully welcoming a younger girl who is running forward. The eldest boy, on whom his mother's eyes are fixed, advances nonchalantly, blowing a trumpet. A cockatoo screeches on its perch. There are two pictures: Harvest Home and Happy Return, a woman at her cottage door greeting a youth."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Commencment of the holidays and Commencement of the holidays
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Number "3" in "1835" in imprint has been erased and replaced with number "2" written in ms., Reissue of no. 15188 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10; originally published 1826 by S. Knights., Temporary local subject terms: Holidays -- Black servants -- Parlors -- Families -- Pictures amplify subjects -- Parrots -- Joy -- Horns., and Watermark: 1834.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Augt. 1st, 18[2]5, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Children, Cockatoos, Dogs, and Sewing equipment & supplies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Home from school, or, The commencment [sic] of the holidays [graphic]
7. 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]
8. 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].
9. Morning employments [graphic]
- Creator:
- Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 June 1784]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 21. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young woman playing 'the ballad of Auld Robin Gray' on a harpsichord (inscribed with the maker's name Thomas Kirkman) with a dog standing at her feet, beside another is employed with needlework, a small boy leaning on her leg and reaching up towards her, a third girl stands at the back with a shuttle and thread in hand, an oval frame on the wall behind; oval design, after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 21 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. June 14, 1784, by T. Macklin, No. 39 Fleet Street & C. White, Stafford Row, Pimlico
- Subject (Topic):
- Young adults, Children, Harpsichords, Needlework, and Sewing equipment & supplies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Morning employments [graphic]
