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1. A grave physician & lively cobler [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1804]
- Call Number:
- 804.05.12.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A doctor addresses a cobbler who is working in his booth on the pavement, with a woman listening to their conversation."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Grave physician and lively cobler, Grave physician & lively cobbler, and Grave physician and lively cobbler
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Plate numbered '347' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of text below image: Doctor "Bless me what could bring a man of science like you to mend shoes, I shou'd advise you to practice physic, it wou'd be more profitable." ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Cobblers -- Cobbler's Shops.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd May 12, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians and Shoemakers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A grave physician & lively cobler [graphic].
2. A mender of soles [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1840?]
- Call Number:
- 840.00.00.57
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- T. Richardson, publisher Derby
- Subject (Topic):
- Shoemakers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A mender of soles [graphic]
3. A poor man loaded with mischief, or, Iohn Bull and his sister Peg [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1762?]
- Call Number:
- 762.09.23.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Iohn Bull and his sister Peg and John Bull and his sister Peg
- Description:
- Title from caption etched above image., Reduced and reversed copy, without verse, of No. 3904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.4., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: olive branch -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Scots., and Window mounted to 25 x 19 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Treaty of Paris, Emblems, Apes, Foxes, Geese, and Shoemakers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A poor man loaded with mischief, or, Iohn Bull and his sister Peg [graphic].
4. An essay on the sublime & beautiful The maiden speech. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 April 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.04.10.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "[Left image] One of two designs on the same plate, see BMSat 6864. A cobbler (left) preaches in a bare, raftered room with a casement window. He stands behind a reading-desk on which is a large, open book, leaning forward, pointing, gesticulating, and shouting. The heads of his congregation, old men and women, are below and on the right. The title is from Burke's book, 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful' (1756). [Right image] A companion design to BMSat 6863 on the same plate. A scene in the House of Commons showing the corner of the clerks' table (left), the benches on the right crowded with members, and part of the gallery above, with two persons looking over. The new member stands, knees bent, hat in his left hand, right hand extended; his attitude and expression convey the impression of a halting and embarrassed speech. He is in full dress, with sword and bag-wig. The members listen with expressions of contemptuous amusement or boredom."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition
- Alternative Title:
- Essay on the sublime and beautiful
- Description:
- Two images on one plate, each individually titled below., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue of a plate originally published in 1785 by T. Cornell. Cf. Nos. 6863 and 6864 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 165., and Watermark: I Taylor.
- Publisher:
- Pub. April 10, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Casement windows, Podiums, Public speaking, and Shoemakers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An essay on the sublime & beautiful The maiden speech. [graphic]
5. An essay on the sublime & beautiful The maiden speech. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 October 1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.10.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "[Left image] One of two designs on the same plate, see British Museum Satires No. 6864. A cobbler (left) preaches in a bare, raftered room with a casement window. He stands behind a reading-desk on which is a large, open book, leaning forward, pointing, gesticulating, and shouting. The heads of his congregation, old men and women, are below and on the right. The title is from Burke's book, 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful' (1756)"--British Museum online catalogue and "[Right image] A companion design to British Museum Satires No. 6863 on the same plate. A scene in the House of Commons showing the corner of the clerks' table (left), the benches on the right crowded with members, and part of the gallery above, with two persons looking over. The new member stands, knees bent, hat in his left hand, right hand extended; his attitude and expression convey the impression of a halting and embarrassed speech. He is in full dress, with sword and bag-wig. The members listen with expressions of contemptuous amusement or boredom."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Essay on the sublime and beautiful
- Description:
- Titles from text etched below each image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Publication information supplied from Grego., Two images on one plate, each individually titled below., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
- Publisher:
- T. Cornell
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Casement windows, Desks, Public speaking, and Shoemakers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An essay on the sublime & beautiful The maiden speech. [graphic]
6. Billy the Bamboozler robbing the cobler the portrait of him taken just before he was turnd. off. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [9 January 1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.01.09.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt in the guise of a robber who is about to be hanged. He aims a pistol at the head of a cobbler, saying, "You Rascall, You keep a Shop, and shall pay for it". The cobbler, kneeling hat in hand, in profile to the left, says, "Lord Sir, mines only a Stall, Have mercy on my Wife & Family". Part of his bulk or stall appears behind him (right). Behind Pitt (left) Richmond kneels on the ground, holding out his cocked hat for the coins which the former drops into it; he points to houses of playing-cards which are round him on the ground and represent his scheme of fortifications ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Billy the Bamboozler robbing the cobbler
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Caption below image: Some account of the life and behavior of William Pett alias Billy the Bamboozler., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., DeGrey's manuscript note on verso., and Watermark: initials F N D [...]
- Publisher:
- Publishd. January 9th 1789 by H. Humphries, New Bond Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Regency, Card games, Shoemakers, and Taxes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billy the Bamboozler robbing the cobler the portrait of him taken just before he was turnd. off. [graphic]
7. Cobler's hall [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1793]
- Call Number:
- 778.00.00.07.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a large room, the left side being a cobbler's workshop, the right a kitchen, a cobbler sits on a bench, before an open window, his hammer in hand. Behind him, on a table are dishes and food, and to the right a woman in an apron cooks with a large frying pan over the hearth grate. On the walls are displayed a number of tools, shoemaker's lasts, flatirons and tableware. An equestrian print with a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland on horseback hangs above the mantlepiece, and a bird in a cage hangs over the cobbler. A stairway is partially visible in the background, and a dog and cat sleep on the floor in the foreground
- Alternative Title:
- Cobbler's hall
- Description:
- Undated reissue, with publisher's name changed, of a print first published by Carington Bowles most likely in 1778. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, p. 786: Key to ... mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles., Date of publication inferred from paper and from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer., and Numbered in plate: 380.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Shoemakers, Shoemaking, Cooking, Kitchens, Workshops, Birdcages, Fireplaces, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cobler's hall [graphic].
8. Contentment in poverty [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1772]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 106. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A rotund cobbler leans against a table in his shop, looking down at a cup of tea he stirs with his right hand, a teapot sitting beside the cup and saucer on the table. He holds a knife in his left hand and wears a large coat, an apron, and a looped tricorne with a pipe in it. Behind him on the table is a bucket, with tufts of horse hair beside it that extend onto the floor below, partially obscuring several pairs of shoes in the process of being made
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and First of three plates on leaf 106.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Poor persons, Shoemakers, Shoemaking, Pails, Pipes (Smoking), Teapots, Hats, Aprons, and Knives
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Contentment in poverty [graphic].
9. Doctor Jeremy Snob
- Published / Created:
- [ 4 October 1798]
- Call Number:
- Print10033
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- notated music
- Description:
- Title from item., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Unaccompanied melody., and Song in six stanzas, printed below title. The first stanza printed with music, the following five without music in three columns below.
- Publisher:
- Published 4th October 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Humorous songs, Musical notation, Pregnancy, Shoemakers, Shoemaking, Stores & shops, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Doctor Jeremy Snob
