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1. A very good man no doubt, but a bad sailor! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 August 1845]
- Call Number:
- 845.08.21.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the deck of a boat, men smoke despite the notice on the cabin door "No smoaking allowed abaft the funnel".
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 34 x 25 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Smoking and Steamboats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A very good man no doubt, but a bad sailor! [graphic]
2. March of intellect. [graphic] / No. 2
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately May 1829]
- Call Number:
- 829.05.00.09+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Fantastical depiction of advancing technology that includes all manner of steam-powered or aerial contraptions, domestic appliances, tunnels to the North Pole and South America, and a circulating library
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Approximate date of publication based on that assigned to the companion print. See no. 15779 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatues are daily pub. ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on old album paper. Manuscript date "1828" in ink following title.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
- Subject (Topic):
- Steam, Airships, Steam automobiles, Steamboats, Pneumatic tubes, Libraries, and Garbage collecting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > March of intellect. [graphic] / No. 2
3. Mr. and Mrs. Guelph a going to Greenwich, or, Royalty and loyalty making gigantic strides [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1833]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "King and Queen on two giants' shoulders crossing the Thames; common people in small boats bothered by the waves sended up by the giants."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Royalty and loyalty making gigantic strides
- Description:
- Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in bottom center portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "99" in brown ink in upper left portion of design., and No. 99.
- Publisher:
- Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
- Subject (Name):
- William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849
- Subject (Topic):
- Giants (Fictitious characters), Wading, Rowboats, and Steamboats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. and Mrs. Guelph a going to Greenwich, or, Royalty and loyalty making gigantic strides [graphic]
4. Row, brothers row, the stream runs fast, the rapid is near and the night advanced [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1837?]
- Call Number:
- 837.00.00.11+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text below image. and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
- Publisher:
- Published at Tregears Comic Print Shop, 96 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Rowboats and Steamboats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Row, brothers row, the stream runs fast, the rapid is near and the night advanced [graphic].
5. The steam boat [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- 1827.
- Call Number:
- 827.00.00.21+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire; a fashionable but queasy lady on the deck of a steamboat in windy weather, her hand to her throat, saying, 'Its werry pleasant a board a steamer sir?'; a more stoical man with his hands in his pockets replies, 'Werry indeed marm - but I likes a vun hoss shase [one-horse chaise] better it doesen't rumble vun so-'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1822.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
- Subject (Topic):
- Decks (Ships) and Steamboats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The steam boat [graphic].
6. Traveling by steam [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 46. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two Thames watermen stand on the river bank gaping at the explosion of a steam packet-boat, whose stern is inscribed 'For Richmond'. Wreckage flies into the air carrying with it a number of passengers, men and women, who are flung about in a dense cloud of steam high above the boat. A lady falls near an elegant wooden seat, a boy sits astride a funnel. Against the bank lies the watermen's wherry, the carved back behind the cushioned seat is inscribed: 'The Swiftsure T. Tugg Lambeth'. One says: "My Eye Ned there they go!!" The other: "Aye and a going rather out of the Road! d--ce they are got into Ayrshire insead [sic] of Surry!!""--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Travelling by steam
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 12920 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published in 1817; see British Museum catalogue., and On leaf 46 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Field & Tuer
- Subject (Topic):
- Steamboats, Steamboat accidents, and Explosions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Traveling by steam [graphic].
