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1. Building houses with cards engraved after the original painting in Vaux Hall Garden / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Truchy, L., 1731-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.35+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a room, a small group of women and children watch as a man sitting at a round table builds a house of cards, which tumbles down as a figure leans in at the right; a man standing in outdoor clothes behind looks at him with dismay. On a chair on the right a lapdog jumps on the woman standing between the two young boys; in the left foreground two little girls build their own house on a small table; doors open onto garden in background; after a painting by Hayman for Vauxhall Gardens
- Description:
- Publication date from Carington Bowles's entry in Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered in upper right corner: V. 6.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic], and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Cards, Chairs, Children, Dolls, Furnishings, Games, Interiors, Screens, Tables, and Upholstery
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Building houses with cards engraved after the original painting in Vaux Hall Garden / [graphic]
2. Le tapissier [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gaillot, Bernard, 1780-1847, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1849?]
- Call Number:
- 849.00.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An image of an upholsterer constructed from furniture, cushions or pillows, and tools of the trade
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
- Publisher:
- Chez Bénard Galerie Vivienne and Lith Senefelder
- Subject (Topic):
- Occupations and Upholstery
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Le tapissier [graphic]
3. The bill of wrights, or, The patriot alarmed [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 July 1809]
- Call Number:
- 809.07.30.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Wright the upholsterer and Wardle face each other in profile. Wright (left) is fashionably dressed, wearing tasselled Hessians, and leans forward insinuatingly but with an alarmed expression, holding the end of a long scroll (his bill) which rests on the ground: 'Gullam Waddle Esqr to Wright--Red Turkey Carpet--Convex Mirror--Chandeliers--Side Boards--Bed Furniture--Chairs and Tables--Vases Celerets &c &c--Egyptian Furniture--a Sofa A La Clarke--A Bed-stead after the same pattern'. He says: "Mr Gull-em, Waddle I have brought you in a small Bill for goods, delivered for the Cleopatria of Westbourne place [see No. 11238],--and as you are a true patriot you can have no possible objection to the Bill of Wrights". Wardle, in regimentals and boots, his hands deep in his breeches pockets, leans angrily, saying: "What do you talk about patriotism, I tell you I have left off practice. D------n the Bill of Wrights!--It is all a mistake, about West-Bourne place, you shoud have taken it to Gloucester Place! [see No. 11222] there--you would be sure to have had your Money!!"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Patriot alarmed
- Description:
- Title from caption below item., Printmaker identified by George., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., Plate numbered "101" in upper left corner., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1806.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 30, 1809 by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852. and Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833.
- Subject (Topic):
- Occupations and Upholstery
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The bill of wrights, or, The patriot alarmed [graphic].
4. The bird of paradise [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before May 1781]
- Call Number:
- 781.05.01.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A lady, seated on a settee smiling, her right hand rests on the arm of the settee, in her left is a black mask. On the cushion of the settee is a card "Admit Mrs M------to the Mask'd Ball". She is attractively dressed in the fashion of the period, with a muslin apron. Her coiffure is extravagantly large, with curls on her neck, and is covered by an elaborately frilled muslin cap. A rural landscape is seen through a window (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Lower margin trimmed to plate mark., Date erased from this impression., Date of imprint from British Museum catalogue., and Numbered in lower left of plate, 435.
- Publisher:
- Printed for and sold by Carington Bowles ... No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and England
- Subject (Name):
- Mahon, Gertrude, 1752-
- Subject (Topic):
- Actresses, Courtesans, Interiors, Sofas, Upholstery, Clothing & dress, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The bird of paradise [graphic].
