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1.
Scotch washing [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 69. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A comely young woman, the centre figure, stands bare-legged in a wash-tub, holding her petticoats high, and smiling coyly. Behind (left), another woman with kilted petticoats steps into a tub, looking over her shoulder. In the foreground (right) a ma...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland.
Subject (Name):
Restrike, with remnants of a burnished imprint statement above image. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1809, see no. 11476 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Clothing & dress, Wash tubs, Laundry, and Castles & palaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Scotch washing [graphic]

2.
The chance seller of the Exchequer putting an extinguisher on lotteries [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[18 September 1823] and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 30. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Robinson, wearing his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, leans forward from the right to place an extinguisher on the head of Fortune who sits in profile to the left, on a small globe, regardless of her fate. He says: Come Madam put on your Night Ca...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. September 18, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Ripon, Frederick John Robinson, Earl of, 1782-1859
Subject (Topic):
Fire extinguishers, Gems, Coins, Purses, Cornucopias, Children, Wash tubs, Soaps, Brooms & brushes, Shoemakers, Lotteries, and Taxes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The chance seller of the Exchequer putting an extinguisher on lotteries [graphic].

3.
Time thrown away [art original].

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1827]
Call Number:
Drawings C889 no. 10 Box D115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four ugly old women try to scrub a black man white with brushes, a kettle of boiling water, as steam billows around the room. A fifth woman brings buckets of hot water. A sixth, in the center background, drinks gin. The black man squats in a big tub, ...
Description:
Title inscribed beneath central image.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Ethnic stereotypes, Racism, Wash tubs, and Brooms & brushes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Time thrown away [art original].

4.
Lucifera's procession Fairy-Queen. [graphic]

Creator:
Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 12, 1821.
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 46. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Queen Caroline as Lucifera sits in a coach made up of objects which figured in the evidence against her. The driver is Bergami, whip in hand (thus representing Satan) on a high box seat; he turns to hand a bottle of wine to the Queen who holds a sack...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Whips, Bottles, Wine, Bags, Cannons, Wash tubs, Tents, Coats of arms, Devil, Donkeys, Robes, Banners, Liberty cap, Pipes (Smoking), Swine, Wolves, Brooms & brushes, Lions, Armor, Torches, Camels, and Newspapers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lucifera's procession Fairy-Queen. [graphic]

5.
Lucifera's procession Fairy-Queen. [graphic]

Creator:
Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 12, 1821.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 46. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Queen Caroline as Lucifera sits in a coach made up of objects which figured in the evidence against her. The driver is Bergami, whip in hand (thus representing Satan) on a high box seat; he turns to hand a bottle of wine to the Queen who holds a sack...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Whips, Bottles, Wine, Bags, Cannons, Wash tubs, Tents, Coats of arms, Devil, Donkeys, Robes, Banners, Liberty cap, Pipes (Smoking), Swine, Wolves, Brooms & brushes, Lions, Armor, Torches, Camels, and Newspapers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lucifera's procession Fairy-Queen. [graphic]

6.
Preparing the witnesses a view in Cotton Garden / [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:
[August 1820]
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Italian witnesses, in a large bare room or warehouse, where three are being washed in a large bath by Castlereagh, Sidmouth, and Liverpool. The bath is inscribed: 'Waters of Oblivion. Non mi Recordo [sic]--Ministerial Washing Tub--!' The three witnes...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 1820 by T. Dolby, 132 Strand
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Warehouses, Witnesses, Ethnic Stereotypes, Wash tubs, Bathing, Pails, Combs, Lawyers, Brooms & brushes, Trousers, Sewing, Card games, Smoking, Eating & drinking, Gin, Food, Barrels, Eggs, Daggers & swords, and Cannons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Preparing the witnesses a view in Cotton Garden / [graphic]

7.
A cure for lovl [sic] no cure, no pay / [graphic]

Published / Created:
[9 January 1819]
Call Number:
819.01.09.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat ugly man stands in a dilapidated wash-house, one foot on a rough stool, the other trampling on his wig; he gazes up at a noose hanging from a beam, saying, "Oh! my hard Fate!" / Why did I trust her ever?" / What story is not full of Womans Fals...
Alternative Title:
Cure for love
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 9, 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Nooses, Obesitly, Suicides, Wash tubs, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A cure for lovl [sic] no cure, no pay / [graphic]

8.
Delivering a prophetess [graphic].

Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 November 1814]
Call Number:
Print10267
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A bedroom scene. Joanna Southcott sits in an arm-chair, attended by three women and four doctors. Between her legs is a large tub inscribed 'Living Water', into which water gushes from a tap projecting from under her petticoats. She leans back with e...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1814, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828
Subject (Topic):
Childbirth, Obstetrics, Pregnancy, Prophecy, Interiors, Bedrooms, Physicians, Bottles, Microscopes, Wash tubs, and Stools
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Delivering a prophetess [graphic].

9.
Political medicine, or, John Bulls recipe [graphic].

Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 1805.
Call Number:
Print10273
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull, an ungainly yokel, short and stout, stands between Melville (left) and Pitt (right). Melville, wearing Highland dress, sits full face, vomiting a shower of guineas (as in British Museum Satires Nos. 10392, 10400) into a tub. Pitt, rather b...
Alternative Title:
John Bulls recipe
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by R. Rapine, Great Knaves Acre, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Vomiting, Coins, Sick persons, Books, Wash tubs, and Drinking vessels
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Political medicine, or, John Bulls recipe [graphic].

10.
'Curds an' green whey' this woman doth cry, let those that love curds come to her & buy [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
647 803C
Collection Title:
Leaf 8v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A woman, balancing a basket on her head, stands in the foreground facing the viewer on the side of the street in front of Tron Kirk and an adjacent building. In the background, right, another peddler carrying a barrel on his back walks away
Alternative Title:
Tron Church, High Street
Description:
Title from verses etched below image.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Wash tubs, Dairy products, and Churches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > 'Curds an' green whey' this woman doth cry, let those that love curds come to her & buy [graphic].

11.
Love in a tub, or, A cure for a cold Ride to Rumford : "let the gall'd jade winch. [graphic]

Published / Created:
1802.
Call Number:
Print00220
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Bedroom scene. A young couple kiss while washing their feet in the same tub. A plump and smiling woman brings in a warming-pan and bowl of posset."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the top image
Alternative Title:
Cure for a cold
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cold (Disease), Wash tubs, Couples, Kissing, Pharmacists, Riding habits, and Mortars & pestles
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Love in a tub, or, A cure for a cold Ride to Rumford : "let the gall'd jade winch. [graphic]

12.
Love in a tub, or, A cure for a cold Ride to Rumford : "let the gall'd jade winch. [graphic]

Published / Created:
1802.
Call Number:
Print00258
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Bedroom scene. A young couple kiss while washing their feet in the same tub. A plump and smiling woman brings in a warming-pan and bowl of posset."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the top image
Alternative Title:
Cure for a cold
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cold (Disease), Wash tubs, Couples, Kissing, Pharmacists, Riding habits, and Mortars & pestles
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Love in a tub, or, A cure for a cold Ride to Rumford : "let the gall'd jade winch. [graphic]

13.
Comfort to the corns [graphic]

Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
Collection Title:
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat. She wear...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Chairs, Eyeglasses, Feet, Fireplaces, Medical procedures & techniques, Older people, Slippers, and Wash tubs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Comfort to the corns [graphic]

14.
Comfort to the corns [graphic]

Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
800.02.06.02
Collection Title:
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat. She wear...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Chairs, Eyeglasses, Feet, Fireplaces, Medical procedures & techniques, Older people, Slippers, and Wash tubs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Comfort to the corns [graphic]

15.
Washing day [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
800.00.00.32
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in hat, long coat, and boots (and wearing spectacles),, grasps his friend's hand with a smile. The host, ugly and angry, says: "Ah! my old Friend I wish you had called at some more convenient time but this is washing day - I have nothing to giv...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bachelors, Eyeglasses, Laundresses, and Wash tubs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Washing day [graphic]

16.
Washing day [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1799]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in hat, long coat, and boots (and wearing spectacles), grasps his friend's hand with a smile. The host, ugly and angry, says: "Ah! my old Friend I wish you had called at some more convenient time but this is washing day - I have nothing to give...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Oct. 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bachelors, Eyeglasses, Laundresses, and Wash tubs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Washing day [graphic]

17.
Washing day [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1799]
Call Number:
799.10.01.09
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in hat, long coat, and boots (and wearing spectacles), grasps his friend's hand with a smile. The host, ugly and angry, says: "Ah! my old Friend I wish you had called at some more convenient time but this is washing day - I have nothing to give...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Oct. 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bachelors, Eyeglasses, Laundresses, and Wash tubs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Washing day [graphic]

18.
The last shift [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs, 21 Dec. 1792.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Opposite page 214. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A courtesan stands at a wash-tub, washing her last shift. She wears a cap over ringlets in curl-papers and a tattered petticoat, a shawl covers her naked shoulders. The room is squalid, with plaster falling from the bricks. Across the fireplace stock...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Courtesans, Interiors, Wash tubs, Fireplaces, Hosiery, Corsets, and Cats
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The last shift [graphic].

19.
The aerostatick stage balloon Setts out from Swan with two Necks Lad Lane every Monday Morg

Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818, attributed name
Published / Created:
[23 December 1783]
Call Number:
783.12.23.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A balloon about to rise from the ground encircled by three tiers of galleries or narrow platforms, protected by railings. Behind the railings sit the passengers. In the highest tier are three ladies notorious at that time for their amours ...: Grace ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 23, 1783, by Wm. Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Elliott, Grace Dalrymple, -1823, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, Worsley, Seymour Dorothy, Lady, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799, Graham, James, 1745-1794, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, House, Samuel, -1785, Katterfelto, Gustavus, -1799, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Monument, The (London, England), Beer, Balloons (Aircraft), Cats, Devil, Drinking vessels, Mistresses, Politicians, Quacks, Ropes, Scepters, Telescopes, Wash tubs, and Knives
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The aerostatick stage balloon Setts out from Swan with two Necks Lad Lane every Monday Morg. / [graphic]

20.
Lord Sopesuds washing foul linen for the good of the nation

Published / Created:
[1 April 1782]
Call Number:
782.04.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Lord North at a wash-tub, washing clothes, with women standing round him. He stands in profile to the left stooping over a tub resting on a square stool or table; he is in his shirt, with his sleeves tucked up, but wearing his garter ribbon. His coat,...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 1, 1782 by E. Dachery [sic] No. 11 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Laundresses, Wash tubs, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lord Sopesuds washing foul linen for the good of the nation

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