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1. The anatomist overtaken by the watch [in] carrying off Miss W-ts in a hamper [graphic].

Creator:: Austin, William, 1721-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:: pubd. as the act directs May 1, 1773.
Call Number:: Print10064
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A lean man (right) wearing a doctor's tie-wig, is running from left to right to escape from a watchman who stands (left) springing his rightattle. On the ground is a basket or hamper, the lid of which has fallen open to show the body of a young woman in a shroud. A short irate man (centre) points at the escaping figure, turning towards the lean aged watchman, who holds in his left hand a large lantern, and a tall stick, whose head is carved to represent a head. In the watchman's hat, which is tied on with a scarf, is a tobacco pipe in full blast. The fleeing Anatomist holds a tall cane in his left hand; under his left arm is a dilapidated skull. He has dropped a paper inscribed "Hunter's Lectur[es]", showing that he is Dr. William Hunter (1718-83), the great anatomist. He built a house (1770) in Great Windmill Street to which were attached a dissecting room, lecture room, and a large museum, see British Museum Satires No. 6128. The caricature deals with the body-snatching for the sale of corpses to surgeons, which went on to a considerable extent in this period."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched above image; the word "in" after "watch" has been mostly burnished from plate., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Eighth plate in the series: Nature display'd both serious and comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esqr., Plate numbered '8' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Medical., 1 print : etching ; sheet 270 x 402 mm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Hunter, William, 1718-1783
Subject (Topic):: Grave robbing, Anatomists, Lanterns, Watchmen, Staffs (Sticks), Baskets, and Dead persons
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The anatomist overtaken by the watch [in] carrying off Miss W-ts in a hamper [graphic].

2. The anatomist overtaken by the watch [in] carrying off Miss W-ts in a hamper [graphic].

Creator:: Austin, William, 1721-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:: pubd. as the act directs May 1, 1773.
Call Number:: 773.05.01.08+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A lean man (right) wearing a doctor's tie-wig, is running from left to right to escape from a watchman who stands (left) springing his rightattle. On the ground is a basket or hamper, the lid of which has fallen open to show the body of a young woman in a shroud. A short irate man (centre) points at the escaping figure, turning towards the lean aged watchman, who holds in his left hand a large lantern, and a tall stick, whose head is carved to represent a head. In the watchman's hat, which is tied on with a scarf, is a tobacco pipe in full blast. The fleeing Anatomist holds a tall cane in his left hand; under his left arm is a dilapidated skull. He has dropped a paper inscribed "Hunter's Lectur[es]", showing that he is Dr. William Hunter (1718-83), the great anatomist. He built a house (1770) in Great Windmill Street to which were attached a dissecting room, lecture room, and a large museum, see British Museum Satires No. 6128. The caricature deals with the body-snatching for the sale of corpses to surgeons, which went on to a considerable extent in this period."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched above image; the word "in" after "watch" has been mostly burnished from plate., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Eighth plate in the series: Nature display'd both serious and comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esqr., Plate numbered '8' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Medical., and The word "in" in title erased from this impression.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Hunter, William, 1718-1783
Subject (Topic):: Grave robbing, Anatomists, Lanterns, Watchmen, Staffs (Sticks), Baskets, and Dead persons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The anatomist overtaken by the watch [in] carrying off Miss W-ts in a hamper [graphic].

3. A copy of verses humbly presented to the Right Worshipful the Mayor, the aldermen, and common-council-men, and the rest of my worthy masters and mistresses dwelling in King's-Lynn

Creator:: Bouch, Thomas
Published / Created:: [1752]
Call Number:: File 763 752 B752++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text
Description:: Caption title., In verse. Probably a Christmas poem., With a woodcut showing a watchman with his dog with buildings including a church behind., Lewis Walpole Library: Description based on imperfect copy. Lower left corner torn with loss of a portion of the verse entitled "On the first of November.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Watchmen
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A copy of verses humbly presented to the Right Worshipful the Mayor, the aldermen, and common-council-men, and the rest of my worthy masters and mistresses dwelling in King's-Lynn

4. He and his drunken companions raise a riot in Covent Garden [graphic].

Creator:: Bowles, Thomas, -1767, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1735]
Call Number:: Hogarth 735.00.00.19+ Box 200
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Plate from a pirated series of Hogarth's Rake's Progress, not based on one of the original prints: Covent Garden with St Paul's church and the buildings at the north-western corner of the piazza; the Rake (here called Ramble) and drunken friends are accosting women passers-by and the watch has arrived to set about them with staves."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title engraved below image., Printmaker and publisher from the Wellcome Collection online catalogue, Wellcome Library no. 38341i., Date of publication from Paulson and the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse beneath title: Young Ramble, without witt or dread, Does non a drunken party head ... Uplifted staves, drawn swords oppose, And stabs are well repaid with blows., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., and Window mounted to 29 x 43 cm.
Publisher:: John Bowles
Subject (Geographic):: Covent Garden (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):: Fighting, Intoxication, Rake's progress, Watchmen, and Women
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > He and his drunken companions raise a riot in Covent Garden [graphic].

5. Watchman [graphic].

Creator:: Busby, T. L. (Thomas Lord), printmaker
Published / Created:: [ca. 1820]
Call Number:: 800.00.00.82
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A watchman stands full-length in his great coat and hat, carrying a lantern and a stick
Description:: Title engraved below image., Printmaker and imprint from title page of book in which this plate was published., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B., and Watermark: partially cut off name.
Publisher:: Samuel Leigh
Subject (Topic):: Occupations and Watchmen
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Watchman [graphic].

6. [Coming out of a country theatre] [art original]

Creator:: Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, artist
Published / Created:: [1802]
Call Number:: Drawer Drawings B995 no. 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A large crowd of theatregoers file out of a theater and onto the street in a pouring rainfall and high winds that turns umbrellas inside out. One man has fallen and broken his lantern as a woman falls back over him as her shoes are being changed. The audience is a mix of classes, couples, old women, young boys, some carrying laterns, one with a cane
Description:: Title from published print based on this drawing. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Drawer 802.11.01.05., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right., "The artist is said to have based the theatre in this image on the Orchard Street Theatre in Bath, opened in October 1750 near the South Gate, outside the medieval walls of Bath ... The theatre was the first country theatre to be granted a Royal patent and became known as the Theatre Royal, Bath. .... The theatre was closed in 1805."--Dealer's description., and With Joel Spitz's collector's label on verso of mount.
Subject (Topic):: Couples, Lanterns, Rain, Theater audiences, Theaters, Umbrellas, Watchmen, and Winds
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Coming out of a country theatre] [art original]

7. The night constable [graphic]

Creator:: Cooper, Robert, active 1795-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:: [8 September 1785]
Call Number:: 785.09.08.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A companion print to British Museum satire no. 6878: The country justice. Inside a watch-house, a burly watchman stands (left) facing an elderly constable who sits frowning in his arm-chair. He holds out a broken lantern and points to a thin, fashionably dressed, and apparently drunken man who stands beside him with closed eyes, holding a large stick in his left hand. Next to the constable is a clerk writing at a desk with a slanted top. The room is lit by a lantern slung from the roof. A map on the wall apparently represents the roads of the parish and the beats of the watchmen. A fire burns in a grate (right).
Description:: Title engraved below image., Eight lines of verse below title: "Watchman. This wicked dog did lift his hand, First knocked me down, then bid me stand; The peaceful neighbours he awoke, And then the Knave my lanthorn broke, At which the Villain loud did Laugh, So down I knock'd him with my staff. "Constable: If so: you Justice did yourself, Therefore begone thou prating Elf.", Originally published July 10, 1785. Cf. British Museum catalogue no. 6879., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on a shield with initials G R below.
Publisher:: Published Sepr. 8th by S.W. Fores at the Caracature [sic] Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Topic):: Law enforcement, Police, Clerks, Dogs, Fireplaces, Inkstands, Lanterns, Rifles, Soldiers, British, Watchmen, and Writing materials
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The night constable [graphic]

8. Tom getting the best of a Charley [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [31 August 1820]
Call Number:: 820.08.31.03
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: "Illustration to Pierce Egan's Life in London, page 232. A night scene on the east side of Temple Bar, which frames the Strand and St. Clements in the background, lit by a full moon. Tom (rigjht) overturns a watchman's box from which a poor terrified old man leans out shrieking. A fellow-watchman (left) springs his rattle and shouts. Behind Tom is Jerry, much amused, between two gaily dressed prostitutes who cling to him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image. and Imprint from later state in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:: Sherwood & Co.,?
Subject (Geographic):: London (England)
Subject (Topic):: Social life and customs, City & town life, Prostitutes, and Watchmen
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Tom getting the best of a Charley [graphic]

9. Mrs. Figs card party disturbed [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: April 6, 1807.
Call Number:: 807.04.06.01.1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A group playing at cards interrupted by a beadle and watchmen to arrest them for playing past midnight."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 16., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Topic):: Card games, Law enforcement, and Watchmen
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Figs card party disturbed [graphic]

10. [Westminster frolics] [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1825]
Call Number:: Folio 75 C9 824 no. 12
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A scene in the Abbey Cloisters. Westminster schoolboys in cap and gown terrify a poor woman and a watchman by turnip-headed ghosts, and by one of their number on stilts who is masked and smoking a flaming pipe. Another, seated on a lamp-bracket, discharges a squirt at the frightened woman who falls, clutching at the fleeing watchman. See British Museum catalogue
Description:: Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15204 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Ms. note in pencil on front: Page 76, Vol. 2. Watermark 1825., and Watermarked: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825.
Publisher:: Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Topic):: Boys, Fear, Couples, School children, and Watchmen
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Westminster frolics] [graphic].