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1. A beau-clerk for a banking-concern [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [March 1825]
- Call Number:
- 825.03.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mrs. Coutts (right), fat, swarthy, and moustached, sits at a table, holding out a cheque for £100.000 to Lord Burford. Her Cheque Book lies on the table. He steps forward, hat in hand, left hand on breast, in profile to the right. She says: Why you seem to be a good looking hard working young fellow, but I must tell you my business is extensive And I shall expect you will employ your time day and night for the benefit of the Concern, you must also be humble and submissive, should this be realized on Trial I will make you a Sleeping Partner. And here's a trifle for you to buy a pair of gloves. He answers with eager deference: You may depend upon it Madam I shall endeavour to give you every satisfaction. I shall be very attentive and if I can't get through the business as you like, you are at liberty to employ an Assistant. Mrs. Coutts is décolletée and bejewelled, wearing a turban trimmed with a paradise-plume. The gold-bordered tablecloth is weighted with balls inscribed £20,000 and £9,000. Large money-bags are on the floor behind her: £800,000 and . . . 000. Under her chair are a glass and a decanter of White Tape. Behind her is a picture of heaped sovereigns and money-bags. Other pictures are a cow looking over the wall of Mrs C--s Dairy, and (left) a castle: View near St Albans. The chairs are decorated with coins pouring from cornucopias."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 32 x 46.4 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 1825 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837 and St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849
- Subject (Topic):
- Tables, Tablecloths, Checks, Turbans, Jewelry, Bags, Money, Chairs, Cornucopias, and Pictures
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A beau-clerk for a banking-concern [graphic]
2. A piece of court furniture [graphic]
- Creator:
- Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 25, 1829.
- Call Number:
- 829.05.25.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Duchess of St. Albans, fat, flamboyant, moustached, and smiling, stands on a carpeted floor, a glove in one hand, three large feathers in her hair. Curious draperies decorate a deep border to her skirt, and are seemingly intended for money-bags. On the wall is a small framed picture of a melon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15458). Above: 'Sure thou wert form'd by all the Gods in Council; Who having made a lucky hit, | beyond their journey-work, Cry'd out,--"This is a Woman!"'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Hugeous Duchess
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Alternative title etched above image: Hugeous Duchess., "A. Sharpshooter" is the pseudonym of John Phillips; see British Museum catalogue., Watermarked paper: J. Whatman 1829., and Offprint on verso
- Publisher:
- Pub. by E. King, Chancery Lane
- Subject (Name):
- St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A piece of court furniture [graphic]
3. A scene in the honey moon, or, Conjugal felicity [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1828?]
- Call Number:
- 828.00.00.115+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Duke (left) and Duchess of St. Albans stand facing each other; the little Duke staggering under an ornamental basket which supports a side of bacon, inscribed Best Wiltshire. The Duchess holds on her shoulder a cutter in which are seated six oarsmen with oars held erect, and a helmsman. The Duke is dressed as Grand Falconer (see British Museum Satires No. 15596) and wears a hood with bells indicating both a fool's cap and the hood and bells of falconry. Two speeches float from his head: [1] "In love connubial, formed to live and last, This gift records a blissful twelvemonth past We claim, then boldly claim the flitch Dunmow First of the blest, who keep the marriag Vow". [2] I thought the flitch to small a present on this auspicious day so I have brought the Gammon with it Love. The Duchess answers: Thanks for your Bacon Duke well have you Saved it - and in return accept of this small Testimony of my affection. She wears Court dress, coronet, and feathers. The boatmen wear yellow and green liveries, and on the prow is a falcon's head; the back of the seat in the stern is decorated with a falcon perched on a melon resting on a heap of sovereigns. In the foreground are spectators: on the left the Dukes of Cumberland (wearing his hat) and Sussex stand together with Prince Leopold behind them; on the right is Sir Francis Burdett (son-in-law of Coutts), very thin, surprised, and displeased. In the background are other spectators, their heads concealed by the boat, and on the right a group of singers, some in Tyrolean costume, with (?) Braham and Miss Stephens; they sing: a boat a boat."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Scene in the honeymoon and Conjugal felicity
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: character of Paul Pry, a man with an umbrella., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are dialy [sic] pub. the largest assortment of any house in town., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
- Subject (Name):
- St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849, St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843, Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Braham, John, 1774-1856, and Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
- Subject (Topic):
- Marriage, Spouses, Baskets, Bacon, Boats, Rowers, and Spectators
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A scene in the honey moon, or, Conjugal felicity [graphic]
4. Croesus and Thalia as rich as Croesus, as ripe as a melon / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 May 1815]
- Call Number:
- 815.05.15.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print shows an ugly and leering elderly man, identified as the London banker Thomas Coutts, embracing the actress Harriet Mellon (later Mrs. Coutts, and subsequently Duchess of St. Albans).
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 15 May, 1815, by T. Palser, Surry Side Westr. Bridge
- Subject (Name):
- Coutts, Thomas, 1735-1822 and St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Leering, and Seduction
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Croesus and Thalia as rich as Croesus, as ripe as a melon / [graphic]
5. Run neighbours, run, St. Al-ns is quadrilling it [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 1829.
- Call Number:
- 829.05.00.08+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Duchess of St. Albans, immensely fat, florid, and bejewelled, and a stout elderly naval officer wearing loose wide trousers, and apparently doing hornpipe steps, his hands on his hips, dance side by side with rollicking abandon. The others of the set: one man and two ladies on the left and one lady and two men on the right dance rigidly erect, and watch the central pair with hauteur; the men are dandies, the women slim and fashionable. The duchess has a swirling paradise-plume in her towering loops of hair, above tossing ringlets."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Run neighbours, run, St. Albans is quadrilling it
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., British Museum curator's note: The naval officer is (unconvincingly) identified by E. Hawkins as Sir George Warrender (1782-1849), a Huskissonite M.P. who was never in the navy; he was a Lord of the Admiralty 1812-22; he appears, in back view, in a "Sketch of a Ball at Almack's, 1815" (Gronow, 'Reminiscences', 1892, ii, frontispiece). Perhaps Lord Amelius Beauclerk (1771-1806), her husband's uncle. Cf. 'Croker Papers', 1884, ii. 200., and Watermark: 1827.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Beauclerk, Amelius, 1771-1846, and Warrender, George, 1782-1849
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Obesity, Balls (Parties), and Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Run neighbours, run, St. Al-ns is quadrilling it [graphic]
6. The political toy-man [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [July 1825]
- Call Number:
- 825.07.00.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Brougham, in wig and gown, stands in Old Square, Lincolns Inn, the roof of the Hall, which forms a background, being so inscribed; houses are on the right. He carries on his head, which is in profile to the right, a tray, inscribed London College; this supports a neo-Gothic building with pinnacles and a clock-tower; tiny trees and figures in academic dress round the building show the scale. From its four corners rise labels inscribed in large letters, Etymology, Orthography, Prosody, Syntax. He says Who'I buy? very cheap, very free. From one shoulder hangs a brief-bag inscribed Subscriptions; from the other a ribbon supporting a handsomely bound book: List of Share Holders. Round his waist is a hoop which also encircles the waists of five little puppets: a man in archaic court-dress, holding a feathered hat, next a stout lady holding a fan and a large purse (? the Duke of St. Albans (as Falconer) and Mrs. Coutts, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14875), a fashionably dressed man in top-hat and furred and frogged coat, and Lord Eldon holding the mace and the Purse of the Great Seal. On the ground is a toy horse on wheels ridden by a yokel in a smock."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Mounted to: 43 x 30 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 1825. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849, Lincoln's Inn (London, England),, and University College, London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Plazas, Head-carrying, Building models, Toys, Puppets, Books, Bags, and Ceremonial maces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The political toy-man [graphic]
7. The wedding day [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published June 28, 1827.
- Call Number:
- 827.06.28.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The fat, moustached, Duchess of St. Albans and the slim Duke dance with vigour and agility, each poised on the left toe, arms interlaced, and hands meeting above their heads. From the Duchess's small coronet rise giant ostrich feathers which curve above the heads of both and above which a big ducal coronet is suspended. He sings: My Wife shall dance, And I will sing so merry we'll pass this day. She: For I hold it one of the wisest things to drive dull care away. The musicians are two cynical cupids; one (left) sits on large sacks of sovereigns inscribed Cash; coins pour from a slit in a sack and lie on the carpet with a banker's money-scoop. He fiddles: Money in both pockets. The other (right), seated on the apex of a huge melon from which a slice has been cut, plays bagpipes: And auld Robin Gray [Coutts] was a gued Old Man to me! with variations."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to/within plate mark., and A faint impression on the verso.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837 and St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849
- Subject (Topic):
- Bagpipes, Coins, Couples, Cupids, Dance, Melons, Musicians, Violins, Weddings, and Wedding clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The wedding day [graphic]
