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1. A duett at the Hanover Square concert [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- Augst. 5, 1789.
- Call Number:
- 789.08.05.01
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two women stand on a balcony, mouths open in song and eyes cast downward at their music sheet. They wear corsetted dresses and feathered head wear. A satire of the duet performed by Harriet Abrams (1758-1821), the English soprano and composer, and her sister Theodosia (ca. 1770-1849), a contralto, on 9 May 1788 at Hanover Square Rooms. The piece performed was 'Gia che mia sposa sei' by Antonio Sacchini, and the occasion was the annual benefit concert for the tenor Samuel Harrison
- Alternative Title:
- Duet at the Hanover Square concert
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After a drawing by John Nixon, now in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum, London. The artist's "JN" monogram and "1788" date are etched within center left portion of image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum, London., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Laid down onto album paper, with a cropped portrait of an unidentified man on the verso: I. Hiresman pinx. ; M. Vdr. Guchta sculp.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
- Subject (Name):
- Abrams, Miss, approximately 1758-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Singers, Concerts, Balconies, and Headdresses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A duett at the Hanover Square concert [graphic]
2. A late arrival at Mother Wood's [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [19 June 1820]
- Call Number:
- 820.06.19.01+
- Collection Title:
- Page 16. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Queen Caroline, stout and flamboyant, stands on the balcony over the porch of Wood's house in South Audley Street, looking down complacently with folded arms at the cheering crowd which fills the street. Alderman Wood stands cringingly behind her. A boy sits on a lamp-bracket, looking up, saying, "I've got a good place Jack I can see the whole of her." A sailor climbs one pillar of the porch, a little chimney-sweep swarms up the other. A man on horseback says: "Come down you Smutty." Another man shouts: "Clap my Boy! Clap her!!" A boy with newspapers inscribed 'Times', bawls: "Never Vas sich Times as these" [a catch-phrase]; cf. British Museum Satires No. 13729. The street is densely packed; spectators wave from the opposite windows and balcony. In the distance is a church, on the roof of which are spectators; one looks through a telescope, another asks "Can you see it." On the extreme right a parson on horseback is assailed with mud and brickbats."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Robert Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: 1821 -- Male costume: 1821-- Parsons., and Manuscript "267" in upper center of plate.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 19, 1820, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
- Subject (Topic):
- Balconies, Crowds, Cheering, Sailors, Chimney sweeps, Clergy, and Telescopes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A late arrival at Mother Wood's [graphic].
3. A late arrival at Mother Wood's [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [19 June 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 16. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Queen Caroline, stout and flamboyant, stands on the balcony over the porch of Wood's house in South Audley Street, looking down complacently with folded arms at the cheering crowd which fills the street. Alderman Wood stands cringingly behind her. A boy sits on a lamp-bracket, looking up, saying, "I've got a good place Jack I can see the whole of her." A sailor climbs one pillar of the porch, a little chimney-sweep swarms up the other. A man on horseback says: "Come down you Smutty." Another man shouts: "Clap my Boy! Clap her!!" A boy with newspapers inscribed 'Times', bawls: "Never Vas sich Times as these" [a catch-phrase]; cf. British Museum Satires No. 13729. The street is densely packed; spectators wave from the opposite windows and balcony. In the distance is a church, on the roof of which are spectators; one looks through a telescope, another asks "Can you see it." On the extreme right a parson on horseback is assailed with mud and brickbats."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Robert Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: 1821 -- Male costume: 1821-- Parsons., Mounted on page 16 of: George Humphrey shop album., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 38.9 cm, on sheet 26.1 x 39.4 cm
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 19, 1820, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
- Subject (Topic):
- Balconies, Crowds, Cheering, Sailors, Chimney sweeps, Clergy, and Telescopes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A late arrival at Mother Wood's [graphic].
4. A late arrival at Mother Wood's [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [19 June 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 16. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Queen Caroline, stout and flamboyant, stands on the balcony over the porch of Wood's house in South Audley Street, looking down complacently with folded arms at the cheering crowd which fills the street. Alderman Wood stands cringingly behind her. A boy sits on a lamp-bracket, looking up, saying, "I've got a good place Jack I can see the whole of her." A sailor climbs one pillar of the porch, a little chimney-sweep swarms up the other. A man on horseback says: "Come down you Smutty." Another man shouts: "Clap my Boy! Clap her!!" A boy with newspapers inscribed 'Times', bawls: "Never Vas sich Times as these" [a catch-phrase]; cf. British Museum Satires No. 13729. The street is densely packed; spectators wave from the opposite windows and balcony. In the distance is a church, on the roof of which are spectators; one looks through a telescope, another asks "Can you see it." On the extreme right a parson on horseback is assailed with mud and brickbats."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Robert Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: 1821 -- Male costume: 1821-- Parsons., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 25.8 x 39 cm, on sheet 27 x 40.7 cm., Mounted to 39 x 58 cm., Mounted on leaf 24 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Identifications of "Alderman Wood & Qu. Caroline" written in pencil on mounting sheet, beneath lower left corner of print. Typed extract of three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted to the left of print.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 19, 1820, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
- Subject (Topic):
- Balconies, Crowds, Cheering, Sailors, Chimney sweeps, Clergy, and Telescopes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A late arrival at Mother Wood's [graphic].
5. First design for the cul-de-lampe to Mr. Gray's long story [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1753]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 3a Box 1
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A design for a vignette by Bentley showing six older women on a balcony reaching out or looking in horror over the wall (draped in an embroidered cloth) at a scene below. With pencilled in design above
- Alternative Title:
- Sketch for the tailpiece of the Long story
- Description:
- Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the mount in his portfolio of drawings assembled under the title Drawings and designs, ca. 1760., Added title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: Sketch for the tailpiece of The long story., Date based on publication date of Gray's work: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 3 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
- Subject (Name):
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
- Subject (Topic):
- Balconies and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > First design for the cul-de-lampe to Mr. Gray's long story [art original].
6. John Gilpin. [graphic]. 3
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, 25 July 1785.
- Call Number:
- 724 707F
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 12. Poems, explaining the seven cartons painted by Raphael Urbin.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Gilpin gallops (right to left) past the 'Bell' at Edmonton. His wife and family watch from the balcony; an inn-servant from the door. Dogs bark and spectators are amused."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- 'Stop, stop, John Gilpin! here's the house!' they all at once did cry ...
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Four lines of verse below image: 'Stop, stop, John Gilpin! here's the house!' they all at once did cry; the dinner waits, and we are tir'd! said Gilpin 'So am I!'., Third plate in a series of six, each with a plate number in the upper right and verses at bottom. All plates have the same publication line and date; plate 1 has the longer title "Six prints, from the renowned History of John Gilpin" as well as "Book 110" etched in upper left corner. See British Museum catalgoue., Plate numbered "3" in upper right corner., and Bound in as leaf 12 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Fowler, J. Poems, explaining the seven cartons painted by Raphael Urbin. [London?], [1707?].
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Name):
- Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horseback riding, Taverns (Inns), Servants, Family members, Balconies, Spectators, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Gilpin. [graphic]. 3
7. Nobody laughs at a tragedy [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1814]
- Call Number:
- 814.00.00.36
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from that of book; see British Museum catalogue., One of 14 plates from: Something concerning nobody / edited by Somebody. London : R. Scholey, 1814., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered "13".
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Coates, Robert, 1772-1848
- Subject (Topic):
- Theatrical productions, Actors, Sets (Architectural elements), and Balconies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Nobody laughs at a tragedy [graphic].
8. Persecution of the saints anniversary 22d June 1820. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 July 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 30. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two designs. [1] Scene outside the Queen's house (left) in Portman Street. Four men in court-dress hurry across the street from the door assailed by the mob. In front is Wilberforce (right) holding a 'Petition to the Queen'; he exclaims "Oh! Dear! Saints never were so served before." From the other three (Stuart-Wortley, Bankes, and Sir T. Acland) ascend the words "These are aw-full times as the Scot's man said" [ ? the 'Scotsman', a conspicuously Queenite paper]. In the foreground (left) a man, saying "There he goes Dr Cantwell," and a boy spit copiously at them. The crowd: "Hiss! hiss"; "No Cantwell"; "out out"; "Spit on 'em." Brougham stands in the doorway; Denman behind him; he says "What quantities of rabbid saline!!" The Queen stands on a balcony, the base of which is 'a Good Foundation--(ie) Innocence--'. She says "No Tricks, you faithful representitaves [sic] of the people." [2] A corner of the House of Commons with the Speaker (Manners-Sutton) in the Chair (right), calling "Order! Order!" Beside the table and on the Speaker's right a member stands shouting "Privilege! Privilege." Behind is a group of members, freely sketched. One man looks down from the gallery."--British Museum catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 30 of: George Humphrey shop album.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 3d, 1820, by W. Benbow, St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, Wharncliffe, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, Baron, 1776-1845, Bankes, Henry, 1757-1834, Acland, Thomas Dyke, Sir, 1787-1871, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, and Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, Viscount, 1780-1845.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Crowds, Balconies, and Legislative bodies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Persecution of the saints anniversary 22d June 1820. [graphic]
9. Persecution of the saints anniversary 22d June 1820. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 July 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 30. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two designs. [1] Scene outside the Queen's house (left) in Portman Street. Four men in court-dress hurry across the street from the door assailed by the mob. In front is Wilberforce (right) holding a 'Petition to the Queen'; he exclaims "Oh! Dear! Saints never were so served before." From the other three (Stuart-Wortley, Bankes, and Sir T. Acland) ascend the words "These are aw-full times as the Scot's man said" [ ? the 'Scotsman', a conspicuously Queenite paper]. In the foreground (left) a man, saying "There he goes Dr Cantwell," and a boy spit copiously at them. The crowd: "Hiss! hiss"; "No Cantwell"; "out out"; "Spit on 'em." Brougham stands in the doorway; Denman behind him; he says "What quantities of rabbid saline!!" The Queen stands on a balcony, the base of which is 'a Good Foundation--(ie) Innocence--'. She says "No Tricks, you faithful representitaves [sic] of the people." [2] A corner of the House of Commons with the Speaker (Manners-Sutton) in the Chair (right), calling "Order! Order!" Beside the table and on the Speaker's right a member stands shouting "Privilege! Privilege." Behind is a group of members, freely sketched. One man looks down from the gallery."--British Museum catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching ; sheet 26 x 37.9 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 31 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and The figures of "Denman," "Brougham," and "Sidmouth" are identified in black ink in lower margin; date "3 July 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of sixteen lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 3d, 1820, by W. Benbow, St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, Wharncliffe, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, Baron, 1776-1845, Bankes, Henry, 1757-1834, Acland, Thomas Dyke, Sir, 1787-1871, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, and Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, Viscount, 1780-1845.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Crowds, Balconies, and Legislative bodies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Persecution of the saints anniversary 22d June 1820. [graphic]