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1.
A city officer taught by Miss Tittup to cock his spontoon with proper grace [graphic]

Published / Created:
[10 January 1782]
Call Number:
782.01.10.01
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A fashionably dressed young woman (left) stands before a very large bear (left) dressed in a military uniform, wig, and tricorne hat. She strokes his chin with her left hand as she gently clasps the tip end of the spear that the bear holds in his left...
Description:
Title from caption etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. as the Act directs Jany. 10, 1782 by T. James, No. 14 Castle Strt. Oxford Market
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Bears, Clothing & dress, Couples, Military uniforms, British, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A city officer taught by Miss Tittup to cock his spontoon with proper grace [graphic]

2.
A tour to the Hebrides Bossy Bounce preparing for the Scotch professors to kiss / [graphic]

Published / Created:
[19 April 1786]
Call Number:
49 3069
Collection Title:
Opposite title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7030. Johnson, as a bear with a human head (a profile portrait), walks (left to right) up a mountain. Boswell as an ape with a quasi-human head is seated on the bear's back facing the tail, which he hol...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 19th April 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland.
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Clothing & dress, Bears, and Monkeys
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A tour to the Hebrides Bossy Bounce preparing for the Scotch professors to kiss / [graphic]

3.
Adventure of the bear and fiddle Part 1. Canto 1, line 1. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[between 1768 and 1794]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 768B
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Hudibras and Ralpho encounter a mob armed with sticks; in the foreground, a one-legged fiddler, a butcher and a dancing bear with his leader. On the left, a woman reaches out her arms
Alternative Title:
Hudibras's first adventure
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
History, Bears, Crowds, Butchers, Musicians, People with disabilities, Puritans, Riots, and Trained animals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Adventure of the bear and fiddle Part 1. Canto 1, line 1. [graphic]

4.
An exhibition of wild beasts, or, The macaroni in distress [graphic].

Published / Created:
10 Octor. 1774.
Call Number:
774.10.10.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on fashion: an elderly couple and a child visiting a menagerie are amused to see a monkey seizing the long queue of a macaroni while it seizes its own tail. The monkey is chained as are a bear and a wolf; a peacock and an eagle (?) are in cage...
Alternative Title:
Macaroni in distress
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Wigs, Zoo animals, Monkeys, Bears, and Peacocks
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > An exhibition of wild beasts, or, The macaroni in distress [graphic].

5.
Barataria [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[11 March 1789]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Leaf 51. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Prince of Wales is seated in a magnificent dining-hall before a bare table. The Duke of Leinster (right) offers him across the table a dish of 'Potatoes from Leinster'; the Prince extends his arms to take them, but turns his head to look at the f...
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image.
Publisher:
Publd. 11th March 1789 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Regency, Bears, Dogs, Dining rooms, Knives, Interiors, Plates (Tableware), and Potatoes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Barataria [graphic]

6.
Barataria [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[11 March 1789]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 51. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Prince of Wales is seated in a magnificent dining-hall before a bare table. The Duke of Leinster (right) offers him across the table a dish of 'Potatoes from Leinster'; the Prince extends his arms to take them, but turns his head to look at the f...
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image.
Publisher:
Publd. 11th March 1789 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Regency, Bears, Dogs, Dining rooms, Knives, Interiors, Plates (Tableware), and Potatoes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Barataria [graphic]

7.
Barataria [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[11 March 1789]
Call Number:
789.03.11.01+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 51. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Prince of Wales is seated in a magnificent dining-hall before a bare table. The Duke of Leinster (right) offers him across the table a dish of 'Potatoes from Leinster'; the Prince extends his arms to take them, but turns his head to look at the f...
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image.
Publisher:
Publd. 11th March 1789 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Regency, Bears, Dogs, Dining rooms, Knives, Interiors, Plates (Tableware), and Potatoes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Barataria [graphic]

8.
British invalid driving foreign animals from proceeding to the camp [graphic]

Creator:
Austin, William, 1721-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
published as the Act directs, Jany. 1, 1780.
Call Number:
780.01.01.04.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Military camps, Entertainers, Bears, Monkeys, Donkeys, and Poultry
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > British invalid driving foreign animals from proceeding to the camp [graphic]

9.
Chairing the members. [graphic] / Plate 4

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist, publisher
Published / Created:
published 1st Janry., 1758, as the act directs.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 42. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Scene in a country town with two newly-elected members of parliament (one a representation of George Bubb Doddington, the other visible only as a shadow on a distant wall) carried shoulder-high along the street, led by a blind and ragged fiddler and ...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Bears, Black people, Chimney sweeps, Donkeys, Fighting, Monkeys, Peg legs, Political elections, Riots, Servants, Street musicians, and Swine
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Chairing the members. [graphic] / Plate 4

10.
Chairing the members. [graphic] / Plate 4

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist, publisher
Published / Created:
published 1st Janry., 1758, as the act directs.
Call Number:
Hogarth 758.01.01.01.3++ Box 305
Collection Title:
Plate 42. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Scene in a country town with two newly-elected members of parliament (one a representation of George Bubb Doddington, the other visible only as a shadow on a distant wall) carried shoulder-high along the street, led by a blind and ragged fiddler and ...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Bears, Black people, Chimney sweeps, Donkeys, Fighting, Monkeys, Peg legs, Political elections, Riots, Servants, Street musicians, and Swine
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Chairing the members. [graphic] / Plate 4

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