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1.
Bookseller & author [graphic]

Creator:
Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 September 1784]
Call Number:
784.09.25.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the center of a book-lined room the bookseller, with a pen behind his ear, his hands in his pockets, glasses pushed to the top of his head, stands looking down disdainfully at a manuscript being offered to him by a thin, timid looking man who stands nervously with his hat tucked under his arm. A clergyman with spectacles, his back to the two other gentlemen, perusing the shelves, stops to examine a volume. In the left foreground on the floor, in front of a library step stool, is a pile of books. Another pile of books lies in the right foreground in front of a door with a glass panel and curtains in the top half. To the left of the door is a slooping writing table with paper, ink stand, and pen
Alternative Title:
Bookseller and author
Description:
Title from item. and Attributed by Grego and George to Rowlandson who occasionally published under Henry Wigstead's name.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 25, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Authors, Bookstores, Clergy, and Publishers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bookseller & author [graphic]

2.
The General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland [graphic]

Creator:
Allan, David, 1744-1796, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1783]
Call Number:
783.00.00.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the right, the representatives of George III gathered on a dais under an ornate canopy with the King's initials on it, preside over a session of the Assembly. In the foreground, the ministers of the Church of Scotland are engaged in discussion and reviewing of documents. The surrounding pews are occupied by petitioners and their attorneys while the general public views the proceedings from the galleries above
Alternative Title:
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Hugh Paton, Carver & Gilder to the Queen
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland. and Scotland
Subject (Name):
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Judicial proceedings, Courtrooms, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland [graphic]

3.
Fools passing the portico of folly [graphic]

Creator:
Atkinson, John Augustus, 1775-approximately 1833, printmaker
Published / Created:
1807.
Call Number:
807.00.00.12
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Folding plate from: Stultifera Navis ... the Modern Ship of Fools, W.H. Ireland., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Fool -- Demons: Satyr -- Peacock -- Ass -- Pope -- Anglican Bishop -- Turk -- King -- Peer -- Military officer -- Female costume: 1807 -- Military Uniform: Officer.
Publisher:
Printed for William Miller, Albermarle Street
Subject (Topic):
Clergy and Owls
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Fools passing the portico of folly [graphic]

4.
The patient parson forgetting his text, or, The hogs in the ale cellar [graphic]

Creator:
Barlow, Inigo, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 1,1791.
Call Number:
791.04.01.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Hogs in the ale cellar
Description:
Title from item., Two lines of verse on plate below image: Though parsons often patience teach ..., Illustration to ballad The Patient Parson. The text of the ballad is printed below the plate., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: Just published in this manner, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, The Greenwich Pensioner, Poll and My Partner Joe, and many other esteemed songs and pieces. In Fores's exhibition, No. 3 Piccadilly may be seen the compleatest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ballads -- Clergy wives --Parsonage -- Pictures amplifying subject: 'Job in his distress' -- Wall clock -- Furniture: dinner table., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Brooms & brushes, Clergy, Clocks & watches, Interiors, Knives, Swine, and Tableware
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The patient parson forgetting his text, or, The hogs in the ale cellar [graphic]

5.
Freeman's the corner of Gloster Court, White Cross Street / [graphic]

Creator:
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1732]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Partial copy of Hogarth's Midnight modern conversation (March 1732/1733).
Description:
Title etched above image., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 128., and On page 65 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Clergy, Intoxication, Lawyers, Longcase clocks, Pipes (Smoking), Taverns (Inns), and Wine
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Freeman's the corner of Gloster Court, White Cross Street / [graphic]

6.
The discomfited duellists [graphic]

Creator:
Blake, William, 1757-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 1, 1784.
Call Number:
784.04.01.01
Collection Title:
volume 1, opposite page [81]
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Inside a coffee house, an ensign, his broken sword lying on the ground, is held against the wall by a man with a hot poker. Another ensign, attempting to stub the man with the poker in the back, is held back by another customer and a waiter. The scene is watched by a few alarmed customers, a parson reading a paper, and an upset young woman behind the bar
Description:
Title etched below image. and From "A preservative against duelling" in The Wit's Magazine, 1784, p. 81.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Social life and customs, Interiors, Soldiers, Confrontations, Daggers & swords, Time clocks, Fireplaces, Maps, Chandeliers, Clergy, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The discomfited duellists [graphic]

7.
The discomfited duellists [graphic]

Creator:
Blake, William, 1757-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 1, 1784.
Call Number:
61 W78 v. 1-2
Collection Title:
volume 1, opposite page [81]
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Inside a coffee house, an ensign, his broken sword lying on the ground, is held against the wall by a man with a hot poker. Another ensign, attempting to stub the man with the poker in the back, is held back by another customer and a waiter. The scene is watched by a few alarmed customers, a parson reading a paper, and an upset young woman behind the bar
Description:
Title etched below image., From "A preservative against duelling" in The Wit's Magazine, 1784, p. 81., and 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; plate mark 19.6 x 23.9 cm, on sheet 22 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Social life and customs, Interiors, Soldiers, Confrontations, Daggers & swords, Time clocks, Fireplaces, Maps, Chandeliers, Clergy, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The discomfited duellists [graphic]

8.
The morning visit [graphic].

Creator:
Bobbin, Tim, 1708-1786, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
publish'd as the act directs June 1773.
Call Number:
773.06.00.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
From Tim Bobbin [pseudonym of John Collier, "Human Passions Delineated": a Dean is shown bribing the Lord to grant him the preferment to a living that is about to become vacant
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '42' in upper right corner of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Documents: patent rolls and grants -- Lighting: wall sconces with mirror -- Pictures -- William Henry Nassau de Zulestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, 1717-1781 -- Allusion to Charles James Fox, 1749-1806 -- Allusion to John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, 1713-1792 -- Allusion to William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, 1705-1793 -- Allusion to Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington, 1747-1786 -- Allusion to George Fox-Lane, Baron Bingley, 1696?-1773 -- Allusion to Jeremiah Dyson, 1772-1776.
Publisher:
John Collier
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Tucker, Josiah, 1712-1799
Subject (Topic):
Bribery and Clergy
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The morning visit [graphic].

9.
The retreat of Carlo Khan from Leadenhall Street [graphic].

Creator:
Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
Dec. 24, 1783.
Call Number:
783.12.24.02+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Charles Fox vomits into his turban as he sits cross-legged on a mangy-looking ass with Lord North's face. The ass is being led by a female figure symbolizing the City of London and followed by Burke, dressed as a Jesuit, barefoot and bald, reading the "Sinners Guide." On the right, the King is leaning out of an open window of the India House waving the cap of liberty on a stick. A paper with the words 'India Bill' crossed out, hangs from the window, below which the wall is inscribed, "Business done as usual." A large sun in a royal crown rises above the roof
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd by E. Hedges, No. 92 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Donkeys, Vomiting, Clergy, and Cobblestone streets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The retreat of Carlo Khan from Leadenhall Street [graphic].

10.
A riding-house [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
15 Feby. 1780.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 19. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 117. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a riding-school: A number of men riding round in a circle; those in the foreground ride from right to left, those in the background from left to right. The riding-master stands in the centre, pointing with hand and cane, and grinning at a short fat man in a clerical wig who is running across the room, alarmed at the horses. A short obese man in back-view on the extreme right, who is about to mount his horse has been identified as Captain Grose. Next him is a man with a grotesque impression of alarm riding a plunging horse. Among the riders are two with clerical wigs. One horse is galloping, out of control, the others are quietly ambling round. Two sides of a high rectangular room or hall are visible; in each wall are two high arch-topped windows
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 117 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 41.2 x 56.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published by Js. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 and Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791,
Subject (Topic):
Riding schools, Horsemanship, Clergy, Dogs, Horses, Horseback riding, Teachers, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A riding-house [graphic]

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