Volume 2, page 84. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Symptoms of polite conversation
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For prints of similar composition and subject matter, see nos. 8537 and 8538 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Mounted on page 84 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1st, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Three gentleman (former military?) stand on the sidewalk outside a London club conversing. One wears a patch on his eye and carries a talking stick; another one has a peg leg. The man on the left carries a walking stick and wears spurs on his boots
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed using an unidentified artist's device: A quadrisected circle with a dot in each quadrant., Last digit of the date etched over., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Conversation, Eye patches, Peg legs, and Staffs (Sticks)
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 4 Box D170
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A loquacious gentlemen holding a raised walking stick vertically in front of his body prepares to strike the foot of a passerby by feigning a blunder. From the caption: Provide a good stout stick (the heavier the better), well loaded with iron, and sally forth at the business time of the day ... enter on a long story and at the end of every marked sentence, make a sudden plunge with your stick downwards, which must be managed with great velocity, and at proper periods; by these methods your friend cannot fail feeling the force of your observations; and every person's toes must suffer that come within the reach of the argument
Alternative Title:
Six different methods of carrying a stick with their effects. Compartment no. 3
Description:
Title from letterpress caption below image., Pen and ink drawing on a broadside with typeface and ornamental border., Letterpress capation in fourteen lines below title: The person who has a desire to put this grace in practice, must be consciousness of possessing an unconquerable habit of talking incessantly, if that is not a leading trait in his character, he had better decline the study; but if hef finds himself master of so neccessary a qualification ..., One of a series of six drawings by Woodward with the same typescript heading., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.), Staffs (Sticks), and Conversation
The palatial room, lit by candle chandelier, is filled with memebers standign conversation. Burdett, in breeches and boots, is recognizable. Four throw dice at a table in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Opposition members engaged upon hazardous points
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication rubbed from this impression. Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Date of publication erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Published by Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Name):
Brooks's (Club)
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Conversation, Eating & drinking, Gambling, Men, and Private clubs
Title in pencil lower left margin: "And he said--" 1/50., Signed and dated in pencil lower right margin: Kyra Markham '43., Edition of 50., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and In pencil lower left margin: 1/50.
SH Contents W218 no. 1 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 50
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Horace Walpole's watercolor of an amorous young couple. Formerly hung in the Red Bedchamber in Strawberry Hill
Description:
Dated and signed with Walpole's initials "H.W. 1737" in lower left of image., After Watteau., Verso frame, label: The Moyer Gallery, Paul W. Cooley., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A pleasing drawing, in body colour, from a subject of Watteau's, 1737, by Horace Walpole.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721
Volume 1, page 68. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature of two men, one on the left turning from his examination of a small object to listen to the other who stands in profile on the right with a tray hanging on a strap in front of him, who gestures as he talks."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Tentatively attributed to Francis Grose in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1925,0511.83., Contemporary note "by Capt. Grose" written in ink at bottom of sheet., Date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 68 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Cards for a Regency parlor game that take the form of question and answer. The cards printed in black are questions from a man to a woman, her replies are the red printed set
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Fourteen cards printed in black, fourteen cards printed in red., Possibly privately printed., and For further information, consult library staff.