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1. 1812, or, Regency a la mode [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1812]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.129+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A toilet scene. The Regent stands in profile to the right at his dressing-table, rouging his cheek with a small brush. An attendant, resembling McMahon, laces the stays which in front resemble a waistcoat; he tugs at the lace, standing on a low stool, using one foot as a fulcrum against his master's posterior (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8287), a small buffer ornamented with goats' heads being attached to this foot. On the oval mirror which reflects the Prince's face sits a monkey, holding on its head a wig with a pyramid of curls above the forehead with large side-whiskers attached. The Prince's hair is similarly arranged. The Prince's tail-coat, in back view, is spreadeagled on a stand. On an ornate wall-bracket inscribed 'Bills' and 'Recetts' are two ornamental files, one filled with bills: 'hatters Bill', 'Poulterers Bill', 'Fishmongers B', 'Hair Dresser', 'Taylors Bill', 'Butchers Bill', 'Docters Bill', 'Silve smiths Bill'; the other empty. A bracket-clock, surmounted by a figure of Time shearing a triple ostrich plume, points to two o'clock (reversed). A round wall-mirror and candle-sconce is surmounted by a figure of Bacchus bestriding a cask. On the dressing-table are pots and jars of 'Tooth Powder', 'Rouge', 'Otto of Roses', and 'Secilian Wash for the Skin'. On the floor is a book, 'The Stripes Poem', which a small dog shaved like a poodle is befouling."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Regency a la mode
Description:: Title etched below image., Imprint statement burnished from plate and mostly illegible; it appears to begin "Pub. Feb. 1st [...?]"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Laid down on modern laid blue-grey THS Kent paper. Mounted to 49 x 36 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, and Dionysus (Greek deity),
Subject (Topic):: Dressing tables, Cosmetics, Corsets, Stools, Mirrors, Monkeys, Wigs, Debt, Sconces, Clocks & watches, Dogs, and Urination
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > 1812, or, Regency a la mode [graphic]

2. A Roland for an Oliver! [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [27 May 1824]
Call Number:: 824.05.27.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A lady sits at a small dressing-table (left) doing her hair. She turns to answer an elderly servant in livery who proffers a large bone, saying (words under the title): My Lord has sent your Ladyship a Bone to Pick! She answers: Tell him my Eldest Son is none of his, and there's a Bone for his Lordship to Pick!"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Two lines of dialogue below title: My lord has sent your Ladyship a bone to pick! ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Pub. May 27 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):: Dressing tables, Hairdressing, and Servants
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A Roland for an Oliver! [graphic]

3. A fashionable lady in dress & undress [graphic]

Published / Created:: [1807]
Call Number:: 807.00.00.81
Collection Title:: Leaf 14. Characatures by Dighton.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A design partly bisected by a vertical line. The same lady sits (left) directed to the left at her dressing-table, wearing only a long chemise or petticoat, and slippers. On the right she sits, in the same attitude but directed to the right, fully dressed at the same dressing-table. In undress she is almost bald; a wig of naturally-dressed hair is on a stand on the table. She has an over-long neck and skinny arms. On the the table (left) are her fan, a locket suspended on a ribbon, cosmetic-boxes, and a bottle labelled 'Wrinkles'. When dressed her neck is concealed by a lace ruffle on a chemisette, she has long rucked sleeves, in her gloved hand is her fan. She wears a high-waisted gown under which her legs are defined; she wears elaborately embroidered stockings with flat slippers. Her wig seems to be luxuriant natural hair; she wears an ear-ring. On the dressing-table are boxes, a bottle of 'Lavender', and tickets inscribed 'Opera' and 'Cards'. She looks young and handsome, the dress (not exaggerated) effectively concealing her weakest points."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Fashionable lady in dress and undress
Description:: Title etched below image. and Watermark: J Whatman 1805. check
Publisher:: Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Wigs, and Cosmetics
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A fashionable lady in dress & undress [graphic]

4. A fashionable lady in dress & undress [graphic]

Published / Created:: [1807]
Call Number:: Quarto 75 D569 812
Collection Title:: Leaf 14. Characatures by Dighton.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A design partly bisected by a vertical line. The same lady sits (left) directed to the left at her dressing-table, wearing only a long chemise or petticoat, and slippers. On the right she sits, in the same attitude but directed to the right, fully dressed at the same dressing-table. In undress she is almost bald; a wig of naturally-dressed hair is on a stand on the table. She has an over-long neck and skinny arms. On the the table (left) are her fan, a locket suspended on a ribbon, cosmetic-boxes, and a bottle labelled 'Wrinkles'. When dressed her neck is concealed by a lace ruffle on a chemisette, she has long rucked sleeves, in her gloved hand is her fan. She wears a high-waisted gown under which her legs are defined; she wears elaborately embroidered stockings with flat slippers. Her wig seems to be luxuriant natural hair; she wears an ear-ring. On the dressing-table are boxes, a bottle of 'Lavender', and tickets inscribed 'Opera' and 'Cards'. She looks young and handsome, the dress (not exaggerated) effectively concealing her weakest points."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Fashionable lady in dress and undress
Description:: Title etched below image., Leaf 14 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 29.7 x 19.7 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Publisher:: Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Wigs, and Cosmetics
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A fashionable lady in dress & undress [graphic]

5. A hint to [the] husbands, or, The dresser, properly dressed [graphic].

Published / Created:: 14 Augst. 1777.
Call Number:: 777.08.14.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A lady sits at her dressing table, her elaborate mountain of hair being combed by her equally coiffed hair-dresser who stands behind her. The lady turns to see her husband who has just entered the room in riding dress, his whip upraised. Behind him in the doorway, the housemaid, winking at the viewer, raises two fingers above his head. Two portraits hang on the wall in the background
Alternative Title:: Hint to the husbands and Dresser properly dressed
Description:: Title from item. and A reduced copy of no. 5467 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires; tentatively attributed by George to P. Dawe.
Publisher:: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Cuckolds, Couples, Hairdressing, Dressing tables, Boudoirs, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A hint to [the] husbands, or, The dresser, properly dressed [graphic].

6. A hint to married men [graphic].

Published / Created:: [12 May 1794]
Call Number:: 794.05.12.24
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '207' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female costume, 1794 -- Trades: hairdressers.
Publisher:: Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):: Furnishings, Canopy beds, Furniture, Dressing tables, Chairs, Couples, Wallpapers, and Hairdressing
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A hint to married men [graphic].

7. A maiden ewe drest lamb fashion [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [15 September 1796]
Call Number:: 796.09.15.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '172' in lower left corner., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., One line of text below title: "The end of these things is death.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Earrings -- Miniature portraits as jewelry -- Female dress: masquerade costume -- Tickets: masquerade tickets -- Pictures amplifying subjects: portrait of Cleopatra -- Pulley-stiles -- Parasols -- Furniture -- Powder puffs -- Domestic servants: lady's maid -- Furnishings: window curtain tassels.
Publisher:: Published 15th Septr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Older people, Women, Headdresses, Clocks & watches, Jewelry, Dressing tables, Umbrellas, and Women domestics
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A maiden ewe drest lamb fashion [graphic].

8. A speedy & effectual preparation for the next world [graphic]

Creator:: Darly, Mattina, active 1764-1778, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 May 1777]
Call Number:: 777.05.01.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: On the right, a lady (Mrs. Catherine Macaulay) with an aquiline profile and wearing a morning gown, sits at a dressing-table; she is dipping a brush into a pot marked 'Rouge', other toilet implements and a looking-glass on the table. Her hair is in a grotesquely caricatured erection, with side curls, intended to ridicule the fashions of the day; on the top of it is a hearse drawn by six horses, decorated with enormous ostrich-feathers. Similar feathers adorn the heads of the horses. On the left behind the lady, a skeleton stands at a rectangular table grasping with both hands an hour-glass whose sands have run into the lower glass out the bottom onto the table. On the table there is also a knife. The base of the skeleton's spine is transfixed by a large arrow. On the wall behind the lady's dressing-table is a portrait bust of a clergyman, in profile to the right (Dr. Wilson).
Alternative Title:: Speedy and effectual preparation for the next world
Description:: Title from item., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 3, v.2.
Publisher:: Pub May 1, 1777 by MDarly 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791. and Wilson, Thomas, 1703-1784.
Subject (Topic):: Clergy, Death, Hairstyles, Hearses, Skeletons, Hourglasses, Dressing tables, Clothing & dress, and Wigs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A speedy & effectual preparation for the next world [graphic]

9. Buck metamorphos'd, or, Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris [graphic]

Creator:: Smith, Gabriel, 1724-1783, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1756]
Call Number:: 756.00.00.99+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of Samuel Foote in character; whole length, standing, wearing the latest 'French' fashions, including large fur muff, wig with pointed sides, mis-matched tights, and coat with over-sized cuffs; his outfit is scrutinized by two English gentlemen to the right; two men in background, one preparing a hat, bending over a dressing table with mirror."--British Museum online catalogue and On the back wall are two large framed pictures, both with scenes from mythology. On the left, Apollo with bow and arrow pursues Daphne who has begun the turn into a laurel tree. On the right, Leda and the swan
Alternative Title:: Buck metamorphosed and Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris
Description:: Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on the first performance of The Englishman returned from Paris, which premiered at Covent Garden Theatre in 1756., Probably published no later than 1760, when Robert Withy began trading on his own from a Cornhill address. His partnership with John Ryall, at the Fleet Street address listed here, is documented by prints and trade cards in the British Museum from the 1750s. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For a probable reissue of this plate, published by C. Sheppard in the 1790s, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,60.14., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 231, no. 15., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:: Printed for John Ryall & Robt. Withy, at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):: Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777
Subject (Topic):: Performances, Actors, British, Clothing & dress, Comedies, Muffs, Dressing tables, Paintings, Supernatural beings, and Theatrical productions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Buck metamorphos'd, or, Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris [graphic]