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1. A cheild amang us, takin' notes." Dismay of visitors, thinking they are going to be caricatured. But it was a false alarm; it was only Jinks balancing up, to see if he had enough money to take him back to town.

Call Number:: 1997 +245
Collection Title:: Pen & ink sketches of scenes & incidents in Buxton : comprising fifty humorous sketches / by W.G
Image Count:: 1
Alternative Title:: Feeding the ducks from the bridge
Subject (Geographic):: Buxton (Derbyshire, England) --Pictorial works and England --Social life and customs --Pictorial works.
Subject (Topic):: English wit and humor, Pictorial
Collection Created:: Manchester ; Hyde : Cartwright and Rattray, [187-?]
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A cheild amang us, takin' notes." Dismay of visitors, thinking they are going to be caricatured. But it was a false alarm; it was only Jinks balancing up, to see if he had enough money to take him back to town.

2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs [graphic].

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
Published / Created:: [between 1765 and 1792]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3563 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 128
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An album of prints with some drawings by Henry William Bunbury, assembled by Horace Walpole (ca. 1776-1782), and mounted with captions by Walpole along with prints etched or engraved after Bunbury designs by: W. Dickinson, F. Bartolozzi, Thomas Watson, J. Bretherton, J. Baldrey, and P.W. White. Includes a series "Hints to bad horsemen" and a portrait by Joshua Reynolds of a young Bunbury engraved by T. Blackmore
Description:: Title vignette., Title from t.p. printed at Strawberry Hill Press by Thomas Kirgate, mounted on p. [1]., and Original marbled boards with calf backs. Bookplate 2 early state. (Later state in the second volume). Press-mark C.19. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811. and Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811,
Subject (Topic):: English wit and humor, Pictorial, Animals, Horseback riding, Horses, Jumping (Horsemanship), and Peasants
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs [graphic].

3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs [graphic].

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
Published / Created:: [between 1765 and 1792]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3563 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 50
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An album of prints with some drawings by Henry William Bunbury, assembled by Horace Walpole (ca. 1776-1782), and mounted with captions by Walpole along with prints etched or engraved after Bunbury designs by: W. Dickinson, F. Bartolozzi, Thomas Watson, J. Bretherton, J. Baldrey, and P.W. White. Includes a series "Hints to bad horsemen" and a portrait by Joshua Reynolds of a young Bunbury engraved by T. Blackmore
Description:: Title vignette., Title from t.p. printed at Strawberry Hill Press by Thomas Kirgate, mounted on p. [1]., and Original marbled boards with calf backs. Bookplate 2 early state. (Later state in the second volume). Press-mark C.19. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811. and Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811,
Subject (Topic):: English wit and humor, Pictorial, Animals, Horseback riding, Horses, Jumping (Horsemanship), and Peasants
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs [graphic].

4. Lear in Sicily : twenty line drawings by Edward Lear illustrating a tour made in May-July 1847 in the company of John Joshua Proby with a coloured frontispiece signed by both the travellers and a full introduction by Granville Proby

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, artist
Published / Created:: 1938.
Call Number:: 1996 +41
Image Count:: 34
Resource Type:: text and still image
Description:: Errata slip tipped in, page 7., Includes bibliographical references., BEIN 1996 +41: Bookplate of Granville Proby with presentation inscription from him on bookplate, dated 1939., and BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original brown cloth. Presentation inscription: Francis. With joyous greetings & all good wishes. From Irene. Christmas 1944.
Publisher:: Duckworth, 3 Henrietta Street, London, W.C. 2 and Printed in Great Britain by the Kemp Hall Press Ltd., in the City of Oxford
Subject (Geographic):: Italy, Sicily., and Sicily (Italy)
Subject (Name):: Lear, Edward, 1812-1888 and Carysfort, John Joshua Proby, Earl of, 1823-1858.
Subject (Topic):: Travel, English wit and humor, Pictorial, and Description and travel
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lear in Sicily : twenty line drawings by Edward Lear illustrating a tour made in May-July 1847 in the company of John Joshua Proby with a coloured frontispiece signed by both the travellers and a full introduction by Granville Proby

5. Lumps of pudding [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [15 August 1811]
Call Number:: 811.08.15.01++
Image Count:: 5
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A country dance; eighteen couples in a strip design in the manner of the 'Long Minuet' (No. 7229), dance with awkward vigour; one of the most active ladies has a wooden leg. The first couple (left) face each other, the lady squinting violently. On the right a man turns eagerly from his elderly and offended partner to a young lady, whose partner also holds the hand of another lady, while an elderly man stands alone on the extreme right, holding his wig, and mopping his bald head. The elder men wear powdered hair with small pigtails, the younger ones have frizzed hair without powder, short or with small tails. Only one or two wear wigs. The women wear simple high-waisted gowns with elbow sleeves and long gloves; one wears a hat and long sleeves. All wear flat-heeled shoes, and have frizzed hair, short, or piled on the head; a few wear feathered bandeaux; one lady only has powdered hair. Some have strange hair ornaments: a fat and very decolletee lady with a lap-dog under her arm wears round her erect bush of hair a circlet from which project barbed zigzags, like lightning flashes. A youngish lady has on her head a bird with a barbed fang; an older one in spectacles wears a small windmill behind two drooping aigrettes. The neglected lady wears a tiny wheat-sheaf, her pretty rival a ship in full sail. Below the title: 'What an elegant Set-What a bustling of Rumps! What a Sweet Toe to Toe-ing of Slipers and Pumps! At the sight my Old Drumsticks are ready to Prance There is nothing I love so as seeing Folks Dance.'':--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption etched below image on third sheet., Artist's signature from impression in the British Museum., Four lines of verse below title: What an elegant set, what a bustling of rumps! What a sweet toe to toe-ing of slipers [sic] and pumps! ..., One continuous design on five plates., Description based on imperfect impression; sheets trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature erased from lower left corner of first sheet., and BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Untrimmed. Artist's signature visible on lower left corner of first sheet. Hand-colored.
Publisher:: Published Aug. 15, 1811, by Robinson, 5 Margaret Street, Cavindish Square & Calnaghi, Cockspur Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):: Caricatures and cartoons, Social aspects, English wit and humor, Pictorial, Social life and customs, and Dance
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Lumps of pudding [graphic]

6. Puzzled which to choose!! or, the King of Timbuctoo offering one of his daughters in marriage to Capt. -- {anticipated result of [the] African Mission}

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [10 October 1818]
Call Number:: 818.10.10.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "An African chief displays to a naval officer three black women, who stand together (right), grinning and coy, and absurdly squat and obese, with huge posteriors like those of the Hottentot Venus (see British Museum satire no. 11577). The officer, Lieut. Lyon, bows in profile to the right, right hand on his breast, staring with humorous and wary appraisal at the women. The chief, who smiles blandly, seated on a low slab, wears a huge nose-ring, a plume of ostrich feathers, and a sword for which his left ear serves as hilt. Immediately behind him is a bodyguard of four warriors holding tall spears on each of which a skull is transfixed. Two grin, one looks with sour possessiveness at the women. All the Africans are very negroid, and naked except for small aprons. Behind the women are more Africans, much amused. Behind Lyon stand an astonished naval officer and two amused military officers; all are in dress uniform. Behind these are grinning sailors and on the extreme left the tips of the bayonets of the escort, with a Union flag."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: King of Timbuctoo offering one of his daughters in marriage ...
Description:: Title from item., An anchor is a symbol used by Captain Frederick Marryat; he was a personal friend of George Cruikshank the caricaturist and engraver and designed a number of prints for him., and Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins.
Publisher:: Pubd. Octr. 10, 1818 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):: Africa, West and Africa, West.
Subject (Name):: Lyon, G. F. 1795-1832 (George Francis), and Lyon, G. F. 1795-1832. (George Francis),
Subject (Topic):: Black people, English wit and humor, Pictorial, Ethnic stereotypes, Military officers, British, and Skulls
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Puzzled which to choose!! or, the King of Timbuctoo offering one of his daughters in marriage to Capt. -- {anticipated result of [the] African Mission}

7. The faith of treaties exemplified, or, John Bulls last effort to oblige his false friends [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 July 1794]
Call Number:: 794.07.17.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A huge bull, snorting fire, rushes with lowered head towards a French fort (left) from which cannon-balls descend upon him. Beneath the fort sansculottes on one knee fire at the bull while standing French soldiers, correctly dressed, also fire. On the fortress stand Frenchmen, firing and waving their hats; they shout: "Vive la republic, Blood & plunder, no Quarter to John Bull!" A huge tricolour flag has a staff surmounted by a skull. To the bull's back is strapped a bundle inscribed 'Debt Debt'. One horn has been shot off and lies on the ground. To his left hind leg is chained a heavy weight inscribed 'Subsidies'. Nevertheless, he cries: "Now my brave Allies let us all stand firm together & make a bold push, & I'll be Answerable for the Event." But behind him (right) his allies have all turned their backs and are departing in directions indicated by signposts. A fat Dutchman smoking a pipe goes 'To Amsterdam', saying, "I care not who beats, I'll join the Strongest Party". Frederick William II (father-in-law of the Duke of York) walks off 'To Berlin', saying, "I've fingerd the Cash from both Sides, & will now employ it to Secure the Partition of Poland"; "Negociate with Robertspierre privately & then - Damn Relationship!!!" Next, a Spanish don, Charles IV, goes 'To Madrid', saying, "Whats the Bourbon Family to me when they Impede my Interest. Hush!! I am now treating for a Separate peace with that Blackguard Roberspere to Secure my own Crown - I must enlarge the Powers of the Inquisition". On the extreme right Francis II and Mack in a two-wheeled gig, on which is the Habsburg eagle, are driving off 'To Vienna'. The Emperor says: "Well Mack we have made a Glorious Campaign of it; of what use are the Low Countries without they continue to fill my Coffers? As for John Bull, let him settle the business as he can he loves to be meddling"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: John Bulls last effort to oblige his false friends
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Matted to 39 x 52 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. July 17, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Mack von Leiberich, Karl, 1752-1828, Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797, Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794., Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797., and Mack von Leiberich, Karl, 1752-1828.
Subject (Topic):: Great Britain, Foreign relations, John Bull (Symbolic character), Bulls, Ethnic stereotypes, Caricatures and cartoons, English wit and humor, Pictorial, and Satire, English
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The faith of treaties exemplified, or, John Bulls last effort to oblige his false friends [graphic].

8. The matrimonial mania, or, Poor Jonny ridden to death [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [April 1818]
Call Number:: 818.04.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "John Bull, a fat 'cit', walks on hands and feet, overburdened with panniers containing royal dukes and their wives. He raises the left leg to propel the Duke of Clarence from his back into a pond (right); on the Duke's shoulders sit two young women, who are also about to land in the pond in which is a notice-board: 'Slough of Jordan'. Three pairs of feminine legs and one pair in trousers emerge from the pond, where their owners have fallen head first; two chamber-pots inconspicuously floating among the legs show by a coarse pun that these belong to FitzClarences, the Duke's children by Mrs. Jordan, cf. No. 7908, &c. The Duke who flourishes a cat-o'-nine-tails, exclaims "Curse him he has kick'd me off, take [sic] we shall be in the slough by G-". In the near pannier on John's left stands the Duke of Kent, one arm round his betrothed, the other flourishing a long whip, with his right leg raised and resting on John's shoulder, which his spur gashes. Beside the Princess of Leiningen stands the Duchess of Cumberland extending her arms towards her husband who lies on the ground, clutching a whip with a long weighted lash. She says: "Oh mine dear why you Tomble out make hase [sic] haste you get up again!" He: "No! No! my dear this is the second fall I have had, I shall not venture a third time, so you must e'en ride without me!" In the other pannier stands the Duke of Cambridge, raising his heavy whip to lash John Bull; his betrothed, the Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel, stands behind him with her hands on his shoulders. He says: "Come up you lazy Animal why you are as sluggish as a Jack Ass! spur him up, -why the stupid Animal is totally ignorant of the honor done him, Aye and of the grandeur and brilliance we shall display. beside Johnny its the Money we want not the Wives, consider the number of Bastards we have to keep,." She says: "Ah so you whip de Monies from Johnny Bull." John, looking up towards his tormentors, says: "Curse the honor, the Brilliance, the Luxury, extravagance, the Debauchery and all the rest, give me but a little ease, and allow me to keep a little of my hard earnings, and then I will trudge on, but I cannot labour without Victuals, or pay without Money, t'is too much for any Animal to bear." All the brothers wear uniform; Clarence that of an admiral, Cumberland that of a hussar, with furred dolman. Princess Elizabeth and her husband, see No. 12986, &c., stand together in the background (left) in travelling dress, watching John Bull. Near them and on the extreme left is Castlereagh standing on a mounting-block with three steps inscribed respectively: 'Conceit', 'Importance', 'Effrontery'. He takes from a man whose hand and foot only are visible (as in other representations of the Regent) a great pile of new burdens for John Bull, saying, "I'll put it on! he will bear it, and more still." These bulky packages are: 'New fasioned [sic] Loans', 'New export Duties', 'New Yachts', 'New Madhouses', 'New Palaces', 'New Streets', 'New Jails', 'New Churches'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Poor Jonny ridden to death
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The marriages of the Dukes of Clarence, Kent and Cambridge were hastened by the death of Princess Charlotte, and the image reflects the debates of April 15 and 16, 1818, on a provision for the dukes on their marriages. The Duke of Cumberland was included in the financial arrangements., and With contemporary pencil sketch in pencil on verso.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 1818 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Adolphus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1774-1850, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character) and English wit and humor, Pictorial
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The matrimonial mania, or, Poor Jonny ridden to death [graphic].

9. The matrimonial mania, or, Poor Jonny ridden to death [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [April 1818]
Call Number:: 818.04.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "John Bull, a fat 'cit', walks on hands and feet, overburdened with panniers containing royal dukes and their wives. He raises the left leg to propel the Duke of Clarence from his back into a pond (right); on the Duke's shoulders sit two young women, who are also about to land in the pond in which is a notice-board: 'Slough of Jordan'. Three pairs of feminine legs and one pair in trousers emerge from the pond, where their owners have fallen head first; two chamber-pots inconspicuously floating among the legs show by a coarse pun that these belong to FitzClarences, the Duke's children by Mrs. Jordan, cf. No. 7908, &c. The Duke who flourishes a cat-o'-nine-tails, exclaims "Curse him he has kick'd me off, take [sic] we shall be in the slough by G-". In the near pannier on John's left stands the Duke of Kent, one arm round his betrothed, the other flourishing a long whip, with his right leg raised and resting on John's shoulder, which his spur gashes. Beside the Princess of Leiningen stands the Duchess of Cumberland extending her arms towards her husband who lies on the ground, clutching a whip with a long weighted lash. She says: "Oh mine dear why you Tomble out make hase [sic] haste you get up again!" He: "No! No! my dear this is the second fall I have had, I shall not venture a third time, so you must e'en ride without me!" In the other pannier stands the Duke of Cambridge, raising his heavy whip to lash John Bull; his betrothed, the Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel, stands behind him with her hands on his shoulders. He says: "Come up you lazy Animal why you are as sluggish as a Jack Ass! spur him up, -why the stupid Animal is totally ignorant of the honor done him, Aye and of the grandeur and brilliance we shall display. beside Johnny its the Money we want not the Wives, consider the number of Bastards we have to keep,." She says: "Ah so you whip de Monies from Johnny Bull." John, looking up towards his tormentors, says: "Curse the honor, the Brilliance, the Luxury, extravagance, the Debauchery and all the rest, give me but a little ease, and allow me to keep a little of my hard earnings, and then I will trudge on, but I cannot labour without Victuals, or pay without Money, t'is too much for any Animal to bear." All the brothers wear uniform; Clarence that of an admiral, Cumberland that of a hussar, with furred dolman. Princess Elizabeth and her husband, see No. 12986, &c., stand together in the background (left) in travelling dress, watching John Bull. Near them and on the extreme left is Castlereagh standing on a mounting-block with three steps inscribed respectively: 'Conceit', 'Importance', 'Effrontery'. He takes from a man whose hand and foot only are visible (as in other representations of the Regent) a great pile of new burdens for John Bull, saying, "I'll put it on! he will bear it, and more still." These bulky packages are: 'New fasioned [sic] Loans', 'New export Duties', 'New Yachts', 'New Madhouses', 'New Palaces', 'New Streets', 'New Jails', 'New Churches'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Poor Jonny ridden to death
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The marriages of the Dukes of Clarence, Kent and Cambridge were hastened by the death of Princess Charlotte, and the image reflects the debates of April 15 and 16, 1818, on a provision for the dukes on their marriages. The Duke of Cumberland was included in the financial arrangements., and With contemporary pencil sketch in pencil on verso.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 1818 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Adolphus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1774-1850, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character) and English wit and humor, Pictorial
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The matrimonial mania, or, Poor Jonny ridden to death [graphic].