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19. [Fat man upset like a turtle] [graphic]

Creator:: Livesay, Richard, -1823?, printmaker
Published / Created:: [October 1788]
Call Number:: Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A bald man with a large belly lays on the floor on his back supported by his arms, one leg raised
Description:: Title from Dobson. and On page 235 in volume 3.
Publisher:: Published Octr. 1788 by Thos. King, New Broad Street
Subject (Topic):: Falling and Obesity
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Fat man upset like a turtle] [graphic]

20. [Illustration to one of Peter Pindar's odes] [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1787?]
Call Number:: 787.00.00.03
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier proof state
Description:: Title, printmaker, and date from description of proof state in the British Museum catalogue., For a proof state before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image, see no. 7188 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1787], Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Personification -- Mythology -- Pindar's Ode for a new year.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Subject (Topic):: Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Illustration to one of Peter Pindar's odes] [graphic].

21. [The gallant's downfall] [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 January 1816]
Call Number:: Print00227
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The corner of a house seen from a walled garden. Death throws down a ladder which gave access to a window from which a distraught girl looks out; her lover, a young lieutenant, falls from it towards a pond, while an elderly colonel, the father, fires a blunderbuss towards cats on the wall, the charge being intercepted by the falling man. A prancing dog barks."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:: Assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd
Description:: Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: The assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 241., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:: Pub. Jany. 1 - 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):: Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):: Death (Personification), Accidents, Courtship, Military officers, British, Gardens, Garden walls, Skeletons, Ladders, Falling, Firearms, Dogs, Cats, and Lakes & ponds
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The gallant's downfall] [graphic].