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1.
A broken leg, or the carpenter the best surgeon. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[24 February 1800]
Call Number:
Print00992
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published 24th Feby. 1800 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street London
Subject (Topic):
Prosthesis, Carpentry, Amputees, Falling, Dogs, Peg legs, Carpenters, and Sailors
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A broken leg, or the carpenter the best surgeon. [graphic]

2.
Blindman's buff [graphic].

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
Feby. 24th, 1792.
Call Number:
792.02.24.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire on the Gunning scandal: a line of four persons in a room, one blindfold, while a man trips over a woman."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hilary campaign, or, The art of gunning in a masked battery laid open, Art of gunning in a masked battery laid open, and Blindman's bluff
Description:
Title etched at top of image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Dent
Subject (Name):
Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),
Subject (Topic):
Scandals, Blindfolds, Blind man's bluff, Fireplaces, Falling, and Doors & doorways
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Blindman's buff [graphic].

3.
Comforts of Bath. [graphic] / Pl. 12

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[6 January 1798]
Call Number:
Print00250
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Gouty persons falling down or toiling up a steep, rough hill below the Crescent."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 6th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Name):
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Health resorts, Accidents, Hills, Falling, Crutches, Dogs, and Carriages & coaches
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Comforts of Bath. [graphic] / Pl. 12

4.
Goddem! moi être par terre tombé sans le gigot [graphic].

Published / Created:
[17 February 1816?]
Call Number:
816.02.17.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: an Englishman falls while reaching out for a side of meat; in the background a wall with mock advertisements."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Basset, rue St. Jacques, No. 64
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Falling, and Posters
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Goddem! moi être par terre tombé sans le gigot [graphic].

5.
How to stop a runaway horse [graphic].

Published / Created:
[7 May 1789]
Call Number:
789.05.07.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two sailors, one in uniform, fall from a horse, its reins caught on a post on the road, causing both it and the riders to collapse
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 7, 1789, by J. Kendal Bury
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, Horses, Horseback riding, Accidents, and Falling
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > How to stop a runaway horse [graphic].

6.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall [graphic]

Creator:
Dighton, Richard, 1795-1880, printmaker
Published / Created:
Septr. 19, 1821.
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Alderman Wood, a dumpy figure with a large head, lies on his back, arms and legs in air, with mud splashing up all round him. He has fallen from a high wall adjoining the gate (left) of Brandenbourg House [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13852]. An an...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Humpty Dumpty (Fictitious character), Municipal officials, Falling, Mud, Walls, Gates, Lions, and Scrolls (Information artifacts)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall [graphic]

7.
Jack and the bean stalk [graphic]

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Jack cutting the bean stalk leading to the fall of politicians with money bags and precious objects."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Jack and the beanstalk
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Vines, Axes, Falling, Money, Urns, and Chalices
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Jack and the bean stalk [graphic]

8.
Les aventures tragiques de Julie la petite désobéissante [graphic].

Published / Created:
[19th century]
Call Number:
Print10236
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pellerin & Cie, imp.-édit
Subject (Topic):
Children's accidents, Accidents, Children, Manners and customs, Obedience, Girls, Tennis rackets, Chickens, Poisons, Wounds & injuries, Beating, Laboratories, Knives, Vases, Noses, Whips, Falling, and Ink
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Les aventures tragiques de Julie la petite désobéissante [graphic].

9.
Miseries of travelling [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1807] and [printed approximately 1980?]
Call Number:
Paulson 807.00.00.90
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An old Parson, of Dr. Syntax type, falls into the water from his horse which rolls in the stream. His hat, wig, and 'Funeral Sermon' are in the water, where a dog chases geese. On a rustic bridge (right) two women and a child are watching in alarm, a...
Alternative Title:
Miseries of traveling and Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Falling, Accidents, Bodies of water, Horses, Dogs, Geese, Pedestrian bridges, and Pails
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of travelling [graphic]

10.
Miseries of travelling [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 82. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Print of a pair of travellers who struggle with slippers during their stay at an inn. One man is helped as he removes his boots with the aid of a boot jack. Another traveller falls backwards from the stairs as his well-used and oversized slippers fal...
Alternative Title:
Miseries of traveling and At an inn, after pulling off your boots, the option of going barefoot the rest of the evening ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Slippers, Boots, Stairways, Falling, Accidents, Women domestics, Candles, and Bedpans
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of travelling [graphic]

11.
Miseries of travelling [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 62. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An old Parson, of Dr. Syntax type, falls into the water from his horse which rolls in the stream. His hat, wig, and 'Funeral Sermon' are in the water, where a dog chases geese. On a rustic bridge (right) two women and a child are watching in alarm, a...
Alternative Title:
Miseries of traveling and Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Falling, Accidents, Bodies of water, Horses, Dogs, Geese, Pedestrian bridges, and Pails
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of travelling [graphic]

12.
The broken commode [graphic].

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, attributed name
Published / Created:
Sepr. 6, 1802.
Call Number:
802.09.06.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A large woman, her dress thrown up revealing her legs and part of her bottom, crashes to the floor, having broken her commode The contents of the commode spills out much to the anger of a lap dog and the terror of a cat who flees by climbing a curtain...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. Williamson, No. 20 Strand, London
Subject (Topic):
Washstands, Falling, Dogs, Cats, Draperies, Women domestics, and Obesity
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The broken commode [graphic].

13.
The carter and the gipsies [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 May 1815] and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 68. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Carter and the gypsies
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. May 10, 1815, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Carts & wagons, Horses, Women, Accidents, Falling, Bodies of water, Whips, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The carter and the gipsies [graphic]

14.
The fall of Phaeton [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
6th January 1784.
Call Number:
784.01.06.01.3+
Collection Title:
Leaf 19. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Phaethon (Greek mythology), Chariots, Lions, Unicorns, and Falling
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The fall of Phaeton [graphic]

15.
The fall of Phaeton [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
6th January 1784.
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Leaf 19. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Phaethon (Greek mythology), Chariots, Lions, Unicorns, and Falling
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The fall of Phaeton [graphic]

16.
The fall of Phaeton [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
6th January 1784.
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 19. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Phaethon (Greek mythology), Chariots, Lions, Unicorns, and Falling
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The fall of Phaeton [graphic]

17.
The little hunchback dining with the taylor is choak'd with a fish bone Arabian nights

Creator:
Watts, Simon, active 1767-1787, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 February 1787]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 44. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"During a meal, a man falls back from his stool with arms waving and eyes wide with terror, a black servant behind leans towards him with bared teeth and hands raised to echo his actions, the choking watched with barely concealed delight by a man sitt...
Alternative Title:
Petit bossu en dinant avec le tailleur s'etoufe en avalant une arrête : Les contes arabs
Description:
Titles from text in English and French below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1787, by S. Watts, No. 50 opposite Old Round Court, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Falling, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The little hunchback dining with the taylor is choak'd with a fish bone Arabian nights entertainment = Le petit bossu en dinant avec le tailleur s'etoufe en avalant une arrête : Les contes arabs / [graphic]

18.
The slough of despond [graphic]

Published / Created:
[ca. March 1809]
Call Number:
809.03.00.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Wardle, in back view in civilian dress, walks off with Mrs. Clarke seated on his right shoulder; a paper, 'C. Wardle', projects from his pocket. She looks back to point derisively down at the Duke of York who is falling into a watery swamp. She says:...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Wetlands, Falling, Signs (Notices), Lifting & carrying, Temples, and Truth
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The slough of despond [graphic]

19.
The upsetting of the Tory muck cart and its contents [graphic].

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Stone representing the Irish Church upsetting the Tory cart; Tories on the point of falling into the mud."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Carts & wagons, Accidents, and Falling
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The upsetting of the Tory muck cart and its contents [graphic].

20.
Very slippy-weather [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 February 1808]
Call Number:
808.02.10.06
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In front of Humphrey's print shop window, a man sits on the pavement, having fallen backwards; his legs are splayed up, his wig is falling off, and coins spill from his pockets. The man's predicament is unobserved by four men studying the Gillray pri...
Alternative Title:
St. James's Street
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clergy, Coach drivers, Falling, Merchandise displays, Military officers, British, Older people, People associated with commercial & service activities, Prints, Syphilis, Stores & shops, Thermometers, Weather, Window displays, and Printing industry
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Very slippy-weather [graphic]

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