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1. 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., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray., and Mounted to 42 x 30 cm.
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]

2. 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., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray., and Mounted on page 31 with one other print.
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]

3. 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., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 31.1 x 22.8 cm, on sheet 33.3 x 24.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 19 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and Watermark: E & P 1801.
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]

4. [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].

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

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1787]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 3
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:: Title, printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Proof state, before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image., Lettered state of this plate is the frontispiece to: Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1787], and Mounted on verso of leaf 13 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
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:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Illustration to one of Peter Pindar's odes] [graphic].

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

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1787]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 3
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:: Title, printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Proof state, before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image., Lettered state of this plate is the frontispiece to: Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1787], 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 20.0 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 20.8 x 25.7 cm., Alerternative title written in ink in a contemporary hand below image: Pindars Pegasus., Statement of responsibility, "T. Rowlandson fecit," written in later hand below image in lower left; identifications of the figures written below plate mark in the same hand., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
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:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Illustration to one of Peter Pindar's odes] [graphic].

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

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1787]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 3
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:: Title, printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Proof state, before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image., Lettered state of this plate is the frontispiece to: Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1787], 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 17.1 x 22.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
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:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Illustration to one of Peter Pindar's odes] [graphic].

8. 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]

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 sitting on the edge of a bed at right, a woman standing beside him clearing the table; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
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., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 44 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
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]

9. [A falling man] [graphic]

Creator:: Livesay, Richard, -1823?, printmaker
Published / Created:: [October 1788]
Call Number:: Hogarth 788.10.00.01 Box 115
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A stout, bald man fallen on his back, supports himself with his one hand and one arm on the ground; one foot raised
Alternative Title:: Tumbling man
Description:: Titles devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Pencilled on verso: Tumbling man. Lower right corner missing.
Publisher:: Published Octr. 1788 by Thos. King, New Broad Street
Subject (Topic):: Baldness and Falling
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [A falling man] [graphic]

10. [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]

11. 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., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text below title: A horse running away with two sailors, the lad who rode behind, exclaim'd run her aground, run her a ground, avast reply'd the other, I can throw out the grapples. He accordingly manag'd to throw the reins over a post by the road side & so came safe to land., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below.
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].

12. 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., Twelfth plate of twelve, designed to illustrate Christopher Anstey's The new Bath guide., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Republished in 1857 by Robert Walker. See no. 9321 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
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

13. 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., Date and place of publication from item., Below title: 240; Halloo! Young Glewpot -- de ye see Jack Junk has Shivered his Timbers -- and wee want a Splice here., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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]

14. 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., In margin top right: Imagerie d'Épinal, No. 512., and Date supplied by curator.
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].

15. 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. To the left, another older woman, probably the maid, with a look of alarm, rushes towards the falling woman
Description:: Title etched below image., Possibly by Isaac Cruikshank, who produced (often anonymously) many of Williamson's prints around this time. See British Museum catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
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].

16. Very slippy-weather [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [10 February 1808]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
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 prints displayed in the shop window, each identifiable: a gentleman with a quizzing glass held to his eye; a military officer; a coachman; and a young dustman carrying a pair of skates under his arm, his nose eaten away by syphilis. From the cobblestone street a dog looks at the man. Through the shop door, two men, one an obese cleric, are shown examining a print
Alternative Title:: St. James's Street
Description:: Title etched below image., One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.2 x 20.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 24.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 57 of volume 11 of 12.
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:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Very slippy-weather [graphic]

17. 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 prints displayed in the shop window, each identifiable: a gentleman with a quizzing glass held to his eye; a military officer; a coachman; and a young dustman carrying a pair of skates under his arm, his nose eaten away by syphilis. From the cobblestone street a dog looks at the man. Through the shop door, two men, one an obese cleric, are shown examining a print
Alternative Title:: St. James's Street
Description:: Title etched below image., One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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]

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: "There goes his ------ Honor!!" He shakes his fist at the couple. Beside him are his cocked hat and a broken sword inscribed 'from Holland'. Wardle walks uphill towards the temple of 'Truth'; a (naked) figure holds out draperies. In the swamp is a board: 'A Caution'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., M. Dorothy George identifies "I Spy" as Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Date from British Museum catalogue.
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 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].

20. 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., Date from British Museum online catalogue., "Déposé au Bureau des Estampes.", and This print is listed in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 17 February 1816 by Basset. See British Museum online catalogue.
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].