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2.
'Behold thou art fair Deborah thou hast doves eyes! 'behold thou art fair Deborah yea pleasant

Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830?]
Call Number:
830.00.00.08
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Chairs, Dogs, Fireplaces, Mirrors, and Vases
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > 'Behold thou art fair Deborah thou hast doves eyes! 'behold thou art fair Deborah yea pleasant!" / [graphic]

3.
A brace of blackguards [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 June 1789]
Call Number:
789.06.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three men in a tavern with three pictures on the wall with images of pugilists, a portrait of Buckhorse and two images of fights. The one man has his head on the table, presumably passed out and asleep. The other man sits in a chair looking out at the...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay on the Steine, Brighthelmstone
Subject (Name):
Morland, George, 1763-1804 and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Subject (Topic):
Artists, British, Boxing, Chairs, Dogs, Drinking vessels, Fireplaces, Pipes (Smoking), Sports posters, Tables, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A brace of blackguards [graphic]

4.
A brace of blackguards [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 June 1789]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 12
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three men in a tavern with three pictures on the wall with images of pugilists, a portrait of Buckhorse and two images of fights. The one man has his head on the table, presumably passed out and asleep. The other man sits in a chair looking out at the...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay on the Steine, Brighthelmstone
Subject (Name):
Morland, George, 1763-1804 and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Subject (Topic):
Artists, British, Boxing, Chairs, Dogs, Drinking vessels, Fireplaces, Pipes (Smoking), Sports posters, Tables, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A brace of blackguards [graphic]

5.
A broad hint of not meaning to dance [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 November 1804]
Call Number:
804.11.20.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A provincial Assembly Room, with dancers in violent action in the background, in country dance or cotillion. In the foreground is an ugly foppish and conceited fellow standing with raised coat-tails and his back to the fire. He holds cocked hat and c...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Clocks & watches, Dancers, Fireplaces, and Sconces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A broad hint of not meaning to dance [graphic]

6.
A broad hint of not meaning to dance [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 November 1804]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A provincial Assembly Room, with dancers in violent action in the background, in country dance or cotillion. In the foreground is an ugly foppish and conceited fellow standing with raised coat-tails and his back to the fire. He holds cocked hat and c...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Clocks & watches, Dancers, Fireplaces, and Sconces
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A broad hint of not meaning to dance [graphic]

7.
A chip of the old block [graphic]

Creator:
Gleadah, Joshua, active 1815-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 1st, 1832.
Call Number:
Print00904
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A midwife holds out a newborn child, who exhibits a combination its parents' physical traits: the nose of its mother, who lies in bed, and the hook arm, peg leg, glasses and queue of its father, who stands proudly at the foot of the bed. The midwife e...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Tregear, Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Genetics, Prosthesis, Children, Infants, Parents, Midwives, Amputees, Peg legs, Interiors, Beds, Fireplaces, and Cats
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A chip of the old block [graphic]

8.
A cup of tea and a dish of chat [graphic]

Creator:
Hunt, George, active 1824-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1830] and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 35. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Tea, Kettles, Gossiping, Tables, Candles, Fireplaces, Cats, and Accidents
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A cup of tea and a dish of chat [graphic]

9.
A cure for a smoky chimney!! [graphic]

Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1807?]
Call Number:
Print00542
Collection Title:
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publised [sic] by Ths. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Interiors and Fireplaces
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A cure for a smoky chimney!! [graphic]

12.
A cure for drowsiness, or, A pinch of cephalic [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 January 1822]
Call Number:
Print00152
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat 'cit', wearing a short brown wig, sits almost full-face between fire (left) and round table (right) on which are decanter, steaming glass, and smoking pipe. His face is contorted by a violent sneeze; in his left hand is his snuff-box, his right...
Alternative Title:
Pinch of cephalic
Description:
Title from text above and below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 25th, 1822, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Topic):
Tobacco, Sneezing, Snuff, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Fireplaces, and Dogs
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A cure for drowsiness, or, A pinch of cephalic [graphic]

13.
A cure for drowsiness, or, A pinch of cephalic [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 January 1822]
Call Number:
822.01.25.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat 'cit', wearing a short brown wig, sits almost full-face between fire (left) and round table (right) on which are decanter, steaming glass, and smoking pipe. His face is contorted by a violent sneeze; in his left hand is his snuff-box, his right...
Alternative Title:
Pinch of cephalic
Description:
Title from text above and below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 25th, 1822, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Topic):
Tobacco, Sneezing, Snuff, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Fireplaces, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A cure for drowsiness, or, A pinch of cephalic [graphic]

14.
A disappointment!!! [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1830]
Call Number:
Maidment Un58 no. 7 Box 5
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A parson cooking breakfast in a fireplace is foiled by soot from the chimney, which has fallen down into his pan
Alternative Title:
Every man his own cook
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Tregear, 123 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Cookery, Pots & pans, Fireplaces, and Knives
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A disappointment!!! [graphic].

15.
A famous cook! : One eye on the pot & the other on the table!!

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1840s?]
Call Number:
840.00.00.85
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A cook stirring a liquid from a bottle into his bowl, his right eyeball looking down at the table and his left eyeball looking to the side at a pot steaming on the hot fire in the hearth
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cooks, Cookery, Pots & pans, Tables, and Fireplaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A famous cook! : One eye on the pot & the other on the table!!

16.
A long story [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1825]
Call Number:
825.00.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S. Knight, Sweetings Alley
Subject (Topic):
Storytelling, Fireplaces, Military uniforms, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A long story [graphic].

17.
A man of feeling [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 2 December 1811]
Call Number:
Print00222
Collection Title:
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lean and grotesquely ugly old parson, wearing cap and gown, sits in his college room with a pretty young woman on his knee. She puts an arm round his neck and warms a foot at a blazing fire, on which stands a large coffee-pot. Her (large) straw bon...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Lust, Clergy, Fireplaces, Windows, Bottles, Coffeepots, Pipes (Smoking), Eyeglasses, Violins, and Books
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A man of feeling [graphic]

18.
A man of feeling [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 2 December 1811]
Call Number:
Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
Collection Title:
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lean and grotesquely ugly old parson, wearing cap and gown, sits in his college room with a pretty young woman on his knee. She puts an arm round his neck and warms a foot at a blazing fire, on which stands a large coffee-pot. Her (large) straw bon...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Lust, Clergy, Fireplaces, Windows, Bottles, Coffeepots, Pipes (Smoking), Eyeglasses, Violins, and Books
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A man of feeling [graphic]

19.
A meeting of connoisseurs Assemblée des connoisseurs / [graphic] =

Creator:
Williamson, Thomas, active 1801-1825, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 February 1807]
Call Number:
807.02.02.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in an artist's studio lit from an attic window (left). Four connoisseurs are grouped round a large canvas on an easel: an Apollo with a sheaf of arrows, head turned in profile to the left. The model is a tall black man in the pose of the Apoll...
Alternative Title:
Assemblée des connisseurs
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 2, 1807, by R. Cribb, 288 Holborn
Subject (Topic):
Apollo, Black people, Artists' studios, Artists' models, Artists' materials, Artists, Brooms & brushes, Windows, Canopy beds, Cradles, Infants, Fireplaces, Boys, Cats, Dogs, and Urination
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A meeting of connoisseurs Assemblée des connoisseurs / [graphic] =

20.
A merry tale of the jealous weaver [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1741? and 1748]
Call Number:
741.00.00.19
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
A satirical broadside, with two vignettes of the "Weaver". On the left the weaver is at his loom his back to his wife who is seated at the hearth warming her hands over the fire. On the right he is shown in the disguise of a Friar receiving his wife f...
Alternative Title:
Weaver jealous of his wife like many, Still dream't of horns before the Knave had any ...
Description:
Title from engraved text above image.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Samuel Lyne, map and printseller at the Globe in Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Weavers, Looms, Fireplaces, Confessions, Costumes, and Monks
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A merry tale of the jealous weaver [graphic].

21.
A modern chip of the old block [graphic]

Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1825]
Call Number:
825.00.00.122+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In an ornate foreshortened bed which is the centre of the design, propped against a frilled pillow, is a lady, dismayed at the sight of a grotesque infant which a nurse (right) holds out to her. Her husband (left) is a grotesque dandy, wearing a smal...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Harrisson Isaccs [sic], Charles St., Soho Square
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Eyeglasses, Fireplaces, Governesses, Infants, Monocles, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A modern chip of the old block [graphic]

22.
A nap after dinner [graphic].

Published / Created:
[20 September 1796]
Call Number:
796.09.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman dozing in a chair in front of a window, beside the hearth which is shown on the right, wearing a spotted gown, posy and a miniature portrait around her neck; a book lettered 'Pleasant Dreams' open on a round table at her elbow."--Britis...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 20th Sepr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Women, Sleeping, Fireplaces, Windows, Miniatures (Paintings), and Books
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A nap after dinner [graphic].

23.
A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [art original].

Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. July 1801]
Call Number:
Drawings N736 no. 7 Box D206
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with ...
Description:
Title from note in artist's hand above image.
Subject (Topic):
Bed, Boxes, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Cats, Corsets, Couples, Fireplaces, Flatulence, Single women, and Sleepwear
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [art original].

24.
A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [graphic].

Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:
July 1801.
Call Number:
801.07.00.05+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pub'd by Wm. Holland, Oxford street
Subject (Topic):
Bed, Boxes, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Cats, Corsets, Couples, Fireplaces, Flatulence, Single women, and Sleepwear
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [graphic].

25.
A peep behind the curtain The tempest; She stoops to conquer ; The rivals / [graphic]

Creator:
Heath, William, 1737-1814, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 November 1810]
Call Number:
810.11.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four scenes in one plate, each with a separate title, each showing a marital or courtship scenes with monkeys and cats and pictures on the walls that amplify the domestic scene
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 26, 1810 by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Couples, Courtship, Fighting, Spouses, Draperies, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Monkeys
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A peep behind the curtain The tempest; She stoops to conquer ; The rivals / [graphic]

26.
A sulky [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[26 June 1800]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pretty young woman sits at a table opposite a fat, older man, asleep with his glasses pushed on his forehead. The sit before a fire in a bedroom with a canope over the bed or couch (left), a guitar leaning against it. Two other pretty young woman en...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 26, 1800, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Birdcages, Dogs, Fireplaces, Guitars, Sleeping, Women, and Young adults
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A sulky [graphic]

27.
A white serjeant giving the word of command Why don't you come to bed you drunken sot / [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 May 1807]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An angry, bare-breasted young woman in a night dress and cap enters the door of a sitting room from a bedroom (seen through the open door on the right). She scowls at the white-haired man relaxed in an armchair in front of a fire; he smokes a pipe and...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25, 1806, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Couples, Dogs, Fireplaces, Fishing & hunting gear, Parlors, Pictures, and Pipes (Smoking)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A white serjeant giving the word of command Why don't you come to bed you drunken sot / [graphic]

28.
Ague & fever [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[5 November 1792]
Call Number:
Print20007
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's ...
Alternative Title:
Ague and fever
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Fever, Prescription writing, Sick persons, Monsters, Physicians, Medicines, Writing materials, Desks, Beds, Draperies, and Fireplaces
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Ague & fever [graphic]

29.
Ague & fever [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[5 November 1792]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's ...
Alternative Title:
Ague and fever
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Fever, Prescription writing, Sick persons, Monsters, Physicians, Medicines, Writing materials, Desks, Beds, Draperies, and Fireplaces
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ague & fever [graphic]

30.
Amsterdam, Shanks Leggs servant shaving him [art original].

Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings N736 no. 12 Box D141
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in a bedroom, the bed in a niche behind a curtain, one man sits as he is being shaved by his servant, as a companion stands with his arms crossed. To their left is an open trunk wotj slippers and boots on the ground on the far left. A fourth m...
Alternative Title:
Shanks Leggs servant shaving him
Description:
Title from ink inscription in lower margin, in the artist's hand.
Subject (Name):
Nixon, John, -1818,
Subject (Topic):
Artists, British, Shaving, Servants, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, and Fireplaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Amsterdam, Shanks Leggs servant shaving him [art original].

31.
An introduction Christmas Day after dinnner ; A Christmas box ; The Austrian amongst thorns ; An

Creator:
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1831]
Call Number:
Maidment Se521 no. 3 Box 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"AN INTRODUCTION. (16533) Below the title: 'An Honourable member wish'd an address to his Majesty praying the appointment of a General Fast'. A bland M.P. bows amiably, his left hand under that of a distressed artisan, the right hand extended towards...
Description:
Titles from text beneath the individual images.
Publisher:
T. McLean and Printed by C. Motte, 23 Leicester Sqre
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854., and Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Generals, Starvation, Fireplaces, Sleeping, Miters, Wigs, Clergy, Crowns, Robes, Thorns, Forks, Newspapers, Fire, Punishment & torture, Horses, Traffic signs & signals, and Reform
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > An introduction Christmas Day after dinnner ; A Christmas box ; The Austrian amongst thorns ; An Attorney Ge-l grilling old grill ; John Bull and his Grey. [graphic]

33.
Articles to be taxed large bonnets & small waists, false curls & bustles, false teeth, mustachios

Creator:
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1831]
Call Number:
Maidment Se521 no. 5 Box 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"ARTICLES TO BE TAXED (16864) See also British Museum Satires 16591, &c. [1] 'Large Bonnets & Small Waists'. A lady (three-quarter length) wearing a wide-brimmed hat trimmed with ostrich-feathers, and much larger than an umbrella, with an hour-glass ...
Description:
Titles from text above and below the individual images.
Publisher:
T. McLean and Printed by C. Motte, 23 Leicester Sqr
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Key, John, 1794-1858 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Politicians, Clothing & dress, Taxes, Bonnets, Hairstyles, Dentures, Mustaches, Correspondence, Pots & pans, Fire, Mayors, Bishops, Banquets, Eating & drinking, Donkeys, Horses, Falling, Carriages & coaches, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Cigars, Fireplaces, Coal, Candles, Newspapers, and Textiles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Articles to be taxed large bonnets & small waists, false curls & bustles, false teeth, mustachios worn by fops not military nor civil ; Swing ; First Friday in Lent ; The man of many falls ; Benefits of the budget : cheap tobbacco [sic], cheap advertisements, cheap coals - a real blessing, cheap candles, cheap printed cotton. [graphic]

34.
Beggars opera [graphic]

Creator:
Stalker, Ebenezer, 1781-1847, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1807]
Call Number:
805.00.00.16
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Illustration to Gay's 'A Beggar's Opera' from 'Inchbald's British Theatre'. An interior scene with a Peachum and Polly administering a drink to Mrs. Peachum, who is lying back with her eyes closed in a chair, having had a fit at learning about the mar...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Longman & Co.
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Loss of consciousness
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beggars opera [graphic]

35.
Betty Canning revived, or, A peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 March 1791]
Call Number:
791.03.25.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a room in a cottage. General Gunning (left) as an old gipsy-woman, but wearing a military coat, is seated (on a drum) at a table, facing his daughter. In place of a sword he wears a broom. He seals a letter, a number of seals and a le...
Alternative Title:
Peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1791, by J.M. Fobes [sic], N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773., Squires, Mary, -1762., Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),, Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),, Gunning, John, -1797, and Minifie, Margaret
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Brooms & brushes, Card games, Cauldrons, Devil, Drums (Musical instruments), Fireplaces, Grooms (Weddings), Playing cards, and Torches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Betty Canning revived, or, A peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family [graphic].

36.
Betty Canning revived, or, A peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 March 1791]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a room in a cottage. General Gunning (left) as an old gipsy-woman, but wearing a military coat, is seated (on a drum) at a table, facing his daughter. In place of a sword he wears a broom. He seals a letter, a number of seals and a le...
Alternative Title:
Peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1791, by J.M. Fobes [sic], N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773., Squires, Mary, -1762., Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),, Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),, Gunning, John, -1797, and Minifie, Margaret
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Brooms & brushes, Card games, Cauldrons, Devil, Drums (Musical instruments), Fireplaces, Grooms (Weddings), Playing cards, and Torches
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Betty Canning revived, or, A peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family [graphic].

37.
Betty the cook maids head drest [graphic].

Published / Created:
[13 June 1776]
Call Number:
776.06.13.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A young woman under an enormous heart-shaped coiffure. In the topmost section of her hair is a kitchen fireplace with meat roasting on a spit, and a monkey in a fool's cap sitting on the chimney admiring itself in a mirror. On either side of the hair ...
Description:
Verse in lower margin: The taste at present all may see, but none can tell what is to be. Who knows when Fashion's whims are spread, but each may wear this kitchen head. The noddle that so vastly swells, may wear a fools cap hung with bells.
Publisher:
Pub. 13 June 1776 by W. Humphrey Gerrard Street Soho
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Women domesticss, Wigs, Hairstyles, Cooks, Cooking utensils, Fireplaces, Mops & mopsticks, Brooms & brushes, Dogs, Cats, Apes, Cheese, and Vegetables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Betty the cook maids head drest [graphic].

38.
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
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].

39.
Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[22 April 1783] and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 2. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Lord North, sitting on a large roll inscribed "Budget" offers Charles Fox a spoonful of broth from a bowl in his lap. He warns Fox to "... Be cautious! - a little of my Broth goes a great way ..." Fox, with a fox's head, sits on "Pandora's Box," his r...
Alternative Title:
Devil's the best of the bunch
Devil is the best of the bunch
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 22d, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Devil, Pandora's box, Fireplaces, Bellows, and Cauldrons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]

40.
Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[22 April 1783]
Call Number:
783.04.22.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Lord North, sitting on a large roll inscribed "Budget" offers Charles Fox a spoonful of broth from a bowl in his lap. He warns Fox to "... Be cautious! - a little of my Broth goes a great way ..." Fox, with a fox's head, sits on "Pandora's Box," his r...
Alternative Title:
Devil's the best of the bunch
Devil is the best of the bunch
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 22d, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Devil, Pandora's box, Fireplaces, Bellows, and Cauldrons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]

41.
Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[22 April 1783]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Lord North, sitting on a large roll inscribed "Budget" offers Charles Fox a spoonful of broth from a bowl in his lap. He warns Fox to "... Be cautious! - a little of my Broth goes a great way ..." Fox, with a fox's head, sits on "Pandora's Box," his r...
Alternative Title:
Devil's the best of the bunch
Devil is the best of the bunch
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 22d, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Devil, Pandora's box, Fireplaces, Bellows, and Cauldrons
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bonus melior optimus, or, The Devil's the best of the bunch [graphic]

42.
Can't-see-that-times-are-hard [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1810?]
Call Number:
810.00.00.27+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man sits smoking in a chair by the fireplace, his feet in slippers. Above him is a painting of a seascape with ships. On the mantel are bottles, a jug, and a glass and on the table, a glass of wine
Alternative Title:
Can't see that times are hard
Description:
Title etched below item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Fireplaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Can't-see-that-times-are-hard [graphic]

43.
Careless attention [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 63. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Interiors, Fireplaces, Servants, Kettles, Accidents, and Burns & scalds
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Careless attention [graphic].

44.
Celebrated chess match at Parsloe's [graphic]

Creator:
Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1794]
Call Number:
790.00.00.15
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from time.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Philidor, F. D. 1726-1795. (François Danican),
Subject (Topic):
Blindfolds, Chess, Clubs, Dogs, Fire screens, and Fireplaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Celebrated chess match at Parsloe's [graphic]

45.
Chacun a son gout (careless attention) / [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:
[20th century?]
Call Number:
Print00586
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An obese gouty man in trouble, while his attendants cavort. The man's kettle boils over scalding his gouty foot and startling the cat, in his alarm he knocks over the table and snaps the bell-rope; the couple cavorting in the doorway are oblivious to ...
Alternative Title:
Careless attention
Description:
Titles in French and English below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Obesity, Home accidents, Household employees, House furnishings, Fireplaces, Kettles, Cats, Servants, Women domestics, and Lust
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Chacun a son gout (careless attention) / [graphic]

46.
Charles Wright's Champaign driving away real pain [graphic]

Creator:
Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1825 and 1827]
Call Number:
Print00509
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Charles Wright's Champagne driving away real pain
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholic beverages, Gout, Asthma, Colic, Champagne (Wine), Intoxication, Sick persons, Crutches, Bottles, and Fireplaces
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Charles Wright's Champaign driving away real pain [graphic]

47.
Christmas gambols [graphic].

Published / Created:
Jany. 1, 1785.
Call Number:
61 W78 v. 1-2
Collection Title:
volume 1, opposite page [441]
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A party of revellers gathered in a cosy room by a fireplace, under the jolly gaze of the slightly grotesque hosts who sit grinning at centre, looking out to the viewer; the forfeit has just been announced that a young countryman ('Ralph Jones') shoul...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Holidays, Kissing, Mirrors, and Tables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Christmas gambols [graphic].

48.
Christmas gambols [graphic].

Published / Created:
Jany. 1, 1785.
Call Number:
785.01.01.01
Collection Title:
volume 1, opposite page [441]
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A party of revellers gathered in a cosy room by a fireplace, under the jolly gaze of the slightly grotesque hosts who sit grinning at centre, looking out to the viewer; the forfeit has just been announced that a young countryman ('Ralph Jones') shoul...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Holidays, Kissing, Mirrors, and Tables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Christmas gambols [graphic].

49.
Cincinnatus in retirement falsely supposed to represent Jesuit-Pad' driven back to his native

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 August 1782]
Call Number:
782.08.23.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depicts Burke wearing spectacles and wig, but in monastic habit as an Irish Jesuit. He is seated on a stool peeling a potato, at a table on which is a chamber pot full of steaming potatoes, and at the other end a keg of whisky supporting a broken cruc...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 23d, 1782, by Eh. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Monks, Demons, Chamber pots, Potatoes, Tableware, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Anti-Catholicism
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Cincinnatus in retirement falsely supposed to represent Jesuit-Pad' driven back to his native potatoes. See Romish Common-Wealth. [graphic]

50.
Cincinnatus in retirement falsely supposed to represent Jesuit-Pad' driven back to his native

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 August 1782]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depicts Burke wearing spectacles and wig, but in monastic habit as an Irish Jesuit. He is seated on a stool peeling a potato, at a table on which is a chamber pot full of steaming potatoes, and at the other end a keg of whisky supporting a broken cruc...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 23d, 1782, by Eh. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Monks, Demons, Chamber pots, Potatoes, Tableware, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Anti-Catholicism
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cincinnatus in retirement falsely supposed to represent Jesuit-Pad' driven back to his native potatoes. See Romish Common-Wealth. [graphic]

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