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1. "Ah, grant a me von letel bite" [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 11. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A foppishly dressed young man, intended to represent a starving Frenchman, is begging for a "letel bite" from a boy in a butcher's apron. The boy is holding a large bone in his hands and has a slab of beef ribs sticking out of his pocket
Description:: Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added below image in lower left. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5790 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 11 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Publishd. Decr. 1st, 1780, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: National characteristics, French, Starvation, Butchers, Dandies, French, Meat, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > "Ah, grant a me von letel bite" [graphic]

2. National discourse [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [9 August 1780] and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 8. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A British and a French sailor addressing one another. The British sailor stands full-face, a club in his right hand, his left hand on his hip. He wears a crowned hat, a handkerchief knotted round his neck, and wide, knee-length trousers. He scowls threateningly. The Frenchman, very thin, stands facing him, in profile to the left; he grins, saying "Ha! Ha! we beata You": the Englishman answers "you Lie". The Frenchman wears a feathered hat, ruffled shirt, long trousers, and a cutlass. His hair is in a very long pigtail queue, tied with a bow of ribbon. In the background a naval battle is indicated by ships and clouds of smoke slightly sketched. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 5674."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5695 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 8 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Publish'd Augt. 9th, 1780, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Military uniforms, British, Sailors, French, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > National discourse [graphic]

3. Rodney triumphant, or, Admiral lee-shore in the dumps [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [31 May 1782] and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 5. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Admiral Rodney is depicted receiving the submission of the defeated De Grasse after the Battle of the Saints, as English sailors bring ashore the spoils of war, and chagrined politicians Fox, Keppel, and the Duke of Richmond look on from the left, with Sandwich and North behind them. Contrasts the new ministry's hostility to the popular Rodney with the rewarding of the incompetent Keppel (Admiral "Lee-shore.").
Alternative Title:: Admiral lee-shore in the dumps
Description:: Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5992 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], "Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 3"--On left above design., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 36., and On leaf 5 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 31st, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, London [i.e. Field & Tuer] and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic):: Admirals, French, British, Sailors, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Rodney triumphant, or, Admiral lee-shore in the dumps [graphic]

4. Dictionnaire mongol-russe-franca̧is

Creator:: Kovalevskiĭ, Osip Mikhaĭlovich, 1801-1878
Published / Created:: 1844-1849.
Call Number:: Ftg58 +K84
Container / Volume:: t.1
Image Count:: 624
Description:: Added t.p.: Mongolʹsko-russko-frant︠s︡uzskiĭ slovarʹ. and Vols. 2-3: Couronné par l'Académie des sciences et publié par m. le professeur J. E. Kowalewski.
Publisher:: Impr. de l'Université
Subject (Topic):: Mongolian language, Russian, and French
Found in:: Sterling Memorial Library > Dictionnaire mongol-russe-franca̧is

5. Dictionnaire mongol-russe-franca̧is

Creator:: Kovalevskiĭ, Osip Mikhaĭlovich, 1801-1878
Published / Created:: 1844-1849.
Call Number:: Ftg58 +K84
Container / Volume:: t.3
Image Count:: 1158
Description:: Added t.p.: Mongolʹsko-russko-frant︠s︡uzskiĭ slovarʹ. and Vols. 2-3: Couronné par l'Académie des sciences et publié par m. le professeur J. E. Kowalewski.
Publisher:: Impr. de l'Université
Subject (Topic):: Mongolian language, Russian, and French
Found in:: Sterling Memorial Library > Dictionnaire mongol-russe-franca̧is

6. Dictionnaire mongol-russe-franca̧is

Creator:: Kovalevskiĭ, Osip Mikhaĭlovich, 1801-1878
Published / Created:: 1844-1849.
Call Number:: Ftg58 +K84
Container / Volume:: t.2
Image Count:: 966
Description:: Added t.p.: Mongolʹsko-russko-frant︠s︡uzskiĭ slovarʹ. and Vols. 2-3: Couronné par l'Académie des sciences et publié par m. le professeur J. E. Kowalewski.
Publisher:: Impr. de l'Université
Subject (Topic):: Mongolian language, Russian, and French
Found in:: Sterling Memorial Library > Dictionnaire mongol-russe-franca̧is

7. L'ecrivain [graphic]

Creator:: Gaillot, Bernard, 1780-1847, artist
Published / Created:: [1849?]
Call Number:: 849.00.00.06
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An image of a writer constructed from the tools and equipment of his trade: Scrolls of paper as hair, a writing desk, ink wells and pens, books, etc
Description:: Title from caption below image. and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Publisher:: Chez Bénard, Galerie Vivienne, 49 and Lith. Senefelder
Subject (Topic):: Arcimboldesque figures, Authors, French, and Occupations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > L'ecrivain [graphic]

8. Gruzinsko-russko-frant︠s︡uzskīĭ slovarʹ

Creator:: Čʻubinovi, Davitʻ, 1814-1891
Published / Created:: 1840.
Call Number:: Fse5 +C47
Image Count:: 780
Description:: Added title in French: Dictionnaire géorgien-russe-français. and Added title in Georgian.
Publisher:: V tip. Imp. akademīi nauk
Subject (Topic):: Georgian language, Russian, and French
Found in:: Sterling Memorial Library > Gruzinsko-russko-frant︠s︡uzskīĭ slovarʹ

9. A tea party, or English manners and French politeness [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:: Augt. 1st, 1835.
Call Number:: 835.08.01.19
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A French man stands in profile to the right in front of his upturned chair, his hand on his protruding belly as if in pain, as an older woman sits at the table refilling his tea cup. A young woman stands behind the woman at the table, smiling behind a fan as she looks at the visitor. An older man sits at the table amused at the French man's distress. A dog drinks from a saucer under the table. The party is in evening dress, the curtains drawn, and a chandelier of four gas lamps hangs over the square tea-table laid with the tea service and tray
Alternative Title:: English manners and French politeness
Description:: Title etched above image. and Below image, five lines of text: A Frenchman not aware of the custom, constantly returned his cup without the spoon in it, which being immediately replenished by thelady of the house, he thought it a point of politeness to drink the contents which he continued to do, to the great surprise of the company until he perceived the lady pouring out the 14th cup, when he rose in great agony and cried, Ah! Madame excuse me I can take no more.
Publisher:: Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Topic):: Eating & drinking, Etiquette, Foreign visitors, French, Manners and customs, and Tea parties
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A tea party, or English manners and French politeness [graphic]