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1. A duett at the Hanover Square concert [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- Augst. 5, 1789.
- Call Number:
- 789.08.05.01
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two women stand on a balcony, mouths open in song and eyes cast downward at their music sheet. They wear corsetted dresses and feathered head wear. A satire of the duet performed by Harriet Abrams (1758-1821), the English soprano and composer, and her sister Theodosia (ca. 1770-1849), a contralto, on 9 May 1788 at Hanover Square Rooms. The piece performed was 'Gia che mia sposa sei' by Antonio Sacchini, and the occasion was the annual benefit concert for the tenor Samuel Harrison
- Alternative Title:
- Duet at the Hanover Square concert
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After a drawing by John Nixon, now in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum, London. The artist's "JN" monogram and "1788" date are etched within center left portion of image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum, London., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Laid down onto album paper, with a cropped portrait of an unidentified man on the verso: I. Hiresman pinx. ; M. Vdr. Guchta sculp.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
- Subject (Name):
- Abrams, Miss, approximately 1758-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Singers, Concerts, Balconies, and Headdresses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A duett at the Hanover Square concert [graphic]
2. A maiden ewe drest lamb fashion [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 September 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.09.15.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '172' in lower left corner., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., One line of text below title: "The end of these things is death.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Earrings -- Miniature portraits as jewelry -- Female dress: masquerade costume -- Tickets: masquerade tickets -- Pictures amplifying subjects: portrait of Cleopatra -- Pulley-stiles -- Parasols -- Furniture -- Powder puffs -- Domestic servants: lady's maid -- Furnishings: window curtain tassels.
- Publisher:
- Published 15th Septr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Older people, Women, Headdresses, Clocks & watches, Jewelry, Dressing tables, Umbrellas, and Women domestics
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A maiden ewe drest lamb fashion [graphic].
3. A modern belle going to the rooms at Bath [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [13 January 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.01.13.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two chairmen carry (left to right) a lady in a sedan chair. The roof is raised and through it projects an enormous ostrich feather, rising from an aigrette and curls, which also extend above the roof. To the second chairman's back is strapped the base of a long curving rod which supports an umbrella to protect the feather. Through the window of the chair appears the lady's profile. She holds a half-closed fan before her face. Behind (left) is a plain town house of three stories behind its area-railings; it is next a high curving wall (right). Probably from a design by an amateur."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 13th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bath (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Fans (Accessories), Headdresses, Sedan chairs, Servants, and Umbrellas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A modern belle going to the rooms at Bath [graphic].
4. Africa. America [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [20 August 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.08.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the left, standing in front of a thatched hut. "Africa" wears a plumed headdress and animal pelt and holds a spear in his left hand; in his right hand he holds a document inscribed "Slave Trade abolish'd 1806." On the right, "America" is Lady Liberty, wearing plumed headdress and cloak; she holds a standard with the Stars and Stripes, and gestures at a pedestal with portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. A snake curls around the pedestal. Between the two figures is a landscape with hills on either side of a river, and waterfall; a crocodile emerges from behind the figure of Africa
- Alternative Title:
- America
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Description based on an imperfect impression; imprint statement mostly erased from sheet.
- Publisher:
- Published Augt. 20, 1807 [by W.B. Walker ...?]
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States.
- Subject (Name):
- Washington, George, 1732-1799, and Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790,
- Subject (Topic):
- Indigenous peoples, Huts, Headdresses, Hides & skins, Spears, Slavery, Flags, Portraits, Waterfalls, Snakes, and Crocodiles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Africa. America [graphic].
5. America! of wealth thou modern mine ... [graphic]
- Creator:
- Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1765]
- Call Number:
- 765.00.00.02.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two native Americans wearing fronded head-dresses and armed with arrows, on a sea-shore, one kneeling on a rock with one hand propped on cones from a palm-tree, the other standing clothed in a goat's skin, gesturing out to left with an ingot in one hand; a crocodile on the sand, a European ship at sea and three figures gathered around a hammock set between palms under a canopy on rocks in the upper right; from a set of the four quarters of the world; republished state."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from first line of verses engraved beneath image., Verses continue: ... what if by conquest we possess thy shore, thy savages reveng'd should less repine, since we're the slaves of thy corrupting ore., Second state, with altered imprint statement; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.570., See Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, volume 3, page 941 for mention of an earlier state of this series of four plates "Quarters of the World", "Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden Head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street"., One of a series of four allegorical prints, the others depicting Africa, Asia, and Europe., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge and with thin margins on the other three edges.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- North America,
- Subject (Topic):
- Indigenous peoples, Headdresses, Arrows, Coastlines, Palms, Crocodiles, Ships, and Hammocks (Furniture)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > America! of wealth thou modern mine ... [graphic]
6. Dandies in a morning dress Dandies in a evening dress. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1820]
- Call Number:
- 657 820 B623
- Collection Title:
- Frontispiece. Dandyism displayed, or, The follies of the Ton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two couples, the men on the right and the women on the left: the couple at top half for 'dandies in a morning dress', the man in morning suit with hat and umbrella, the woman with large hat and shawl; the other couple at bottom half for 'dandies in a evening dress', the man in short evening jacket with handkerchief, the woman with large feather headpiece."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Attributed to George Cruikshank by Cohn., Frontispiece to: Bisset, J. Dandyism displayed, or, The follies of the Ton. London : Published by Duncombe ..., [approximately 1820]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- Duncombe
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Umbrellas, Hats, Handkerchiefs, and Headdresses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dandies in a morning dress Dandies in a evening dress. [graphic]
7. Lady Godina's rout, or, Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan vide fashionable modesty / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 March 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.03.12.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and leaving her breasts almost uncovered. A leering man stands behind her chair, negligently holding candle-snuffers to a candle on the table, in order to peer down her décolletage. A stout lady in back view, sitting on a stool (identified as Lady Buckinghamshire, but (?) Duchess of Gordon), a little girl, and an elderly man (identified as Dr. Sneyd) complete the table. On the right is another card-table at which three persons are playing. Standing figures freely sketched form a background, the whole design being dominated by the erect feathers of the ladies, usually springing from a turban."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 and Bedford, Georgina Gordon, Duchess of, 1781-1853
- Subject (Topic):
- Card games, Clothing & dress, Gambling, Headdresses, Lust, Obesity, Tables, and Upper classes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lady Godina's rout, or, Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan vide fashionable modesty / [graphic]
8. Le toucher [graphic]
- Creator:
- Godissart de Cari, 1774-1848, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before March 1817]
- Call Number:
- 817.03.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man with lecherous look on his face, his tongue between his teeth and with a large grin, reaches his hand between the curtains of a canopy bed, his other hand raised. Behind him leaning against a coat tossed on a chair is a bed warmer. On the dresser behind him is a bust of a woman with a feathered headdress. On the small chest at the foot of the bed is a basket with a lid
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Series title and number from impression in Les Musèes de la Ville de Paris., Printmaker's name etched in image, at bottom of bureau., Date based on Plate 15, which was entered in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 29 March 1817., Dimensions from the impression in Les Musèes de la Ville de Paris., "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to image: 21 x 13.7 cm.
- Publisher:
- Chez Martinet, Libre., rue du Coq, no. 15
- Subject (Topic):
- Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Headdresses, Lust, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Le toucher [graphic]
9. May-Day in London [graphic]
- Creator:
- Blake, William, 1757-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 1, 1784.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, opposite page [161] Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "May-Day; a busy urban street festival; milkmaids with their 'garlands' - headresses of plate, greenery and brushes; chimney sweepers, a violinist with an artificial leg, and others."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 17 x 21.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 57 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life, May Day, Festivals, Milkwomen, Headdresses, Chimney sweeps, Street musicians, Violins, Peg legs, Dance, and Eating & drinking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > May-Day in London [graphic]
