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1. A bagnio scene with a white-leggd chicken coaxking [sic] an old dotard. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- as the act directs, 2nd March, 1778.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two men in a brothel, one sitting on the right uncorking a bottle, the other putting his arm around the shoulder of a prostitute, leering as she adjusts his cravat, urged by the Madam who rises from a sofa in front of a round table with punch-bowl and glasses, one hand on a paper; a screen behind to right, two oval landscapes, a cartouche and a picture of Venus among rocks on the wall behind."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 2010,7081.823., No. 55 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Brothels, Furnishings, Interiors, Paintings, Prostitutes, and Screens
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A bagnio scene with a white-leggd chicken coaxking [sic] an old dotard. [graphic]
2. A connoiseur admiring a dark night peice [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 November 1771]
- Call Number:
- Folio 72 771 D37 v.1 plate 19
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 63. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man (Captain Grose) standing peering at a painting through a large magnifying glass."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Connoisseur admiring a dark night piece
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reissue, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4683 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "19" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Connoisseurs -- Quizzing glasses -- Framed paintings., and Partial watermark: L.V.G.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt., Novr. 12, 1771, by MDarly, No. 39 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Hand lenses, and Paintings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A connoiseur admiring a dark night peice [graphic].
3. A connoiseur admiring a dark night peice [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 November 1771]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 63. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man (Captain Grose) standing peering at a painting through a large magnifying glass."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Connoisseur admiring a dark night piece
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reissue, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4683 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "19" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Connoisseurs -- Quizzing glasses -- Framed paintings., First of three plates on leaf 63., and 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 16 x 10.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt., Novr. 12, 1771, by MDarly, No. 39 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Hand lenses, and Paintings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A connoiseur admiring a dark night peice [graphic].
4. A family picture [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811
- Published / Created:
- [1781?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C22 781
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire on portrait painting: a middle-aged English couple sit together on a dais, each holding a bird in their hand. Their bored son, dressed as Cupid, is seated on a stool in front of them, yawning. They are being painted by an enthusiastic artist wearing spectacles and holding a brush and palette. Two oval portraits hang on the back wall
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date based on printmaker's known address., Variant of no. 5921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., No. 3 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Birds, Families, Paintings, and Pets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A family picture [graphic]
5. A picture of futurity [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- May 1831.
- Call Number:
- 831.05.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Grey stands in the center pulling back a curtain on the large painting (right) addressing the three men (probably Peel, Cumberland, and Wellington) who look on in amazement. Grey says, "Gentlemen this is a fine color'd picture representing Futurity. The idea of which was concieved [sic] by an injured people and painted by a new and promising artist. Reform." Reading from the left Peel looks at himself in the painting seated in a chair at a loom, "Why if there a'nt me at a spinning Jenny." Cumberland, hat flying off, looking at himself depicted in the painting on his backside, "And me dying on a dunghill." And Wellington closest to the painting that depicts him as a wounded soldier holding a broom and begging with his cap in hand, observes "And me begging." In the painting is a tower with the British and French flags the former with the year 1814, referencing the Wellington's successful campaign to end the Peninsular War
- Description:
- Title from text below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by G. Tregear, Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Parliament, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845
- Subject (Topic):
- Reform, Politics and government, Begging, Spinning machinery, and Paintings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A picture of futurity [graphic]
6. A scene in a convent, or, Miss Tit ups visit to Father Bald-pate [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- 10 Augt. 1778.
- Call Number:
- 778.08.10.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fashionably dressed young woman in a low-cut dress sits talking to an old (bearded but not bald) cleric in monastic habit who holds her hand. Behind the pair another monk peeks around the door smirking. Above the door a painting shows semi-clothed figures. Miss Tittup was a character in Garrick's "Bon Ton".
- Alternative Title:
- Miss Titups visit to Father Bald-pate and Miss Tit ups visit to Father Bald-pate
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Monasticism and religious orders, Paintings, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A scene in a convent, or, Miss Tit ups visit to Father Bald-pate [graphic].
7. Buck metamorphos'd, or, Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris [graphic]
- Creator:
- Smith, Gabriel, 1724-1783, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.99+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Samuel Foote in character; whole length, standing, wearing the latest 'French' fashions, including large fur muff, wig with pointed sides, mis-matched tights, and coat with over-sized cuffs; his outfit is scrutinized by two English gentlemen to the right; two men in background, one preparing a hat, bending over a dressing table with mirror."--British Museum online catalogue and On the back wall are two large framed pictures, both with scenes from mythology. On the left, Apollo with bow and arrow pursues Daphne who has begun the turn into a laurel tree. On the right, Leda and the swan
- Alternative Title:
- Buck metamorphosed and Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on the first performance of The Englishman returned from Paris, which premiered at Covent Garden Theatre in 1756., Probably published no later than 1760, when Robert Withy began trading on his own from a Cornhill address. His partnership with John Ryall, at the Fleet Street address listed here, is documented by prints and trade cards in the British Museum from the 1750s. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For a probable reissue of this plate, published by C. Sheppard in the 1790s, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,60.14., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 231, no. 15., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Ryall & Robt. Withy, at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777
- Subject (Topic):
- Performances, Actors, British, Clothing & dress, Comedies, Muffs, Dressing tables, Paintings, Supernatural beings, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Buck metamorphos'd, or, Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris [graphic]
8. Conjugal affection from the original picture presented to the city by Aldn. Boydell / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Thew, Robert, 1758-1802, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 September 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.09.29.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A wealthy middle class family gathered in a room, the father standing in the centre, leaning on the back of a chair which his youngest child stands upon, embracing him, a son standing beside pointing to an open book and the mother sitting at left, gazing to right while another daughter beside plays with a kitten, a bird in a cage on table beside; at right an older son looks out anxiously at the ships on river beyond, his coat over his arm.."--British Museum online catalogue and The paintings on the back wall of the room and the statue above the doorway amplify the moral subject of the print
- Description:
- Title from text in lower margin, centered., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Dedication engraved below image, on either side of title: To Their Most Excellent Majesties King George III, & Queen Charlotte, this print is most humbly dedicated by their most dutiful and loyal subject, Jno. Boydell.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Sept. 29, 1799, by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Families, Windows, Paintings, and Pets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Conjugal affection from the original picture presented to the city by Aldn. Boydell / [graphic]
9. Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [28 January 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.01.28.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. It is inscribed 'Tis expected every' and (round her neck) 'will do his duty'. She watches a servant holding a foppish and elderly naval officer, while he flourishes a cudgel. Bellows lie on the ground. The servant had discovered Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, had fetched the object of her affections and compelled him to marry her."--British Museum online catalogue. On the wall is a painting of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
- Alternative Title:
- Miraculous recovery of the unfortunate Miss Baily
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Later printing, not before 1812., Possibly also the work of Isaac's son George., One line of text immediately below title: A ballad by W.J. Donne., Five numbered stanzas of verse arranged in two columns in lower portion of print: A lady fair in deep despair, who pleas'd the beaux in singing, From off the tester of her bed, one morning she was singing..., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls, plate numbered: 456., and Watermark: [Turke]y Mill 1812?
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1807 by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily [graphic]
