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1. A bundle of truths sung with great applause by Mr. Henry Johnston in Dublin, Cork, &c &c. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [2 September 1811]
Call Number:: 811.09.00.04
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Heading to (printed) verses 'Sung, with great Applause, by Mr. Henry Johnston, in Dublin, Cork, &c. &c.' A pedlar with a wooden leg stands at a street corner, singing, a bottle of 'Irish Whisky' in his left hand, another bottle in his coat-pocket. His open box is slung from his neck, showing a watch, gloves, scissors, seals, watch-keys, ribbons, &c. On the right is a barber's shop: 'T. Trim Hair . . .' with a (torn) paper-covered lamp (as in No. 7605) inscribed: 'Shave well for Penny cut for 2 . . .' In the room above a tailor holding shears and iron looks from the window; a projecting sign is inscribed 'Sam Shred Taylor'. On the pavement outside are a fat doctor, a man leading an ass with paniers, and shouting his wares, a barrister addressing a burly man with a staff. On the opposite side of the road is a puppet-show in the form of a castle, into which children are peeping. A baker's man walks past with a board on his head on which is a pie. The last of six verses: Taylors cabbage all your cloth, Shins of beef are very tough. Flummery is just like froth Mrs. Clarke is up to snuff. Jolly tars are fond of fun, "God save the king", we'll nobly shout. And now, good folks, my song is done, Nobody knows what 'twas about. Right fol de riddle del, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Below title: Magna est veritas et praevalebit. Truth is great and will prevail., Three columns of verse in letterpress below title begins: Barney Bodkin broke his nose, Want of money makes us sad. Without feet we c'ant have toes, Crazy folks are always mad. A farthing rush-light's very small, Doctors wear large bushy wigs. One that's dumb can never bawl, Pickled pork is made of pigs. ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '521' in upper right corner., and "Cork" in the title altered in ink to "Gork".
Publisher:: Published 2nd Septr., 1811 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Strt., London
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Topic):: Bakers, Barbershops, Peddlers, British, Peg legs, Puppets, and Tailors
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A bundle of truths sung with great applause by Mr. Henry Johnston in Dublin, Cork, &c &c. [graphic]

2. Dancing dolls, or, "Les marionettes à Londrés" [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [15 January 1823]
Call Number:: 823.01.15.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A (?) Savoyard boy playing fife and tabor exhibits his dolls, two puppets on a string stretched between his knee and a stick. A Welsh milk-woman (left), with her pails hanging from a yoke, laughs. Two little girls (right) are amused; the younger makes her doll imitate the puppets. The road is suburban, bordered by the paling of a Nursery, over which leans an amused spectator."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Marionettes à Londrés
Description:: Title from caption below image.
Publisher:: Pubd. Jany. 15, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):: France. and Wales.
Subject (Topic):: Children, Dairy workers, Dolls, and Puppets
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Dancing dolls, or, "Les marionettes à Londrés" [graphic]

3. Going to court he's arrested at St. James's Gate [graphic].

Creator:: Bowles, Thomas, -1767, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1735]
Call Number:: Hogarth 735.00.00.20+ Box 200
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Piracy of plate IV of Hogarth's Rake's Progress with considerable differences: a scene in St James's Street with the Rake (here named Ramble) emerging from a sedan-chair to be arrested for debt; figures in the foreground include a Welshman, probably the creditor, honouring St David's day (March 1st) with a leek in his hat, "Nanny" offering a handful of money to reprieve her former lover, and a lamp-lighter carelessly spilling oil on the Rake's coat; in the distance to left, a group of street-boys point to "Taffy", a mannikin, perched on a lamp-post, and beyond the gate of St James's Palace."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title engraved below image., Printmaker and publisher from the Wellcome Collection online catalogue, Wellcome Library no. 38342i., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse beneath title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Cf. Paulson, R, Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., and Window mounted to 29 x 44 cm.
Publisher:: John Bowles
Subject (Geographic):: Saint James Westminster, London, England : Parish),
Subject (Name):: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):: Dogs, Debt, Ethnic stereotypes, Lampposts, Law enforcement, Puppets, Rake's progress, Sedan chairs, and Street lights
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Going to court he's arrested at St. James's Gate [graphic].

4. Moments of pleasure [graphic].

Creator:: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately November] 1820.
Call Number:: Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 36. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Companion plate to British Museum Satires No. 13988. Seated on a sofa, the Queen, wearing a large feathered hat, receives the news of the dropping of the Bill; beside her is a paper: 'Bill of Pains Thrown out'. Alderman Wood, in a furred gown more elegant than civic, capers before her, holding up his arms, snapping his fingers, and grinning with delight. The Queen looks up at him, with a gesture of surprised satisfaction; she is caricatured, but better characterized than in other prints, resembling the description given by Creevey of her appearance at the trial on 17 August. She sits facing a long scroll on which names of places presenting Addresses are inscribed (see British Museum Satires No. 13934, &c.): 'London' (in large letters), 'Westminster', 'So[uthwark]'. On the wall behind her is a (flattering) bust portrait of Bergami, wearing his decorations (see British Museum Satires No. 13810). In the doorway (left) are the leading members of a body of proletarian addressers; the foremost, with the curved shin-bones known as 'cheesecutters' which resulted from rickets, holds a paper: 'Address to the Queen'; they are received by a thin, sour-looking lady, evidently Lady Anne Hamilton. They have two banners: 'Queer Fellows' and 'St Gi[les]', but among them is the profile of Hobhouse, the radical M.P. for Westminster. Over the wide doorway is a picture or relief of two little puppets on a string: the King and Queen performing antics while the string is pulled by a fiddler and another man, watched by two bystanders. The room (in Brandenburgh House) is ornately furnished; a heavy curtain is draped round a pillar."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Approximate month of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Moments of pain., Mounted on page 36 of: George Humphrey shop album., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.1 x 21 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846, Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869, and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Adultery, Crowds, Draperies, Interiors, Petitions, Puppets, and Rugs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Moments of pleasure [graphic].

5. Moments of pleasure [graphic].

Creator:: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately November] 1820.
Call Number:: 820.11.00.02
Collection Title:: Page 36. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Companion plate to British Museum Satires No. 13988. Seated on a sofa, the Queen, wearing a large feathered hat, receives the news of the dropping of the Bill; beside her is a paper: 'Bill of Pains Thrown out'. Alderman Wood, in a furred gown more elegant than civic, capers before her, holding up his arms, snapping his fingers, and grinning with delight. The Queen looks up at him, with a gesture of surprised satisfaction; she is caricatured, but better characterized than in other prints, resembling the description given by Creevey of her appearance at the trial on 17 August. She sits facing a long scroll on which names of places presenting Addresses are inscribed (see British Museum Satires No. 13934, &c.): 'London' (in large letters), 'Westminster', 'So[uthwark]'. On the wall behind her is a (flattering) bust portrait of Bergami, wearing his decorations (see British Museum Satires No. 13810). In the doorway (left) are the leading members of a body of proletarian addressers; the foremost, with the curved shin-bones known as 'cheesecutters' which resulted from rickets, holds a paper: 'Address to the Queen'; they are received by a thin, sour-looking lady, evidently Lady Anne Hamilton. They have two banners: 'Queer Fellows' and 'St Gi[les]', but among them is the profile of Hobhouse, the radical M.P. for Westminster. Over the wide doorway is a picture or relief of two little puppets on a string: the King and Queen performing antics while the string is pulled by a fiddler and another man, watched by two bystanders. The room (in Brandenburgh House) is ornately furnished; a heavy curtain is draped round a pillar."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Approximate month of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Moments of pain., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846, Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869, and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Adultery, Crowds, Draperies, Interiors, Petitions, Puppets, and Rugs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Moments of pleasure [graphic].

6. Tant va la cruche à l’eau qu’enfin elle se brise [graphic].

Published / Created:: [ca. May 1803]
Call Number:: 803.05.00.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "By the efforts of Pitt, who directs Addington, and of a jester wearing cap and bells, an earthenware jug representing George III is lowered into the sea and fatally damaged by striking a rock inscribed 'Malte'. 'Addington' is a man of straw (his body formed of a bundle of straw), a puppet attached to a pole placarded with his name; Pitt (left) pulls threads attached to the dangling arms and legs, but looks round horrified at the disaster resulting from his machinations. The jester crouches on a rock (right); under his foot is a document: 'Traité d'Amiens' [see British Musueum Satires No. 9852, &c.]; he holds in both hands the rope, lowering the royal pitcher, but the other end of the rope is round Addington's hand and thus is manipulated by Pitt. Malta is a small castellated island with a church and a sharp rock which has gashed the pitcher just where it is decorated with a dog-like lion from whose head a crown falls. The mouth of the pitcher is a profile portrait of George III crowned, and looking down with angry dismay at the fatal rock."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image. and Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:: Chez Martinet, Rue du Coq, Saint Honoré
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):: Fools & jesters, Pitchers, and Puppets
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Tant va la cruche à l’eau qu’enfin elle se brise [graphic].

7. The political toy-man [graphic]

Published / Created:: [July 1825]
Call Number:: 825.07.00.06
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Brougham, in wig and gown, stands in Old Square, Lincolns Inn, the roof of the Hall, which forms a background, being so inscribed; houses are on the right. He carries on his head, which is in profile to the right, a tray, inscribed London College; this supports a neo-Gothic building with pinnacles and a clock-tower; tiny trees and figures in academic dress round the building show the scale. From its four corners rise labels inscribed in large letters, Etymology, Orthography, Prosody, Syntax. He says Who'I buy? very cheap, very free. From one shoulder hangs a brief-bag inscribed Subscriptions; from the other a ribbon supporting a handsomely bound book: List of Share Holders. Round his waist is a hoop which also encircles the waists of five little puppets: a man in archaic court-dress, holding a feathered hat, next a stout lady holding a fan and a large purse (? the Duke of St. Albans (as Falconer) and Mrs. Coutts, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14875), a fashionably dressed man in top-hat and furred and frogged coat, and Lord Eldon holding the mace and the Purse of the Great Seal. On the ground is a toy horse on wheels ridden by a yokel in a smock."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image. and Mounted to: 43 x 30 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. July 1825. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):: Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849, Lincoln's Inn (London, England),, and University College, London.
Subject (Topic):: Plazas, Head-carrying, Building models, Toys, Puppets, Books, Bags, and Ceremonial maces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The political toy-man [graphic]

8. Winding up to a pitch" the automaton scaramouch, or, Harlequin courier's delight [graphic].

Creator:: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:: Feb. 17, 1821.
Call Number:: Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 6. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Bergami, moustachioed, whiskered, and alluring, in a tight-fitting harlequin's suit over which is a short gold-laced jacket, sits on a tall stool, holding up a life-like puppet representing the Queen. He grasps it by the waist, and pulls a ribbon, making arms and legs fly up. She smiles delightedly down at him, her ringlets flying. She wears the décolletée over-dress of British Museum Satires No. 14103, open to show frilled and spotted drawers. Bergami, part courier, part Harlequin, has a heavy queue of hair hanging from his black curls, and wears a peaked cap with a big gold tassel. A heavy postilion's whip projects from his pocket. He is directed to the left, towards an open French window and a vine trellis, with a view of Lake Como (see British Museum Satires No. 13857). He raises his right leg, looking over his left shoulder, away from his puppet. On the floor are the courier's discarded pistol, powder-flask, holster, and saddle; behind his chair are portmanteaus, one inscribed 'B B'. A large book propped against a decanter inscribed 'A Boire' is: 'Hop Step and Jump, or, every man his own Courier. List of Postes on the high road from Dunghill, to Barona' [see British Museum Satires No. 14119]. A partly dropped curtain (right) reveals two figurines embracing below a shelf of books. The carpet is patterned with hearts."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:: Harlequin courier's delight
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Variant state lacking "London" at beginning of imprint statement. Cf. No. 14120 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 6 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):: Harlequin (Fictitious character), Adultery, Fools & jesters, Puppets, and Whips
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Winding up to a pitch" the automaton scaramouch, or, Harlequin courier's delight [graphic].

9. Winding up to a pitch" the automaton scaramouch, or, Harlequin courier's delight [graphic].

Creator:: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:: Feb. 17, 1821.
Call Number:: 821.02.17.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Bergami, moustachioed, whiskered, and alluring, in a tight-fitting harlequin's suit over which is a short gold-laced jacket, sits on a tall stool, holding up a life-like puppet representing the Queen. He grasps it by the waist, and pulls a ribbon, making arms and legs fly up. She smiles delightedly down at him, her ringlets flying. She wears the décolletée over-dress of British Museum Satires No. 14103, open to show frilled and spotted drawers. Bergami, part courier, part Harlequin, has a heavy queue of hair hanging from his black curls, and wears a peaked cap with a big gold tassel. A heavy postilion's whip projects from his pocket. He is directed to the left, towards an open French window and a vine trellis, with a view of Lake Como (see British Museum Satires No. 13857). He raises his right leg, looking over his left shoulder, away from his puppet. On the floor are the courier's discarded pistol, powder-flask, holster, and saddle; behind his chair are portmanteaus, one inscribed 'B B'. A large book propped against a decanter inscribed 'A Boire' is: 'Hop Step and Jump, or, every man his own Courier. List of Postes on the high road from Dunghill, to Barona' [see British Museum Satires No. 14119]. A partly dropped curtain (right) reveals two figurines embracing below a shelf of books. The carpet is patterned with hearts."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Harlequin courier's delight
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: over-dress, drawers -- Wigs: queue -- Postilion whips -- French windows -- Trellises -- Couriers -- Guns: pistols -- Powder flasks -- Holsters -- Saddles -- Portmanteaus -- Male costume: spurs., and Manuscript "1." in upper left corner.
Publisher:: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):: Como, Lake (Italy),
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):: Harlequin (Fictitious character), Adultery, Fools & jesters, Puppets, and Whips
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Winding up to a pitch" the automaton scaramouch, or, Harlequin courier's delight [graphic].