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1.
The dutiful grandson [graphic]

Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1792]
Call Number:
792.03.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design in a circle: An old woman and a little boy sit facing each other in a bare and dilapidated room. She sits in profile to the left, in an upholstered armchair, threading a needle to mend clothes; a shirt lies on her patched apron. He sits with hands folded on a ladderback chair. Between and behind them sits a cat
Description:
Title from time., Sheet trimmed on sides within plate mark., and Two lines of text below image: I wish from my heart - one of us three was hang'd - I don't mean you poor Puss - nor I don't mean myself.'
Publisher:
Published March 1st 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Cats, Chairs, Dwellings, Eyeglasses, Grandparents, Interiors, Poverty, and Sewing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The dutiful grandson [graphic]

2.
Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress [graphic]

Creator:
Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
764.00.00.09+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman sitting directed to left in a wicker-backed chair in a panelled room, wearing a gown with frills at the elbows and a mob-cap, sewing; with a ribbon box and pin cushion on a small table to left; after Heilmann."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Domestic amusement and Fair seamstress
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Date from unverified card catalog., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Companion print to: Domestick amusement. The lovely spinner.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil, and Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Boudoirs, Chairs, Interiors, Sewing, Sewing equipment & supplies, and Young adults
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress [graphic]

3.
The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness [graphic]

Creator:
Ward, William, 1766-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 July 1789]
Call Number:
789.07.01.03++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Poverty-stricken family in bare, attic interior; man seated at left beside table, skinny dog beside him, looking away from woman, standing in centre mending garment, watched by boy lying on floor and resting on stool at right, looking up from his reading; young woman sitting dejectedly with bellows beside fireplace, at right; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Effects of youthful extravagance and idleness
Description:
Title from text below image., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: What misery in a narrow scale confined! The mournful work of one degenerate mind ..., and Companion print to: The fruits of early industry & oeconomy.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1789, by T. Simpson, St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Dogs, Interiors, Families, Poor persons, Poverty, Sewing, and Fireplaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness [graphic]

4.
Workhouse, St. James's Parish [graphic]

Creator:
Sunderland, 19th century, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1809]
Call Number:
Print00842
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and date from item., In margin upper right: Plate 96., From: William Combs, The Microcosm of London, 3 vols., London: R. Ackermann, 1808-1810., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1st, 1809. at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, Workhouses, Poor persons, Sewing, Textiles, and Needlework
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Workhouse, St. James's Parish [graphic]

5.
[Frontispiece to The miseries of human life] [graphic]

Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 June 1806]
Call Number:
806.06.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a drawing room, left, a woman with a very cross expression on her face sits on a settee threading a needle. Before her, a thin man sits on chair staring into the fire, a despairing expression on his face; at his feet are two open books: Much ado about nothing and The art of Tormenting. Behind him, another man rages as he stomps on a glove; the other glove also lies on the floor near-by and fragments of torn paper fly from his hand. The third man, far right, looks at the enraged man, a speech bubble from his mouth reads "Sunt lacrymae rerum!" On the wall are three pictures: Mountain of misery, a classical scene of worshippers outside a temple with Jupiter in the clouds: a whole length picture of Fortitude; and, a whole length picture of Temperance
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd June 1, 1806 by W. Miller, Albemarle Strt
Subject (Name):
Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Sewing, and Anger
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to The miseries of human life] [graphic]

6.
The seamstress [graphic]

Creator:
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1768]
Call Number:
765.00.00.89+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image. and Richard Purcell signed his works, among other names, as Charles Corbutt. See Bénézit's Dictionaire critique et documentaire des peintres, ... v. 11, p. 302.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fireplaces, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The seamstress [graphic]

7.
Our heroines United States Sanitary Commission / [graphic]

Creator:
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1864]
Call Number:
Print10261
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Publisher, date, and place of publication derived from magazine in which it appeared., Published in Harper's Weekly, 9 April 1864., Corner insets are labeled: On the battlefield; In the hospital; At the fair; In the parlor., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospital interiors.
Publisher:
Harper & Brothers
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Topic):
History, Health aspects, Nurses, United States Sanitary Commission, Nuns as nurses, Military medicine, Soldiers, Battlefields, Hospital wards, Sick persons, Families, Fairs, Parlors, and Sewing
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Our heroines United States Sanitary Commission / [graphic]

8.
Dame Andrews : a ballad

Creator:
More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Published / Created:
[1795 or 1796]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Cheap Repository
Description:
Caption title., Anonymous. By Hannah More., This form of imprint was used between May 1795 and January 1796 (Spinney)., Verse begins: Near Lechlade town, in Glostershire ..., This edition has all except the price within a border consisting of intertwined ropes, one of leaf-like ornaments, the other of open ornamental dots; the words "Cheap Repository" interrupt the border in the center at the top; the two columns of text are separated by a vertical double rule., Below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price below the border: Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.---1s. 3d. for 50.---9d. for 25., Above imprint and below text, in italics: Entered at Stationers Hall., Entered in the Stationers' Register to Hannah More, 31 August 1795., The woodcut shows a family sitting by a fire at night in a room with a candle., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3 (no. 35)., Mounted on leaf 26. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, at no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country
Subject (Topic):
Candles, Fireplaces, Sewing, and Reading
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Dame Andrews : a ballad

9.
A common sewer (sower). [graphic]

Creator:
Lisle, Joe, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1828]
Call Number:
826.00.00.05
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from book: Joe Lisle's play upon words, pub by Thomas McLean, 1828., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Thomas McLean
Subject (Topic):
Puns and punning, Tailors, Tailoring, and Sewing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A common sewer (sower). [graphic]

10.
The monastic drone [graphic]

Creator:
Houston, Richard, 1721?-1775, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1754 and 1764]
Call Number:
754.00.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman and a monk sit under two trees while a monk sews or embroiders a piece of fabric with floral motifs. They are being observed by a man hiding behind the trees. In the background on the left is a church
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Two lines of verse on either side of title: Alass! [sic] how vain religion's awful [sic] name. The drone monastic blots it o'er with shame ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Monks, and Sewing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The monastic drone [graphic]

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