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1. A mid- on half pay Tower Hill. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1827.
- Call Number:
- 827.00.00.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A midshipman, no longer young, in shirtsleeves, sits on a padlocked chest blacking a boot. He looks straight before him with a tragic expression. He wears his regulation top-hat, blue trousers, neatly patched, and waistcoat over a white shirt, and sits on the midshipman's coat which he has taken off. On the ground at his feet are a tray for blacking-brushes, a pot labelled Warrens Blacking 30 Strand, a broken dirk, top-boots, and shoes. Behind are houses on Tower Hill, with the moat. Behind (left) is an alehouse, with a pair of trousers hanging as a sign from a projecting flagstaff. Inset in the title is a group of sextant, telescope, a book: . . . ton More, &c, below the pawnbroker's sign of three balls."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Midshipman on half pay
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from text on earlier state: Engd. & pubd. ... by C. Hunt ..., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of a print published 1 June 1825 by Charles Hunt. Cf. No. 14921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Geographic):
- Tower Hill (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, Sailors, British, Military officers, Boots, Brooms & brushes, Shoe shining, and Shoe polishes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A mid- on half pay Tower Hill. [graphic]
2. A mid- on half pay Tower Hill. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1827. and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 66. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A midshipman, no longer young, in shirtsleeves, sits on a padlocked chest blacking a boot. He looks straight before him with a tragic expression. He wears his regulation top-hat, blue trousers, neatly patched, and waistcoat over a white shirt, and sits on the midshipman's coat which he has taken off. On the ground at his feet are a tray for blacking-brushes, a pot labelled Warrens Blacking 30 Strand, a broken dirk, top-boots, and shoes. Behind are houses on Tower Hill, with the moat. Behind (left) is an alehouse, with a pair of trousers hanging as a sign from a projecting flagstaff. Inset in the title is a group of sextant, telescope, a book: . . . ton More, &c, below the pawnbroker's sign of three balls."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Midshipman on half pay
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from text on earlier state: Engd. & pubd. ... by C. Hunt ..., Restrike, bearing the imprint of the 1827 reissue by Thomas McLean. For original issue of the plate, published 1 June 1825 by Charles Hunt, see no. 14921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 66 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Tower Hill (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, Sailors, British, Military officers, Boots, Brooms & brushes, Shoe shining, and Shoe polishes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A mid- on half pay Tower Hill. [graphic]
3. A shining character humbly dedicated to polished society / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, July 1804.
- Call Number:
- 804.07.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Initial portion of printseller's line barely decipherable.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified and Sold at 168 Aldergate Street & by J.M. Flindall book and printseller, 51 Lower Marsh, Lambeth Surry
- Subject (Topic):
- Peddlers and Shoe polishes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A shining character humbly dedicated to polished society / [graphic]
4. Boot polishers [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1801]
- Call Number:
- 801.05.01.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Publ'd. May 1st, 1801, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Boots, Clothing & dress, and Shoe polishes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Boot polishers [graphic].
