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1. A fair-lawn view, or, The Portsmouth journey [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [January 1823]
Call Number:: 823.01.00.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Portsmouth journey
Description:: Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., Three lines of verse after title: He that is robb'd not wanting ..., Temporary local subject terms: Portsmouth, Mary Anne, (Hanson), Countess of (afterwards Mrs. Alder), fl. 1823 -- Whips., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Manuscript "262" above the center of the plate.
Publisher:: Pubd. Jany. 1823 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Alder, Daniel, fl. 1823-1824. and Portsmouth, John Charles Wallop, Earl of, 1767-1853.
Subject (Topic):: Bedrooms, Physicians, and Sleepwear
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A fair-lawn view, or, The Portsmouth journey [graphic].

2. A friendly hint [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1828]
Call Number:: 828.00.00.65
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A rotund doctor, holding a cane under his arm and wearing a wig, looks at his watch as he takes the pulse of very thin man in a dressing gown and night cap who jumps on one leg and wears a look of pain on his face. Above the doctor's head: "You are bespoke!!"
Description:: Title from caption below image., Date from ms. notation below image., 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:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Topic):: Physicians and Sleepwear
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A friendly hint [graphic].

3. A nice place in cold weather [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1830?]
Call Number:: 830.00.00.82
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "See BM Satires No. 16435. A pretty girl, perhaps the subject of BM Satires No. 16435, lies in a bed drawn close to a fire, indicated by corner of chimney-piece, fender, and guard (left). She is framed in drawn-back curtains, lit by firelight, and is wrapped in a tufted white counterpane from under which one swathed foot extends towards the fire. Her face is framed in nightcap and curl-papers. A cupid-candlestick supports an extinguished candle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Pl. 2., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):: Bedrooms, Canopy beds, and Sleepwear
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A nice place in cold weather [graphic]

4. A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [art original].

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:: [ca. July 1801]
Call Number:: Drawings N736 no. 7 Box D205
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with such force that it lifts the cat off the ground and bends the candle. Above the fireplace is a broadside entitled: The storm by Mr. Dodd, cease rude boreas balstering railes ... On the table below the window (left) is a bowl labeled "Pease porridge" and a wig on a stand. On the ground at her feet lies a corset, shoes and other garments. Above the bed are boxed and breeches; a man's coat is hung on the back of the chair to the right of the hearth
Description:: Title from note in artist's hand above image., Artist name from dealer's description., Study (or copy) for a print of the same title that was published July 1801 by W. Holland. Not reversed., and John Nixon (ca. 1750 - 1818), city merchant and amateur watercolourist (topography) and designer and maker of satirical prints; honorary exhibitor in RA between 1781 and 1815.
Subject (Topic):: Bed, Boxes, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Cats, Corsets, Couples, Fireplaces, Flatulence, Single women, and Sleepwear
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [art original].

5. A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [graphic].

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:: July 1801.
Call Number:: 801.07.00.05+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with such force that it lifts the cat off the ground and bends the candle. Above the fireplace is a broadside entitled: The storm by Mr. Dodd, cease rude boreas balstering railes ... On the table below the window (left) is a bowl labeled "Pease porridge" and a wig on a stand. On the ground at her feet lies a corset, shoes and other garments. Above the bed are boxed and breeches; a man's coat is hung on the back of the chair to the right of the hearth
Description:: Title etched above image., Artist attribution from dealer's description., and Study for a print of the same title that was published July 1801 by W. Holland.
Publisher:: Pub'd by Wm. Holland, Oxford street
Subject (Topic):: Bed, Boxes, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Cats, Corsets, Couples, Fireplaces, Flatulence, Single women, and Sleepwear
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [graphic].

6. A sprite curse thee I'll soon spoil thy capering [graphic]

Creator:: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 October 1792]
Call Number:: 792.10.01.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A man wearing in a nightcap leans out a window from the upper story of his cottage and aims a blunderbuss at a ghostly sprite who dances in the yard outside his front door. The man's face is contorted with anger and concentration as he points his gun
Description:: Title etched below image., 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:: Pub. Octr. 1, 1792, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):: Anger, Dance, Ghosts, Guns, and Sleepwear
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A sprite curse thee I'll soon spoil thy capering [graphic]

7. A subscriber to The penny magazine [and 28 other designs] / [graphic]

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer
Published / Created:: [1834]
Call Number:: 834.00.00.24+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title devised by cataloger based on caption below image in center of sheet., Date of publication from unaltered impression in the Yale Center for British Art., Text following imprint: Also sold by T. Dewhurst, Manchester; T. Drake, Birmingham; R. Thorley, Bath; M.A. Organ, Bristol; Ross & Nightingale, Liverpool; &c &c &c., Numerous small designs on one sheet, some individually titled below., and Description based on imperfect impression; three areas of text below series title have been mostly or completely erased from sheet.
Publisher:: Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Squr
Subject (Topic):: Umbrellas, Boats, Headdresses, Carriages & coaches, Skeletons, Dogs, Peg legs, Amputees, Military uniforms, Rifles, Mirrors, Deer, Sleepwear, Turbans, Monuments & memorials, Birds of prey, Devil, Cats, and Carts & wagons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A subscriber to The penny magazine [and 28 other designs] / [graphic]

8. A very warm effect [graphic]

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, artist
Published / Created:: 1824.
Call Number:: 824.00.00.49 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A couple stand in their nightclothes in horror as they look on their bed which is in flames. An overturned table with a lit candle appears to be the cause of the fire, the other contents, a book, a rosary, a watch and chain, and spectacles are also on the floor. To the right is a dressing table with a mirror, scissors and comb; above, hangs a framed painting
Description:: Title and series title from caption below image., "Pl. 9"--Upper right corner., Ninth plate in a series of 12 prints., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 19 x 30 cm.
Publisher:: Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):: Bedrooms, Couples, Fires, and Sleepwear
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A very warm effect [graphic]

9. An amusing state of uncertainty, peace or war!! [graphic].

Published / Created:: [20 June 1791]
Call Number:: 791.06.20.04+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Fox hides under a four-poster bed hung with curtains, his hand resting on his chin with a speech balloon above his head: "They'll do nothing at last!" A bare-breasted woman [Catherine II of Russia] wearing a nightdress, a crown on her head, and pearls at her throat, holds a dagger in her hand as she addresses Pitt who stands before her: "Which you please, young man. If your instrument entered it would make no impression that I'd care a fig for." Pitt also in a nightdress and holding a dagger, asks, "Shall we or shall we not?"
Description:: Title etched below image., Possibly by Richard Newton. See The Lewis Walpole Library card catalog., The female figure was formerly mis-identified as Britannia (?). For correct identification of Catherine the Great see: Dawson, R. Catherine the Great and the Culture of Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century, page 160., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. For copy after George Moutard Woodward published 15 June 1791, see British Museum Registration number: 1948,0214.468., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis and countermark I V.
Publisher:: Pubd. June 20, 1791, by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Bedrooms, Daggers & swords, Canopy beds, and Sleepwear
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An amusing state of uncertainty, peace or war!! [graphic].

10. Apparatus to undress & cover up when sleepy [graphic].

Published / Created:: Jan. 1, 1830.
Call Number:: 830.01.01.07
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A sleeping man on his back in a bed, is attached to a machine that is undressing him, pulling his pants off and his arms out of his sleeves, as other parts of the machine prepare to pull his nightcap and sleeping shirt over his head
Alternative Title:: Apparatus to undress and cover up when sleepy
Description:: Ttitle etched below image., Series title etched above 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 Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:: Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by J. Netherclift
Subject (Topic):: Automation, Beds, Machinery, Sleepwear, and Undressing
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Apparatus to undress & cover up when sleepy [graphic].