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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.
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 be...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
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 ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
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 ...
Description:
Title from note in artist's hand above image.
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 ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
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.
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.
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...
Description:
Title and series title from caption below image.
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 pearl...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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.
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].

11.
Bug breeders in the dog days [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 April 1812]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 12
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly couple kept awake in their double bed by fleas."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):
Bedbugs, Bedrooms, Beds, Spouses, Marriage, Fans (Accessories), and Sleepwear
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bug breeders in the dog days [graphic].

12.
Bug breeders in the dog days [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 April 1806]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly couple kept awake in their double bed by fleas."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):
Bedbugs, Bedrooms, Beds, Couples, Fans (Accessories), and Sleepwear
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bug breeders in the dog days [graphic].

13.
Bug breeders in the dog days [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 April 1812]
Call Number:
Print00188
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly couple kept awake in their double bed by fleas."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):
Bedbugs, Bedrooms, Beds, Spouses, Marriage, Fans (Accessories), and Sleepwear
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Bug breeders in the dog days [graphic].

14.
Conduite courageuse de Mr. Pigeon [graphic]

Creator:
Godissart de Cari, 1774-1848, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1816 or 1817?]
Call Number:
816.00.00.80
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man and woman in their pajamas and slippers stand looking in fright at the closed door of their bedroom. He wears a night cap and stands with a weapon in each hand, pointed at the door; his figure casts a large shadow on the back wall and over the ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet Libre., rue du Coq, no. 15
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Candlesticks, Chamber pots, Couples, Daggers & swords, Families, Fear, Mice, and Sleepwear
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Conduite courageuse de Mr. Pigeon [graphic]

15.
Frontispiece to the "musical book's" [graphic]

Creator:
Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
1835.
Call Number:
835.00.00.208
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of thirty-one small images, all of them individually titled, showing satirical scenes commenting on British social and political issues, many with visual puns, and depictions of stereotypes, both ethnic and social: dustman, Hottentot...
Description:
Title from text at top of design.
Publisher:
Joseph Thomas, No. 1 Finch Lane, Cornhill and Printed by S. Straker, George Yd., Lombard St.
Subject (Topic):
Sleepwear, Courtship, Eating & drinking, Dance, Head-carrying, Indigenous peoples, Chimney sweeps, Military uniforms, Fireplaces, Debt, Bells, Singing, Bishops, Swine, Intoxication, Cats, Devil, Pitchforks, Rifles, and Donkeys
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece to the "musical book's" [graphic]

17.
La pipe matinale. [graphic]

Creator:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1841]
Call Number:
Print00950
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Se vend, Bauger & Cie. Editeurs des Dessins de la Caricature, du Figaro et du Charivari, Rue du Croissant, 16 and Imp. d'Aubert & Cie
Subject (Topic):
Tobacco smoke pollution, Smoking, Pipe smoking, Sleepwear, Pipes (Smoking)., and Beds
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > La pipe matinale. [graphic]

18.
Lodging at a M'Queen's [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:
[20 June 1786]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In a squalid room Johnson and Boswell lie in two short truckle beds. Boswell (right) is in the foreground, his face contorted with horror, his hands before his mouth as if to stifle a scream, his bare feet drawn up, but projecting over the end of his...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 20 June 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary bone [sic] Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Atttics, Bedroooms, Nightmares, Sleepwear, and Spiders
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lodging at a M'Queen's [graphic].

19.
Lodging at a M'Queen's [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:
[20 June 1786]
Call Number:
786.06.20.02.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In a squalid room Johnson and Boswell lie in two short truckle beds. Boswell (right) is in the foreground, his face contorted with horror, his hands before his mouth as if to stifle a scream, his bare feet drawn up, but projecting over the end of his...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 20 June 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary bone [sic] Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Atttics, Bedroooms, Nightmares, Sleepwear, and Spiders
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lodging at a M'Queen's [graphic].

20.
Looking at the comet till you get a criek in the neck [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 September 1811?]
Call Number:
811.09.20.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An ugly old man wearing night-cap, dressing-gown, and slippers stands at an open window gazing up through a spy-glass at a comet shaped like a large shuttle-cock. Keys hang from his waist. Behind him (left) sits a pretty young woman, turning her head...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Comets, and Sleepwear
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Looking at the comet till you get a criek in the neck [graphic]

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