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1.
The anatomist overtaken by the watch [in] carrying off Miss W-ts in a hamper [graphic].

Creator:
Austin, William, 1721-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
pubd. as the act directs May 1, 1773.
Call Number:
773.05.01.08+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lean man (right) wearing a doctor's tie-wig, is running from left to right to escape from a watchman who stands (left) springing his rightattle. On the ground is a basket or hamper, the lid of which has fallen open to show the body of a young woman...
Description:
Title etched above image; the word "in" after "watch" has been mostly burnished from plate.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hunter, William, 1718-1783
Subject (Topic):
Grave robbing, Anatomists, Lanterns, Watchmen, Staffs (Sticks), Baskets, and Dead persons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The anatomist overtaken by the watch [in] carrying off Miss W-ts in a hamper [graphic].

2.
The anatomist overtaken by the watch [in] carrying off Miss W-ts in a hamper [graphic].

Creator:
Austin, William, 1721-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
pubd. as the act directs May 1, 1773.
Call Number:
Print10064
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lean man (right) wearing a doctor's tie-wig, is running from left to right to escape from a watchman who stands (left) springing his rightattle. On the ground is a basket or hamper, the lid of which has fallen open to show the body of a young woman...
Description:
Title etched above image; the word "in" after "watch" has been mostly burnished from plate.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hunter, William, 1718-1783
Subject (Topic):
Grave robbing, Anatomists, Lanterns, Watchmen, Staffs (Sticks), Baskets, and Dead persons
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The anatomist overtaken by the watch [in] carrying off Miss W-ts in a hamper [graphic].

3.
A copy of verses humbly presented to the Right Worshipful the Mayor, the aldermen, and common

Creator:
Bouch, Thomas
Published / Created:
[1752]
Call Number:
File 763 752 B752++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A copy of verses humbly presented to the Right Worshipful the Mayor, the aldermen, and common-council-men, and the rest of my worthy masters and mistresses dwelling in King's-Lynn

4.
He and his drunken companions raise a riot in Covent Garden [graphic].

Creator:
Bowles, Thomas, -1767, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1735]
Call Number:
Hogarth 735.00.00.19+ Box 200
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Plate from a pirated series of Hogarth's Rake's Progress, not based on one of the original prints: Covent Garden with St Paul's church and the buildings at the north-western corner of the piazza; the Rake (here called Ramble) and drunken friends are ...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
John Bowles
Subject (Geographic):
Covent Garden (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Fighting, Intoxication, Rake's progress, Watchmen, and Women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > He and his drunken companions raise a riot in Covent Garden [graphic].

5.
Watchman [graphic].

Creator:
Busby, T. L. (Thomas Lord), printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1820]
Call Number:
800.00.00.82
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A watchman stands full-length in his great coat and hat, carrying a lantern and a stick
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Samuel Leigh
Subject (Topic):
Occupations and Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Watchman [graphic].

6.
[Coming out of a country theatre] [art original]

Creator:
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, artist
Published / Created:
[1802]
Call Number:
Drawer Drawings B995 no. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A large crowd of theatregoers file out of a theater and onto the street in a pouring rainfall and high winds that turns umbrellas inside out. One man has fallen and broken his lantern as a woman falls back over him as her shoes are being changed. The...
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Drawer 802.11.01.05.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Lanterns, Rain, Theater audiences, Theaters, Umbrellas, Watchmen, and Winds
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Coming out of a country theatre] [art original]

7.
The night constable [graphic]

Creator:
Cooper, Robert, active 1795-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:
[8 September 1785]
Call Number:
785.09.08.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A companion print to British Museum satire no. 6878: The country justice. Inside a watch-house, a burly watchman stands (left) facing an elderly constable who sits frowning in his arm-chair. He holds out a broken lantern and points to a thin, fashiona...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published Sepr. 8th by S.W. Fores at the Caracature [sic] Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Law enforcement, Police, Clerks, Dogs, Fireplaces, Inkstands, Lanterns, Rifles, Soldiers, British, Watchmen, and Writing materials
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The night constable [graphic]

8.
Tom getting the best of a Charley [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[31 August 1820]
Call Number:
820.08.31.03
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Illustration to Pierce Egan's Life in London, page 232. A night scene on the east side of Temple Bar, which frames the Strand and St. Clements in the background, lit by a full moon. Tom (rigjht) overturns a watchman's box from which a poor terrified ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Sherwood & Co.,?
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, City & town life, Prostitutes, and Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tom getting the best of a Charley [graphic]

9.
Mrs. Figs card party disturbed [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 6, 1807.
Call Number:
807.04.06.01.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group playing at cards interrupted by a beadle and watchmen to arrest them for playing past midnight."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Law enforcement, and Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Figs card party disturbed [graphic]

10.
[Westminster frolics] [graphic].

Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1825]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C9 824 no. 12
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in the Abbey Cloisters. Westminster schoolboys in cap and gown terrify a poor woman and a watchman by turnip-headed ghosts, and by one of their number on stilts who is masked and smoking a flaming pipe. Another, seated on a lamp-bracket, disc...
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Fear, Couples, School children, and Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Westminster frolics] [graphic].

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