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11.
Master Dogberry the parish watchman [graphic]

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840
Published / Created:
[12 June 1829]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H438 829
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Lord Eldon, dressed as a watchman, but with his own shoes and stockings, stands in profile to the right, stooping forward. In his right hand is a bludgeon, in the left he holds out a much-battered lantern, the candle broken and extinguished. His rattle hangs from his shoulders. Above: '"Mary, Sir, they have committed false report--moreover they have spoken unthruths'. Secondarily they are slanders, sixth and lastly, they have belied the Constitution [orig. "a lady"] thirdly they have verified unjust things: and to conclude they are--Lying Knaves--vide much ado about nothing--'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title etched above image., Paul Pry is the pseudonym of William Heath., and Not in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. Jun 12th 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of P. Pry caricatures - none are original without McLeans name
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
Subject (Topic):
Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Master Dogberry the parish watchman [graphic]

12.
Peeling a Charley [graphic]

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 September 1829]
Call Number:
829.09.29.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Peel kicks a lean old watchman behind, and drags from his shoulders his patched and tattered coat. Just behind him (right) is a big bonfire in which a watch-box and battered lanterns are blazing; beside it lie more lanterns, a rattle, and staves. In the background a watchman hangs by the neck from the branch of a tree, still holding rattle and lantern. Beside the tree is a pond from which projects an arm clutching a rattle. Peel says: '"But such a poor, bare-forked animal as thou art--Off--off you lendings: come unbutton here vide Shaks--' ["Lear", III. iv]. The terrified watchman answers: '"Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live, vide Shaks.' ["Merchant of Venice", IV. i]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Michaelmas Day 1829, or, The last watchman and Last watchman
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of W. Heaths etching., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 29th, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
Police, Watchmen, Bonfires, Drowning victims, Hangings (Executions), Kicking, and Lanterns
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Peeling a Charley [graphic]

13.
[The search night] [graphic].

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1714?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Night scene, a couple interrupted in flagrante by the night watch, she lying on the ground at right with dishevelled clothing, he held back on the left, with his breeches undone; a censorious old woman on the far left; a watchman on the right holding up a lantern, illuminating the pillory behind
Description:
Title and date from Paulson, Questionable attribution to Hogarth, but Paulson is inclined to accept as an early work by Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 245., According to Samuel Ireland in his Graphic illustrations of Hogarth (v.1 , p. 9-10) Hogarth executed this design when he was under twenty on the lid of a tobacco box for a Captain Johnson., Trimmed sheet., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Original., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of print: Impression from the top of Captain Johnson's tobacco., Ms. note at bottom: Given me by the Right Honble William Windham., and On page 180 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Pillories, Prostitues, Sex, and Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The search night] [graphic].

14.
[The search night] [graphic]

Creator:
Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1794?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Night scene, a couple interrupted in flagrante by the night watch, she lying on the ground at right with dishevelled clothing, he held back on the left, with his breeches undone; a censorious old woman on the far left; a watchman on the right holding up a lantern, illuminating the pillory behind
Description:
Title and date from Paulson, Questionable attribution to Hogarth, but Paulson is inclined to accept as an early work by Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 245., According to Samuel Ireland in his Graphic illustrations of Hogarth (v.1 , p. 9-10) Hogarth executed this design when he was under twenty on the lid of a tobacco box for a Captain Johnson., A copy by Ireland. Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. 1, p. 8., Trimmed sheet., Ms. note I in Steevens's hand in pencil above image: Copy., and On page 180 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Pillories, Prostitues, Sex, and Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The search night] [graphic]

15.
The morning herald [graphic]

Creator:
Lynch, James Henry, -1868, printmaker
Published / Created:
1826.
Call Number:
826.00.00.91+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A nightwatchman in a coat with a cape calls out as he walks down a city street with a lantern and club in his hands; a lamppost is lit on the corner
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark. Mounted with 5 other prints in the series on blue album paper., "Daily paper"--Upper right corner., "Pt. 6"--Upper left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Royle, King Street, Holborn
Subject (Topic):
Watchmen and Lampposts
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The morning herald [graphic]

16.
Samples of sweethearts and wives! [graphic]

Creator:
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
July 23, 1795.
Call Number:
Drawer 795.07.23.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consists of eight panels arranged in two horizontal rows, with lines of text etched in the top portion of each panel. In the upper left, an intoxicated woman in an arm chair, says "May we have in our arms what we love in our hearts. No tax upon gin! Here we go up, up, up, and there we go down, down, down!" The next shows a man prostrate on his back holding a lantern, with words above, "Bless me, is that the sun of the moon I see above there!" On the wall behind him a print with the title "The good woman" etched above the figure of a woman without a head. Third, a bare chested gravedigger looks up from his work in horror as a woman loses control of the pail of water on her head. Above them are the words, "Hollo! Damn your blood you old Faggot, where are you coming to?" The final panel in the top row shows an obese well-dressed woman vomiting, a bottle of "Comfort for the Cholick" in her left hand. The words etched above her head: "Too much of a good thing!". First on the left of the second row: a large, young woman with bare breasts and generally disheveled and quesy look on her face, walks on a cobblestone street; behind her in the distance a man shakes a cleaver in her direction. Above her the words, “I am a little sickish or so, but no matter, I've given Sal her gruel? She drink gin with me! Blast me she could as soon swallow the fat landlady!” The next panel shows a unconscious woman being carried on a man's back. The text above them reads, “She's got her quantum, by jingo, she smells as sweet as a daisy! But no matter, I'll get the blunt in the morning from her old goat of a keeper. 'Upon my conscience and soul he will have a precious bedfellow of her to night! In the third panel, bottom row, an old woman with spectacles bumps into a large rock, causing her to drop her bottle of gin and a bloody nose. Etched above her head are the words, “What's that for you sawcy reascal! Here, Watch! Watch! Watch! Lord a mercy upon me what a blow! My poor head spins like a top!” In the final panel, a military officer escorts a well-dressed young woman along a street as he brandishes a club. Above them is etched, "Stick, close, my dear, Charlotte. Hold up your head, my lily of the valley. I am as sober as a judge. Woman and wine for ever, damn me!”
Description:
Title from caption below images., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799., and Mounted on modern secondary support.
Publisher:
Pub. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
St. Giles in the Fields (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Social conditions, Couples, Gin, Gravedigging, Intoxication, Spouses, and Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Samples of sweethearts and wives! [graphic]

17.
Sensual enjoyments [graphic]

Creator:
Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:
Mar. 22, 1827.
Call Number:
827.03.22.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 26 St. James's St.
Subject (Topic):
Fighting, Watchmen, Donkeys, and Noise pollution
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sensual enjoyments [graphic]

18.
[Groups from Hogarth's "Marriage à la mode". Plate V. E] [graphic].

Creator:
Riepenhausen, Ernst Ludwig, 1765-1840
Published / Created:
[not before 1786]
Call Number:
Hogarth 786.00.00.85 Box 112
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Plate lettered in the top center 'E': Reverse copies of the upper bodies of six figures in the fifth plate of Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode. Each of the figures is numbered: 1. The dying earl; 2. The countess; 3. Silvertongue, escaping through the window; 4. and 5. The watchmen; 6. The head of Solomon, from the tapestry
Description:
Title and from British Museum catalogue., Illustrations to: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Numbered '5' in upper left corner above border.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Couples, Death, Escapes, Homicides, Singers, Marriage, and Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Groups from Hogarth's "Marriage à la mode". Plate V. E] [graphic].

19.
A cake in danger [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 April 1806]
Call Number:
806.04.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A night scene (or early morning) in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in a watchman's box; the aged watchman sleeps, leaning his arms on the half-door. Behind, in shadow, are the houses. Below the title: Careful Observers, studious of the Town, Shun the Misfortunes that disgrace the Clown. Gay's Trivia.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Original imprint statement partially burnished out and scratched through but legible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a description of the original imprint see no. 10646 Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted to 39 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, James St., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):
Pickpockets, Prostitutes, and Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A cake in danger [graphic]

20.
A cake in danger [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 April 1806]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A night scene (or early morning) in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in a watchman's box; the aged watchman sleeps, leaning his arms on the half-door. Behind, in shadow, are the houses. Below the title: Careful Observers, studious of the Town, Shun the Misfortunes that disgrace the Clown. Gay's Trivia.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Original imprint statement partially burnished out and scratched through but legible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a description of the original imprint see no. 10646 Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 33.8 x 24.1 cm., Bottom left corner of sheet missing., and Mounted on leaf 35 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, James St., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):
Pickpockets, Prostitutes, and Watchmen
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A cake in danger [graphic]

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