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1. A farmer's philosophy in death [graphic]

Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1809?]
Call Number:: Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
Collection Title:: V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The farmer, looking up, with folded hands, sits full face in an upright arm-chair. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap, and appears fairly robust. The lawyer stands at his right hand, eagerly bending forward to write 'The last Will and Testament of, . .'; behind him (left) is the elder son, a gaping shock-headed youth in a smock. Behind the right arm of the chair is the doctor, sucking his cane disconsolately. On his left hand are the parson, with a grog-blossom nose, holding an open book, the weeping wife, plainly dressed in cap and apron, with a little girl holding a handkerchief to her face, and a smaller boy, yelling. The farmer says: "I bequeath my House and Lands to my eldest Son Dick- the rest of my property to my Wife and younger Children. I leave Six and eightpence to the Lawyer- all his gallipots and phials to the Doctor and half a years tithes to the Parson- Therefore March off Doctor! Write Lawyer! Pray parson cry Wife! and bellow Children! For it is all over with me"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "299" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "One shilling colour'd.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 16 in volume 4.
Publisher:: Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):: Clergy, Farmers, Lawyers, Physicians, and Wills
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A farmer's philosophy in death [graphic]

2. A farmer's philosophy in death [graphic]

Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1809?]
Call Number:: Bunbury 809.00.00.03+ Impression 1
Collection Title:: V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The farmer, looking up, with folded hands, sits full face in an upright arm-chair. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap, and appears fairly robust. The lawyer stands at his right hand, eagerly bending forward to write 'The last Will and Testament of, . .'; behind him (left) is the elder son, a gaping shock-headed youth in a smock. Behind the right arm of the chair is the doctor, sucking his cane disconsolately. On his left hand are the parson, with a grog-blossom nose, holding an open book, the weeping wife, plainly dressed in cap and apron, with a little girl holding a handkerchief to her face, and a smaller boy, yelling. The farmer says: "I bequeath my House and Lands to my eldest Son Dick- the rest of my property to my Wife and younger Children. I leave Six and eightpence to the Lawyer- all his gallipots and phials to the Doctor and half a years tithes to the Parson- Therefore March off Doctor! Write Lawyer! Pray parson cry Wife! and bellow Children! For it is all over with me"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "299" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "One shilling colour'd.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and Imperfect; "sc." following the name "Bunbury" in lower right corner has been mostly erased from sheet.
Publisher:: Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):: Clergy, Farmers, Lawyers, Physicians, and Wills
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A farmer's philosophy in death [graphic]

3. A farmer's philosophy in death [graphic]

Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1809?]
Call Number:: Print00008
Collection Title:: V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The farmer, looking up, with folded hands, sits full face in an upright arm-chair. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap, and appears fairly robust. The lawyer stands at his right hand, eagerly bending forward to write 'The last Will and Testament of, . .'; behind him (left) is the elder son, a gaping shock-headed youth in a smock. Behind the right arm of the chair is the doctor, sucking his cane disconsolately. On his left hand are the parson, with a grog-blossom nose, holding an open book, the weeping wife, plainly dressed in cap and apron, with a little girl holding a handkerchief to her face, and a smaller boy, yelling. The farmer says: "I bequeath my House and Lands to my eldest Son Dick- the rest of my property to my Wife and younger Children. I leave Six and eightpence to the Lawyer- all his gallipots and phials to the Doctor and half a years tithes to the Parson- Therefore March off Doctor! Write Lawyer! Pray parson cry Wife! and bellow Children! For it is all over with me"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "299" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "One shilling colour'd.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.0 x 34.5 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):: Clergy, Farmers, Lawyers, Physicians, and Wills
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A farmer's philosophy in death [graphic]

4. A visit to the uncle [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [20 Decemeber 1794]
Call Number:: Print00204
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Uncle, who is a sufferer from gout, is evidently a well-to-do personage; and the attentions of his relatives, who are favouring the sufferer with a visit of condolence, are, it appears, suggested by self-interest. One of the highly considerate relations seems good-naturedly assisting the invalid by making his will, while a pretty young damsel is embarrassing their interesting connection with a tender embrace, and altogether the members of the party are evidently set upon promoting their own prospects with a view to a division of the estate."--Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate first published by E. Jackson in 1786; see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 192., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Pub. Decemr. 20, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):: Gout, Family members, Sick persons, Wills, and Servants
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A visit to the uncle [graphic]

5. Commonplace book of political and military material, circa 1629-1632

Creator:: Holles, John, Earl of Clare, ca. 1565-1637
Call Number:: Osborn b32
Image Count:: 357
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 85 copies of primarily political documents pertaining to events between 1592 and 1632. The volume includes speeches and letters relating to the murder of Thomas Overbury and the trial of Walter Raleigh; a description of voyage to France to aid the Huguenot cause in 1626-7 and seige of La Rochelle; a factual account, with figures, of fighting in Thirty Years' War; "The examinations of the counterfett ghost that came into St James on fryday night the 13 of 9br 1612, beeing that day sennight after Prince Harries death," whose testimony was taken by Sir Thomas Chaloner and Sir John Holles; and the confession of Anne Lady Ross to the Star Chamber declaring that she had perjured herself by "accusing the said Right Honorable Countess of Exeter with an intent & purpose to poison" her. The volume also contains a copy of the will of Holles' father, Thomas Holles of Haughton, dated 17 March 1592 and "written in his owne hand"; and "A prayer wch my deere sister Wentworth did use, coppied from her owne hand, wch I had of my mother 24th Jan. 1631."
Description:: In English, French, and Italian., Arms of the 4th Duke of Newcastle stamped in gold on front cover., and Binding: full parchment. Printed on spine: "Copies of State Papers Etc. 1592 - 1632.
Subject (Geographic):: England., France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Name):: Chaloner, Thomas, 1595-1661., Holles, John, Earl of Clare, ca. 1565-1637., Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613., and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
Subject (Topic):: Huguenots, History, Nobility, Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, Treason, Trials, Wills, Foreign relations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book of political and military material, circa 1629-1632

6. De miseriis curialium

Creator:: Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464
Published / Created:: 22 April 1464.
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 670
Image Count:: 52
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper of 1) Will of Guglielmo di Montiglio, councillor of Guglielmo X (VIII) Palaeologus, Margrave of Montferrato, 1464-1483, dated Casale Montferrato, 8 Febr. 1469. 2) Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (afterwards Pope Pius II, 1458-1464), De miseriis curialium, a letter addressed to the German courtier Iohannes von Eich, written 1444
Description:: In Latin., Watermark: flower (?)., Art. 1 is copied in a rapid Humanistica Cursiva Libraria. Art. 2, by another hand, is in Humanistica Textualis Formata., Art. 1 is undecorated. Art. 2 opens with a 3-line plain initial in red and blue, followed by a line in Capitals. In the lower margin of f. 5r a coat of arms gules, with a head (?) azure and a heart-shield gold. Initial and coat of arms, of mediocre execution, are by the same hand., and Binding: Nineteenth century. De luxe binding by Chambolle-Duru. Brown morocco over pasteboard, the turn-ins gold-tooled; marbled endpapers. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription: "AENEAS / SYLVIUS / DE / MISERIIS / CURIALIUM". Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.
Subject (Topic):: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Letters, Papal, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Wills
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De miseriis curialium

7. Mortification [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1822]
Call Number:: 822.00.00.06
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from caption below image., One line of text above image: A legacy forgotten., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Legacy -- Mourning -- Grief -- Wall map: Cape of Good Hope., and Watermark.
Publisher:: Pubd. 1822 by J. Johnston, 98 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):: Eating & drinking, Lawyers, Parlors, and Wills
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mortification [graphic].

8. Notice to quit, or, A will of her own [graphic].

Published / Created:: Novr. 1, 1808.
Call Number:: Print10025
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A copy of a Rowlandson watercolour, see British Museum Satires No. 11111. A dying and aged man reclines in an arm-chair, facing his lawyer who is writing at a table, evidently on the will; beside him is a treasure-chest. A pretty young woman leans over the scarcely conscious man, taking his chin, while her lover, a young military officer wearing a cocked hat, watches her through an eye-glass from behind the curtains of a bed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Will of her own
Description:: Title etched below image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Bonaparte, Napoleon (1761-1821) -- Jaffa., and Probably a later impression from a worn plate, with some areas of aquatint lightly printed.
Publisher:: Published by Reeve & Jones, No. 7 Vere Strt
Subject (Topic):: Lawyers, Wills, and Adultery
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Notice to quit, or, A will of her own [graphic].

9. Notice to quit, or, A will of her own [graphic].

Published / Created:: Novr. 1, 1808.
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A copy of a Rowlandson watercolour, see British Museum Satires No. 11111. A dying and aged man reclines in an arm-chair, facing his lawyer who is writing at a table, evidently on the will; beside him is a treasure-chest. A pretty young woman leans over the scarcely conscious man, taking his chin, while her lover, a young military officer wearing a cocked hat, watches her through an eye-glass from behind the curtains of a bed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Will of her own
Description:: Title etched below image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Bonaparte, Napoleon (1761-1821) -- Jaffa., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 34.8 x 28.5 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and Mounted on leaf 19 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Published by Reeve & Jones, No. 7 Vere Strt
Subject (Topic):: Lawyers, Wills, and Adultery
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Notice to quit, or, A will of her own [graphic].