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1. Chacun a son gout (careless attention) / [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:: [20th century?]
Call Number:: Print00586
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An obese gouty man in trouble, while his attendants cavort. The man's kettle boils over scalding his gouty foot and startling the cat, in his alarm he knocks over the table and snaps the bell-rope; the couple cavorting in the doorway are oblivious to his strife
Alternative Title:: Careless attention
Description:: Titles in French and English below image., According to Nicholas J.S. Knowles, this is a 20th century reproduction of a drawing by Rowlandson. For an etching after the same drawing, published in 1789, see The Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.327. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 256., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):: Gout, Obesity, Home accidents, Household employees, House furnishings, Fireplaces, Kettles, Cats, Servants, Women domestics, and Lust
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Chacun a son gout (careless attention) / [graphic]

2. Miseries of travelling [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 82. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Print of a pair of travellers who struggle with slippers during their stay at an inn. One man is helped as he removes his boots with the aid of a boot jack. Another traveller falls backwards from the stairs as his well-used and oversized slippers fall from his feet. A maid carrying a candle and with a bed pan, waits for the men. A well furnished room marked 'Travellers Room' in the background."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Miseries of traveling and At an inn, after pulling off your boots, the option of going barefoot the rest of the evening ...
Description:: Title etched below image., Five lines of descriptive text below title: At an inn, after pulling off your boots, the option of going barefoot the rest of the evening or expatiating in a pair of boundless slippers ..., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published in 1807, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810672., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 82 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):: Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Slippers, Boots, Stairways, Falling, Accidents, Women domestics, Candles, and Bedpans
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of travelling [graphic]

3. Miseries of human life [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 53. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A bedroom scene. A plump lady sits in a chair, making gestures of pain with hands and legs, while a hairdresser combs her back hair, and a negress combs a tress pulled forward over the face. Behind (left) another hairdresser combs the tousled hair of a lean man, who registers anguish."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Struggling through the curse of trying to disentangle your hair ...
Description:: Title etched below image., Text below title: Struggling through the curse of trying to disentangle your hair when by poking curiously about on board of ship, it has become clammed and matted with pitch or tar far beyond all the powers of the comb., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 10820 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 120., and On leaf 53 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):: Blacks, Bedrooms, Hairdressing, Servants, and Women domestics
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of human life [graphic]

4. Killing no murder [graphic]

Creator:: Hunt, George, active 1824-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1825. and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 47. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image., Restrike. For a brief mention of the original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1209.76-111., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Four lines of dialogue below title: My dear friend! I lament your death exceedingly! ..., and On leaf 47 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):: Dandies, British, Women domestics, Mops & mopsticks, Pails, and Cats
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Killing no murder [graphic]

5. A queer subject [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1843?]
Call Number:: 843.00.00.45
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A woman stands before a mirror in her petticoat with her maid behind her holding her dress. Caption below image: Well I declare Betty I'm getting rather too much en bon points, don't you think so? Why yes miss I think you are getting too much bone points!
Description:: Title from text above image. and Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Publisher:: W. Spooner, 377 Strand
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Mirrors, Women, and Women domestics
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A queer subject [graphic].

6. La femme de ménage "Ainsi nommée par anti-phrase ..." / [graphic]

Creator:: Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879, printmaker
Published / Created:: [20 December 1840] and [1840]
Call Number:: Print00412
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Place of publication derived from street address., In image: h.D., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Silhouettes. No. 4., Published in Le Charivari, 20 December 1840., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:: Chez Bauger Rue du Croissant 16 and Imp. d'Aubert & Cie
Subject (Topic):: Alcoholic beverages, Housekeeping, Eating & drinking, Women domestics, and Dusting
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > La femme de ménage "Ainsi nommée par anti-phrase ..." / [graphic]

7. The old bachelor's thermometer. The old maid's thermometer [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1809 and 1839]
Call Number:: Print10068
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print with an image at the top and two columns of letterpress below: A middle-aged man in a robe sits in an upholstered armchair, his gouty foot resting on a footstool, and a pained look on his face; medicine and a bowl on the table beside his chair (left) and a crutch rests against a second stool (right). He reaches toward a younger woman in a cap and apron who is looking down and away from him. On the left is bed with curtains and on the wall, a framed picture of Cupid shooting an arrow. The letterpress text below, in two columns, provides a timeline for a man's life, starting at the age of 16 listed at the beginning of each line, tells the humorous tale of the consequences of a man putting off marriage for prideful reasons from age "16 - incipient palpitations towards the young ladies", through the ages of "29 - rails against the fair sex", "37 - indulge in every kind of dissipation", and "48 - thinks living alone quite irksome ...". Eventually, he resolves to have a prudent young woman as housekeeper and companion, gradually feeling some attachment to her and becoming completely under her influence. At age 60, as he begins to feel ill, and "grows rapidly worse, has his will made in her favour, and makes an exit."
Description:: Title from text below image., Date based on publishers' known dates of activity at this address: Samuel & Joseph Fuller are listed in the London Directories from 1809 to 1839 at this address., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Spinsters.
Publisher:: Published by S. and J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone-Place and Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand
Subject (Topic):: Bachelors, Life cycle, Human, Gout, Single women, Women domestics, Canopy beds, Chairs, Crutches, Cupids, Servants, Medicines, Cats, and Dogs
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The old bachelor's thermometer. The old maid's thermometer [graphic].

8. The old bachelor's thermometer. The old maid's thermometer [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1809 and 1839]
Call Number:: 809.00.00.64
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print with an image at the top and two columns of letterpress below: A middle-aged man in a robe sits in an upholstered armchair, his gouty foot resting on a footstool, and a pained look on his face; medicine and a bowl on the table beside his chair (left) and a crutch rests against a second stool (right). He reaches toward a younger woman in a cap and apron who is looking down and away from him. On the left is bed with curtains and on the wall, a framed picture of Cupid shooting an arrow. The letterpress text below, in two columns, provides a timeline for a man's life, starting at the age of 16 listed at the beginning of each line, tells the humorous tale of the consequences of a man putting off marriage for prideful reasons from age "16 - incipient palpitations towards the young ladies", through the ages of "29 - rails against the fair sex", "37 - indulge in every kind of dissipation", and "48 - thinks living alone quite irksome ...". Eventually, he resolves to have a prudent young woman as housekeeper and companion, gradually feeling some attachment to her and becoming completely under her influence. At age 60, as he begins to feel ill, and "grows rapidly worse, has his will made in her favour, and makes an exit."
Description:: Title from text below image., Date based on publishers' known dates of activity at this address: Samuel & Joseph Fuller are listed in the London Directories from 1809 to 1839 at this address., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Spinsters., 1 print : lithograph with letterpress ; sheet 27.8 x 16.8 cm., and Imperfect. Lacking Old maid's thermometer portion.
Publisher:: Published by S. and J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone-Place and Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand
Subject (Topic):: Bachelors, Life cycle, Human, Gout, Single women, Women domestics, Canopy beds, Chairs, Crutches, Cupids, Servants, Medicines, Cats, and Dogs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The old bachelor's thermometer. The old maid's thermometer [graphic].

9. Returned from the ball [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1829]
Call Number:: 829.00.00.118+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Young woman dressed in her ballgown half-reclines on a settee in her bedroom while her elderly maid yawns with tiredness."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A figure of Paul Pry., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1995,0930.40., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermarked paper: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:: Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):: Ball dresses, Bedrooms, Couches, Yawning, Candles, Dogs, and Women domestics
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Returned from the ball [graphic]

10. Smelling a rat [graphic]

Creator:: Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:: Aug. 18, 1829.
Call Number:: 829.08.18.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A farmer, wearing his hat, John Bullish and intimidating, hand resting on a cudgel, stands in a plainly furnished room staring fixedly at a closed door, at which a dog is sniffing. A plumed cocked hat, sword, and boots, just outside the door, tell their story. He says to a terrified maidservant who holds a lighted candle: 'Hulloa Girl! what the devil's all this?--Bring the light this way.--Where's your Mistress?--'. She answers: '--Why, Sir, She--she--she--sh--e--e--e--e--e--e--'. Above the hearth are two small pictures: 'Virtue Rewarded' and 'Village Innocence'. A wall clock points to 10.30. Through a casement window is seen a violent zigzag of lightning."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Lines of dialogue below title: Halloa, girl! What the devil's all this? Bring the light this way. Where's your mistress? ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge.
Publisher:: Pub. by E. King, Chancery Lane
Subject (Topic):: Adultery, Dogs, and Women domestics
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Smelling a rat [graphic]