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1.
A companion to yae-ough gaping is catching. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[11 February 1800]
Call Number:
800.02.11.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Image shows the profile of a woman in a night cap, looking to the left, yawning with her mouth wide open and exposing her few remaining teeth. On her chin are three moles
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Feby. 11, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Women and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A companion to yae-ough gaping is catching. [graphic]

2.
A family piece [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1811]
Call Number:
Bunbury 811.12.15.03+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A portrait-painter painting a family group of a man and wife and their little boy. The group (right) is raised on a low semicircular platform, the couple sit on a high-backed settee without arms, the little boy on a stool in front of his mother. The ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Artists' materials, Doves, Easels, Families, Group portraits, Obesity, Wigs, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A family piece [graphic]

3.
A long story [graphic]

Published / Created:
[ca. 1809]
Call Number:
Bunbury 801.00.00.20+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A number of men seated round a circular table over the wine manifesting sleepiness or exhaustion in different ways, while an officer in regimentals harangues them on some campaign. He sits over the table, in profile on the right, gesticulating with ou...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Boredom, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Sleeping, Storytelling, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A long story [graphic]

4.
A long story [graphic]

Published / Created:
[25 April 1802]
Call Number:
Bunbury 802.04.25.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A number of men seated round a circular table over the wine manifesting sleepiness or exhaustion in different ways, while an officer in regimentals harangues them on some campaign. He sits over the table, in profile to the right, gesticulating with o...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 25, 1802, by John Harris, No. 3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8 Old Broad Street
Subject (Topic):
Boredom, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Sleeping, Storytelling, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A long story [graphic]

5.
A long story [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 74. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A number of men seated round a circular table over the wine manifesting sleepiness or exhaustion in different ways, while an officer in regimentals harangues them on some campaign. He sits over the table, in profile on the right, gesticulating with ou...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Boredom, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Sleeping, Storytelling, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A long story [graphic]

6.
A long story [graphic]

Published / Created:
[ca. 1802?]
Call Number:
802.04.25.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A number of men seated round a circular table over the wine manifesting sleepiness or exhaustion in different ways, while an officer in regimentals harangues them on some campaign. He sits over the table, in profile to the right, gesticulating with o...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Boredom, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Sleeping, Storytelling, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A long story [graphic]

7.
A long story [graphic]

Published / Created:
[25 April 1782]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 36. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A number of men seated round a circular table over the wine manifesting sleepiness or exhaustion in different ways, while an officer in regimentals harangues them on some campaign. He sits over the table, in profile to the right, gesticulating with o...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. April 25, 1782, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Boredom, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Sleeping, Storytelling, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A long story [graphic]

8.
A long story [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1825]
Call Number:
825.00.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S. Knight, Sweetings Alley
Subject (Topic):
Storytelling, Fireplaces, Military uniforms, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A long story [graphic].

9.
About your business [art original]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, artist
Published / Created:
[1795]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 56 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
An ugly man in old-fashioned dress stands full-face, toes turned in, squinting, and looking downwards. An 'Address' is in his right hand, his left hand is in his breeches pocket; a document inscribed 'Observations' protrudes from his coat-pocket. His ...
Alternative Title:
Deputy Pendulum's motion for an address
Description:
Title from words written around the face of the clock.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of speech, Petition, Right of, Sedition, Politics and government, Clocks & watches, City council members, Hearing aids, Sleeping, Public speaking, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > About your business [art original]

10.
Contrasted Oxonians 1797. The drunken fellow [art original].

Published / Created:
[184-?]
Call Number:
Drawings Un58 no. 39 Box D160
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionably dressed Oxonian in cap and gown staggers along, full-face, yawning violently; his hair is short and dishevelled
Description:
Title from text inscribed in black ink above image.
Subject (Topic):
Intoxication, Yawning, and Scholars
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Contrasted Oxonians 1797. The drunken fellow [art original].

11.
Conversation Anglaise [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1818?]
Call Number:
818.00.00.64
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three very bored-looking Englishmen sit around a table drinking wine, none looking at each other. The obese man in the middle is yawning with an outstretched arm
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Boredom, Eating & drinking, Yawning, and Foreign public opinion, French
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Conversation Anglaise [graphic].

12.
Deputy Pendulum's motion for an address [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 November 1795]
Call Number:
795.11.29.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An ugly man in old-fashioned dress stands full-face, toes turned in, squinting, and looking downwards. An 'Address' is in his right hand, his left hand is in his breeches pocket; a document inscribed 'obervation' [sic] protrudes from his coat-pocket....
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 29, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of speech, Petition, Right of, Sedition, Great Britain, Politics and government, Clocks & watches, City council members, Hearing aids, Sleeping, Public speaking, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Deputy Pendulum's motion for an address [graphic]

13.
Deputy Pendulum's motion for an address [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 November 1795]
Call Number:
795.11.29.01 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An ugly man in old-fashioned dress stands full-face, toes turned in, squinting, and looking downwards. An 'Address' is in his right hand, his left hand is in his breeches pocket; a document inscribed 'obervation' [sic] protrudes from his coat-pocket....
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 29, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of speech, Petition, Right of, Sedition, Great Britain, Politics and government, Clocks & watches, City council members, Hearing aids, Sleeping, Public speaking, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Deputy Pendulum's motion for an address [graphic]

14.
Evening, or, The man of feeling [graphic]

Published / Created:
[approximately 1816]
Call Number:
816.00.00.81+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three men sit by a supper-table, a grandfather-clock behind them points to XI. The man on the left is having his jack-boots pulled off by a small boy; the boy stands astride his right leg pulling hard, his back to the man, who is scowling and pushes h...
Alternative Title:
Man of feeling
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Mackenzie, Henry, 1745-1831.
Subject (Topic):
Boots, Boys, Candles, Dining tables, Drinking vessels, Hats, Longcase clocks, Medicine, Slippers, Servants, Women domestics, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Evening, or, The man of feeling [graphic]

15.
French barracks [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[12 August 1791]
Call Number:
791.08.12.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a busy French barracks shows a more domestic than military atmosphere although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Aug. 12, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
France. Armée
Subject (Topic):
Barracks and quarters, Foreign opinion, British, Arms & armament, Armor, Barbers, Barracks, French, Breast feeding, Canopy beds, Cats, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, Soldiers, Women, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > French barracks [graphic]

16.
French barracks [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[12 August 1791]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a busy French barracks shows a more domestic than military atmosphere although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Aug. 12, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
France. Armée
Subject (Topic):
Barracks and quarters, Foreign opinion, British, Arms & armament, Armor, Barbers, Barracks, French, Breast feeding, Canopy beds, Cats, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, Soldiers, Women, and Yawning
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > French barracks [graphic]

17.
Frontispiece to Dr. Bellendenus's sermon preached before The Right Honble. &ca. &ca [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
24th May 1800.
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 81. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dr. Parr stands in a pulpit, preaching, immediately under the sounding-board which is against the upper edge of the design. In his left hand is a pipe from which rises a cloud of smoke inscribed 'Exit in Fumo'; in his right hand is a pipe-stopper. Fr...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825
Subject (Topic):
Preaching, Religious services, Sleeping, Smoking, Umbrellas, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece to Dr. Bellendenus's sermon preached before The Right Honble. &ca. &ca [graphic]

18.
Frontispiece to Dr. Bellendenus's sermon preached before The Right Honble. &ca. &ca [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
24th May 1800.
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Leaf 81. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dr. Parr stands in a pulpit, preaching, immediately under the sounding-board which is against the upper edge of the design. In his left hand is a pipe from which rises a cloud of smoke inscribed 'Exit in Fumo'; in his right hand is a pipe-stopper. Fr...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825
Subject (Topic):
Preaching, Religious services, Sleeping, Smoking, Umbrellas, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece to Dr. Bellendenus's sermon preached before The Right Honble. &ca. &ca [graphic]

19.
Great Britain and Ireland's yawn [graphic].

Published / Created:
[11 October 1743]
Call Number:
Folio 724 C2 738
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A large, full-face portrait of Sir Robert Walpole yawning violently
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Octor. 11th 1743, publish'd by G. Bickham in May's Buildings
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Subject (Topic):
Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Great Britain and Ireland's yawn [graphic].

20.
He! Ho! Heavy, dull and insipid by all that's good [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs, 2d Jany. 1772.
Call Number:
772.01.02.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on false piety: a man wearing a dressing-gown and white night-cap seated reading a book of 'Sleepy Sermons' beside a table, twisting to right and yawning with one hand raised in the air."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a vari...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Yawning, Reading, and Books
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > He! Ho! Heavy, dull and insipid by all that's good [graphic].

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