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1. "And catch the living manners as they rise" [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 May 1794]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young man (left) takes with his left hand the right hand of a young woman, who bows towards him, holding her limp skirt delicately between finger and thumb. Both wear burlesqued versions of the newest fashions. He wears a striped sleeveless vest or waistcoat made in one piece with a pair of pantaloons which reach below his calves where they are tied with bunches of ribbon. A voluminous swathed neckcloth conceals his chin. His powdered hair is frizzed on his head with a long queue. He holds a round hat and a bludgeon in his right hand. She wears in her hair three extravagantly long ostrich feathers, which rise from a small cap or turban and sweep across the design, with an erect brush-aigrette ; long tresses issue from the turban with the feathers and fall below her waist. Her limp high-waisted dress with short sleeves falls from below uncovered breasts, which are decked with a lattice-work of jewels caught together by an oval miniature (cf. BMSat 8521)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray, working from a design by 'Miss Aynscombe.' See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1794 -- Female costume, 1794., 1 print : etching & aquatint with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.9 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 35.7 x 25.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 56 of volume 8 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 7th, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "And catch the living manners as they rise" [graphic].
2. "And catch the living manners as they rise" [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 May 1794]
- Call Number:
- 794.05.07.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young man (left) takes with his left hand the right hand of a young woman, who bows towards him, holding her limp skirt delicately between finger and thumb. Both wear burlesqued versions of the newest fashions. He wears a striped sleeveless vest or waistcoat made in one piece with a pair of pantaloons which reach below his calves where they are tied with bunches of ribbon. A voluminous swathed neckcloth conceals his chin. His powdered hair is frizzed on his head with a long queue. He holds a round hat and a bludgeon in his right hand. She wears in her hair three extravagantly long ostrich feathers, which rise from a small cap or turban and sweep across the design, with an erect brush-aigrette ; long tresses issue from the turban with the feathers and fall below her waist. Her limp high-waisted dress with short sleeves falls from below uncovered breasts, which are decked with a lattice-work of jewels caught together by an oval miniature (cf. BMSat 8521)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray, working from a design by 'Miss Aynscombe.' See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1794 -- Female costume, 1794., Watermark: J Whatman., and Window-mounted to 40 x 28 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 7th, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "And catch the living manners as they rise" [graphic].
3. A change in the petticoats, or, The years 1780 & 1817 [graphic].
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1817]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
- Collection Title:
- V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat, long pointed stomacher, a calash hood (see British Museum Satires No. 5434, &c.) over a large plain cap, stands with a small nosegay in her left hand, and with a closed fan held to her cheek. She looks down at a young woman (right), who bends forward in profile to the left, with the stoop of 1817, see British Museum Satires No. 12939. The modern woman wears a flaunting bonnet with a cylindrical crown, a scoop turned up from the face, trimmed with flowers and many feathers. She has bare breasts and shoulders, a very high waist, and projecting skirt (above the knee), and large bishop sleeves; her arms hang downwards in the fashionable pose; in her right hand is a large reticule. Her flat slippers are bound to the ankles and legs with ribbons, en cothurne. Below the upper margin: 'The London Modest Ladies once hoop petticoats wou'd Wear But now forsooth they are not Dress'd unless their B-s Bare'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Years 1780 & 1817 and Years 1780 and 1817
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "187" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 41 in volume 3.
- Publisher:
- Thomas Tegg
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A change in the petticoats, or, The years 1780 & 1817 [graphic].
4. A change in the petticoats, or, The years 1780 & 1817 [graphic].
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1817]
- Call Number:
- 817.00.00.02+
- Collection Title:
- V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat, long pointed stomacher, a calash hood (see British Museum Satires No. 5434, &c.) over a large plain cap, stands with a small nosegay in her left hand, and with a closed fan held to her cheek. She looks down at a young woman (right), who bends forward in profile to the left, with the stoop of 1817, see British Museum Satires No. 12939. The modern woman wears a flaunting bonnet with a cylindrical crown, a scoop turned up from the face, trimmed with flowers and many feathers. She has bare breasts and shoulders, a very high waist, and projecting skirt (above the knee), and large bishop sleeves; her arms hang downwards in the fashionable pose; in her right hand is a large reticule. Her flat slippers are bound to the ankles and legs with ribbons, en cothurne. Below the upper margin: 'The London Modest Ladies once hoop petticoats wou'd Wear But now forsooth they are not Dress'd unless their B-s Bare'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Years 1780 & 1817 and Years 1780 and 1817
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "187" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Thomas Tegg
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A change in the petticoats, or, The years 1780 & 1817 [graphic].
5. A criminal of the name of Hog claiming relationship to Lord Justice Bacon [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [1796?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 58 Box D165
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A courtroom scene with solicitors and jury snickering and laughing in response to a witty pun the judge offered following the defendent's plea for mercy. The criminal on trial in the far right is dishevled and dressed in the style of a sailor. The judge, on the far left, wears a black and gold-trimmed robe and leans intensely over the bench glaring at the accused
- Description:
- Title from pen and ink caption inscribed below image., Date from unverified local card catalog record., and Possibly the work of Isaac Cruikshank.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Courtrooms, Criminals, Judges, Judicial proceedings, and Lawyers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A criminal of the name of Hog claiming relationship to Lord Justice Bacon [art original].
6. A crop shop [graphic]
- Creator:
- Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 October 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.10.08.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The interior of barber shop: On the left a man stands before a mirror, face contorted as he wipes his jaw, unaware of the boy behind him pointing and laughing at him as he holds the man's pigtail in his hand. Another customer is shown in the center seated on a chair, the barber behind him about to cut off his pigtail as well. The third man sits in a chair on the right, reading a newspaper; his lower head is also shorn of its pigtail. The room show other customers as well as stands for wigs. Above the door on the right hangs a sign "R. Crop'em, hair dresser", a second sign beneath reads "Shave for a penny. Crop for two penny." Through the window on the left in the back, is a display of ladies' hats
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Octr. 8, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
- Subject (Topic):
- Barbers, Barber shops, Hairdressing, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A crop shop [graphic]
7. A dandy shoe maker in a fright, or, The effects of tight lacing [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 December 1818]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
- Collection Title:
- V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A shoemaker in dandy costume (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029) grasps the leg of the lady whose shoe he is fitting; he exclaims: "O! I shall faint! the lacing of my Stays have broke and I shall be undone." The lady, who is pretty and very décolletée, sits on a sofa. She exclaims to a maid who stands behind the shoemaker (right): "Susan what is the Creature about? he's taking liberties with me!" She answers: "Why Madam he has got a pair of Ladies Stays on"; stay-laces are flying up between his narrow coat-tails. On a table (right) are a pair of laced boots and a pair of flat slippers. Beside a window draped with curtains stands a vase of cut flowers on a high tripod."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Dandy shoemaker in a fright, or, The effects of tight lacing and Effects of tight lacing
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered "321" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Temporary local subject terms: Dandies -- Shoemakers., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 18 in volume 5.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 3d, 1818, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A dandy shoe maker in a fright, or, The effects of tight lacing [graphic]
8. A dandy shoe maker in a fright, or, The effects of tight lacing [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 December 1818]
- Call Number:
- 818.12.03.01+
- Collection Title:
- V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A shoemaker in dandy costume (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029) grasps the leg of the lady whose shoe he is fitting; he exclaims: "O! I shall faint! the lacing of my Stays have broke and I shall be undone." The lady, who is pretty and very décolletée, sits on a sofa. She exclaims to a maid who stands behind the shoemaker (right): "Susan what is the Creature about? he's taking liberties with me!" She answers: "Why Madam he has got a pair of Ladies Stays on"; stay-laces are flying up between his narrow coat-tails. On a table (right) are a pair of laced boots and a pair of flat slippers. Beside a window draped with curtains stands a vase of cut flowers on a high tripod."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Dandy shoemaker in a fright, or, The effects of tight lacing and Effects of tight lacing
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered "321" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Temporary local subject terms: Dandies -- Shoemakers., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 3d, 1818, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A dandy shoe maker in a fright, or, The effects of tight lacing [graphic]
9. A hard passage, or, Boney playing base on the Continent [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 September 1808]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Napoleon plays a double bass, stooping forward, and looking with an agonized expression towards a music-book on a high stand, the pages headed 'Conquest of / Spain & Portugal' and ending in 'Volti Su . . . .' He says: "Plague take it! I never met with so difficult a 'passage' before - But if I can once get over the 'Flats', we shall do pretty well for you see the 'Key' will then change to B sharp." Behind Napoleon and on the right stand the Russian bear on his hind legs, muzzled, and blowing a French horn. He says: "Why that is 'Natural' enough brother Boney though this 'French horn' of yours seems rather out of Order I think." Napoleon, who wears a large bicorne, stands on a 'Map of the Continent' showing 'Spain' and 'Portugal'. Behind him are a drum and a roll of 'Boney's Orations Vol. 10th'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Boney playing base on the Continent and Boney playing bass on the Continent
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Watermark, mostly trimmed: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Sept. 24, 1808, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A hard passage, or, Boney playing base on the Continent [graphic]