- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1810?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H437 no. 1 Box D128
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. A lanky man attempts to dance with a corpulent woman but steps on her dress hem in the process
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image., Attributed to William Heath by curator., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Dance, Clumsiness, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Agility and elegance [art original].
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- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1810?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H437 no. 5 Box D128
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An image of two couples who appear to be dancing. The couple on the left includes a short, stocky man and a large buxom woman. The man is standing on his toes looking up to the woman while she gazes beyond his head. The couple on the right includes a lanky gentleman who is holding onto the index figure of a woman wearing a large plume in her hair
- Alternative Title:
- Precision & ease and Ardour and dignity ; Precision and ease
- Description:
- Titles written in ink below each image., William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840., and Sheet has a long crease down the center.
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples and Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ardour & dignity Precision & ease. [art original]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1810?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H437 no. 6 Box D128
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A couple, caricatured and shown full-length, stand with the feet intertwined as the man clasps the woman under her arms. He has long legs and arms and a jutting chin; she, somewhat older than the man, is sharp-featured and appears to be falling
- Description:
- William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples and Courtship
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Doing the amiable [art original].
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1810?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H437 no. 2 Box D128
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. The woman (left) wears a pink dress and holds a heart-shaped pruse. She rests her arm on the shoulders of the man as he wraps his arm around her waist
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image., Mounted on paper the verso of which shows a map of the estate, Ballygorn, of John Henry Keogh, Esq., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples and Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Grace and sentiment [art original].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1818.
- Call Number:
- Drawings C889 no. 3 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man and a woman are shown in profile, half-length; their facial features fit together likes pieces of a puzzle
- Description:
- Signed in ink lower left: GCk., Original drawing, basis for a publish print: Sure such a pair were never seen so justly form'd to meet by Nature!!! See British Museum. Catalogue of political and personal satires, v. 9, 13131., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist, 1792-1878., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Dandies, British, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sure such a pair were never seen so justly form'd to meet by nature!!! [art original]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1810?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H437 no. 4 Box D128
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A caricature showing a couple full-length as they dance. The older man with a very large and balding forehead holds the arm of a young girl; both are standing on their toes. She is holding a fan and looking away from the man
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image., Attributed to William Heath by curator., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Courtship, and Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The old mans folly [art original].
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1810?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H437 no. 7 Box D128
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A caricature of a couple, full-length and fashionably dressed in a simple way, are shown in profile kissing. The length of their arms is exaggerated and are in contrast to their short legs. The woman's eyes are open but the man's are closed
- Alternative Title:
- Conclusion
- Description:
- Title written in ink, below image., Mounted on the verso of an estate map of Creeves, in Limerick County, Ireland., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples and Kissing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The-conclusion [art original].
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1810?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H437 no. 3 Box D128
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An awkward couple, caricatured and drawn full-length, are shown dancing. An older woman whose decorative plumage extends beyond the man's head, has a crooked nose and lanky features. The man, somewhat younger, has a protruding chin
- Description:
- Title from caption in brown ink, below image., Questionable attribution to William Heath., Mounted on the verso of an estate map., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance and Couples
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Would-be-juvenile [art original].
- Creator:
- Wright, John Massey, 1777-1866, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1866]
- Call Number:
- 24 17 791P Copy 3
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 222. Castle of Otranto.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the characters Frederic and Hippolita shown full-length at center, the latter wearing a pink gown. Frederic, who wears a sword at his side and whose feathered cap has fallen to the floor, kneels in front of the standing Hippolita and looks up at her, holding her right hand; she looks down at him tenderly, her left hand at her breast. A statue on a pedestal stands besides the pair on the right; an arched window and a column are in the background on the left. A man, probably Manfred, lurks in the shadows; he carries a dagger(?) and peeks out from behind the column
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., Page reference written in ink below lower right corner of image: P. 222., and Bound in opposite page 222 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Adoration and Couples
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frederic in Hippolita's chamber] [art original]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1807]
- Call Number:
- Drawings C889 no. 7 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. She watches a servant holding a foppish, elderly naval officer by the collar as he flourishes a cudgel. At his feet lie a set of bellows. On the wall is a framed picture of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
- Description:
- Title from published print based on this drawing., Signed "George Cruikshank" lower right. The British Museum catalogue attributes the design to George's father Isaac in its description of the print engraved after this drawing. Cohn similarly suggests that this design "was probably the work chiefly of Isaac"., A drawing for the illustrated songsheet "Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily", published by Laurie & Whittle in 1807, which tells the tale of a servant Darby Daly who discovers the young Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, forces her seducer to marry her., Backed with Japanese tissue; with the title "The outraged husband" printed on mount., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10938., and Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1144.
- Subject (Topic):
- Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Couples, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfortunate Miss Baily] [art original]