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28. The march of interlect, or, A dust-man & family of the 19th century [graphic]
- Creator:
- Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1824]
- Call Number:
- 824.00.00.64
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Caricature with a family of a working man, his wife and daughter dressed in fashionable clothes, with a cottage and pig on a dung-hill in the background."--British Museum online catalogue and A satire on the aspirations of the working classes. The affluently dressed dustman's wife asks her husband if he has seen the latest issue of 'La Bells Ass-emblee' (John Bell's La Belle Assemblée, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine).
- Alternative Title:
- March of intellect, or, A dust-man & family of the 19th century, Dust-man & family of the 19th century, and Dustman and family of the nineteenth century
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from publisher's street address. John Lewis Marks is recorded at 17 Artillery Street in 1824; see British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1985,0119.338., For a companion print entitled "The march of interlect, or, A sweep & family of the 19th century", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2008,7088.1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Formerly mounted with remnants of blue paper.
- Publisher:
- Published by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery St., Bishopsgate
- Subject (Topic):
- Dustmen, Families, Clothing & dress, Dwellings, and Swine
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The march of interlect, or, A dust-man & family of the 19th century [graphic]
29. Tight lacing [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [5 March 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.03.05.01.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An elderly lady with towering coiffure topped with feathers and ribbons holds tightly to the post of a canopy bed, as her equally old and ugly maid, bracing a foot on the lady's cork rump, tightens her stays
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "RS" is probably "Richard Sneer", i.e. Richard Brinsley Sheridan., Imprint continues: ... who has great variety of humorous prints., Sheet trimmed wtihin plate mark with partial loss of price statement from lower right. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., "Price one shilling.", and Mounted to 24 x 31 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 5 Marh. 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho ...
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Beds, and Bedrooms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing [graphic]
30. Tippy Bob [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [28 March 1792]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 243. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A dandy, with a large hat, walking stick (or bludgeon), and spurs on his boots, stands at the counter of a shop as he turns away from the pretty woman who awaits his order. Three other dandies sit at a table on the right sipping a drink (hot chocolate? or coffee service) and reading. Behind them through a large window is a view of the city
- Description:
- Title from item., Four columns of verse below image: My name's Tippy Bob with a watch in each fob ..., Numbered "276" beneath lower left corner of image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : mezzotint on wove paper ; sheet 35.2 x 25.4 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Tipped in at page 243 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Publish'd 28th March 1792, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Coffeehouses, Dandies, British, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tippy Bob [graphic].
31. Vil you give us a glass of gin I'll see you d--n'd first / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 January 1793]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 13. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A woman in a pink dress gazes expectantly at a man on the right of the print, whilst hitching up her apron to reveal a green underskirt by placing her hands on her hips. The man returns her gaze in profile with a disapproving expression, whilst clutching onto carrots and turnips in the crook of his right elbow and left hand. The woman has ginger hair, and wears a white bonnet with red ribbons, and the man wears a black hat
- Alternative Title:
- Will you give us a glass of gin
- Description:
- Title from dialogue etched below image., Leaf 13 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.9 x 14.7 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Jany. 4, 1793, by R. Dighton
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Gin, Occupations, Oysters, and Vegetables
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Vil you give us a glass of gin I'll see you d--n'd first / [graphic]
32. [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 2]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 June 1735]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Plate 9. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 9. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A fashionable interior (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician at a harpsichord (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, Farinelli), a fencing master, a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master, a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey. In the background on the left in an antechamber, a man holds a letter entitled "Epistle to Rake ..."
- Alternative Title:
- Prosperity, (with Horlot's [sic] smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ..., Prosperity, (with Horlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ..., and Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ...
- Description:
- Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Fourth state with 'Horlot' corrected to 'Harlot'; scrolls over the harpsichodist's shoulder are hatched, but the floor and the dancing master's coat are not yet hatched., Caption below image in four columns begins: "Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles), how soon, sweet foe, can all they train of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain ...", 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 40.7 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 9 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 2]