- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1850]
- Call Number:
- Print01243
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Caption continues: "He is suffering from the effects of overwork and consequent nervous exhaustion complicated by an attack of influenza." / Vide public Press., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Theatre; Exhaustion; Foot baths.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Kean, Charles John, 1811?-1868 and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Subject (Topic):
- Shakespearean actors and actresses, Influenza, Fatigue, Dramatic criticism, Actors, Medicines, Correspondence, and Bowls (Tableware).
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > "Mr. Charles Kean is seriously indisposed ..." [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1850]
- Call Number:
- Print00620
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Caption continues: "He is suffering from the effects of overwork and consequent nervous exhaustion complicated by an attack of influenza." / Vide public Press., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Theatre; Exhaustion; Foot baths.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Kean, Charles John, 1811?-1868 and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Subject (Topic):
- Shakespearean actors and actresses, Influenza, Fatigue, Dramatic criticism, Actors, Medicines, Correspondence, and Bowls (Tableware).
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > "Mr. Charles Kean is seriously indisposed ..." [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1812.
- Call Number:
- Print00214
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title written in ink on lower left corner., Signature and date not in Rowlandson's hand., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians and Health counseling
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A consultation [art original].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the act directs this 29th. March 1780.
- Call Number:
- 780.03.29.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Wombwell, George, -1780, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Pigot, George, Baron, 1719-1777, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Urination
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A scene in Leadenhall Street humbly inscribed to Sir George Wombwell Baronet, by the engraver. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Steevens, George, 1736-1800, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1742 and 1799]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A tracing by George Steevens of a print by Willaim Hogarth: Theatre stage with two dancers; on the left a woman (La Barbarina) jumps with her legs apart and on the right a man (George Desnoyer) stands with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles. With the text "C.C. Prickt lines shewing the rising Height" at the foot of the stage as in the first state and with a face on the sun
- Alternative Title:
- Charmers of the age
- Description:
- Title from item., Lengthy pencil note in William Windham's hand below: These two pieces viz. the one marked Qui Color albus erat and The Charmers of the age? are not prints but copies taken with a pen by Mr. Steevens, and given to me, together with many others, not copies, in return for those mentioned in his collection as given by me to him. [Signed] W.W. March 22d 1800., After Paulson, R. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 153., and On page 100 in volume 1.
- Subject (Name):
- Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
- Subject (Topic):
- Dancers, German, Italian, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A.B. The charmers of the age [art original].
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- Published / Created:
- Sept. 13th 1762.
- Call Number:
- 762.09.13.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Hieroglyphical epistle from a certain wooden peer at Paris to the Laird of the Posts at Whitehall
- Description:
- Title from item., An engraved letter in form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: 'wood' in 'wooden' by a group of trees, pier by an image of a pier, to by a toe, posts by two stone posts, 'all' in 'Whitehall' by an awl., and Temporary local subject terms: Coffee-houses: The Cocoa Tree Coffee House.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An hieroglyphical epistle from a certain [wood]en [pier] at Paris [to] the Laird of the [Posts] at Whiteh[all] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1798]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 35 Box D210
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An elderly woman questions a man dressed in a curious combination of professional military uniform and shopkeeper's attire with an apron tide around his waist and a musket propped against his shoulder. The woman exclaims, "Thee looks't very genteel indeed Tommy, I should hardly ha known thee, but I hope the shop is not quite neglected, trade must be minded thee know'st" while the shoppkeeper/soldier responds, "Trade d--n trade! I'm a gemmen and a soljer as Mister Wind-hum says".
- Description:
- Title from inscriptrion in black ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Attributed to Woodward.
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Stores & shops, Commerce, Soldiers, Military uniforms, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An independent reply en militaire [art original].
- Creator:
- Ansell, Charles, 1752- artist
- Published / Created:
- [1797?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings AN618 no. 1 Box D100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Pitt as a peepshow man stands in front of his box while John Bull, drawn here as a simpleton, looks inside. Pitt pulls a string on the box with his right hand and with his left hand pulls a bag from John Bull's pocket. Slung over John Bull's shoulder is a trumpet with a fringed a banner decorated with the royal arms. The flag above Pitt's pagoda-like box reads: "Licensed by authority the Grand Exhibition by moving mecanism or deception of the senses."
- Alternative Title:
- Billy's raree-show or John Bull enlighten'd, John Bull enlightened, and Billy's rare-show
- Description:
- Title from item., Attributed to Ansell. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9030., A preliminary drawing for print entitled Billy's raree-show or John Bull enlighten'd? Date of production inferred from the publication date of the etching., and Paper that has been oiled possibly to be translucent for the transfer process. Edges are tattered with old folds in the corners.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-French War, 1793-1802, John Bull (Symbolic character), and Peepshows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billy's raree-shew, or, John Bull's senses [art original].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1789]
- Call Number:
- Drawings R79 no. 14 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 70
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Prince of Wales ..., sword in hand, gallantly protects Britannia against the attack of three conspirators: Pitt raises a headsman's axe in both hands; Grafton, holding a conspirator's lantern, is about to strike her with a dagger; Richmond ... fires a musket, resting one knee on a cannon. The Prince wears a coronet with three ostrich feathers, he holds out his shield behind Britannia, who cowers towards him in terror."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print for which this is the original drawing
- Description:
- Titled by the artist in brown ink below image., Attributed to Rowlandson., Original drawing for a print of the same title published by H. Holland on 7 February 1789. Cf. No. 7503 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 247.
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Britannia's support of the conspirators defeated [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1802]
- Call Number:
- 53 Se4 J49 v.4
- Collection Title:
- Volume 4, front flyleaf. George Selwyn and his contemporaries.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half-length caricature portrait of the Duke, nearly in profile to the right, wearing a cravat and with his hair in a queue bound with ribbon
- Description:
- Title written in ink above image, in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on the year the sitter would have been 77 years old., and Mounted on front flyleaf in volume 4 of: George Selwyn and his contemporaries.
- Subject (Name):
- Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Duke of Queensberry at the age of 77 [art original].