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1. Hospitality kicking avarice out of doors, or, New tenants at a mansion house [art original]
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1799]
- Call Number:
- Drawings N736 no. 8 Box D305
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A caricature of the new Lord Mayor of London: Harvey Combe stands centerd in the a hall, surrounded by a desperate looking group of people both rich and poor, who kneel and beg. A skeletal man (buthcher?) holds a knife in one hand and a scroll in the other enscribed with a large order for meat: "12 haundres vension, 6 necks do., 8 turtles, 20 brace partridges, 20 pheasants, 20 brace woodcocks, 16 sirloins beef bacon(?) &"". In the foreground lies another sheet which readss "Tripe Soup. Liver & Crow. Fried Tripe. Bill of Fare for 8 Novr." The outgoing Lord Mayor, Sir Richard Glyn, who was notoriously spendthrift during his period in office, is seen being kicked out of the Mansion House holding large money bag with the word "Saving" written on it. The two cats on the left and the dog following the butcher are also thin from malnorishment. Two large spiders have spun large webs below the archway on the left below a two cupids holding a heart molded above the archway
- Alternative Title:
- New tenants at a mansion house
- Description:
- Title written below image., Signed with initials and dated by the artist in lower left corner., "Sold by all the printsellers in London, Nov. 9, 1799"--Written in above title., and Original design for a print published 9 November 1799.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Combe, Harvey Christian, 1752-1818 and Glyn, Richard Carr, Sir, 1755-1838
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Pleading (Begging), Kicking, Poor persons, Interiors, Cats, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hospitality kicking avarice out of doors, or, New tenants at a mansion house [art original]
2. [High life below stairs] [art original].
- Creator:
- Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1767]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G877 no. 1 Box D205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and supported by a young man, while a seated man wearing a tricorn smiles and points at her and an elderly woman stands with her arms folded under her apron, a dog at her heels; two posters pasted on the wall behind, shelves, bellows and other kitchen implements in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of the same design
- Description:
- Title from a copy published by Carington Bowles, July 17th, 1770., Unsigned; attributed to Francis Grose., and Date of production based on exhibition history; this drawing was exhibited at the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1767.
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Interiors, Kitchens, Servants, Peg legs, Violins, Bellows, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [High life below stairs] [art original].