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1. "She brought out a dram to warm me and my servants and we were very merry and comfortable" [art original]
- Creator:
- Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1890]
- Call Number:
- Folio 225 884S Copy 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Lady Cecilia Johnston, shown three-quarter length, turns slightly left but looking back over her shoulder as she reaches for a carafe on an elaborately carved hutch in a fashionably decorated room. She wears a dress with lace sleeves, her hair up in a lace cap. Behind her on the right, one cat is curled in an upholstered chair while another sits in front. Through the window behind, a winter scene, with snow covering the ground, a church, and a leafless tree
- Description:
- Title written below image, a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to Lord Nunham, 7 July 1777 in reference to Lady Cecilia Johnston., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 150., and Bound in as page 234 in volume 6 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
- Subject (Name):
- Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817,
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Bottles, and Cats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "She brought out a dram to warm me and my servants and we were very merry and comfortable" [art original]
2. A French family [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [5 November 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.11.05.04++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to BMSat 9670. In a squalid room French dancers practise to a fiddle played by an older man (right) who dances as he plays. The parents of the four children dance, facing each other. She is elegant, buxom, with an elaborate feathered coiffure. He is lean, wearing a tattered but well-fitting coat over bare legs, with sleeve-ruffles (cf. the old gibe that the Frenchman wore ruffles but no shirt). He wears a toupee wig with a long queue. A boy and girl, both with hair elaborately dressed, dance together more vigorously. A little girl (right) with bare legs practises the first position, heels together. On the left a boy plays the pipe and tabor to two dogs, one wearing cloak and hat, whom he is teaching to dance. His chair is the only furniture except for a truckle-bed (left) turned up to the wall and a much-tilted wall-mirror (right). A lean cat has climbed to a small cupboard recessed in the wall near the ceiling and licks a stoppered bottle. The cupboard contains a coffee-pot, a covered jar, &c. A print of two clumsy peasant dancers is pinned to the wall, from which plaster has flaked. All practise with serious concentration."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Foreign opinion, British, Cats, Children, Couples, Dogs, Dance, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A French family [graphic]
3. A journeyman parson with a bare existence [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 25 June 1782.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The interior of a poor wooden house, a parson's family of four gather around a table covered in a tablecloth worn with holes. They are eating beans, while he sits on the right, gnawing a bone; his wife (left) nurses the youngest child. Behind her on the wall are two shelves of books above which hangs a bird in a birdcage. To her left, the curtains around the canopy bed are also torn. A small cat (foreground) looks up at the parson. On the floor beside the parson's chair lies a sheaf of papers with the title "Charity sermon".
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Numbered "481" in lower left corner., No. 24 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Canopy beds, Birdcages, Breast feeding, Cats, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Families, Interiors, and Poverty
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A journeyman parson with a bare existence [graphic].
4. A peep behind the curtain The tempest; She stoops to conquer ; The rivals / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1737-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 November 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.11.26.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Four scenes in one plate, each with a separate title, each showing a marital or courtship scenes with monkeys and cats and pictures on the walls that amplify the domestic scene
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Text following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent for evening., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Nov. 26, 1810 by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Couples, Courtship, Fighting, Spouses, Draperies, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Monkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A peep behind the curtain The tempest; She stoops to conquer ; The rivals / [graphic]
5. Abelard and Eloisa [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, 20 Apr. 1778.
- Call Number:
- 778.04.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A very fat gentleman on the left paying court to an ugly old lady on the right; both are seated with the gentleman with a small dog beneath his chair and a cat near his feet; the lady is holding a fan and wearing the towering hairstyle of the period. Behind them draperies are pulled aside revealing shelves of books
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Place of publication follows publisher's street address., Numbered in lower left of plate: 382., Variant of George 4557, without verses below design, but with imprint date present., and Contemporary pencil ms. notation identifying subjects: Mr. Mason & Mrs. Montague.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Montague, Elizabeth Robinson, 1720-1800. and Mason, William, 1725-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Couples, Interiors, Bookcases, Dogs, and Cats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Abelard and Eloisa [graphic].
6. Comforts of an Irish fishing lodge [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1812]
- Call Number:
- Folio 82 819V
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two men sit in a dilapidated room, the floor completely covered by water in which three pigs wade, ducks swim and dive, and geese run aggressively towards a dog. Their feet rest on boulders. One stout man in a broken chair sits with his elbows on a small round table, holding up a large watch, the hands showing that it is 9.40, and yawning deeply. On the table are a decanter containing a tiny 'blue devil', cf. British Museum Satires No. 8745, and a guttering candle stuck in a potato at which a rat is nibbling. Another rat runs up the table leg. The other man (right), with closed eyes, and hands on knees, sits on a stool, registering melancholy resignation. One pig (left) devours a 'Racing Calendar' which floats on the water. A fire of sticks burns smokily on a wide hearth; a large pot is overturning, the contents gushing over. Above the chimney-piece hangs a picture in a broken frame of a country house. There is one small casement window, half boarded up, the other half partly stuffed up with a pair of breeches. A ham and a hare hang from hooks in the ceiling. High up on the wall is a small shelf on which is broken china; a cat stands on it."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Possibly etched after a design by Bunbury; see British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 24.4 x 34 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Mounted on page 24.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Clocks & watches, Ducks, Dwellings, Fireplaces, Floods, Interiors, Rabbits, Rats, and Swine
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Comforts of an Irish fishing lodge [graphic]
7. Comforts of an Irish fishing lodge [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1812]
- Call Number:
- 812.05.12.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two men sit in a dilapidated room, the floor completely covered by water in which three pigs wade, ducks swim and dive, and geese run aggressively towards a dog. Their feet rest on boulders. One stout man in a broken chair sits with his elbows on a small round table, holding up a large watch, the hands showing that it is 9.40, and yawning deeply. On the table are a decanter containing a tiny 'blue devil', cf. British Museum Satires No. 8745, and a guttering candle stuck in a potato at which a rat is nibbling. Another rat runs up the table leg. The other man (right), with closed eyes, and hands on knees, sits on a stool, registering melancholy resignation. One pig (left) devours a 'Racing Calendar' which floats on the water. A fire of sticks burns smokily on a wide hearth; a large pot is overturning, the contents gushing over. Above the chimney-piece hangs a picture in a broken frame of a country house. There is one small casement window, half boarded up, the other half partly stuffed up with a pair of breeches. A ham and a hare hang from hooks in the ceiling. High up on the wall is a small shelf on which is broken china; a cat stands on it."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Possibly etched after a design by Bunbury; see British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Clocks & watches, Ducks, Dwellings, Fireplaces, Floods, Interiors, Rabbits, Rats, and Swine
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Comforts of an Irish fishing lodge [graphic]
8. Effects of passion [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [between 1812 and 1817]
- Call Number:
- 812.00.00.118
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in a sitting room, a man in a fit of anger kicks over a chair and table set with tea; a pitcher, cups and saucers, tongs and other tableware are in flight or shattered on the floor. The man holds his wig in his left hand as a woman looks on with fear. Two cats fight in front of a fireplace above which hangs a seascape with rough waters and lightening. On the back wall another painting shows a man standing over a woman
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Plate numbered "38" in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
- Subject (Topic):
- Anger, Couples, Kicking, Interiors, Tables, Fireplaces, and Cats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Effects of passion [graphic].
9. Feeling [graphic]
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 April 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.04.21.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Inside a wig-maker's shop a bald man sitting on a stool squirms in agony as an elder woman attends to the wound on his forehead. Another man, standing to their right, looks on with visible discomfort. To their left is a table laid with scissors, razors, pliers, basin, small length of cloth and a bottle of 'Jalap.' A cat sits next to the cloth. In the background, on a wide window-sill, are wig-maker's tools and a wig in progress. Several finished wigs hang on pegs above the window. A number of boxes with the customers' names on them stand on a shelf above the door and an almanack hangs on the wall behind it. The door is wide open revealing in the background two men fighting a duel in front of the 'Crown' tavern, surrounded by several onlookers
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Publisher's dates from British Museum catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark top center of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd April 21st, 1784, by Wm. Wells, No. 132 (opposite Salisbury Court) Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Crowds, Dressing & grooming equipment, Interiors, Pains, Scissors & shears, Signs (Notices), Stores & shops, Taverns (Inns), Wigs, and Wounds & injuries
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Feeling [graphic]