- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 February 1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.02.25.01+
- Collection Title:
- Verso of leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Publication date of 25 April 1785 supplied by the British Museum catalogue for an impression lacking the imprint statement; this date apparently based on that of the companion print entitled: Evening consolation., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchairs -- Broken bellows -- Lighting: Dark lantern -- Emblems: Dark lantern of conspiracy -- Bellows as emblem of Ld. North., Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman., and Mounted to 37 x 31 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 May 1802]
- Call Number:
- Print00727 copy 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A satire on the fashionable lectures at the Royal Institution. The audience are in a semicircle facing the lecturer's table, which is covered with apparatus. The lecturer, probably not Garnett but Thomas Young who succeeded him as Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Institute in July 1801, and who delivered thirty lectures there between January and May 1802, is experimenting on Sir J. C. Hippisley (left). Holding him by the nose, he applies to his mouth a tube from a series of retorts in which a gas has been made. The result is a violent explosion of flame and smoke from the victim's breeches. Next Young stands Humphry Davy, assistant lecturer to the Institute since July 1801. Holding a pair of bellows with vapour and gas spouting from its nozzle, he watches the experiment with a sardonic smile. Facing the table from the right, Count Rumford (see British Museum Satires No. 9565) stands a little apart from the audience, looking on with a complacent and proprietary smile; he wears an order. On the extreme right the audience are Isaac D 'Israeli, wearing spectacles over half-closed eyes, Lord Gower, watching impassively, and Lord Stanhope, looking intently through an eyeglass. Beside him on the padded green bench is an open book: 'Hints on the nature of Air requir'd for the new French Diving Boat.' (Fulton's submarine was tried in Brest harbour in 1801, and a small vessel was blown up by a torpedo; Stanhope's experiments with steam navigation had been unsucces-ful, cf. British Museum Satires No. 8640.) Two unidentified ladies watch open-eyed. Immediately in front of Stanhope sits Lord Pomfret, enormously stout, his eyes almost shut. These watch from the right. Facing the lecturer sit (right to left) Sir H. Englefield, holding note-book and pencil, and a thin and elderly lady turned in profile, taking notes earnestly, but not watching the experiment. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Experimental lecture on the powers of air
- Description:
- Title etched at top of image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Scientific lectures., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 256 x 354 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 23d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829, Hippisley, John Cox, 1748-1825, Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829, Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814, Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758-1833, Englefield, Henry, Sir, 1752-1822, Sotheby, William, 1757-1833, Pomfret, George Fermor, Earl of, 1768-1830, Denys, Peter, 1760-1816, and Royal Institution of Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Nitrous oxide, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Flatulence, Interiors, Lecture halls, Public speaking, Scientific equipment, and Bellows
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Scientific researches! New discoveries in pneumaticks!, or, An experimental lecture on the powers of air [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [5 April 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.04.05.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depicts on the right the German dancing master Jansen playing the fiddle, as his pupil faces him with raised right arm and hat in left hand, a smaller youth standing sleepily on the left
- Alternative Title:
- Maitre de ballet allemand
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 5th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance, Violins, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The German dancing master Maitre de ballet allemand / [graphic] =
14.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 February 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.02.15.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fashionably dressed woman sits (left) in profile, in an upright chair, while a carriage waits for her as seen through the window of the well-appointed sitting room. Her loose dress, high to the neck, has two embroidered slits to reveal the breasts. A pretty, buxom nurse holds out an infant, who eagerly sucks the breast thus conveniently laid bare. She wears a turban with two erect feathers, and short sleeves; her gloved right hand holds a closed fan. On the wall behind her is a large picture, 'Maternal Love': a seated woman suckles an infant. Through a high sash-window is seen a corner of the waiting coach, a footman holding open the door, a fat coachman on the box. The coach, hammer-cloth, and the lady's chair are decorated with a baron's coronet. A patterned carpet covers the floor
- Alternative Title:
- Convenience of modern dress
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 15th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Breast feeding, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Coach drivers, Hats, Infants, Jewelry, Interiors, Mothers, Parlors, Rugs, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fashionable mamma, or, The convenience of modern dress vide the pocket hole, &c. / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 November 1795]
- Call Number:
- 795.11.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt, fast asleep, wearing only nightcap and night-shirt, walks down a staircase holding up a lighted candle in his right hand. On his right only are banisters, on his left the steps abut on a gulf indicated by the top of an arch supporting the stair; he is about to descend the first step, perilously near the left edge. Behind him, in a wall of heavy masonry, is an open door surmounted by a crown. A tall gothic window pierces the wall of the building."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Sleepwalker
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Possibly etched from a drawing by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 48 x 34 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Candlesticks, Castles & palaces, Interiors, Quatrefoils, Sleepwear, Somnambulism, and Stairways
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The sleep-walker [graphic].