- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, 2 June 1782.
- Call Number:
- 782.06.02.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, a clergyman, his obese bespectacled wife, and 3 children sit at table, behind which a portrait of the parson hangs on the wall. The clergyman raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
- Description:
- Title from item., After a designed by Dighton., Numbered in lower left 343., A probable reduced version of no. 3753, originally issued ca. 1760. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Imperfect; hole in upper right corner.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Tableware, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A master parson with a good living [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 25 June 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.06.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, an obese clergyman, his obese bespectacled wife, and three children sit at table. A portrait of the parson hangs on the back wall. The clergyman raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
- Description:
- Title from item., Imperfect; trimmed to design with loss of imprint., Afger a design by Dighton., Place of publication and publisher from British Museum online catalogue., and Date estimated from British Museum. catalogue, v. 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles."
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Tableware, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A master parson with a good living [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Published as the Act directs [not before 20 May 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.05.20.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Shop interior with three milliners in frilled caps behind the counter, one seated and two sewing. Behind them the window to the left displays their work, while to the right shelves hold boxes labelled Feathers, Love, Coxcomb and Mode. Two fashionable men and a Pomeranian dog are before the counter, one man seated upon it and the other handing the ladies a "Masquerade Ticket".
- Alternative Title:
- Milliners shop
- Description:
- Title from item., Date erased from print., Numbered 478 in lower left margin., and Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, v.5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles."
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Millinery, Interiors, Counters, Clothing & dress, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A morning ramble, or, The milliners shop [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1810]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
- Collection Title:
- V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An elegant schoolmistress in a neat parlour addresses two visitors, a fat and over-dressed farmer's wife with a daughter of about fifteen, similarly dressed and resembling her mother. On the right is a piano with open music, and a chair on which is propped a needlework picture of Charlotte mourning under a weeping willow, at a tomb with an urn inscribed 'Werter'. The governess holds in her hand a card: 'Terms of B[on] Tons School'; she points to the picture, saying, "You would perhaps like the Young Lady to work something in silks Madam! there is a pretty subject, Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter". The visitor exclaims: "A very pretty piece I pertest! my Dater has a Genii for Drawing! Penelope my dear! you shall work Charlotte at the Tub of Water". The girl, delighted, answers: "La Mother! I shall like that! you know Mounseer Gumboge says: I make Water as natural as Life". Trees are seen through an open window."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Natural genius
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge leaving thread margin., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.6 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 26 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- Thomas Tegg
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Daughters, Interiors, Mothers, Parlors, Pianos, Social classes, Student aspirations, and Teachers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A naturel genius [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.00.00.05
- Collection Title:
- V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An elegant schoolmistress in a neat parlour addresses two visitors, a fat and over-dressed farmer's wife with a daughter of about fifteen, similarly dressed and resembling her mother. On the right is a piano with open music, and a chair on which is propped a needlework picture of Charlotte mourning under a weeping willow, at a tomb with an urn inscribed 'Werter'. The governess holds in her hand a card: 'Terms of B[on] Tons School'; she points to the picture, saying, "You would perhaps like the Young Lady to work something in silks Madam! there is a pretty subject, Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter". The visitor exclaims: "A very pretty piece I pertest! my Dater has a Genii for Drawing! Penelope my dear! you shall work Charlotte at the Tub of Water". The girl, delighted, answers: "La Mother! I shall like that! you know Mounseer Gumboge says: I make Water as natural as Life". Trees are seen through an open window."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Natural genius
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge leaving thread margin.
- Publisher:
- Thomas Tegg
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Daughters, Interiors, Mothers, Parlors, Pianos, Social classes, Student aspirations, and Teachers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A naturel genius [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dawe, Philip, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published as the Act directs, 8 May 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.05.08.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A richly dressed but grotesque and balding old lady sits before her dressing table holding a lap dog and attended by a leering hairdresser and his assistant. The former places on her head a huge wig with side curls, flowers on the front and a profusion of ostrich plumes on top. Draperies adorn the dressing table and window, and patterned wall paper and carpet are visible
- Alternative Title:
- New fashioned head dress for young misses of three score and ten
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles, No. 13 in Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Hairdressing, Clothing & dress, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new fashion'd head dress for young misses of three score and ten [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1776]
- Call Number:
- 776.00.00.07
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fat man, his wig turned upside down, sleeps in his chair, with a punch bowl, bottle and glass on the table by his elbow. Balanced on his enormous stomach is a see-saw, weighted down at the right by a diminutive boy and with a tiny girl seated on the raised end. On the wall behind him is a partly visible picture of someone playing bowls. A dog sleeps on the floor beneath the man's chair
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on sheet 23 x 19 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the Act directs 23.1776 by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Seesaws, Wigs, Tobacco pipes, Bowls (Tableware), Tableware, Interiors, Tables, Obesity, Eating & drinking, Sleeping, Furniture, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new mode of digestion [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 18, 1797.
- Call Number:
- 797.03.18.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The scene is the interior of a gothic church, with a view of part of a lateral gallery, the tower arch, and west door (on the right). The foreground and the gallery are filled with couples, in general elderly, ugly, and fashionably dressed, in conversation or bowing to each other. An unicorn on a monument holding an escutcheon is conspicuous. On the right the congregation is crowding towards the open door
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Numbered 'Plate 80' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Year in imprint erased from this impression.
- Publisher:
- Published by Allen & Co., 15 Paternoster Row
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches, Clothing & dress, Couples, Interiors, and Monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A polite congregation [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].
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- Creator:
- Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 7, 1793.
- Call Number:
- 793.03.07.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- From a doorway on the left, a man approaches a large, well-dressed woman who sits in a chair under two paintings. He is pointing to his red nose and holds a cane under his arm and his hat behind his back; a dog is at his heel
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Companion to a print entitled "Before"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Willlm. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Courtesans, Dogs, Interiors, Staffs (Sticks), and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > After [graphic]