Modernized Indian lady amusing herself at her leisure hours
Description:
Titles etched above images., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date from unverified data from card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: India -- Musical instruments: Pianoforte 'Clemente' -- Allusion to Muzio Clemente, 1752-1832.
Titles etched above images., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: India.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1805]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 44 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man riding horseback has a significant accident that topples the horse and throws the rider forward against the horse's neck and head losing his hat and wig in the process. A caption above the image informs: This I pressume is by way of proving to a certainty that two and two makes four!!
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink below image., and Date supplied by cataloger.
A copy of an illiterate bricklayer's bill that was written with pictographs; the artist included a narrative description of its meaning below the image. The pictographs included three different sized stick-figures (two men and one boy), a four-square grid with three of the four squares filled with dots (three quarters of a day), two "Y" shaped symbols (hods of mortar), two "X" shaped symbols (10 shillings & 10 pence), and a sketch of a hanged man (a settled bill).
Description:
Title from text inscribed with black ink within image., Date from note inscribed with graphite pencil below image., and For further information, consult library staff.
A scene on a city sidewalk: a dandy who has dropped his handkerchief has trouble picking it up. A couple from the townhouse opposite and a couple of men on the sidewalk laugh at the struggles of the dandy
Alternative Title:
Dandy in distress!
Description:
Title etched below image., Thirteen lines of text below title: A correspondent furnishes us with the following picture of an exquisite alias a dandy in distress, "Walking in one of the squares last week it was my fate to follow an exquisite ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
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.
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
Title from item., Unsigned and undated drawing; date of execution based on that of companion drawing "Sir Horrise Walpoles gothick lamp" (The Lewis Walpole Library 756.00.00.108dr)., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title in ink at lower left corner., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.