- Creator:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses, Horseback riding, and Accidents
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An arithmetician!! [art original]
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- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1830 and 1852]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G761 no. 8 Box D123
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man with a queue wig and wearing spectacles (right) sits expectantly at a small round tea table set for two; his hands on the table glench his knife and fork, his napkin tied around his neck like a bib. He leans forward as he eyes the food approach carried by a woman in a mop cap and wearing spectacles who stands full lengh (left) holding a long handled frying pan heaped high with dark ashes. He says, "Come, come, Dame is'nt my eggs and bacon done yet. I'm literally famish'd in waiting." She replies, "I am very sorry to inform your worship that just as I had done 'em so nice all this here soot fell into the pan."
- Description:
- Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Accidents, Cookery, Eating & drinking, Dining tables, Starvation, and Tableware
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The hungry epicure disappointed [art original]
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1804]
- Call Number:
- Drawings N736 no. 6 Box D141
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A dustman bends over a large woman who has fallen and lifts her by placing his hands under her arms. She looks up angerly and shakes her fist at the dustman's young assistant in an apron who looks on (left) with a smile and hand raised. Two dogs jump around the group
- Description:
- Title and artist attribution from dealer's description. and Date based on watermark: 1804.
- Subject (Topic):
- Accidents, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Obesity, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A street accident] [art original].