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1. The itinerant chancellor [art original]
- Creator:
- M., M. S., artist
- Published / Created:
- [March 1839]
- Call Number:
- Drawings M999 no. 1 Box D205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A copy of the caricature of the British Statesman and High Lord Chancellor Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), that appeared in the center of an print that was published on 1 October 1834 in Every body's album & caricature magazine, no. 19. He is depicted as a very thin traveller wearing a Scottish tam over his wig and using a broom as a walking stick; his shoe is worn through. He carries a wooden post labelled "Scratching post", a box stamped "Containing the freedoms of all the Scotch towns" and a bag with the words "Broken victuals the leavings of the Edinburgh blow out". Around his waist is another bag, "Oat meal". Above the image framed in lines in gold ink: “I flatter myself I've made a tolerable good job by my “Starring it” with Old Grey in the North! Sold all my numbers of the Penny Magazine, and well puff'd it through every town I went. Made little less than one hundred speeches about, I forget now, Received some score of Burgesses, Freedoms, and Invitations to as many dinners, where I blew my own trumpet & obtained plenty of orders from our Usefull Knowledge Society! Now, woe to the unstamn'd when I get home! I must have a good scrub at my skin presently; I reckon I have got a taste of the fiddle through my itch for travelling!
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image., Drawn after a print by C.J. Grant, published ca. 1833 by G. Drake as No. 56 in The political drama series; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.11156. A nearly identical image also appears among several designs in Every body's album & caricature magazine, No. 19 (1 October 1834); see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 834.10.01.01+., and Additional text written within speech box above image: I flatter myself I've made a tolerable good job ...
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethnic stereotypes, Government officials, and Judges
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The itinerant chancellor [art original]
2. The-conclusion [art original].
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1810?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H437 no. 7 Box D128
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A caricature of a couple, full-length and fashionably dressed in a simple way, are shown in profile kissing. The length of their arms is exaggerated and are in contrast to their short legs. The woman's eyes are open but the man's are closed
- Alternative Title:
- Conclusion
- Description:
- Title written in ink, below image., Mounted on the verso of an estate map of Creeves, in Limerick County, Ireland., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples and Kissing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The-conclusion [art original].
3. Village clerk [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [1840?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 46 Box D160
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Half-length portrait of a man shown in profile looking left, wearing a hat over long hair and smoking a short-stemmed pipe
- Description:
- Title from text inscribed in graphite pencil above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Pipes (Smoking) and Smoking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Village clerk [art original].