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10. The rival maids [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heins, John, 1732-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca.1772]
- Call Number:
- 772.03.02.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A maid seated at a table and petting a cat, is flirting with a footman leaning with his arms on the back of her chair. A large knife lies on the table pointing at the pair; next to it, below a basket full of sheets, hangs a piece of paper inscribed, The pride & vanity of a footman. In the background, another maid, busy mending a garment, looks at them with disapproval and jealousy. Behind on the wall hangs a shelf with plates and a jug
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: maidservants -- Footman -- Furniture: chairs -- Dish rack -- Romantic jealousy -- Domestic life., and Mounted to 18 x 20 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Baskets and Cats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rival maids [graphic]
11. [A satire on English admiration for foreign musicians and on those performers] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1766?]
- Call Number:
- 766.00.00.07+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title assigned by cataloger from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on an advertisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1858. Publication date of the original: ca. 1730., Original etched by W.H. Toms., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: You that for music have an ear, attend the tunefull [sic] consort [sic] here, see how they warble for their songs, while one strikes up with shovel and tongues ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Foreign musicians -- Jew's harp -- Furniture: tripod table -- Books: music book -- Glass: wine bottles -- Containers: jug -- Lighting: lamp -- Music sheets -- Dancing -- Architectural details: arch -- Brooms -- Fire tongs -- Bulls -- Asses.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Dancers, Monkeys, Musicians, Musical instruments, Owls, and Pipes (Smoking)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A satire on English admiration for foreign musicians and on those performers] [graphic].
12. [A satire on quacks and quackery] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1766?]
- Call Number:
- 766.00.00.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on an advertisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766., Original etched by W.H. Toms., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Behold how in the colledge [sic] hall, the surgeons and the doctors all, are met in consultation wise, a carcase [sic] to anatomize ..., Slightly reduced copy in reverse, without attribution, and with different verses, of No. 1861 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Temporary local subject terms: Quacks -- Dissections -- Containers: tubs -- Furniture: butcher's block -- Carcasses: pig -- Carcasses: cat -- Hares.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Bats, Cats, Crocodiles, Dead animals, Donkeys, Fish, Frogs, Monkeys, Rabbits, Skeletons, Skulls, and Swine
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A satire on quacks and quackery] [graphic].
13. [A satire on school-masters and school-mistresses] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1766?]
- Call Number:
- 766.00.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title assigned by cataloger based on descriptionin the British Museum catalogue., Publication date based on an advertisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1858. Publication date of the original in Stephens: ca. 1730., Plate numbered '2'., Original etched by W.H. Toms., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: As you like this, young gentleman, play truant if you please again, how often must I give you warning, to leave your tricks and mind your learning ..., Copy in reverse, without attribution, and with different verses. Cf. No. 1862 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: country school-room -- Corporal punishment : birch rods -- Food: ham and sausages.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Asses, Birdcages, Cats, Classrooms, Monkeys, and Teachers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A satire on school-masters and school-mistresses] [graphic].
14. [An American nursery] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1850?]
- Call Number:
- 850.00.00.26+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An image of the interior of a large and crowded American nursery with scenes of held and cared for by young women, two giving children a piggy-back rides or children playing, bathing or lying quietly in bed. Other children are shown teasing, fighting or abusing their caretakers or animals. One child is shown holding a candle to the dress of a nurse whose hand is holding a switch, ready to strike a child who holds a scary mask to frighten a child in a cradle. One child is shown in a cage, others playing with dogs, cats or a goose
- Description:
- Title from caption written in ms. on mount., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed with probable loss of title and imprint., and Window mounted to 30 x 43 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bathing, Cats, Children, Dogs, Nannies (Children's nurses), Nurseries (Rooms & spaces), and Play (Recreation)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [An American nursery] [graphic].
15. [Concert of cats] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before July 1817?]
- Call Number:
- 817.07.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of cats look at book opened to a musical score, on the right and images of mice on the left. Some of the cats are singing while one plays a trumpet; one of the cats wears spectacles. In the foreground are a violin and loose sheets of music. The book is propped against a birdhouse from which emerges a mouse; a cloth has been draped over the birdhouse
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., After a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1855,0609.487., Two similar prints, with slight variations in the image, were published by Ackermann in July 1817 with the title "Concert of cats". See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 817.07.00.01., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Animals in human situations, Cats, Mice, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Concert of cats] [graphic].
16. [French barracks] [art original]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1786]
- Call Number:
- Drawings R79 no. 19 Box D207
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the interior of busy French barracks shows a more domestic atmosphere than military although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at her feet. Beside her another woman holds up a mirror so that an officer can admire his reflection from both the front and back. A third woman (left) cuts an officers toe nails as a barber dresses his long queue; another officer has his hair powdered. In the background a man in his night shirt sits on the side of his bed as he stretches his arms and yawns
- Description:
- Title from engraving based on this drawing, published by S.W. Fores 12 August 1791. and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Foreign opinion, British, Arms & armament, Armor, Barbers, Barracks, French, Breast feeding, Canopy beds, Cats, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, and Yawning
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [French barracks] [art original]
17. [The latest fashion] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1800?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title and date of publication supplied by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on leaf 72. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Pipes (Smoking), Smoking, Drinking vessels, and Cats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The latest fashion] [graphic].