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1. A French emigrant cook begging for a slice of English beef [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1794]
- Call Number:
- 794.03.01.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in a kitchen showing a French male cook on his knees beside a cross-looking female cook holding a spatula. In the background, a roaring fire in the hearth with a slab of beef on a spit
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from Rosenbach. For the original watercolor drawing by Cruikshank, see Huntington Library object number: 71.79.72., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression at the Bodleian Library, shelfmark: Curzon b.02(065)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd 1st March 1794 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethnic stereotypes, Kitchens, Cooks, and Pleading (Begging)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A French emigrant cook begging for a slice of English beef [graphic].
2. A comfortable thing to be king of Greece [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 March 1830]
- Call Number:
- 830.03.06.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Prince Leopold sits enthroned, flanked by his new subjects; he wears uniform with a crown, and sits on a two-tiered circular dais in a chair of state, the seat of which is covered with giant thorns. Punctured and frightened, he grasps the arms of his chair with crisped fingers; his toes are drawn back, touching the ground, and he looks towards a savage-looking Greek (right) who kneels before him with a long knife held behind his back. A similar ruffian kneels on the left; others approach menacingly from the left, one smoking a long pipe and grasping a knife. They wear Greek costume with embroidered jackets and full white breeches. On the right are long-robed ecclesiastics, headed by a bearded patriarch with a cross in one hand, a knife in the other."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March 6, 1830 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Name):
- Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865
- Subject (Topic):
- Greeks, Ethnic stereotypes, Thrones, Crowns, Thorns, Knives, Pipes (Smoking), and Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A comfortable thing to be king of Greece [graphic]
3. A new Chancery suit removed to the Scotch bar, or, More legitimates [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 February 1819]
- Call Number:
- 819.02.04.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire of a Gretna Green marriage, taking place in front of smithy's shop. Erskine, disguised in woman's dress with a huge feathered bonnet over a barrister's wig, holds the right hand of a demure-looking woman, modishly dressed and apparently pregnant. He holds a paper: 'Breach of Promise'. With them are three young children. The smith wears Highland dress; he holds a red-hot bar on the anvil and raises his hammer, saying, "I shall make a good thing of this Piece at last." Erskine says: "I have bother'd the Courts in London many times, I'll now try my hand at the Scotch Bar--as to Miss C-- she may do her worst since I have got my Letters back." The woman says: "Now who dare say, Blacks the White of my Eye." In the background (right) a young woman rushes down a slope towards the smithy, shouting, "Oh Stop Stop Stop, false Man, I will yet seek redress tho you have got back your letters--" Beside her is a sign-post pointing 'To Gretna Green'. A little boy with Erskine's features, wearing tartan trousers, stands on tip-toe to watch the smith; on the ground beside him is a toy (or emblem), a cock on a pair of breeches. A little girl stands by her mother nursing a doll fashionably dressed as a woman, but with Erskine's profile. Another boy with a toy horse on a string stands in back view watching 'Miss C'. Behind the smith is the furnace; on the wall hang many rings: 'Rings to fit all Hands.'
- Alternative Title:
- More legitimates
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Printed on paper watermarked "1818".
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1819, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Scotland, Gretna Green, Gretna Green (Scotland), and Gretna Green.
- Subject (Name):
- Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Erskine, Sarah Buck, Baroness, -1825, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elopement, Breach of promise, Elopements, Ethnic stereotypes, Forge shops, Metalworking, Furnaces, Anvils, and Hammers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new Chancery suit removed to the Scotch bar, or, More legitimates [graphic]
4. A phantasmagoria, or, A review of old times [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 9th, 1803.
- Call Number:
- 803.03.09.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A magician stands full face with uplifted sabre held over the heads of two figures from the past whom he has called up, and who stand within a magic circle. He displays them to their modern descendants, a tall stout Frenchman plainly dressed, wearing cocked hat and military boots, who stands with his arm on the shoulder of a thin, wretched, shambling, Englishman, small, ugly, and foppish, his hand thrust through an empty pocket. The magician has a beard, but features, cocked hat, consular dress, and sabre indicate Napoleon. He asks: "Are you satisfied Gentlemen?" The apparitions (left) are a grossly obese Englishman in old-fashioned dress, a cane hanging from his right wrist, and an ugly, tall, cadaverous, and foppish Frenchman holding a snuffbox. They say, respectively: "Is that my Grandson Jack? what a skeleton!!!"; "Ah mon Cousin, vat you eat de Beef & Plum Pudding!!" Their surprised successors exclaim: "Bless me! why I am a mere Stump of a man to him!!! and viable my Cousin look like de Frog & John Bull look like de Ox but Grace a Dieu times are Changed!!" Beside the magician are symbols of his art: a globe, a crocodile, a scroll, a skull. Within the circle and beside the French apparition is a frog."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Review of old times
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. Williamson, N. 20 Strand, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Magicians, Daggers & swords, Globes, Ethnic stereotypes, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A phantasmagoria, or, A review of old times [graphic]
5. A representation of the present state of France [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- August 13, 1804.
- Call Number:
- 804.08.13.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Napoleon, pushing an officer before him through a pillared doorway, looks back to speak to a monk and a sansculotte, shackled together, who drag a car in which is an imperial crown. They hold a large scroll inscribed: 'Most religious Sovereign - the benefactor of the church - the patron of liberty - the scourge of tyrants, and the defender of our most holy religion; may you long fill the Imperial Chair, and diffuse over a free and happy people all the blessings of your auspicious government.' Demons fly round a tricolour flag which floats from the car. Napoleon holds out a scroll headed: 'Address, &c. &c. &c. The Legions of France congratu - ', saying, "This token of your gratitude, my dear subjects will ever stimulate me to protect your liberties - to promote your happiness - and to preserve my empire from the ravages of war, tyranny and oppression." The officer, with a cynical smile, says: "Patron of Liberty - Defender of our most holy Religion - free and happy People - Ha! ha! ha! - What may we not expect? - Has he not got them under excellent subjection?" On the left is Napoleon's 'Secret Chamber': a table is covered with maps and plans; a large map, partly unrolled, shows Europe from '[En]gland to [Tur]key', including the 'Black Sea'; another map shows 'Suez' and the 'Red Sea'. A demon under the table holds up a large pile of papers: 'Plans against England'; on the floor are similar piles: 'Religion' and 'Treaties'. There are also 'Plans against Germany and Turkey', and a paper: 'Mem. the chance of the conquest of England is worth the sacrifice of one third of the people of France. Item. As Charlemaine not only conquered Italy, but the whole of Germany, and left the Imperial dignity hereditary in the Sovereigns of France, it is indispensably necessary to obtain possession of Germany, in order to support the dignity of the Gallic empire.' On the wall are three pictures: 'Sacking of Rome', 'Dissolution of the National Assembly' [see British Museum Satires No. 9426, &c], and 'View of Cairo' [see British Museum Satires No. 9358, &c.]. Below the design: 'Explanation. The two figures bringing the Imperial crown . . . represent . . . the bitter Enemies of Aristocracy, and the staunch Supporters of the late Monarchial Government, tackled to the National Machine, and reduced to the most abject State of Slavery by the Influence of the Military, whose congratulatory Address Bonaparte has received at the Hand of an Officer, and is introducing him into his Secret Chamber to receive Instructions. The Demons hovering over the Imperial Crown denote Five Years of Destruction; during which Period Bonaparte will overrun and ravage the greater Part of the Continent of Europe, be the Means of nearly depopulating Turkey, and finally be slain with the Sword, be cast out as an abominable Branch, and be left as Dung to rot on the Face of the Earth."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title printed in letterpress above image., Text above imprint statement: For particulars respecting the ingress, progress and regress of the Gallic Empire, as represented in prophecy, see the publications entitled "The Prophetic Mirror," and "The Emperor of the Gauls," by L. Mayer; to be had at Parson's Library, Ludgate-Hill; and T. Williams, Stationers'-Court., Print was apparently sold separately, but also used as a folding plate in: Mayer, L. The prophetic mirror, or, A hint to England. London : Printed by C. Stower and sold by T. Williams, 1804., and "Price 1s. coloured."--Following imprint.
- Publisher:
- Published by L. Mayer, as the act directs and Bryer, printer, Bridge Street, Blackfriars
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Military officers, French, Monks, Flags, Ethnic stereotypes, Shackles, Crowns, Columns, Demons, and Maps
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A representation of the present state of France [graphic].
6. A tour to the Hebrides Bossy Bounce preparing for the Scotch professors to kiss / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [19 April 1786]
- Call Number:
- 49 3069
- Collection Title:
- Opposite title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7030. Johnson, as a bear with a human head (a profile portrait), walks (left to right) up a mountain. Boswell as an ape with a quasi-human head is seated on the bear's back facing the tail, which he holds up, beckoning with his right hand to two bare-legged men in Highland dress who are climbing up the mountain behind Johnson. In the foreground are thistles."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., A companion print to: A tom tit twittering on an eagle's back-side., On paper watermarked "W.J.", and Tipped in opposite title page in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
- Publisher:
- Published 19th April 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Scotland.
- Subject (Name):
- Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethnic stereotypes, Clothing & dress, Bears, and Monkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tour to the Hebrides Bossy Bounce preparing for the Scotch professors to kiss / [graphic]
7. Dutch officer [art original]
- Creator:
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1767?]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 184. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Dutch officer / by Miss Conway
- Description:
- Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a five of clubs playing card (56 x 83 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: Dutch officer, by Miss Conway., Date inferred from the use of artist Anne Seymour Damer's maiden name Conway; she was married to John Damer in 1767., and Mounted on page 184 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Subject (Topic):
- Military officers, Dutch, and Ethnic stereotypes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dutch officer [art original]
8. English officer in his morning dress [art original]
- Creator:
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1767?]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 183. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- English officer in his morning dress / by Miss Conway
- Description:
- Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a four of hearts playing card (57 x 85 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: English officer in his morning dress, by Miss Conway., A transformation card., Date inferred from the use of artist Anne Seymour Damer's maiden name Conway; she was married to John Damer in 1767., and Mounted on page 183 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Subject (Topic):
- Military officers, British, and Ethnic stereotypes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > English officer in his morning dress [art original]
9. Family grocery warehouse. T. Dawbarn, 59, Aldermanbury, facing the Axe Inn [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1816?]
- Call Number:
- File 66 816 F198
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- Trade card for the Dawbarn family grocery warehouse, situated in Aldermanbury, London. It shows a man wearing typical Chinese dress, sitting on boxes on the banks of a river. Behind him looms a large pagoda, and to his right a box, an urn, and a basket overflowing with goods
- Description:
- Title from item., Date entry in Kent's original London directory, 1816 edition., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- T. Dawbarn
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Grocers, Ethnic stereotypes, Pagodas, Rivers, and Ships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Family grocery warehouse. T. Dawbarn, 59, Aldermanbury, facing the Axe Inn [graphic]