An illustrated and engraved song: Caleb Quotem, the Parish Clerk, stands as if addressing the audience; he wears neat, old-fashioned dress, with flowered waistcoat. The scene is a village schoolroom, a day school. A little boy sits on a stool; a little boy and girl sit together on a form. The room is bare, with a table and a high shelf on which is a saucepan. A church can be seen through a window
Description:
Title from caption etched below image, above three columns of verse., One line of text above design: Sung by Mr. Fawcett, in the popular farce of the review, or the Wags of Windsor., Plate is numbered '420' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Three columns of verse below title: I'm parish clerk and sexton here, my name is Caleb Quotem ...
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Classrooms, Ecucation, School children, and Teachers
Wellington as the character Caleb Quotem from George Colman's "The review, or, The wags of Windsor" stands full-face in an old-fashion attire, holding a whip in one hand and a large Grenadier's bearskin in the other. From his mouth and scrolling above his hear is a long descriptive list satirizing his character and career
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Paul Pry is the pseudonym of William Heath., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Publisher's statement continues: "... sole publisher of P. Prys caricatures none are original without S. Gans' name."
Publisher:
Pub. June 1st, 1829 by S. Gans 15 Southampton St. Strand ...
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of text below title: Ay, he will wholesale you new wine and anon retail you old wit. Shakespier., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: wine merchants -- Connoisseurs -- Picture galleries: exhibition -- Male costume: cane -- Eyeglasses -- Literature: William Shakespeare, 1564-1616., and Matted to 49 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. June 11, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., Eight lines of verse below image: Tis the favorite plaything of school boy and sage of the baby in arms, and the baby of age ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Optician's shops -- Kaleidoscopes -- Jews -- Costume: male, female, 1818 -- Spectacles -- Parsons -- Vehicles: coach --- Umbrellas -- Walking-sticks.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1818 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville Street
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Pencil notation: Cambridge published by W. Mason., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Phrenology, Public speaking, Skulls, and Audiences
Print shows miners, Caucasians, Native American men, one African-American man, and one woman; panning and digging for gold along the Sacramento River in California. Some figures at left are seen holding gold nuggets in their hands; others at right are fighting; miners using various tools including baskets, gold pans, shovels, picks and cradles; mining camp and rolling hills in distance
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +204: On sheet 29 x 37 cm. and At foot of print: 370.
Publisher:
Kelloggs and Comstock and Ensign and Thayer
Subject (Geographic):
California and Sacramento River (Calif.)
Subject (Topic):
Gold miners, Gold panning, Indians of North America, African Americans, and Gold discoveries
Wash drawing of the small bronze bust of the Roman emperor Caligula, with silver eyes, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The bust was unearthed in Herculaneum and was sent to Walpole after being purchased by Sir Horace Mann in Florence
Alternative Title:
All bronze except the pedestal. The eyes are silver
Description:
Title from block letter inscription on pedestal in image; alternative title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 180 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Caligula, Emperor of Rome, 12-41. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Heading to printed verses: 'Written by Mr. C. Dibdin; Composed by Mr. Reeve; and sung by Mr. Smith, with unbounded Applause, in the "Magic Minstrel", at the Aquatic Theatre, Sadlers' Wells'. A dun stands before the doorstep of a dignified London house, facing a servant in livery with his hands in his pockets, whose master looks out of the adjacent window."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Call again tomorrow
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Three columns of verse in letterpress below title: I'll to court among the nobility, hold up my head with the best ..., and Plate numbered in upper left corner: 499.
Publisher:
Publish'd Nov. 1, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.