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1. A macaroni family returning from church [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [June 1773]
- Call Number:
- 773.06.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of people are shown walkiing down a city street as they return from a church service. Two carry bibles, one a snuff-box. One man carries a large muff, and the woman wears a skirt with an enormous hoop. The church is shown in the background on the right
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Companion print: The old political macaroni with his wise family at breakfast. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4821., and Plate from: The macaroni and theatrical magazine, or, Monthly register of the fashions and diversions of the times. London : John Williams, June 1773, p. 403.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Chimney sweeps, Churches, City & town life, Dandies, Dogs, Servants, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A macaroni family returning from church [graphic].
2. An electioneering procession from the M-n House to G-d Hall [graphic]
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, artist
- Published / Created:
- [25 October 1781]
- Call Number:
- 781.10.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "An election procession of thirteen patriots walking from right to left wearing the colours of Sir Watkin Lewes, elected M.P. for the City, 29 Sept. 1781, see British Museum satire no. 5849. Two flags are carried, one "Lewes & Freedom", the other, "No Ministerial Influence", in reference to Lewes' speech on his election on 29 Sept. Two of the men are playing flutes, a third blows a horn. The figures are probably portraits; two are butchers wearing aprons, their steels hanging from their waists; beside one of them walks a muzzled dog with a collar inscribed "Liberty"; this butcher is eating as he walks. One man drinks a glass of wine, holding a lump of food in his left hand. One with a swathed and gouty leg walks on crutches. All have election favours in their hats, these are inscribed respectively "Lewes for ever"; "Sr Watkin for ever"; "Freedom"; "Lewes"; "No Bribery"; "Lewes"; "No Corruption". In the hat of the butcher with the dog is "Freedom's my plan Sr Watkin is the Man". The background is formed by the lower part of the façade of two houses in a street, the front of two shops being indicated. On the pavement (left) four little chimney-sweeps are shouting and waving their hats and brushes."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Electioneering procession from the Mansion House to Guildhall
- Description:
- Title etched below image. The 'o' in 'electioneering' has been inserted above the line., Signed in the image "J.N." JN is the monogram of John Nixon., and Verses following title: These stanch friends to freedom you here do behold, Will be bribe'd with good eating tho' they spurn at yr gold. For offer them money it's such a disgrace, 'Tis a thousand to one they dont spit in your face. But give them pudding & beef with compliments civil, To serve you they'll go ay e'en to the devil."
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Octr. 25, 1781 by W. Wells No. 132 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London, and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821 and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Political activity, Elections, Butchers, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Clothing & dress, Corruption, Dogs, Muckraking, Musical instruments, Political parades & rallies, Slogans, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An electioneering procession from the M-n House to G-d Hall [graphic]
3. Do you want any brick-dust [graphic]
- Creator:
- Merke, Henri, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.02.20.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A pretty young maidservant stands on a doorstep (right) while a man, Irish in appearance, gazes insinuatingly into her face as he fills her bowl with brick-dust from a jar. He has an ass which stands patiently, a double sack pannier-wise across his back and a second jar or measure standing on the sack. The profile of a shrewish old woman looks through the door at the couple, who are intent on each other. A dog barks at the girl. Behind is a street, the nearer houses tall the farther ones lower and gabled. At the doorway opposite a woman appears to be giving food to a poor woman and child. A man and woman lean from the attic windows of adjacent houses to converse. A little chimney-sweep emerges from a chimney, waving his brush."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below series title and number., 1 print : etching with aquatint ; sheet 32.2 x 25.6 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored. Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 44 x 35 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Feb. 20, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Bricklayers, Charity, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, Dogs, Donkeys, Street vendors, and Women domestics
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Do you want any brick-dust [graphic]
4. Les Savoyards [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Augt. 1st, 1835.
- Call Number:
- 835.08.01.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- A little music à la françoise
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Text above image: A little music à la françoise., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 13047 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9; originally published Sept. 18, 1818, by G. Humphrey., Temporary local subject terms: Gypsies -- Dustmen -- Dustman's bells., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 30.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Topic):
- Butchers, Children, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Musical instruments, Organ grinders, Street entertainers, and Violins
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Les Savoyards [graphic]
5. The Frenchman at the market intended as a companion to the Frenchman in London, by Collett / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Smith, Adam, active 1760-approximately 1780, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1770]
- Call Number:
- 770.00.00.65
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A street scene in London near a butcher's shop with the portly owner assaults a gaunt Frenchman. A small chimney sweep drops a mouse into the Frenchman's wig as a dog fouls the Frenchman's legs. A woman with a tobacco pipe in her mouth trudges in the background balancing a basket of vegetables (or apples?) on her head. A lean Scotchman steals from the distracted butcher's stall
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Text above image: Engraved for the Oxford magazine., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum. London : Printed for the authors, v. 5 (1770), page 216., and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Street life, City & town life, Butchers, Butcher shops, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Occupations, Ethnic stereotypes, and Pipes (Smoking)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Frenchman at the market intended as a companion to the Frenchman in London, by Collett / [graphic]
6. The Piccadilly nuisance! dedicated to the worthy, acting magistrates of the district / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 December 1818]
- Call Number:
- 818.12.29.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A disorderly mass of pedestrians fills the pavement outside the White Horse in Piccadilly, the street slanting in perspective from left to right. The pillared porch of the hotel is flanked by large curved windows, above which is the inscription 'Coffee House & Hotel'. The porch is inscribed 'Hatchetts', above it, against the wall, is the (pictorial) sign of a white horse, inscribed: 'Coaches & waggons to all parts of the kingdom'. Above the area railings, which are hidden by the crowd, is a placard (over the entrance to the basement): 'White Horse cellar coaches to all part[s]'. In the foreground (right) a coach and pair with outside passengers is driven recklessly (right to left) by a driver in a many-caped coat; an angry man sprawls by the horses' hoofs, another escapes to the right. A box-like coach or wagon facing in the opposite direction is on the off-side of the first; a man pushes a fat woman in at the back, while two outside passengers are about to fall from the roof, which is open. It is inscribed 'T[O] . . . MERS . . . TURNHAM' [? To Amersham by Turnham Green]. At the edge of the pavement stands a tough-looking coach-tout pointing out the Amersham wagon to an oafish-looking and would-be fashionable countryman whose pocket is being picked by a little Jewish boy; a Jewish woman with a basket of fruit slung from her neck deftly screens him. A raffish tout dressed as a coachman assails alarmed pedestrians with violent gestures. A stout John Bull pushes violently past a Jewish fruit-seller, spilling the fruit, while the Jew takes a watch from his fob. A boy diving for the falling fruit upsets a man carrying on his head and porter's knot a large corded chest. A little chimney-sweep with twisted shin-bones quizzes an amused negro servant, who holds a band-box, and is smartly dressed, but wears an apron. Facing the coaches stands a newsboy, holding up his papers to the passengers. He holds his horn; in his hat is a placard: 'Great News from St Hel[ena]'. Below, where the crowd is thickest in front of the hotel porch, men fight with fists. Two dandies stand under the porch, above the mêlée."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 29, 1818 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Piccadilly (London, England), England, and London
- Subject (Topic):
- Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, Crowds, Dandies, Dogs, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Piccadilly nuisance! dedicated to the worthy, acting magistrates of the district / [graphic]
7. The Piccadilly nuisance! dedicated to the worthy, acting magistrates of the district / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Augt. 1st, 1835.
- Call Number:
- 835.08.01.50+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A disorderly mass of pedestrians fills the pavement outside the White Horse in Piccadilly, the street slanting in perspective from left to right. The pillared porch of the hotel is flanked by large curved windows, above which is the inscription 'Coffee House & Hotel'. The porch is inscribed 'Hatchetts', above it, against the wall, is the (pictorial) sign of a white horse, inscribed: 'Coaches & waggons to all parts of the kingdom'. Above the area railings, which are hidden by the crowd, is a placard (over the entrance to the basement): 'White Horse cellar coaches to all part[s]'. In the foreground (right) a coach and pair with outside passengers is driven recklessly (right to left) by a driver in a many-caped coat; an angry man sprawls by the horses' hoofs, another escapes to the right. A box-like coach or wagon facing in the opposite direction is on the off-side of the first; a man pushes a fat woman in at the back, while two outside passengers are about to fall from the roof, which is open. It is inscribed 'T[O] . . . MERS . . . TURNHAM' [? To Amersham by Turnham Green]. At the edge of the pavement stands a tough-looking coach-tout pointing out the Amersham wagon to an oafish-looking and would-be fashionable countryman whose pocket is being picked by a little Jewish boy; a Jewish woman with a basket of fruit slung from her neck deftly screens him. A raffish tout dressed as a coachman assails alarmed pedestrians with violent gestures. A stout John Bull pushes violently past a Jewish fruit-seller, spilling the fruit, while the Jew takes a watch from his fob. A boy diving for the falling fruit upsets a man carrying on his head and porter's knot a large corded chest. A little chimney-sweep with twisted shin-bones quizzes an amused negro servant, who holds a band-box, and is smartly dressed, but wears an apron. Facing the coaches stands a newsboy, holding up his papers to the passengers. He holds his horn; in his hat is a placard: 'Great News from St Hel[ena]'. Below, where the crowd is thickest in front of the hotel porch, men fight with fists. Two dandies stand under the porch, above the mêlée."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Reprint. Originally published by George Humphrey, 29 December 1818.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Geographic):
- Piccadilly (London, England), England, and London
- Subject (Topic):
- Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, Crowds, Dandies, Dogs, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Piccadilly nuisance! dedicated to the worthy, acting magistrates of the district / [graphic]
8. The enraged musician [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 November 1741]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Plate 30. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in London, possibly near St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, shows a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street; a pregnant ballad-seller chants while her baby cries and a parrot above her head on the lamp post squawks; a milkmaid and other street-traders cry their wares; one small boy plays a drum while another urinates under the startled gaze of a small girl who holds a rattle and stands by a house made of toy blocks; an itinerant oboist plays; a dustman carries his basket and a bell; a knife-grinder sharpens a cleaver, a dog barking at his feet; on the roof at the right two cats fight (both shown with arched backs) just beyond the chimney from which a chimney sweep emerges. A sign to the left of the musician's window advertises The Beggar's Opera. A sign on the building to the right reads "John Long Pewterer." In this state the horse on the extreme right is black (white in the earlier state), the boy's slate trailing on the ground was only half shaded in the earlier state, but is now darkened
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., "Price 3 shillings"--Following imprint., and On page 103 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 35.6 x 40.8 cm.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Blocks (Toys), Cats, Children, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Musical instruments, Musicians, Noises, Occupations, Parrots, Street vendors, and Urination
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The enraged musician [graphic]
9. The enraged musician [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 November 1741]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 30. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in London, possibly near St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, shows a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street; a pregnant ballad-seller chants while her baby cries and a parrot above her head on the lamp post squawks; a milkmaid and other street-traders cry their wares; one small boy plays a drum while another urinates under the startled gaze of a small girl who holds a rattle and stands by a house made of toy blocks; an itinerant oboist plays; a dustman carries his basket and a bell; a knife-grinder sharpens a cleaver, a dog barking at his feet; on the roof at the right two cats fight (both shown with arched backs) just beyond the chimney from which a chimney sweep emerges. A sign to the left of the musician's window advertises The Beggar's Opera. A sign on the building to the right reads "John Long Pewterer." In this state the horse on the extreme right is black (white in the earlier state), the boy's slate trailing on the ground was only half shaded in the earlier state, but is now darkened
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., "Price 3 shillings"--Following imprint., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 102 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 35.6 x 40.9 cm.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Blocks (Toys), Cats, Children, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Musical instruments, Musicians, Noises, Occupations, Parrots, Street vendors, and Urination
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The enraged musician [graphic]