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2.
- Published / Created:
- [19 April 1786]
- Call Number:
- 49 3069
- Collection Title:
- Page v. 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. 7029. Johnson (left) climbs up a mountain on hands and knees, his oak stick in his left hand. Boswell follows, also on hands and knees; he licks Johnson's posteriors, saying, "I shall record this". Johnson says, "Come Bossy". Behind and below them a loch and mountain (right) are indicated. In the foreground (left) is a huge thistle."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Tomtit twittering on an eagle's back-side
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., A companion print to: A tour to the Hebrides., On paper with a watermark (trimmed)., and Tipped in at page v 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 (Name):
- Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
- Subject (Topic):
- Mountains, Climbing, Staffs (Sticks), and Thistles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tom tit twittering on an eagle's back-side [graphic]
3.
- 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]
4.
- Creator:
- Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 October 1782]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 11. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 125. Bunbury
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A girl dressed in male clothing, starting with a startled expression and thrusting her right arm forward as she stands between two monks, others seen from behind exiting through a door with inscription in tablet above at right, another ringing a bell through an arch at [left], the choir beyond; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Prinkmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue., "Final third state, the aquatint considerably lighter than in the second and the inscription above the doorway in even engraved letters"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1893,0731.62., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse below image, following title: Thoughts of past joys before the altar rise, stain all my soul and wanton in my eyes! I wake the matin lamp in sighs for thee, thy image steals between my God and me. Eloisa., Mounted on page 125 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching with rocker in reddish-brown ink on laid paper ; sheet 38.8 x 50.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Octr. 20th, 1782, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749.
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Abbeys, Monks, Doors & doorways, and Bells
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Adelaide entering in disguise the Abbey of La Trappe, hears her lovers voice in the choir mem. of the Comte de Comminge / [graphic]
5.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1768 and 1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 768B
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Hudibras and Ralpho encounter a mob armed with sticks; in the foreground, a one-legged fiddler, a butcher and a dancing bear with his leader. On the left, a woman reaches out her arms
- Alternative Title:
- Hudibras's first adventure
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., After Hogarth., From a series of twelve prints issued by Robert Sayer., Date of publication based on publisher's name and address in imprint statement. Robert Sayer moved to 53 Fleet Street in 1760, and from 1777 onward he formed partnerships that caused him to trade under different names (Sayer & Bennett, Sayer & Co., etc.); see British Museum online catalogue. He acquired the Hogarth plates from Overton and re-issued them and copies in 1768. See Paulson., Numbered '3' in upper left corner; "Part 1 Canto 1 l. 1." in upper right corner above image., Verse in three columns below image: "The Catalogue and Character of th' enemies best men of war Whom in a bold Harangue the Knight Defies and challenges to fight; H' encounters Talgol routs the bear, And takes the fidler prisoner; Conveys him to enchanted castle There shuts him fast in wooden bastile.", Copy of no. 506 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 84., and From a set of twelve prints, all with two sewing holes along left edge.
- Publisher:
- Printed & sold by Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Bears, Crowds, Butchers, Musicians, People with disabilities, Puritans, Riots, and Trained animals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Adventure of the bear and fiddle Part 1. Canto 1, line 1. [graphic]
6.
- Creator:
- Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 February 1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 1. Bunbury
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A woman in a bleak mountainous landscape cradling an infant, sitting beside the body of a man lying bleeding on the ground, a dog sitting in the foreground beside his master; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker attribution to Dickinson from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1891,0213.43., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Six lines of verse below image, etched on either side of title: Cold on Canadian Hills or Minden Plain! Perhaps [the] parent wept, her soldier slain, Bent o'er her babe her eyes dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Sad mournfull presage of his future years; The child of misery baptized in tears. Langhorne., Mounted on page 1 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching on laid paper ; sheet 36.9 x 43.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Feby. 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Langhorne, John, 1735-1779.
- Subject (Topic):
- Mountains, Infants, Wounds & injuries, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Affliction [graphic]
7.
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1837]
- Call Number:
- 837.00.00.09+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- At a Christmas eve party, Mr. Pickwick plays a game of blind-man's buff with his friends and family
- Alternative Title:
- Pickwickian illustrations
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Text in lower left corner of image: Page 296., Text in lower right corner of image: Chap. 28., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of twenty prints published in 1837 by T. McLean with wrapper title: Pickwickian illustrations : twenty plates / by Heath., and With: Mother-in-law, "how are you"?
- Publisher:
- T. McLean
- Subject (Name):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. and Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Subject (Topic):
- Games
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Blindman's buff [graphic].
8.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1768 and 1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 768B
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A riot in the street beside Temple Bar, the western boundary of the City of London, with the mob hanging and burning effigies of the members of the Rump Parliament; an effigy of Hudibras is carried in from the right on a pole by a man who carries in his other hand a sign "Down wth the Rumps"; he is followed by a crowd of men gesturing with sticks, brooms, and other tools. Rumps of beef burn over fires in the street
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., From a series of twelve prints after Hogarth and issued by Robert Sayer. Publisher name from first print in series., Date of publication based on publisher's name and address in imprint statement on the first plate in this series. Robert Sayer moved to 53 Fleet Street in 1760, and from 1777 onward he formed partnerships that caused him to trade under different names (Sayer & Bennett, Sayer & Co., etc.); see British Museum online catalogue. He acquired the Hogarth plates from Overton and re-issued them and copies in 1768. See Paulson., Numbered '11' in upper left corner., Eighteen lines of verse in three columns, below image: That beastly rabble, that came down From all the garrets in the town, ... Made up of rags to personate Respective officers of state., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, volume 1, number 514., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), number 92., and From a set of twelve prints, all with two sewing holes along left edge.
- Publisher:
- Robert Sayer
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680. and Temple Bar (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Puritans, Crowds, Effigies, Executions in effigy, Fires, Riots, Signs (Notices), and History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Burning the rumps at Temple-bar Part 3 Canto 2: L.1505. [graphic]
9.
- Creator:
- Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 August 1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 5. Bunbury
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A woman seated in profile to right, holding a handkerchief on her laps with both hands; a little girl standing next to her, almost in profile to left, putting both hands on the woman's lap and looking up towards her; to right, an older girl seated, holding a book open on her lap with both hands, looking up to the sky; to left, a boy seated, in profile to left, blowing a trumpet; in a roundel; after H Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title from text below image., State with dedication added above imprint statement. For an earlier state lacking this text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.953., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of text below title: The shade of my mother hovers round me, when in a still evening I sit in the midst of her children, I wish that she could look down upon us, and see that I fulfil the promise I made her to be a mother to them. Sorrows of Werter, Dedication etched above imprint statement: To the Honble. Miss Grenville, this print after an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated by her most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson., Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther., Mounted on page 5 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; circular image 30.0 cm, on sheet 40.1 x 36.0 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd August 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Trumpets, and Books
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Charlotte [graphic]
10.
- Creator:
- Baldrey, John, 1758- printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 November 1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 33. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A woman sitting on a stool in a landscape, looking up from her writing, upon a wedge on her lap, a cat reaching up to her knee for attention at left, a man packing a gun through a fence beside a house at right, a tower and woods in the distance beyond at left; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., For an earlier state, published 12 November 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by R. Wilkinson, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3003., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text below title: "The rival of the parson's maid was she." Gay., Companion print to: Marian., Plate numbered "6" above image., and Mounted on page 33 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 25, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Women, Writing, Cats, and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cicely [graphic]