A copy of the caricature of the British Statesman and High Lord Chancellor Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), that appeared in the center of an print that was published on 1 October 1834 in Every body's album & caricature magazine, no. 19. He is depicted as a very thin traveller wearing a Scottish tam over his wig and using a broom as a walking stick; his shoe is worn through. He carries a wooden post labelled "Scratching post", a box stamped "Containing the freedoms of all the Scotch towns" and a bag with the words "Broken victuals the leavings of the Edinburgh blow out". Around his waist is another bag, "Oat meal". Above the image framed in lines in gold ink: “I flatter myself I've made a tolerable good job by my “Starring it” with Old Grey in the North! Sold all my numbers of the Penny Magazine, and well puff'd it through every town I went. Made little less than one hundred speeches about, I forget now, Received some score of Burgesses, Freedoms, and Invitations to as many dinners, where I blew my own trumpet & obtained plenty of orders from our Usefull Knowledge Society! Now, woe to the unstamn'd when I get home! I must have a good scrub at my skin presently; I reckon I have got a taste of the fiddle through my itch for travelling!
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Drawn after a print by C.J. Grant, published ca. 1833 by G. Drake as No. 56 in The political drama series; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.11156. A nearly identical image also appears among several designs in Every body's album & caricature magazine, No. 19 (1 October 1834); see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 834.10.01.01+., and Additional text written within speech box above image: I flatter myself I've made a tolerable good job ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Government officials, and Judges
Page 25. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the monument in St. Mary's Church, with the bust of the Countess of Ailesbury sitting on a pedestal at center, head shrouded. Columns supporting an ornate roof flank the bust on either side, the area between their bases decorated with a pattern of quatrefoils. A winged cherub head hangs from the bottom of each column. A scale bar runs along the bottom of the sheet
Alternative Title:
Monument of the Countess of Ailesbury in the church at Sundridge, Kent
Description:
Title written in ink at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on watermark: A. Blackwell & G. Jones 1802., and Mounted on page 25 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
A caricature showing a couple full-length as they dance. The older man with a very large and balding forehead holds the arm of a young girl; both are standing on their toes. She is holding a fan and looking away from the man
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attributed to William Heath by curator., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 7 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
John Bull stands defiantly in the center of a crowd of angry men -- military officers, gentlemen of various ages, tradesmen, and an amputee -- most of whom hold out bills ranging between £50 and £5000; the speech bubbles above their heads read: "King's taxes"; "Police rate"; "Parish rates"; "Excise duties"; "Tithes church rates pew rents & Easter doos [sic]"; "Sundres &c." John Bull's response reads, "Damme ye had better devour me., ye voratious crew. Am I never to have my hands out of my pocket again, but 't wont last long lads. I shall soon be in the Gazette & then ye lazy drones ye must work hard for you own livings." The man with a large belly on the lower right carries a little dog under his arm
Description:
Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Paper watermarked: J.R. 1828., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxation, Anger, Crowds, Demonstrations, Dogs, Men, Military officers, and Obesity
Drawing of a tall sign, with a post similar to that of a street lamp, displaying a rectangular portrait of a man surrounded by ornamentation. The man, possibly a politician, is shown bust-length in profile to the left; he has a long nose that curls upward and wears a wig that likewise curls upwards in the back. The words "The saviour of his grateful country" are written on the sign directly beneath the portrait, indicating that the sign might in fact be a monument. To the right of the sign is a low milestone on which is written "To Kingston I mile, to London X miles".
Description:
Title written in image., Possibly drawn by James Sayers; the drawing is laid in a volume of prints that Sayers assembled., Approximate date of production from watermark: G. Pike 1817., and Attached to a lithograph with a metal pin that pierces the lower left corners of both sheets; laid in James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Traffic signs & signals, Milestones, and Portraits
A caricature of a couple, full-length and fashionably dressed in a simple way, are shown in profile kissing. The length of their arms is exaggerated and are in contrast to their short legs. The woman's eyes are open but the man's are closed
Alternative Title:
Conclusion
Description:
Title written in ink, below image., Mounted on the verso of an estate map of Creeves, in Limerick County, Ireland., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
A whimsically portrayed Horace Walpole makes a shushing gesture with one finger on his lips while holding an empty picking basket in his other hand. A small lapdog with a decorative bow tied around its neck, presumably Tonton, accompanies Walpole on the task. Doctor John Dolittle, the central character in Hugh Lofting's series of children's books also appears in the scene as a young curious boy pointing up towards the hill
Description:
Title from text above image., Date based on watermark: 1914 England., Text penned below title: The dilletante member for King's Lynn sneaks away from Parliament in the midst of an important debate to pick strawberries on Strawberry Hill with his young friend John Dolittle, the naturalist, aged seven., and Text penned below image: Note: the dog shown is the first specimen of the Strawberry-hound introduced into England.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 23 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A burly and ragged Englishman with a wooden leg sits on the knee of a fat and grotesque Irishwoman; they kiss, his right arm round her neck, both her arms round his shoulders. A poverty-stricken room is indicated by a low casement window with broken panes, bricks showing through broken plaster, and a rough plank door (right). On a table is an enormous tankard and a small measure of gin
Alternative Title:
Union between England and Ireland
Description:
Title from inscription below image in black ink in the artist's hand., Future [?] imprint statement inscribed in black ink: London, Pubd. Jany. 1800., Image associated with Thomas Rowlandson's etching. Union between England & Ireland. Published 1799. Cf. George., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9462., and For further information, consult library staff.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 46 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A dour woman wearing a feathered headdress stands before a preacher and his clerk as they exclaim respectively, "O Lord, save this lady, thy servant" followed by "Who putteth her ladyship's trust in thee."
Alternative Title:
Churching a lady
Description:
Title inscribed in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Great Britain, Preaching, Religious services, and Churches
Half-length portrait of a man shown in profile looking left, wearing a hat over long hair and smoking a short-stemmed pipe
Description:
Title from text inscribed in graphite pencil above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.