- Published / Created:
- [1819?]
- Call Number:
- 819.00.00.37
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene on a city sidewalk: a dandy who has dropped his handkerchief has trouble picking it up. A couple from the townhouse opposite and a couple of men on the sidewalk laugh at the struggles of the dandy
- Alternative Title:
- Dandy in distress!
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Thirteen lines of text below title: A correspondent furnishes us with the following picture of an exquisite alias a dandy in distress, "Walking in one of the squares last week it was my fate to follow an exquisite ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An exquisite alias dandy in distress! [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1818?]
- Call Number:
- 818.02.06.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A foppish parson, directed to the left, wearing a voluminous surplice over a high 'dandy' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029) collar, with bands, and displaying elegant be-ringed hands, preaches from a pulpit, the upper part only of which is depicted. In his eye is stuck a monocle with short handle and cord. A large book is on his pulpit-cushion, which is elaborately trimmed with gold fringe, and he reads with a complacent smile: "And behold in these times the Dan-dees were" / "arrayed in Garments of divers fashions--and in" / "fine Linens curiously wrought--and moreover--" / "they were gazed upon by the bretheren of the Land," / "in which they dwelt--and the people marvelled." / "Lib. 2-- ver 6. 7. 8"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Possibly a later state, with imprint removed, of a print published 6 February 1818 by S.W. Fores. Cf. No. 13016 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Date of publication based on description of possible earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Clergy, Preaching, Pulpits, and Rings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fashionable reading vide new church Oxford. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1794]
- Call Number:
- Drawings B87 no. 8 Box D105
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A soldier, worried look upon his face, leads his pregnant lady by the arm through a rural scene
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on uniform., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, British, Poverty, Pregnant women, and Soldiers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A soldier and his girl] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [1776?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 15 Box D155
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Scene showing the actor and dramatist Samuel Foote in the role of Fondlewife, a character in William Congreve's comedy "The Old Bachelor". Foote wears a long unfastened, deep-cuffed coat over a waistcoat, breeches tied at the knee, and a tassled scarf knotted at his neck. He holds a tall walking stick in his right hand
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777, and Congreve, William, 1670-1729.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Mr. Foote as Fondlewife] [art original].