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61.
Palemon and Lavinia [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 January 1805]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A loutish yokel (l.), holding a pitchfork, grins avidly at a hideous and elderly country woman who crouches behind a stile (r.), her features twisted in a sly grimace. In the background (l.) men reap a corn-field, and corn-stooks cover a more distant...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. Jany. 23d, 1805, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Palemon and Lavinia [graphic]

62.
Posting in Ireland [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[8 April 1805]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A grotesquely dilapidated post-chaise stands outside a ramshackle inn (r.); the driver lashes the horses cruelly, a boy lifts a pitch-fork to strike, but the wretched animals refuse to move. A barefooted slattern approaches from the r. with a huge re...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd. April 8th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Posting in Ireland [graphic]

63.
Posting in Scotland [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 May 1805]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A very clumsy post-chaise descends a mountain road across a bare moor. On approaching a hair-pin bend the fore-heels have broken off, the chaise is about to upset, the occupant falls through the front window. A Highlander lies prone on the roof, sayi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Posting in Scotland [graphic]

64.
Raw-weather [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 February 1808]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A pedestrian, flimsily dressed in tail-coat, nankeen trousers, and pumps, struggles against driving rain, turning an agonized face to the spectator. He walks (r. to left.) on a muddy track beside a decayed paling. A raven croaks on a rotten tree. In ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Raw-weather [graphic]

65.
Sad sloppy weather [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 February 1808]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout, elderly, well-dressed man walks along a pavement past a ramshackle hovel, holding, reversed, a closed umbrella, which he uses as a walking-stick. He steps on a stone which tilts, splashing his white stockings with filth. From a rotten pipe w...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Autumn, City & town life, Rain, Streets, and Weather
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sad sloppy weather [graphic]

66.
Taking physick [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[6 February 1800]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An unshaven man, wearing only nightcap, shirt, breeches, and slippers, stands by the fireside grimacing with disgust, a medicine-bottle in one hand, full cup in the other. A dying fire, bare boards, and medicine-bottles on the chimney-piece add to th...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 6th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Taking physick [graphic].

67.
The Bulstrode siren [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 April 1803]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Duke of Portland and Mrs. Billington sit side by side on a settee; she sings to him, he listens ecstatically, with clasped hands, his head turned in profile to the right., staring with amorous intensity. She holds her music, but looks alluringly ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 14th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818 and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Bulstrode siren [graphic]

68.
The Bulstrode siren [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 April 1803]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Duke of Portland and Mrs. Billington sit side by side on a settee; she sings to him, he listens ecstatically, with clasped hands, his head turned in profile to the right., staring with amorous intensity. She holds her music, but looks alluringly ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 14th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818 and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Bulstrode siren [graphic]

69.
The Graces in a high wind" a scene taken from nature, in Kensington Gardens / [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 May 1810]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three young women, dressed alike in clinging dresses and straw bonnets trimmed with ribbons, are distressed by a high wind. Their dresses are above the ankle, and differ from those in No. 11594 in having long tight sleeves, and longer waists. Two hol...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 26th by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Graces in a high wind" a scene taken from nature, in Kensington Gardens / [graphic]

70.
The consequence of going before the wind [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 November 1805]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly man, holding his umbrella in front of him to form a sail, cannonades into another skater, who falls, the apex of the umbrella entering his mouth, while his foot strikes the stomach of the aggressor. The ice cracks beneath them. The latter ...
Alternative Title:
Elements of skateing : the consequence of going before the wind and Elements of skating : the consequence of going before the wind
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The consequence of going before the wind [graphic].

71.
The dandy [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 June 1810]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fashionably dressed man canters in profile to the left on a well-bred horse. He holds his single rein with both hands. He has a large whisker, and wears a small hat, swathed stock, and shirt-frill with tail-coat and top-boots. No background."--Brit...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 29th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The dandy [graphic]

72.
The keenest sportsman in Broomswell Camp, 1803 [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1803]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout man in regimentals holds a greyhound on a leash; he looks with a sly smile towards a yokel (l.) who points to the left., as if to show the whereabouts of a hare. The officer slyly indicates with a forefinger two horses whose heads only appear...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The keenest sportsman in Broomswell Camp, 1803 [graphic]

73.
The master's wig the guilty wight appals, who brings his dog within the college walls [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[22 October 1806]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The undergraduate (r.) finds himself face to face with the Master who is walking with a Fellow across the College quadrangle. He stops, putting his hand to his cap, while his dog tries to take cover behind his legs and gown. A college servant behind ...
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress at the university. No. 3
Description:
Title from text within curly brackets below image, following series title.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 22d, 1806, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The master's wig the guilty wight appals, who brings his dog within the college walls [graphic].

74.
The royal lounger [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 June 1804]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Duke of Clarence stands full face, realistically depicted but cruelly caricatured, with porcine features. He wears a cylindrical hat with curved brim, a double-breasted coat with star, cut away to show the lower part of a double-breasted waistcoa...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. June 26th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The royal lounger [graphic].

75.
The sound of the horn!, or, The danger of riding an old-hunter [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1807]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"While crossing a ford the horse of a man with a lady seated behind him rears and snorts and prepares to gallop after the hunt: huntsmen follow a pack in full cry on the opposite hill (r.). The lady is very fat and wears a light, loose dress with a cl...
Alternative Title:
Danger of riding an old-hunter
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. December 1st, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The sound of the horn!, or, The danger of riding an old-hunter [graphic]

76.
The stays [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 February 1810]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman stands in profile to the left, at a dressing-table, while a buxom ladies' maid laces a pair of long stays. She wears a boudoir cap tied under the chin, and holds a flat ruler-shaped stick under the stays in front to regulate the operati...
Alternative Title:
Progress of the toilet : the stays
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title and preceding plate number.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 26th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The stays [graphic]

77.
The theatrical bubble being a new specimen of the astonishing powers of the great Politico

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[7 January 1805]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Sheridan, as Punch, grotesquely caricatured, stands on a platform, above the heads of a cheering crowd, blowing soap-bubbles. Clusters of soap-suds fall from the pipe, and from it rises an oval containing a figure of Young Roscius, in Highland dress ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. Jany. 7th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The theatrical bubble being a new specimen of the astonishing powers of the great Politico-Punchinello in the art of dramatic puffing / [graphic]

78.
The three Mr. Wiggins's [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[16 June 1803]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three handsome young men, stooping slightly, walk languidly arm-in-arm along a pavement in profile to the left. They have a strong family resemblance, with variations in profile and in the size of their whiskers. They are dressed alike, except for di...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 16th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Mathew, Montague James, 1773-1819
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The three Mr. Wiggins's [graphic].

79.
The wig [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 February 1810]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The lady sits facing her reflection in a pier-glass. She wears a plain muslin gown with long sleeves and holds an open book: 'Delphine'. Her hair is cropped; the maid holds the brown wig with tight curls which she is about to place on her mistress's ...
Alternative Title:
Progress of the toilet : the wig
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title and preceding plate number.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 26th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The wig [graphic]

80.
Theatrical-mendicants relieved "have pity upon all out achès & wantès!" / [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[15 January 1809]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Kemble, in tattered theatrical dress, stands at the gate of Northumberland House in the Strand, holding out his hat and bowing to the obese and oafish-looking Duke of Northumberland, who is placing a "Draft for 10,000 Pounds" in the hat; in his right ...
Alternative Title:
New dramatic resource : "a begging we will go! A scene from Covent Garden Theatre after the conflagration
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. Jany. 15, 1809, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, Strand, The (London, England), and Covent Garden Theatre.
Subject (Topic):
Fires, Fools & jesters, and Harlequin (Fictitious character)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Theatrical-mendicants relieved "have pity upon all out achès & wantès!" / [graphic]

81.
Venus a la coquelle, or, The Swan-sea Venus [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[28 March 1809]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A very fat lady crouches in a shell drawn by two swans; she holds (tricolour) reins attached to the birds' necks; a carriage-whip is in her right hand. She has a blotched profile; snaky curls hang oddly over her face; she wears a swathed neck-cloth o...
Alternative Title:
Venus a la coquille, Swan-sea Venus, and Swansea Venus
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. March 28th, 1809, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Venus a la coquelle, or, The Swan-sea Venus [graphic]

82.
Very slippy-weather [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 February 1808]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In front of Humphrey's print shop window, a man sits on the pavement, having fallen backwards; his legs are splayed up, his wig is falling off, and coins spill from his pockets. The man's predicament is unobserved by four men studying the Gillray pri...
Alternative Title:
St. James's Street
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clergy, Coach drivers, Falling, Merchandise displays, Military officers, British, Older people, People associated with commercial & service activities, Prints, Syphilis, Stores & shops, Thermometers, Weather, Window displays, and Printing industry
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Very slippy-weather [graphic]

83.
Wide-awake [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 November 1806]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A 'cit', ugly and elderly, sits full face at right angles to the fire (right). He has been suddenly awakened by two squalling cats behind him (left) and registers surprise and terror, with staring eyes and gaping, distorted mouth. Both hands are rais...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 1st, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Parlors, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wide-awake [graphic].

84.
Windy weather [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 February 1808]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A thin, sharp-featured man walks in the teeth of the wind, holding on his hat, and with his left hand in his breeches pocket. His hat-brim, hair, cravat, coat, the tail of his shirt, the strings of his breeches and shoes, all fly backwards. He walks ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Autumn, Cityscapes, Milestones, and Winds
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Windy weather [graphic]

87.
The comet of 1811 [graphic].

Published / Created:
[January 1811]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An adaptation in reverse of No. 7508 by Sayers. The Prince's head, set in a star which is the head of the comet, is as in No. 7508 except for the addition of a stock between the wings of the coat-collar. In the comet's tail the first profile head is ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1811 by T. Moon, Westminster
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Ponsonby, George, 1755-1817, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The comet of 1811 [graphic].

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