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1. Miseries of the country [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1807] and [printed approximately 1980?]
- Call Number:
- Paulson 807.00.00.91
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Men in various stages of drunkenness sit at a dinner table while others are passed out on the floor. One man in topboots dances on the table as he waves his hat and a bottle. Several of the men of the party are passed out in their chairs or have fallen on the floor. An obese parson leans against the wall as he vomits. Several of them are wearing hunting hats; on the wall are antlers and a hunting-piece
- Alternative Title:
- While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Text below title: While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex being under under the necessity of getting dead drunk every day to save your life. Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas., Later state, with border added. For an earlier state lacking border, see no. 10828 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 124., Late-20th century restrike on modern paper, similar to others from the same collection bearing pencil annotations suggesting printing dates around 1980. The copper plate would have been in the possession of the successor Leadenhall Press in England at the time, according to Nicholas J.S. Knowles., and Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806; see no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- Country life, Intoxication, Manners & customs, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, and Vomiting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of the country [graphic]
2. The hungry epicure disappointed [art original]
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1830 and 1852]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G761 no. 8 Box D123
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man with a queue wig and wearing spectacles (right) sits expectantly at a small round tea table set for two; his hands on the table glench his knife and fork, his napkin tied around his neck like a bib. He leans forward as he eyes the food approach carried by a woman in a mop cap and wearing spectacles who stands full lengh (left) holding a long handled frying pan heaped high with dark ashes. He says, "Come, come, Dame is'nt my eggs and bacon done yet. I'm literally famish'd in waiting." She replies, "I am very sorry to inform your worship that just as I had done 'em so nice all this here soot fell into the pan."
- Description:
- Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Accidents, Cookery, Eating & drinking, Dining tables, Starvation, and Tableware
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The hungry epicure disappointed [art original]
3. [A master parson with a good living] [art original].
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1782]
- Call Number:
- Drawings D574 no. 6 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 63
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, an obese clergyman with his equally large, bespectacled wife sit at a dining table with their three children; on the back wall hangs a portrait of the clergyman. He raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
- Description:
- Title from pencil inscription on verso., Date of production based on date of published mezzotint after this design., The daughter's face has been redrawn on a small piece of paper that has been pasted over the original sheet., and For a mezzotint engraving of this design, see no. 3753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Families, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Servants, Sconces, and Rugs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A master parson with a good living] [art original].
4. [Dining scene] [art original]
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1765?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An interior scene, with four people seated and presumably eating around a table on the right. A man and a woman stand apart from the others on the left, beside a fireplace. Three arched windows are seen on the wall in the background
- Description:
- Title and date from local card catalog record., Signed by the artist in upper left corner., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Fireplaces, and Windows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Dining scene] [art original]
