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1. "A little music", or, The delights of harmony [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [ca. 1810]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A young woman plays the piano (right) with painful intentness, and sings, as does the man who holds open her music-book, inscribed 'On Rosy Bed by Tinckling Billy'. A middle-aged military officer stands full face playing the flute. A fat elderly 'cit' sleeps in an arm-chair (left); his wig has fallen off and his legs rest on another chair. Behind him a very obese man and an ugly and over-dressed woman with a grotesquely thin neck sing from the same piece of music: 'On Rosy Bed'. He warms his back at a blazing fire; the feathers in her hair are alight in one of the candles on the chimney-piece. A small boy blows a toy trumpet, a dog howls and a cat miaows, standing on an open music-book inscribed 'Water Part ....' Chinese figures on the chimney-piece and the lintel of the door represent comic musicians playing different instruments."--British Museum online catalogue, description of state with imprint
Alternative Title:: Delights of harmony
Description:: Title etched below image., Variant state, lacking publication line, of a print originally published with the imprint: London: Published May 20, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street." Cf. No. 11611 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Publication information based on that of state with imprint., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and Mounted on leaf 80 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:: H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Topic):: Cats, Dogs, Figurines, Music rooms, Musicians, and Sleeping
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "A little music", or, The delights of harmony [graphic]

2. "Ah, grant a me von letel bite" [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 December 1780]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A foppishly dressed young man, intended to represent a starving Frenchman, is begging for a "letel bite" from a boy in a butcher's apron. The boy is holding a large bone in his hands and has a slab of beef ribs sticking out of his pocket
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 18.3 x 14.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 7 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:: Publishd. Decr. 1st, 1780, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: National characteristics, French, Starvation, Butchers, Dandies, French, Meat, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Ah, grant a me von letel bite" [graphic].

3. "All Bond-Street trembled as he strode" [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [8 May 1802]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A squarely built young man walks, with an unseeing stare, diagonally towards the spectator and to the left, on a pavement. He wears a round hat, high coat-collar over swathed neckcloth; his double-breasted 'Jean de Bry' coat, see BMSat 9425, is strained across a double-breasted waistcoat horizontally striped. He wears long breeches or pantaloons which drape his legs, and low pumps with cross gartering above his ankles. In his right hand he clutches a tasselled cane, held horizontally."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched above image., 1 print : etching & stipple engraving with roulette on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.8 x 20.8 cm, on sheet 33.0 x 23.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 74 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):: Fife, James Duff, Earl, 1776-1857
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "All Bond-Street trembled as he strode" [graphic]

4. "An angel gliding on a sun-beam into Paradice," Milton [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [11 October 1791]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Mrs. Schwellenberg, enormously fat and heavily laden, supported by small wings, floats or falls head foremost down a broad slanting ray, which extends from a sun with a crown in its centre in the upper right corner of the print and stretches across the sea to a castellated town flying a flag inscribed 'Hanover'. Half only of the crown and sun is visible. Her massive legs terminate in tiny feet. In her arms are two large money-bags, labelled 'Pr Ann.' and '£1000000'. Her bulging pocket hangs downwards, a rosary and cross hanging from it."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Angel gliding on a sunbeam into Paradise
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of quoted text below title: "Down thither, prone in flight, lo Schwelly speeds, & with her brings the gems and spoils of Heav'n.", Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Angels -- Sunbeams -- Bags of money -- Rosaries -- House of Hanover -- Crowns -- Allusion to George III -- Allusion to Queen Charlotte -- Literature: altered quotation from John Milton's (1608-1674) Paradise Lost., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.5 x 21.1 cm, on sheet 30.5 x 22.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:: Pubd. Octr. 11th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):: Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "An angel gliding on a sun-beam into Paradice," Milton [graphic].

5. "And catch the living manners as they rise" [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [7 May 1794]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A young man (left) takes with his left hand the right hand of a young woman, who bows towards him, holding her limp skirt delicately between finger and thumb. Both wear burlesqued versions of the newest fashions. He wears a striped sleeveless vest or waistcoat made in one piece with a pair of pantaloons which reach below his calves where they are tied with bunches of ribbon. A voluminous swathed neckcloth conceals his chin. His powdered hair is frizzed on his head with a long queue. He holds a round hat and a bludgeon in his right hand. She wears in her hair three extravagantly long ostrich feathers, which rise from a small cap or turban and sweep across the design, with an erect brush-aigrette ; long tresses issue from the turban with the feathers and fall below her waist. Her limp high-waisted dress with short sleeves falls from below uncovered breasts, which are decked with a lattice-work of jewels caught together by an oval miniature (cf. BMSat 8521)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray, working from a design by 'Miss Aynscombe.' See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1794 -- Female costume, 1794., 1 print : etching & aquatint with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.9 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 35.7 x 25.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 56 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 7th, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "And catch the living manners as they rise" [graphic].

6. "And would'st thou turn the vile reproach on me?" [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 February 1807]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A grotesquely hideous man, lean and elderly, sits in an armchair addressing a comely young woman who stands demurely (l.), her pose accentuating her pregnancy. Behind them is an empty fireplace; on the chimney-piece is a Venus pudica flanked by cupids, one with a bow and arrow, the other with a torch. On the wall are two pictures; (l.) a cock and hen facing each other like fighting-cocks, and (r.) a horse in the last stage of decrepitude, assailed by carrion birds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:: Publish'd Feby. 2d, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "And would'st thou turn the vile reproach on me?" [graphic]

7. "Aside he turn'd for envy, yet with jealous leer malign, eyd them askance" [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [12 December 1782]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In a woodland setting Shelburne and Pitt sit smiling behind a cloth-covered table on which are coins and bags of money. A glum-looking Fox stands several feet distant with hands in pockets. A reference to Fox's exclusion from office while Pitt was Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Shelburne ministry. The title is a quotation from Paradise Lost
Alternative Title:: Aside he turned for envy, yet with jealous leer malign, eyed them askance
Description:: Title from text etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 22.5 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 25.4 x 33.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:: Pubd. Dec. 12th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Aside he turn'd for envy, yet with jealous leer malign, eyd them askance" [graphic]

8. "Crumbs of comfort", or, Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately August 1782]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The Devil stands at the center of a mountain top with outstretched wings, dressed in lawyers wig and bands, but with horns on his head and feet with claws. On the left Fox kneels, eagerly receiving from Satan a dice box and dice, an allusion to his notorious gambling habit, while on the right Burke receives a scourge and rosary, a reference to his supposed Catholicism. A satire on the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment
Alternative Title:: Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker and approximate date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possible remnants of burnished imprint in lower right, with the publisher name "E. D'Achery" faintly visible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.0 x 32.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 46 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):: Devil, Gambling, Catholicism, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Crumbs of comfort", or, Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children [graphic].

9. "Don't tell me of Major Semple! Why Major Semple's no more to be compar'd to this here rascal, than I am, to my Lord Kenyon or Buonapartè!" [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [18 November 1801]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Bust portrait in an oval. Scarcely a caricature but a study in facial expression of a cornered swindler. A man, fashionably dressed, but with dishevelled hair, gazes fixedly to the left, with pursed mouth and wrinkled forehead. Below the design is a list of eight names ('alias' repeated seven times) beginning: 'Mr Thos Ogle (the Notorious Swindler) - by which Name he Married Two Wives', and ending: 'Vide - his Examinations before the Magistrates of Bow Street in Novr 1801'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from quotation etched above image., Text below title: Townsend, Pole. Officer, Bow Street., Temporary local subject terms: Swindler -- Thomas Ogle -- Major Semple -- William Smith -- Thomas Robison -- Batty -- Captain Johnson -- Thomas Bashford -- Robertson -- Lieut. Colt. Cs. Pullen., 1 print : etching, aquatint, & stipple engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 25.6 x 20.5 cm, on sheet 34.2 x 27.6 cm., Watermark: J. Ruse., and Mounted on leaf 61 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:: Publishd. Novr. 18th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Don't tell me of Major Semple! Why Major Semple's no more to be compar'd to this here rascal, than I am, to my Lord Kenyon or Buonapartè!" [graphic]