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1. A mid- on half pay Tower Hill. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1827.
- Call Number:
- 827.00.00.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A midshipman, no longer young, in shirtsleeves, sits on a padlocked chest blacking a boot. He looks straight before him with a tragic expression. He wears his regulation top-hat, blue trousers, neatly patched, and waistcoat over a white shirt, and sits on the midshipman's coat which he has taken off. On the ground at his feet are a tray for blacking-brushes, a pot labelled Warrens Blacking 30 Strand, a broken dirk, top-boots, and shoes. Behind are houses on Tower Hill, with the moat. Behind (left) is an alehouse, with a pair of trousers hanging as a sign from a projecting flagstaff. Inset in the title is a group of sextant, telescope, a book: . . . ton More, &c, below the pawnbroker's sign of three balls."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Midshipman on half pay
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from text on earlier state: Engd. & pubd. ... by C. Hunt ..., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of a print published 1 June 1825 by Charles Hunt. Cf. No. 14921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Geographic):
- Tower Hill (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, Sailors, British, Military officers, Boots, Brooms & brushes, Shoe shining, and Shoe polishes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A mid- on half pay Tower Hill. [graphic]
2. A mid- on half pay Tower Hill. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1827. and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 66. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A midshipman, no longer young, in shirtsleeves, sits on a padlocked chest blacking a boot. He looks straight before him with a tragic expression. He wears his regulation top-hat, blue trousers, neatly patched, and waistcoat over a white shirt, and sits on the midshipman's coat which he has taken off. On the ground at his feet are a tray for blacking-brushes, a pot labelled Warrens Blacking 30 Strand, a broken dirk, top-boots, and shoes. Behind are houses on Tower Hill, with the moat. Behind (left) is an alehouse, with a pair of trousers hanging as a sign from a projecting flagstaff. Inset in the title is a group of sextant, telescope, a book: . . . ton More, &c, below the pawnbroker's sign of three balls."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Midshipman on half pay
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from text on earlier state: Engd. & pubd. ... by C. Hunt ..., Restrike, bearing the imprint of the 1827 reissue by Thomas McLean. For original issue of the plate, published 1 June 1825 by Charles Hunt, see no. 14921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 66 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Tower Hill (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, Sailors, British, Military officers, Boots, Brooms & brushes, Shoe shining, and Shoe polishes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A mid- on half pay Tower Hill. [graphic]
3. A perspective view of David Loudon's Bunn House at Chelsey who has the honour to serve the Royal Family / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1750s]
- Call Number:
- 750.00.00.90+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View of an open loggia, and above the royal arms and other figures."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Perspective view of David Loudon's Bun House at Chelsea
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "Hogarth's name appears on some impressions of this print and the style is similar to his work, but the print does not appear in any of Hogarth's own catalogues. It is likely that the name was added to the plate at a later date to enhance sales."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2420., Date of publication from description of presumed earlier state lacking Hogarth's name; see British Museum online catalogue., With a scale of measurement at bottom of plate and the text "52 by 21 feet" following title., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Stores & shops, Buildings, Loggias, Coats of arms, and Soldiers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A perspective view of David Loudon's Bunn House at Chelsey who has the honour to serve the Royal Family / [graphic]
4. A view of Ironmongers Hall in Fenchurch Street Vü de la Halle des Marchands de Fer dans Fenchurch Street. [graphic] =
- Published / Created:
- [between 1764 and 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 L847 750
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 25. London and its environs about 1750.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View looking down Fenchurch Street; the hall on the right with pediment at top above four Ionic pillasters, shop signs jutting out from buildings on the left, carts and carriages in street."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Vü de la Halle des Marchands de Fer dans Fenchurch Street
- Description:
- Titles etched below image, in English and French., Probably a later state, with slight alteration to the plate numbering format. For a state with "No. 6" in upper right corner, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 11875,0710.4909., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue., "The design copied from a print published at mid-century by John Bowles"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of the city of London and public buildings therein, accurately engraved from the originals taken on the spot", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 86, no. 8., Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner., and Leaf 25 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Worshipful Company of Ironmongers (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Streets, Buildings, Stores & shops, Carriages & coaches, and Carts & wagons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view of Ironmongers Hall in Fenchurch Street Vü de la Halle des Marchands de Fer dans Fenchurch Street. [graphic] =
5. A view of London from the Thames taken opposite the Adelphi / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 November 1809]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 646 808 M58 v.3
- Collection Title:
- V. 3 Microcosm of London.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View of the Thames, with the Adelphi at far left on opposite shore, St Paul's in mid-distance, Blackfriars Bridge to its right and the steam engine at the York Buildings waterworks on the far right."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 89., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 279.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Novr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Blackfriars Bridge (London, England), Thames River (England), London (England), England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England), and York-Buildings Company,
- Subject (Topic):
- Waterfronts, Buildings, Bridges, Rivers, Sailboats, and Rowboats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view of London from the Thames taken opposite the Adelphi / [graphic]
6. Barber Surgeon's-Hall, Monkwell Street [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [20 September 1800]
- Call Number:
- Print01098
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title and date from item., Place of publication derived from street address., Trimmed to plate., Below title: See Pennant's 3d. Edit., Original building was destroyed by World War II bombs, and rebuilt in 1969., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barber Surgeon's Hall; Barber surgeons.
- Publisher:
- Published Septr. 20th. 1800, by John Manson, No.6 Pall Mall
- Subject (Topic):
- Guildhalls and Buildings
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Barber Surgeon's-Hall, Monkwell Street [graphic].
7. Car drivers, Dublin [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, George, active 1824-1831, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1827] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 59. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1827, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 827.00.00.27., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 59 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Ireland and Dublin.
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life, Coach drivers, Carriages & coaches, and Buildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Car drivers, Dublin [graphic]
8. Fire in London [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 September 1808]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 646 808 M58 v.2
- Collection Title:
- V. 2 Microcosm of London.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View of the Albion Mills on fire at night; in foreground firemen lind up to fight flames, a number of hoses pointed at building, to the left men and horse-drawn carriages rush across Blackfriars Bridge towards the fire, people carry sacks away from flaming building; St Paul's in the distance across the river,"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 35., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 36.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 1st Septr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Blackfriars Bridge (London, England),, London (England), England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Albion Mills (London, England) and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Fires, Fire fighting, and Buildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fire in London [graphic]
9. Highbury Assembly House, near Islington, kept by Mr. Willoughby [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 September 1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 L847 750
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 47. London and its environs about 1750.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View looking across a lawn towards the house; a pond on the left with a dog drinking and ducks swimming, an elegantly dressed family with a dog and small girl in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Second in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "2" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 47 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
- Publisher:
- Published 12th Sepr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Highbury (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, Social & civic facilities, Dogs, Lakes & ponds, and Ducks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Highbury Assembly House, near Islington, kept by Mr. Willoughby [graphic].
