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1.
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]

2.
Blackberrying [graphic]

Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
[before 1860]
Call Number:
860.00.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene with a group of mourners in a landscape, a palm tree to the left with a monkey watching and pointing to the drama. A man standing to the right reads from a book; three other figures, another man and a woman with a child on her back weep as they watch two men lower the deceased into the grave. The man on the right says, "How precious pale he look in de face." The other man holding the other end of the stretcher says, "Aye-Aye, him be no Moor."
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state of a plate first published by Gabriel Shire Tregear in 1834, the year in which the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. The original print was one of twenty caricatures with the series title 'Tregear's Black Jokes'. The prints developed the theme of the earlier 'Life in Philadelphia' caricatures (of which Tregear published copies), lampooning the social aspirations of Philadelphia's black population. After Tregear's death, the plates for 'Tregear's Black Jokes' passed to his former shopman Thomas Crump Lewis (1808-81), whose publication line is on this later state. The three mentions of Tregear's name on the plate have either been changed to Lewis's or simply effaced., Dated 1860 by the Library of Congress, but Hickman suggests that the prints were issued before that date., "Catalogue of prints"--Etched in lower right corner., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
T.C. Lewis & Co., 96 Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Graves, Shovels, Grief, Crying, and Monkeys
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Blackberrying [graphic]

3.
Little pickle [graphic]

Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1840?]
Call Number:
840.00.00.69
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear, 123 Cheapside
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Little pickle [graphic]

4.
The pleasures of a cigar [graphic]

Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1840?]
Call Number:
840.00.00.33+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text below title: "Gently o'er my senses creeping.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Lewis & Co., 79, Leadenhall St.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The pleasures of a cigar [graphic]

5.
Riches [graphic]

Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1835?]
Call Number:
835.00.00.218+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Four lines of verse below title: If e-'er you see a parson tall, some six feet two at least ..., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1834.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear, Cheapside
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Riches [graphic]

6.
The new shoes [graphic]

Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
825.00.00.35
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
One of a series of British social caricatures lampooning the pretensions of early 19th-century middle-class Philadelphians, mainly the city's growing community of free African Americans. Influenced by an increasing fascination with American culture and a growing racism stemming from the abolition of slavery in England, the African American characters are depicted with grotesque features and manners, wearing outlandish clothes, and speaking in patois and malapropisms to be portrayed as ineptly attempting to mimic white high society. In this print the artist mocks African American vanity and the desire to look white: a well-dressed African American woman purchasing shoes at "Sambo Paley Boots & Shoe Manufacturer." The belle, portrayed with mannish features, wears a yellow bonnet with a white veil that frames her face like long straight hair. Seated, she slightly lifts her red dress to inspect the black shoe that the African American sales clerk has just placed on her large foot. She believes the shoe "is sich a bery dirty color" and does he not have any white or pink ones. The kneeling sales clerk attempts to persuade her that it may not be "handsome" to look at, but surely a "good color to wear." Another clerk with a row of boots behind him is seen in the background performing as a store sign states, the "Best Jet Blacking Sold Here." On the left, an African American couple is seen walking passed the store
Alternative Title:
New shoes
Description:
Title from caption below image. Series title appears at top of image., Prints based on an American publication from 1828-30: Clay, E.W. Life in Philadelphia., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, African American women, Afro-Americans, Clothing & dress, and Shoe stores
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The new shoes [graphic]

7.
The union [graphic]

Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
Jany. 1st, 1833.
Call Number:
833.01.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Letter "J" in "C.J. Grant" etched backwards., and Publisher's advertisement below title: See Tregear's Catalogue of humours.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear, 123, Cheapside
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The union [graphic]

8.
The Robin Hood family, or, Archers of 1833 [graphic]

Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1833]
Call Number:
833.00.00.09+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Archers of 1833
Description:
Title from caption below image., Letter "J" in "C.J. Grant" etched backwards., and Publisher's advertisement in lower right corner: See Tregear's Catalogue of humourous prints.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear, Cheapside
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Robin Hood family, or, Archers of 1833 [graphic]

9.
"How do you find yourself dis hot weader Miss Chloe?" [graphic]

Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830?]
Call Number:
830.00.00.07
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption continues: "Pretty well I tank you Mr. Cesar only I aspire too much!", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Costume: 1830., Watermark: J Whatman., and Plate numbered in ms. near top of sheet: 237.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Fans (Accessories), Staffs (Sticks), and Umbrellas
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "How do you find yourself dis hot weader Miss Chloe?" [graphic]

10.
Shall I hab de honour to dance de next quadrille wid you Miss Minta? [graphic]

Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830?]
Call Number:
830.00.00.06
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption continues: "Tank you Mr. Cato wid much pleasure only I'm engaged for de nine next set!", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: Balls -- Costume: 1830.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Eyeglasses, and Monocles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Shall I hab de honour to dance de next quadrille wid you Miss Minta? [graphic]