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1. The armorial bearings of the white cat [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1820?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satirical arms with a donkey as the crest, an owl wearing a cap on its back. The donkey stands upon a "Log" which rests upon a "Bible", a paper marked "Address", and a "Liturgy Petition" with a cross on it. The shield contains various images, including three warships, a tankard of beer, military tents next to cannons, and a ram. Hops and barley (or another grain) are present on either side of shield, akin to supporters. Latin mottos are contained within ribbons at the bottom, and read "furiis in censa feror" and "vir tutis sub umbra viti um."
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Sometimes found as a tailpiece to, and perhaps issued with, the following work: The attorney-general's charges against the late queen, brought forward in the House of Peers, on Saturday, August 19th, 1820 ... London : G. Humphrey, [1820?]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Watermark: 1819., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other item) on leaf 13 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and With pencil annotation "Log-Wood, Brewers Drey[...?]" in upper right margin, in reference to elements of the image.
- Publisher:
- G. Humphrey?
- Subject (Topic):
- Coats of arms, Donkeys, Owls, Warships, Sheep, Drinking vessels, Beer, Tents, and Cannons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The armorial bearings of the white cat [graphic].
2. The shepherdess of the Alps [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- publish'd Feby. 20th, 1794.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 103. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young shepherdess at left leads her flock through a stream, approaching a piper sitting on rocks at right, mountains behind; oval design; after Kauffman."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Imprint at bottom of plate includes publisher's name and street address; secondary publication statement immediately below image includes publication date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Illustration to Marmontel's moral tale 'The shepherdess of the Alps'., and Mounted on page 103 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Marmontel, Jean-François, 1723-1799.
- Subject (Topic):
- Shepherds, Sheep, Streams, and Wind instruments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The shepherdess of the Alps [graphic]
3. The slumbers of Ragotin interrupted [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd May 29th, 1773.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An illustration to Scarron's 'Roman Comique' (1651), Book II, ch. xx. The scene is the room of an inn. Ragotin, almost bald, sits in an upright chair wearing a long sword and jack boots; his legs do not reach the ground. The ram (left), on its hind-legs, is about to butt him. The encounter is watched by a man who leans on the back of his chair, by another seated behind the ram, and by a third standing between Ragotin and a group of two ladies and a man on the right, one being Inezilla, who had just been reading her novel. Behind this group are the curtains of a bed."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image; letter "n" in "interrupted" is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Scene from Roman comique (1651), Book II, by Paul Scarron, 1610-1660 -- Clowns: Ragotin., Mounted on page 75 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 22.5 x 33.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Scarron, Paul, 1610-1660.
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Sleeping, Sheep, and Animal attacks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The slumbers of Ragotin interrupted [graphic]
