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1. A beau-clerk for a banking-concern [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:: [March 1825]
Call Number:: 825.03.00.02+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Mrs. Coutts (right), fat, swarthy, and moustached, sits at a table, holding out a cheque for £100.000 to Lord Burford. Her Cheque Book lies on the table. He steps forward, hat in hand, left hand on breast, in profile to the right. She says: Why you seem to be a good looking hard working young fellow, but I must tell you my business is extensive And I shall expect you will employ your time day and night for the benefit of the Concern, you must also be humble and submissive, should this be realized on Trial I will make you a Sleeping Partner. And here's a trifle for you to buy a pair of gloves. He answers with eager deference: You may depend upon it Madam I shall endeavour to give you every satisfaction. I shall be very attentive and if I can't get through the business as you like, you are at liberty to employ an Assistant. Mrs. Coutts is décolletée and bejewelled, wearing a turban trimmed with a paradise-plume. The gold-bordered tablecloth is weighted with balls inscribed £20,000 and £9,000. Large money-bags are on the floor behind her: £800,000 and . . . 000. Under her chair are a glass and a decanter of White Tape. Behind her is a picture of heaped sovereigns and money-bags. Other pictures are a cow looking over the wall of Mrs C--s Dairy, and (left) a castle: View near St Albans. The chairs are decorated with coins pouring from cornucopias."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 32 x 46.4 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 1825 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):: St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837 and St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849
Subject (Topic):: Tables, Tablecloths, Checks, Turbans, Jewelry, Bags, Money, Chairs, Cornucopias, and Pictures
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A beau-clerk for a banking-concern [graphic]

2. A bottle of smoak, or, A song of sixpence [graphic]

Creator:: Marshall, John, Junior, active 1820, printmaker
Published / Created:: [8 September 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Ministers, much burlesqued, registering terror or anxiety, are grouped on either side of a large bottle of 'Evidence against the Queen' from which rise clouds of smoke, inscribed 'Lies' (four times) and 'Non mi Ricordo' [five times]. On the left sits Liverpool, saying: "We shall be all sent to the Devil." Next him Eldon scowls: "D--n that Non mi Ricordo." Wellington, fiercely anxious, stands behind Liverpool's chair holding a scimitar. Facing Liverpool sits Sidmouth, holding his clyster-pipe to his nostril, and exclaiming: "O! how reviving." Castlereagh exclaims: "Oh! L--d we shall be cast." Gifford says: "Oh! the secrets will come out." A seventh, (?) Harrowby, stands with a hand on the heads of Sidmouth and Castlereagh."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Song of sixpence
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse in two columns below title: Sing a song of sixpence a bag full of lies, Four and twenty witnesses all prov'd to be Spies, Before the bag was open'd the ministers 'gan to sing, Oh! here we have a dainty dish to set before the King. But when the bag was open'd the Lords began to stare, To see their precious evidence all vanish into air., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 80 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Wellington," "Liverpool," "Eldon," "Castlereagh," and "Sidmouth" identified in ink at bottom of image; date "8 Sep. 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of two lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:: Pub. Sep. 8, 1820, by John Marshall Junr., 24 Little St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826, and Harrowby, Dudley Ryder, Earl of, 1762-1847
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Anxiety, Fear, Bottles, Smoke, Evidence (Law), Chairs, Daggers & swords, and Medical equipment & supplies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A bottle of smoak, or, A song of sixpence [graphic]

3. A brace of blackguards [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [20 June 1789]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 12
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Three men in a tavern with three pictures on the wall with images of pugilists, a portrait of Buckhorse and two images of fights. The one man has his head on the table, presumably passed out and asleep. The other man sits in a chair looking out at the viewer, a club in his hand and a dog at his feet. The third man stands behind him, his fists postitioned ready for a bout, although he holds a smoking pipe in his left hand. On the mantel are glasses and flasks of liquor
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Manuscript notion identifies the seated man as "Morland the artist" and the man standing behind him as "Rowlandson"., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., For a description of the reissue or alternate version of this design from 1812, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 230., Temporary local subject terms: Tankards -- Pictures amplifying subjects: 3 prints of pugilists., 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, touches of color ; sheet 35.4 x 23.2 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Pubd. as the act directs, June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay on the Steine, Brighthelmstone
Subject (Name):: Morland, George, 1763-1804 and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Subject (Topic):: Artists, British, Boxing, Chairs, Dogs, Drinking vessels, Fireplaces, Pipes (Smoking), Sports posters, Tables, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A brace of blackguards [graphic]

4. A decent story [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [9 November 1795]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A stout man (right), seated at a round table, tells a story to a parson on his left, who grins broadly. Two women fix the raconteur with expressions of absorbed amusement, while an officer is more frankly amused at watching the lady on his right. All are elderly. On the table are a decanter of 'Port' and glasses. A patterned carpet completes the design. From a sketch by an amateur."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.5 x 34.3 cm., Watermark, partially trimmed: Turkey Mills [J. Whatman]., and Mounted on leaf 77 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:: Pubd. Novr. 9th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):: Chairs, Clergy, Floor coverings, Military uniforms, British, and Storytelling
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A decent story [graphic].

5. A game at put in a country alehouse [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [10 August 1799]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 6
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image., 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: Put -- Male dress, 1799 -- Yokels., and Mounted on leaf 32 of volume 6 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Pubd. Augt. 10, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):: Card games, Chairs, Dogs, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Tables, Tableware, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A game at put in a country alehouse [graphic]

6. A young wanton [graphic].

Published / Created:: June 1, 1777.
Call Number:: 777.06.01.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A young woman wearing a semi-transparent and low-cut dress sitting with her arm on the back of her chair, fingers knit together, glancing coquettishly towards the viewer, while a man enters the room in the background to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title engraved below image., Two lines of text from Proverbs VI:25-6 engraved below title: Lust not after her beauty in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eye-lids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread., and For a similar droll with the same title and quotation, engraved by John Raphael Smith and published 12 June 1776 by Carington Bowles.
Publisher:: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, map & printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):: England and London
Subject (Topic):: Chairs, Clothing & dress, Floor coverings, Lust, and Prostitutes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A young wanton [graphic].

7. An ordinance dream, or, Planing of fortifications [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:: [3 March 1786]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Duke of Richmond (left) sleeps in an arm-chair beside a table on which are playing-cards and bits of broken tobacco-pipes arranged to represent fortifications. On the right are two cannons, one on a gun-carriage ; a cat sits on its muzzle miaowing at Richmond, one paw on the table. By his side (left) are plans on rollers and a box of long tobacco-pipes. On the wall hang two pictures on rollers as if they were plans. In one (left) soldiers with wheelbarrows, &c. work on the sea-shore, off which dismantled ships lie at anchor. In the other, cannons and cannon-balls with one sentry lie along the sea-shore, off which are ships at anchor with brooms at their mast-heads to show that they are for sale. Richmond's hat, overcoat, and sword hang on the wall between the two pictures. At his feet is an open book inscribed 'Trial of Colol Debbeig'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Planing of fortifications and Planning of fortifications
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego and British Museum Catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: House of Cards -- Card players -- Bill to fortify Portsmouth -- Fortifications -- Furniture -- Pictures that amplify subject -- Matches -- Pets., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 24.6 x 33.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Published March 7th, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic):: Chairs, Sleeping, Tables, Playing cards, Pipes (Smoking), Cats, and Pictures
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An ordinance dream, or, Planing of fortifications [graphic].

8. Anecdote maçonnique [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [21 November 1786]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated, others standing. On the left sit the French members, the most prominent being Cagliostro; all wear masonic aprons. ... "--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Masonic anecdote
Description:: Titles in English and French etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Captions in French and English etched under each title, respectively., Thirty lines of verse in French below image on left, under the heading, "Abregè de l'histoire du Comte Arabe": Nè Dieu sait où, maintenu Dieu sait comme ..., Thirty lines of verse in English below image on right, under the heading, "Abstract of the Arabian Count's memoirs": Born God knows where, supported God knows how ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, and imprint statement mostly erased from sheet; imprint from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdresser -- Hairdressers: Mr. Barker, King Street, Bloomsbury -- Opticians: Mr. Mash -- Interior of the Freemasons' Lodge of Antiquity -- Freemasons' symbols -- Furniture -- Upholstered chair -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Glass decanter -- Glass bottle -- Wine glasses -- Punch bowls., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 53.8 x 48.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:: Publish'd November 21st, 1786, for the proprietor by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):: Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
Subject (Topic):: Freemasonry, Quacks and quackery, Fraternal organizations, Interiors, Dining tables, Chairs, Candles, and Eating & drinking
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anecdote maçonnique [graphic]

9. Beggars opera Act 2, Scene I. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [approximately February 1809]
Call Number:: 53 C599 S809
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Duke of York sits on a settee with a courtesan on each knee, Mrs. Clarke (left) and (presumably) Mrs. Carey (right). One foot rests on large volumes of 'Army Accompts'; by the other is a smaller book: 'Ovid Art of Love'. A chair is overturned; the Duke's (broken) sword transfixes a paper: 'Promotions, My Foot Boy' [Carter, see British Museum Satires No. 11223], 'Foster 200 ... 150, Smalcroft200....' [see British Museum Satires No. 11227]. On a round table are decanters, fruit, a stand of jelly-glasses. Above the Duke hangs a picture of the Prodigal Son watching swine at a trough, inscribed: 'I will Arise and Go To my Fa[ther]'. Mrs. Clarke, unnoticed by the Duke, makes a sign to Wardle (right) who enters the room holding out a paper: 'The Duty which I Owe to my Country is Paramount to Every Other Concideration' [the tenor of the opening of his speech of 27 Jan. attacking the Duke). He is followed by a crowd of shadowy figures carrying a gibbet, an axe, and a statue of Justice."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Beggars opera : Act 2, Scene 1
Description:: Title etched below image., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted opposite page 14.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):: Courtesans, Adultery, Sofas, Books, Chairs, Daggers & swords, Tables, Bottles, Fruit, Chandeliers, Pictures, Doors & doorways, Axes, Gallows, Sculpture, and Justice
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Beggars opera Act 2, Scene I. [graphic]