- Creator:
- Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1794]
- Call Number:
- 794.05.12.19
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The corner of a picture-gallery with a crowd of spectators peering at two pictures on the right. The most prominent are a short fat man, resembling caricatures of Captain Grose, and a dwarfish boy who stand in profile to the right. A man wearing a cocked hat, evidently standing on a bench, looks through a quizzing-glass at the upper picture. Two men in back view, one seated, one standing, look at pictures on the back wall, where a landscape is hung."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., From the series of Drolls., Numbered '133' in lower right of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Print shops -- Quizzing glasses.
- Publisher:
- Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Galleries (Display spaces), Spectators, and Pictures
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An exhibition [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 82. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Kitchen of a French post house ; Playing billiards
- Description:
- Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each with a separate title and signature., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Reduced copies of two designs by Bunbury. Cf. No. 4764 in v. 4 and no. 5913 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Restrike, with added titles and borders. For the earlier state without titles, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession nos.: 59.533.1749 ; 59.533.1747., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1803; see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., and On leaf 82 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Interiors, Kitchens, Fireplaces, Dogs, Furniture, Snuff, Billiard rooms, Billiards, Servants, and Pictures
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Kitchen of a French post house [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- 17 April 1789.
- Call Number:
- 789.04.17.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Numbered '137' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark in lower right corner, partially obscured by design.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 253 Fleet Street as the act directs
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Draperies, Drinking vessels, Interiors, Pictures, Parlors, Sofas, Tables, and Wine
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Stay with me Flagons, comfort me with apples for I am sick of love [graphic].
- Creator:
- Spooner, Charles, 1720-1767, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1760]
- Call Number:
- 760.00.00.12+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Jno. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Eating & drinking, Fireplaces, Hunting, Interiors, Pictures, Pipes (Smoking), Tables, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The sportsman taking refreshment [graphic]
- Creator:
- Pembroke, Thomas, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1740]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 56 Box 5
- Collection Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satirical drawing on the professions of medicine, law and the church. Three practitioners stand in a well furnished interior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document, the clergyman a book, and the physician a phial. Pictures on the wall show men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tithes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside
- Description:
- Title from that of the print likely engraved after this drawing., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Date of production based on that assigned to the print with the same image in reverse by Louis Philippe Boitard. See online record for no. 1775 in the British Museum online catalogue., Formerly laid in at page 207 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Interiors, Lawyers, Pictures, Physicians, and Quarreling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The triple plea] [art original]
- Creator:
- Pembroke, Thomas, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1740]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 56 Box 5
- Collection Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satirical drawing on the professions of medicine, law and the church. Three practitioners stand in a well furnished interior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document, the clergyman a book, and the physician a phial. Pictures on the wall show men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tithes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside
- Description:
- Title from that of the print likely engraved after this drawing., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Date of production based on that assigned to the print with the same image in reverse by Louis Philippe Boitard. See online record for no. 1775 in the British Museum online catalogue., Formerly laid in at page 207 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Interiors, Lawyers, Pictures, Physicians, and Quarreling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The triple plea] [art original]