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1. 1812, or, Regency a la mode [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1812]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.129+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A toilet scene. The Regent stands in profile to the right at his dressing-table, rouging his cheek with a small brush. An attendant, resembling McMahon, laces the stays which in front resemble a waistcoat; he tugs at the lace, standing on a low stool, using one foot as a fulcrum against his master's posterior (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8287), a small buffer ornamented with goats' heads being attached to this foot. On the oval mirror which reflects the Prince's face sits a monkey, holding on its head a wig with a pyramid of curls above the forehead with large side-whiskers attached. The Prince's hair is similarly arranged. The Prince's tail-coat, in back view, is spreadeagled on a stand. On an ornate wall-bracket inscribed 'Bills' and 'Recetts' are two ornamental files, one filled with bills: 'hatters Bill', 'Poulterers Bill', 'Fishmongers B', 'Hair Dresser', 'Taylors Bill', 'Butchers Bill', 'Docters Bill', 'Silve smiths Bill'; the other empty. A bracket-clock, surmounted by a figure of Time shearing a triple ostrich plume, points to two o'clock (reversed). A round wall-mirror and candle-sconce is surmounted by a figure of Bacchus bestriding a cask. On the dressing-table are pots and jars of 'Tooth Powder', 'Rouge', 'Otto of Roses', and 'Secilian Wash for the Skin'. On the floor is a book, 'The Stripes Poem', which a small dog shaved like a poodle is befouling."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Regency a la mode
Description:: Title etched below image., Imprint statement burnished from plate and mostly illegible; it appears to begin "Pub. Feb. 1st [...?]"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Laid down on modern laid blue-grey THS Kent paper. Mounted to 49 x 36 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, and Dionysus (Greek deity),
Subject (Topic):: Dressing tables, Cosmetics, Corsets, Stools, Mirrors, Monkeys, Wigs, Debt, Sconces, Clocks & watches, Dogs, and Urination
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > 1812, or, Regency a la mode [graphic]

2. Candidates to succeed Tom Turlis [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1770]
Call Number:: 770.03.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Two groups of persons who are candidates for the place of hangman. Inscribed labels issue from the persons of four of them. Two men sit side by side on a settee, wearing curiously shaped crowns or coronets, one (left) shaped like a wall. The former holds a paper inscribed "To J------e G------m" showing that he is Justice Gillam, who ordered the soldiers to fire on the Wilkite mob outside the King's Bench Prison on 10 May 1768 (see British Museum Satires No. 4201). He says: "Everyone knows my abilities as a Man-killer". His companion says: "Let the Place be held by Commission and let the two Kennedies & my self, be Lords Commissioners of the Rope". Behind, and to the left of the settee three persons stand together: A rough-looking man, flourishing a stick says: "I wont accept of ye Office without a Peerage to Support its Dignity". Next him is a Judge in wig and robes. On the right., their backs to a window, stand three men; Sir Fletcher Norton in his Speaker's robes, and the horns which indicate that he is 'Sir Bullface Double Fee', see British Museum Satires No. 4238, 4462, and index, says: "B------n S------h has spoil'd ye Trade, if Murderers were to be hang'd ye Place might be worth acceptce". He stands between the two Kennedy brothers and is alluding to the reprieve (for transportation) of one of them, the other having been acquitted. "B------n S------h" may be intended for Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, a baron of the Exchequer. This reprieve was for the murder of a watchman in a drunken brawl, and was believed to be due to the influence of the young men's sister, Polly or Kitty Kennedy, see 1935,0522.2.2 and British Museum Satires No., 4463. It was made a political question by Parson Horne and others, see Walpole, 'Memoirs of the Reign of George IV', 1845, iv. 110-11; Stephens, 'Memoirs of Horne Tooke', i. 185. 1770."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Probably an illustration in The Oxford magazine, v. 4, page 113., Temporary local subject terms: Law: judge -- Law: speaker -- Emblems: crown of the City of London -- Furnishings: settee -- Paddle -- Hangmen: Tom Turlis -- Kennedy Brothers' reprieve -- Matthew Kennedy -- Patrick Kennedy -- Justice Samuel Gillam, Magistrate of Surrey, 1715-1793? -- Nicknames: Sir Bullface Double-fee (i.e., Sir Fletcher Norton)., and Mounted to 13 x 18 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Subject (Topic):: Sofas, Mirrors, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Candidates to succeed Tom Turlis [graphic].

3. Dressing for the House on the - March 1829 [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [24 March 1829]
Call Number:: 829.03.24.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Lyndhurst stands beside a dressing-table (left), in shirt-sleeves, wearing his Chancellor's wig. He puts one hand into the arm-hole of a coat which a footman in livery holds out, saying, 'Your Lordship's Coat is become very threadbare for you know you turned it only last year--& it has been turned before that: so I much doubt if it will bear turning any more-- Can't you afford to buy a new one now her Ladyship earns her own Expenses?-- Doodle pays all her bills and gives her every thing she can wish for.' Lyndhurst: 'Alas! she'll get no more out of Doodle! he has quite kicked her off--She is just now gone to Cumberland to try after a service there which perhaps may enable me to keep still sitting on Wool, if I can but turn this Coat once more & look decent.' On a settee (right) are the mace, Purse of the Great Seal, and the Chancellor's gown."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image. and Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella.
Publisher:: Pub. March 24, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):: Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Lyndhurst, Sarah Garay, Lady, 1795-1834., and Dudley, John William Ward, Earl of, 1781-1833.
Subject (Topic):: Dressing tables, Mirrors, Servants, Wigs, Coats, Ceremonial maces, and Robes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Dressing for the House on the - March 1829 [graphic]

4. French barracks [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [12 August 1791]
Call Number:: 791.08.12.01++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A view of the interior of a busy French barracks shows a more domestic than military atmosphere although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at her feet. Beside her another woman holds up a mirror so that an officer can admire his reflection from both the front and back. A third woman (left) cuts an officers toe nails as a barber dresses his long queue; another officer has his hair powdered. In the background a man in his night shirt sits on the side of his bed as he stretches his arms and yawns
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: English barracks., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Publish'd Aug. 12, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Name):: France. Armée
Subject (Topic):: Barracks and quarters, Foreign opinion, British, Arms & armament, Armor, Barbers, Barracks, French, Breast feeding, Canopy beds, Cats, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, Soldiers, Women, and Yawning
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > French barracks [graphic]

5. Milan Commission!!! [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:: [July 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Leach (right), the Vice-Chancellor, dressed as a woman, with a trimmed bonnet over his wig, sits on a corded chest inscribed Commissio[n] ; against this leans a book: Justifia et honor. He grasps a moneybag inscribed 10,000, and holds the ear of a fox which crouches against his knee. He faces John Bull who is stripped to the waist, with a gigantic leech on his back. John, a countryman in patched breeches, registers angry terror and pain; he looks over his shoulder, exclaiming: "D--me what a monstrous Leech! it not only sucks blood but honor also!" Leach says: "I am not plain, Leech, Sir, but by vulgar denomination--I am called Miss Leech if you please--." Beside J. B., and pointing menacingly towards him, are the muzzle of a cannon, a sheaf of bayonets in a chest inscribed 'G R' and 'Steel Lozenges' [see British Museum Satires No. 13513]. Against this lie shackles inscribed 'Bandages', and cannon-balls inscribed 'Bolus' and 'Iron Pills'. On a hill behind a large cap of 'Liberty' dangles from a gibbet against which leans a ladder. Leach's fox turns its head towards John, saying: "In Law. what plea so tained [sic] and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Observes the evil? There is no Vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts Shak Mer of Ven--Act 3 Scene 2." Behind Leach, and on the extreme right, is a second chest inscribed 'French and Italian Monkey[s]'. A monkey wearing a fool's cap crouches on it, grinning at his reflection in a hand-mirror."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 39 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "John Bull" and "Sir John Leach" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "July 1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of eight lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:: Pubd. July 1820 by Smolky, 18 Rupert Street
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Leach, John, 1760-1834
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character), Cross dressing, Bonnets, Chests, Foxes, Worms, Parasites, Cannons, Cannon balls, Bayonets, Shackles, Ladders, Gallows, Liberty cap, Monkeys, Mirrors, and Fools' caps
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Milan Commission!!! [graphic]

6. Morning preparation [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [24 February 1785] and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 10. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Restrike, with "Gillray fecit" added in lower left corner. For an earlier state of the plate, see no. 6790 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 72., and On leaf 10 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic]

7. Morning preparation [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [25 February 1785]
Call Number:: 785.02.25.01+
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Publication date of 25 April 1785 supplied by the British Museum catalogue for an impression lacking the imprint statement; this date apparently based on that of the companion print entitled: Evening consolation., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchairs -- Broken bellows -- Lighting: Dark lantern -- Emblems: Dark lantern of conspiracy -- Bellows as emblem of Ld. North., Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman., and Mounted to 37 x 31 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic].

8. Morning preparation [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [25 February 1785]
Call Number:: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Publication date of 25 April 1785 supplied by the British Museum catalogue for an impression lacking the imprint statement; this date apparently based on that of the companion print entitled: Evening consolation., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchairs -- Broken bellows -- Lighting: Dark lantern -- Emblems: Dark lantern of conspiracy -- Bellows as emblem of Ld. North., Mounted on verso of leaf 91., and 1 print : aquatint and etching on laid paper ; plate mark 36 x 25.6 cm, on sheet 39.3 x 25.9 cm, mounted to 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic].

9. Nine tailors making a man!, or, Foreign habits for a native prince! [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately May] 1819.
Call Number:: 819.05.00.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Regent, with one gouty foot, postures before a pier-glass which reflects his tight waist and spherical posteriors. His wig and whiskers are much exaggerated. All round him nine grotesque German tailors are at work or register admiration of the Prince; most of them are lean and moustached. Some sit cross-legged on the floor; one cuts from a roll of cloth assisted by a man with a yard-stick who says: "D--n de English Taylor, he not know how to handle de yard like de foreigner!" One irons a braided hussar jacket. On the floor: 'A List of Foreign Tailors recommended by Prince Esther Crazy to work for the R--t!' Nearer the Regent is 'A Goose!' with the adjacent inscription: '"To waste your time before a Glass / Exposes oft a monstrous Ass!' The Regent recites: "I begin to think that I'm a marvellous proper Man! "I'll have my Chambers hung with looking Glass And entertain a score or two of Tailors To study fashions to adorn my Body--""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Foreign habits for a native prince!
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Robert Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., and Approximate month of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:: Pubd. by Sidebethem [sic], 287 Strand
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subject (Topic):: Gout, Mirrors, Buttocks, Tailoring, and Irons (Pressing)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Nine tailors making a man!, or, Foreign habits for a native prince! [graphic]