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21.
The method of high-finishing family pictures [graphic].

Published / Created:
publish'd 1st Augt. 1771.
Call Number:
771.08.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An astounded-looking elderly man peeks into a room where a young woman reposes on a couch. Kneeling in front of her is a young man who reaches up and draws with a piece of chalk two horns on her husband's portrait above them
Description:
Title from item., Eight lines of verse in two columns on both sides of title: To one alone I cannot constant be, because the life I love is to be free ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Cuckolds -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Letters: billets doux -- Furniture: couch.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Couples, and Spouses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The method of high-finishing family pictures [graphic].

22.
The family concert La concert du famille. [graphic] =

Published / Created:
published Augst. 1, 1771.
Call Number:
771.08.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A woman and two men, dressed in the style of 17th-century Dutch paintings, are gathered in a room. The woman, sitting on the left, her left foot resting on a large wooden box protruding from under a table, plays the lute. One of her companions leans on the kilim-covered table with his left arm and sings from a book he holds open. The other man, draped in a cloak, stands in the background. Next to him is a bed with drawn curtains. A box and a candlestick stand on the table. On the floor in front of the table lies a playing card
Alternative Title:
Concert du famille
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The family concert La concert du famille. [graphic] =

23.
The Flemmish concert [graphic]

Creator:
Brookshaw, Richard, 1736-, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 23, 1771.
Call Number:
771.07.23.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A group of men sit at a table inside a large cottage or an inn. One of them, comfortably sprawled in a chair, is playing a violin. A man on the opposite side of the table is singing. To the left of the fiddler, another man is singing from a music sheet. A man in an apron, perhaps the innkeeper, is about to put a large glass with a drink on the table. Behind him on a bench stands a large jug. In the background is a large bed with open curtains
Alternative Title:
Flemish concert
Publisher:
Printed for R. Marshall, No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Flemmish concert [graphic]

24.
The cook in the white sheet, or, The pantry apparition [graphic].

Published / Created:
publish'd 2 May 1771.
Call Number:
771.05.02.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Pantry apparition
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Fourt lines of verse in two columns on both sides of title: So white, intent alone on means to thrive we all to overreach our neighbours strive ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Games: cards -- Playing cards -- Fear -- Lighting: candlelight -- Domestic service: servants -- Ghosts: pretend ghost -- Pets -- Fireplaces.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The cook in the white sheet, or, The pantry apparition [graphic].

25.
The unlucky discovery [graphic].

Published / Created:
publish'd 1 Jany 1771.
Call Number:
771.01.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman sits on the edge of a bed hung with curtains, as an older woman points accusingly at her, an angry look on her face and a pair of men's breeches in her hand. The young woman has a look of shame and sorrow on her face as she holds a cloth to her head
Description:
Title etched below image. and Four lines of verse in two columns on each side of title: Lurks there a vice in female breast? Like wind, It rages most when most it is confin'd. It will have Vent, to shew uys plainly still, That female Wit, can rival female Will.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Beds, Mothers, Trousers, Women, and Young adults
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The unlucky discovery [graphic].

26.
Philospher laughing at magick [graphic]

Creator:
Brookshaw, Richard, 1736-, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1771]
Call Number:
771.00.00.42+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Philosopher laughing at magic
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication date inferred from another print by Brookshaw: The Flemish ballad singer., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Philosophers -- Skulls -- Mortars and pestles -- Lighting: candlelight -- Bats -- Dog's head -- Books -- Glass bottles.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Philospher laughing at magick [graphic]

27.
The bad man at the hour of death [graphic].

Creator:
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1771?]
Call Number:
771.00.00.29
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in a dressing gown and nightcap, seated on a sofa, leans away in terror from a skeleton-like figure of Death aiming his spear at him. Next to him lies an overturned table with broken decanter and wine glass on the floor. His gouty left foot is supported on a stool; a crutch leans against the sofa. In the background stands a bookcase
Description:
Title from item., Artist and printmaker identified in Thieme-Becker, xvi, p. 180, Plate numbered '14' in lower left corner., One line of quote below title: For the wagers [sic] of sin is death., A companion print: The good man at the hour of death., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Death -- Books -- Furniture: bookcases -- Sofa -- Diseases: gout -- Literature: quotation from Bible, Romans, vi.23.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, N. 53 Fleet Street
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The bad man at the hour of death [graphic].

28.
The good man at the hour of death [graphic].

Creator:
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1771?]
Call Number:
771.00.00.28
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man lying in bed looks upward while Father Time with an hour-glass in his left hand and a scythe in his right one approaches the bed. In the background is a breakfront filled with books. A Bible lies on a chair next to the bed and there are several books on a table at the foot of the bed
Description:
Artist and printmaker identified in Thieme-Becker, v. xvi, p. 180, Plate numbered '13' in lower left corner., One line of quote below title: Let me die the death of the righteous & let my last end be like his., A companion print: The bad man at the hour of death., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Father Time -- Death -- Books: Bible -- Furniture: bookcases -- Canopy bed -- Literature: quotation from Bible, xxiii.10.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, N. 53 Fleet Street
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The good man at the hour of death [graphic].