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1.
A country attorney and his clients Avocat de la campagne avec ses clients. [graphic] =

Published / Created:
published as the act directs, 2 March 1785.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lawyer wearing spectacles and with a feather pen in his mouth sits at a tall desk in his study while country bumkins solicit him with payment in dead animals and produce -- e.g., rabbits, fowl, and piglets. His clerk (behind him at the desk) smiles ...
Alternative Title:
Avocat de la campagne avec ses clients
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Barter, Country life, Law offices, and Lawyers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A country attorney and his clients Avocat de la campagne avec ses clients. [graphic] =

2.
A glee Une allegresse. [graphic]

Published / Created:
published as the act directs, [1785]
Call Number:
785.00.00.104+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6912; a similar group of men in a similar room stand or sit at a rectangular table singing from a large music-book held open on the table. Punch-bowl, wine-bottle, glasses, pipes, a tumbler are on the t...
Alternative Title:
Allegresse
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Singing, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Wine, Drinking vessels, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A glee Une allegresse. [graphic]

3.
A journeyman parson going on duty [graphic].

Published / Created:
9 Novr. 1785.
Call Number:
785.11.09.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a parson saying farewell to his family as he prepares to ride off on his unkempt horse to give a 'Charity Sermon'; they stand outside a thatched cottage on the right and a milestone indicates that they are 70 miles from London; their small bo...
Description:
Probable reissue of no. 3756 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, pt. 2. Original issue without imprint date; dated in the Catalogue ca. 1760.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A journeyman parson going on duty [graphic].

4.
A master parson returned from duty [graphic].

Published / Created:
9 Novr. 1785.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Architectural follies, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Clergy, Dogs, Gates, Parks, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A master parson returned from duty [graphic].

5.
A master parson returned from duty [graphic].

Published / Created:
9 Novr. 1785.
Call Number:
785.11.09.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Architectural follies, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Clergy, Dogs, Gates, Parks, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A master parson returned from duty [graphic].

7.
His Grace the Duke of Portland [graphic]

Creator:
Murphy, John, approximately 1748-approximately 1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
[31 March 1785]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 156); seated almost whole-length and in three-quarter profile to left, his right hand to his cheek and his left holding papers lettered "India Bill", resting on the table to left with statuettes of Samson and a boxer...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 31st, 1785, by Wm. Austin, drawing master and print-merchant at No. 41 St. James's Street, & for the engraver by W. Dickinson, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809,
Subject (Topic):
Politicians
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > His Grace the Duke of Portland [graphic]

8.
John Gilpin's return from ware [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs 10 July 1785.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Gilpin gallops (right to left) past the 'Bell' at Edmonton. His wife leans from the balcony over the door. With her are three children and a woman holding an infant. Two horsemen are in pursuit, one holds up Gilpin's wig. A spaniel barks. The inn app...
Alternative Title:
John Gilpin's return from war
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Chasing, Dogs, Families, Horseback riding, Horses, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Gilpin's return from ware [graphic].

10.
Keep within compass Prudence produceth esteem. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1785?]
Call Number:
785.08.16.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Prudence produceth esteem
Description:
"A young woman stands within a compass inscribed 'Fear God', holding an open book inscribed 'The Pleasures of Imagination Realized'. At her feet is an open chest full of guineas from which hang bank-notes and jewels; it is inscribed 'The Reward of Vir...
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Compasses (Drawing instruments), Dogs, Dwellings, Farms, Gambling, Handicraft, Intoxication, Lanterns, Meadows, Mothers, Parables, Playing cards, Punishment & torture, Vice, and Watchmen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Keep within compass Prudence produceth esteem. [graphic]