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2.
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.00.00.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Design in an oval. A young man (three-quarter length), directed to the right, with arms folded, smiles complacently. His elaborate neck-cloth swathes his chin, his hair, parted in the centre, falls loosely on his forehead and shoulders. He holds a looped hat. 'The kick' denotes the present fashion. Grose, 'Dict. Vulg. Tongue', 1796. Cf. BMSat 8191. For the series see BMSat 9101, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Quite the kick
- Description:
- Title from item. and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: neckcloth.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Neck or nothing!, or, Quite the kick [graphic]
3.
- Published / Created:
- [1 November 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.11.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A street scene with a row of buildings in the background, a man who is having his boots polished by a boy crouched before his bench turns to an elegantly dressed lady. He hold his hat and cane in his rights hand and offers a coin to the woman
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Published 1st Novr. 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life, Couples, and Shoe shiners
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A treaty of commerce [graphic].
4.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Design in an oval. A stout jovial man (half length), his elbow on a table, smokes a long pipe and holds out a paper: 'An [H]onest Man will Fear God Honour the King and do as he would be Done By'. He is directed to the right and looks at the spectator. Beside him are a decanter and glass and a book: 'British Peera[ge]'. On the wall is an oval miniature of the King and a framed diagram: 'British Constitution' (see British Museum Satire No. 8287, &c.); the three points of an equilateral triangle are 'King Lords Commons'; in the centre and connected with each angle is 'Public Good'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statement of responsibility and plate number. Missing text and numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "423"., No. 13 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
- Subject (Topic):
- Smoking and Social classes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An aristocrat [graphic]
5.
- Published / Created:
- [6 November 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.11.06.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below item., Plate numbered '403' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Statues: plenty., and Plate number repeated in contemporary hand in upper right corner, recto.
- Publisher:
- Published 6th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An offering to plenty [graphic].
6.
- Published / Created:
- [24 January 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.01.24.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two well-dressed young women sit in chairs opposite each other over a table on which are placed scissors, fabric, and ribbon and other sewing notions. They each are sewing , the woman facing the views attaches a large feather to a hat. The room is well-furnished with wallpaper, a patterned rug and a mirror on the wall behind them
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '383' in lower right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd 24th Jany 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Hats, Interiors, Parlors, Rugs, Sewing, and Wallpapers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beauty and fashion [graphic].
7.
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 159); standing half-length to front and leaning on book on table before her, looking to left, wearing fur-trimmed mantle, dress with wide lace cuffs and ribbon bows on bodice, and pearls."--British museum online catalogue, description of a different plate of similar composition
- Alternative Title:
- Elizabeth Countess of Berkley and Elizabeth Countess of Berkeley
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who presumably laid an impression of this print into his extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly laid in at page 53 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Berkeley, Elizabeth, Countess of, 1720-1792,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Elizth. Countess of Berkley [graphic].
8.
- Published / Created:
- 1797.
- Call Number:
- 797.00.00.66+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Quotation below title: He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat., Numbered 'Plate 3' in lower right corner., Third in a series of four prints representing the parable of the prodigal son., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: farmhouses -- Fences -- Pigs -- Women -- Poverty -- Quotations: Bible: St. Luke, 15.V.16., and Publication pasted above bottom plate line.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Rd. Barry, Chart & Printseller, St. Katharine's, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Prodigal son in misery [graphic].
9.
- Published / Created:
- 1797.
- Call Number:
- 797.00.00.67+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Quotation below title: Father, I have sinned against Heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son., Numbered in lower right corner: Plate 4., Fourth in a series of four prints representing the parable of the prodigal son., Temporary local subject terms: Coutry houses: parks -- Architectural details: fountains -- Architectural details: gates -- Domestic service: Blacks -- Quotations: Bible: St. Luke, 15.V.21., and Publication line cut and pasted above bottom plate line.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Rd. Barry, Chart & Printseller, St. Katharine's, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Prodigal son returned home reclaimed [graphic].
10.
- Published / Created:
- [2 January 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.01.02.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Historical composition with Tell at the left taking aim with a cross-bow at the apple on the head of his small son who is tied to a tree at the righ; in the centre the Governor Gresler "of Ury" on horseback and in the background swooning women (center) and soldiers (left); after Zucchi
- Description:
- Title below image., With engraved text of the legend below title., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Published Jan. 2 1797 by Haines & Son, No. 19 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane
- Subject (Name):
- Tell, Wilhelm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Archery, Crossbows, Legends, Loss of consciousness, and Soldiers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The heroic deed of William Tell which laid the fountain of Swiss liberty [graphic].