- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1775?]
- Call Number:
- 775.02.01.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man wearing laced coat and sword and holding a snuff box leans on an elaborately carved console table of the pump room at Bath, admiring himself in a mirror. An illustration for the "History of Captain S_: or, the Bath Adonis."
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date and publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Extended to 26 x 18 cm.
- Publisher:
- The Matrimonial Magazine?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bath (England) and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Mirrors, Wallpaper, and Tables
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Bath Adonis worshiping the idol of his affections [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1775]
- Call Number:
- 775.02.01.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Eight people crowd around a dining table, a woman on the right having fainted, perhaps choking, while two gentlemen attempt to revive her. Other diners continue eating as a maid carries in a dripping tray of meat and a dog begs from a woman on the left. Two caricature portraits hang on the background wall
- Alternative Title:
- Good dinner spoiled by the ridiculous custom of drinking to friends with a full mouth
- Description:
- Title from item. and Mounted on paper 37 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Dinners and dining, Toasts, Food habits, Social life and customs, Eating & drinking, and Dining rooms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A good dinner spoil'd by the ridiculous custom of drinking to friends with a full mouth [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- published as the Act directs 31 August, 1775.
- Call Number:
- 775.08.31.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A sleeping clergyman sits in an armchair, oblivious to a maid tickling his nose with the tail of a sucking pig, just delivered by a man standing in the open doorway. On a table is an inkstand and quill, a wine bottle, glass and candle with a book entitled "Tythe laws fully consider'd". At cat pulls from the table a paper labelled "Bans of marriage", while on the floor near a small dog a large book lies open to "Poem on good living". The clergyman's portrait and that of a woman hang on the wall behind him beside a map entitled "A Plan of the doctor's parish."
- Alternative Title:
- Tythe pig no bad sight and Pleasing method of rousing the doctor
- Description:
- Title from item. and Numbered in plate: 328.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and England
- Subject (Name):
- Church of England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Tithes, Church of England, Clothing & dress, Practical jokes, Dogs, and Swine
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A pleasing method of rouzing the doctor, or, A tythe pig no bad sight [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament June 15, 1775.
- Call Number:
- 775.06.15.01 Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A couple stand side by side before a rectangular tomb. The male figure is a skeleton wearing a feathered hat, a coat, and a sword; the lady wears a cloak. The tomb is decorated with the skull and crossbones and inscribed with the words "Requiescas in pace'. They stand on a road which leads to a Palladian portico, decorated with a baron's coronet. Above the couple a cupid hides his face in his hands as he turns away
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Attributed to Gillray in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Also attributed to "Miss Hartley, daughter of Dr. Hartley" by Horace Walpole in his Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., Inscribed below image in two rows, a quote from Lord Hervey's Reply to Hammond's Verses to Miss Dashwood: ... no smiles for us the God head wears! His torch inverted & his face in tears!, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and 1 print : etching with stipple, on laid paper ; sheet 234 x 204 mm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Cupids, Marriage, Skeletons, Skull & crossbones, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An emblem of a modern marriage [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- publislh'd as the act directs 3 Aug. 1775
- Call Number:
- 775.08.03.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire: a scene outside an inn, the 'Old Noted Gin and Purl House. By Chris. Catch-Penny', with a fishwife on the left squaring up to a Frenchman, while others look on."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Poll Dab a match for the Frenchman
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Fishwomen -- Frenchmen -- Public houses, exteriors -- Signs -- Signboards -- "The Fighting Cock" -- Publicans -- Gin -- Purl -- Billingsgate -- Male wigs: bag -- Poll Dab -- Chequers.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowels, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billingsgate triumphant, or, Poll Dab a match for the Frenchman [graphic].
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1775?]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 775.01.10.01.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Masquerade scene, Kensington Gardens
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Alternative title from text below title., Questionable artist attribution to Bunbury from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with imprint burnished and plate number added, of a print originally published 10 Jan. 1775 by M. Darly. Cf. no. 5313 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Plate numbered "96" in upper right corner.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Jack on a cruise, a missey in [the] offing [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1775]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 102. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man with a pointed nose in profile, wearing a hat; in an oval
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Third of three plates on leaf 102.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Aug. 1, 1775, by MDarly, Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Angle [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [21 May 1775]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 102. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Social satire: a man with a curved nose and profile, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Mr. Convex : the field preacher
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and First of three plates on leaf 102.
- Publisher:
- Pub. May 21, 1775, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Preachers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Convex the feild preacher. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1775]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 102. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Social satire: a woman with a bonnet wig and ogee-shaped profile, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ogee -- Female costume -- Female hats., and Second of three plates on leaf 102.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Augt. 1, 1775, by MDarly, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress and Bonnets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Ogee [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dawe, Philip, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.00.00.178+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two grotesque figures of a well-dressed man and woman stand before a background of Corinthian pillars topped with Doric capitals. The man points with his left hand to his mouth and grimaces at the viewer
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., First published by Carington Bowles on 20 October 1775; original publication date burnished from the plate. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, p. 786., Date of publication inferred from paper and from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31., and Numbered in plate: 332.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Bowles & Carver at their Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Search the world you'll seldom see, handsomer folks than we three [graphic].