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231.
The silent meeting [graphic].

Published / Created:
[12 May 1794]
Call Number:
794.05.12.53
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., Numbered '81' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: clubs -- Furnishings: fireplaces -- Smoking -- Reading -- Newpapers: London Chronicle -- Pets: dogs -- Dishes: tankards -- Furniture: chairs., and Watermark (partial).
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The silent meeting [graphic].

232.
The strangers at home [graphic].

Published / Created:
[4 March 1797]
Call Number:
797.03.04.04
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three well-dressed men sit at a small rectangular table drinking, singing, and smiling. The visible part of the room is bare, but framed pictures and a wall-paper above a dado indicate that it is well furnished. Beneath the title two verses of a drinking-song are engraved, beginning: 'Glorious Apollo from on high beheld us.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., Fifteen lines of a drinking song in two columns below image: Glorious Apollo from on high beheld us ..., Numbered '178' in lower left below image., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: parlors -- Furniture: chairs -- Wallpaper -- Glass: wine glasses -- Singing -- Furnishings: pictures., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1798.
Publisher:
Published March 4th, 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The strangers at home [graphic].

233.
The sulky club [graphic]

Published / Created:
[18 March 1794]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 85. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 85 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 18th, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Chairs and Sitting
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The sulky club [graphic]

234.
The terrible ghost, or, Village in an uproar [graphic].

Published / Created:
[12 May 1794]
Call Number:
794.05.12.43
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Village in an uproar
Description:
Title from item., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: The parson was brought in a horrible fright ..., No. 102 in Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Ghosts -- Clergy: parsons -- Male costume: night clothes -- Buildings: country churches -- Churchyards.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The terrible ghost, or, Village in an uproar [graphic].

235.
This is your sort! Here's to ye [graphic].

Published / Created:
published 4 June 1794.
Call Number:
794.06.04.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '418' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: coachmen -- Beverages: ale -- Dishes: tankards -- Horsewhips.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > This is your sort! Here's to ye [graphic].

236.
[America] [to] her [mis]taken [moth]er [graphic].

Published / Created:
[12 May 1794]
Call Number:
794.05.12.54
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"A 'hieroglyphic letter' or rebus in answer to the foregoing. America (l.), as a Red Indian woman, seated and leaning to the left.; she holds a flag with thirteen vertical stripes in her left hand, in her right. she holds out a fleur-de-lys. Beside her is an oval shield on which are thirteen stars."(America) (toe) her (Miss)taken (Moth)er. (Yew) s(eye)lly (old woman) t(hat) (yew) have sent a (lure) (toe) us is very (plane) (toe) draw our at(ten)-t(eye)on from our re(awl) (eye)ntrests (butt) we are determ(eye)n'd (toe) ab(eye)de by our own ways of th(eye)nk(eye)ng (Ewer) [your] 5 (child)ren (yew) have sent (toe) us sh(awl) (bee) treated as V(eye)s(eye)tors, & safely sent home aga(eye)n (yew) may [? carved bracket] t them & adm(eye)re them, (butt) (yew) must (knot) (X)pect I of (ewer) (puppet)s w(eye)ll (comb) [come] home (toe) (yew) as sweet as (yew) sent h(eye)m, twas cruel toe send so pretty a (man) so many 1000 miles & (toe) have the fat(eye)gue of re[t](urn)ing back after (spike?)(eye)ng h(eye)s (coat) & d(eye)rt(eye)ng [dirting] t[hose] red (heel) (shoes) (eye)f (yew) are w(eyes) follow (ewer) own ad(vice) (yew) gave (toe) me take home ewer (ships) sold(eye)(ears) [soldiers] guard (well) (ewer) own tr(eye)fl(eye)(ling ?) [a fish]. & leave me (toe) my self as (eye) am at age (toe) know my own (eye)ntrests. w(eye)thout (ewer) (fool)(eye)sh ad(vice) & know t(hat) (eye) sh(awl) (awl)ways regard (yew) & my Brothers as relat(eye)ons (butt) (knot) as fr(eye)nds. (Eye) (am) (ewer) (grate)fy (eye)njured Daughter Amer(eye)k.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
America to her mistaken mother
Description:
Title from first line of text., A letter in form of rebus. The following words within title are represented by a rebus: America by a figure of an American Indian ; to by a toe ; 'mis' in 'mistaken' by an image of a girl ; 'moth' in 'mother' by an image of a moth., Reissue of a print originally published on 11 May 1778 by M. Darly. Cf. No. 5475 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below., and '9' in publication year erased and changed in contemporary hand to '8'.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Correspondence, and Hieroglyphics
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [America] [to] her [mis]taken [moth]er [graphic].

237.
[Portrait of Theophilus Cibber] [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1794?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., With: [Ticket for Fielding's The mock doctor] / W. Hogarth ft. ; A.M.I. fecit., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: £5-5-0. Note above image: 2., and On page 233 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Samuel Ireland?
Subject (Name):
Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of Theophilus Cibber] [graphic].

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