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1.
How to lose your way [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 64. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1812, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 812.00.00.69., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], A copy, with some additions, of a plate from: An academy for grown horsemen. Cf. No. 7236 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and On leaf 64 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Winds, Traffic signs & signals, and Carriages & coaches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > How to lose your way [graphic]

2.
The misfortune [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:
812.00.00.88
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A country woman in an apron and cloak, hands on her hips, laughs as she watches the havoc caused by a sow and her piglets who run in all directions on the road. A horse rears in panic and topples acouple and their buggy. Another man on horseback is pitched forward as his horse noses the piglet caught between his front legs. In the distance beyond a stone wall on the left is the town dominated by four steeples, on the right trees. While the woman is looking away, two small boys, eyeing her carefully, steal from the contents of her wheelbarrow
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Country life, Robberies, and Swine
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The misfortune [graphic].

3.
The politician [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:
812.00.00.87 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A politician sits center in a chair before a table with a single candlestick on top. He holds the candle itself in his hand as he closely examines a sheet of paper, oblivious to the fact that the candle is burning a hole in the brim of his hat. Behind him on the wall on either side are two wall maps, one of western Europe and the tip of northern Africa and the other of the Americas and Asia
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., After the design by WilliamHogarth, published by Jane Hogarth 1775., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 17.2 x 24 cm, on sheet 19.1 x 27 cm., and Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Maps, and Politicians
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The politician [graphic].

4.
Spaniard lousing [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:
812.00.00.93 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A dejected-looking man stands barefoot, his shirt open, next to a stump of a tree, pulling a louse from his chest. In the distance is a walled city with two church spires
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left side., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 23.8 x 15.25 cm, on sheet 26.5 x 16.7 cm., and Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Duvison [that is, Davison], Alnwick
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Spaniard lousing [graphic].

5.
Snuff and twopenny [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:
812.00.00.107 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An ugly woman with only two teeth and with holes in her sleeve, shown half-length to left, a scarf over her head and tied under her chin, one hand around a tankard, holding up the other hand with thumb and forefinger pinched together, a small round snuff box on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left edge., Probably a copy of a mezzotint with the same title that was published 2 March 1795 by Bowles & Carver. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.2105., Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 23.7 x 16 cm, on sheet 26.5 x 18.6 cm., and Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Snuff, Drinking vessels, Older people, and Poverty
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Snuff and twopenny [graphic].

6.
The blessing [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:
812.00.00.86 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An austere-looking man with a shaved head and ragged clothes, kneels in prayer before his simple meal, unaware that as he recites his blessing, his cat is drinking from his bowl. On the table is a book on which lay his spectacles; his hat hangs off the back of his chair. On the wall behind them is a picture of the three crosses on Calvary
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from Isaac., Numbered '27' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 16.2 x 23.5 cm, on sheet 18.4 x 25.2 cm., and Printed in vermillion ink on laid paper.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Benedictions, Cats, and Prayer
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The blessing [graphic].

7.
Country sport [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:
812.00.00.114 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Print shows a man and a boy chasing a pig in the yard of a country alehouse. In the background, another man pauses to remove his hat and wipe his brow, while a fourth has evidently tripped and lies sprawling on the ground. A dog barks at the commotion
Description:
Title etched below image., Date suggested by Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., Plate numbered "31" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching ; sheet 19 x 25.2 cm., and Printed in vermillion ink on laid paper.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Games, Swine, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Country sport [graphic].

8.
The distrest poet [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:
812.00.00.92 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A poet sits at a table, pen in hand, posed to write on the sheet of paper before him. On the floor is a discarded piece of paper. His hat and coat hang from a peg on the wall beside the chimney above which is a shelf of books and a picture of a Greek temple. The only other furnishings in the room are a broken chair, a folding bed tilted up against the wall, and a chamber pot
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., Plate numbered '32' in upper right corner., After Hogarth's print of the same name, 1740., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching ; sheet 18.5 x 25.5 cm., and Printed in vermillion ink on wove paper.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Writing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The distrest poet [graphic].

9.
London sportsmen finding a hare [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:
812.00.00.128
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on London hunters: A hare crouching in long grass beside an old tree at left while a young man runs forward dragging his gun, and holding out his hat to throw it over the animal. Two dogs follow behind him and a second man squats down with his gun to watch
Description:
Title etched below image., Date suggested by Isaac and by British Museum record for another popular print by Davison., A copy of Gillray's print "Cockney-sportsmen finding a hare", published 12 November 1800. Cf. No. 9599 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Hunters and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > London sportsmen finding a hare [graphic].

10.
London sportsmen recharging [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:
812.00.00.127
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young huntsmen with a barnyard rooster hanging from his waist, negligently uses a ramrod. His pot-bellied companion leans against a fence, voraciously gnawing a cold chicken, a bottle of 'Porter' in front of him. Near him lies a dead cat. The men are accompanied by two dogs
Description:
Title etched below image., Date suggested by Isaac and by British Museum record for another popular print by Davison., A copy of Gillray's print "Cockney-sportsmen re-charging", published 12 November 1800. Cf. No. 9598 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Hunters and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > London sportsmen recharging [graphic].

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