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1. Another, unsafe house!!! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1829?]
- Call Number:
- 829.00.00.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Clubs -- Crockford's Gaming House -- Sharks -- John Bull -- Male costume: Gaiters -- Walking-sticks., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 90.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Name):
- Crockford, William, 1775-1844
- Subject (Topic):
- Demons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Another, unsafe house!!! [graphic]
2. Celestial harmony by a seraphic band [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1829]
- Call Number:
- 829.00.00.91
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A five-piece orchestra composed of demons, playing a flute, violon, oboe, horn, and drums
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Tegg
- Subject (Topic):
- Demons, Musicians, and Musicical instruments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Celestial harmony by a seraphic band [graphic].
3. The gin shop [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- November 1st, 1829.
- Call Number:
- 829.11.01.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Design in an irregular oval border to which four scrolls are attached: ‘To the Work House, To the Mad-House, To the Gaol, The Gibbet'. The shop is ornate and pilastered, lit by a double gas chandelier. The customers, dregs of the town, stand at the counter, within the toothed circle of a huge man-trap on the floor. A drunken man in the remnants of fashionable clothes, takes a glass from the barmaid (right). She is outwardly comely, but her fashionable dress, a smiling mask, and gloves, conceal a skeleton, revealed by a skull which grins from her shoulder, and the bones of a foot and ankle. Beside her is a book: ‘Open Gin Shop The Way to Wealth'. An old hag drinks, another gives gin to an infant in her arms; a little girl drains a glass, and a tiny child clamours at the counter. On the counter stands a small cask on which sits a skeleton: Bacchus with bottle and glass. On the left stands Death (who has set the trap), a skeleton dressed as a London watchman; he holds up an hour-glass in place of lantern; he holds a javelin which points ominously to a trap-door in the boards at his feet. He says: ‘I shall have them all dead drunk presently! They have nearly had their last glass'. On the extreme right behind the barmaid is a doorway framing a ring of little demons dancing round a spirit-still; a skull grins from the transparent retort; below the floor is a dark space: ‘Spirit Vaults'. The casks in the shop are coffins. A huge one is ‘Old Tom' [gin, especially if good and strong]. The others are ‘Deady's Cordial' [Deady was a well-known distiller], ‘Kill Devil' [rum, especially if new], ‘Blue Ruin' [bad gin], ‘Gin & Bitters'. On the wall are two placards: [1] a playbill, ‘Drury Lane Theatre, Road to Ruin [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073] --Life in London [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14320], Devil to Pay' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7908]; [2] ‘Wanted a few Members to complete A Burial Society'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse below title: "Now oh dear, how shocking the thought is, They makes the gin from aquafortis; They do it on purpose folks lives to shorten, And tickets it up at two-pence a quartern". New Ballad., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. Part the second. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, pages 239-240., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drunkeness -- Children and Childcare
- Publisher:
- George Cruikshank
- Subject (Topic):
- Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The gin shop [graphic]
4. The gin shop [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- November 1st, 1829.
- Call Number:
- Print00048
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Design in an irregular oval border to which four scrolls are attached: ‘To the Work House, To the Mad-House, To the Gaol, The Gibbet'. The shop is ornate and pilastered, lit by a double gas chandelier. The customers, dregs of the town, stand at the counter, within the toothed circle of a huge man-trap on the floor. A drunken man in the remnants of fashionable clothes, takes a glass from the barmaid (right). She is outwardly comely, but her fashionable dress, a smiling mask, and gloves, conceal a skeleton, revealed by a skull which grins from her shoulder, and the bones of a foot and ankle. Beside her is a book: ‘Open Gin Shop The Way to Wealth'. An old hag drinks, another gives gin to an infant in her arms; a little girl drains a glass, and a tiny child clamours at the counter. On the counter stands a small cask on which sits a skeleton: Bacchus with bottle and glass. On the left stands Death (who has set the trap), a skeleton dressed as a London watchman; he holds up an hour-glass in place of lantern; he holds a javelin which points ominously to a trap-door in the boards at his feet. He says: ‘I shall have them all dead drunk presently! They have nearly had their last glass'. On the extreme right behind the barmaid is a doorway framing a ring of little demons dancing round a spirit-still; a skull grins from the transparent retort; below the floor is a dark space: ‘Spirit Vaults'. The casks in the shop are coffins. A huge one is ‘Old Tom' [gin, especially if good and strong]. The others are ‘Deady's Cordial' [Deady was a well-known distiller], ‘Kill Devil' [rum, especially if new], ‘Blue Ruin' [bad gin], ‘Gin & Bitters'. On the wall are two placards: [1] a playbill, ‘Drury Lane Theatre, Road to Ruin [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073] --Life in London [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14320], Devil to Pay' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7908]; [2] ‘Wanted a few Members to complete A Burial Society'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse below title: "Now oh dear, how shocking the thought is, They makes the gin from aquafortis; They do it on purpose folks lives to shorten, And tickets it up at two-pence a quartern". New Ballad., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. Part the second. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, pages 239-240., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drunkeness -- Children and Childcare, and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 27.5 x 36.7 cm.
- Publisher:
- George Cruikshank
- Subject (Topic):
- Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The gin shop [graphic]
5. The man wots got the whip hand of 'em all [graphic].
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 May 1829]
- Call Number:
- 829.05.30.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A hand printing-press of metal (a Stanhope Press), supported on the stout legs of a man in breeches which seem to belong to a John Bull, puts to flight mere pigmy humans: two flee to the right, one propelled by a kick from a huge buckled shoe; two others have fallen. Two levers or handles serve as arms; one has a hand which grasps a giant pen, the feather entwined with three serpents which spit flame at the departing legs and cocked hat of Wellington, who, kicked into the air, disappears behind the upper right margin of the design. Another pair of legs, with the black stockings and buckled shoes of Eldon, project from the upper left margin; beside them a single leg and a broom indicate the departing Brougham. A second lever supports a print, 'The Man Wot Drives The Sovereign', copied from British Museum satires no. 15731; a flame issues from the press, threatening to scorch or destroy the print. The press is topped by a cap of Liberty inscribed 'Free Press' and encircled with a wreath. A little demon (a printer's devil) rushes towards the press from the left, holding up a big ink-ball."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of P. Pry caricatu[...]., and This image was possibly published in Paul Pry, a newspaper dedicated to exposing political corruption and religious fraud. William Heath often worked with Thomas McLean and is well known for his caricatures and satirical imagery.
- Publisher:
- Pub. May 30th, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
- Subject (Topic):
- Free press and fair trial, Wit and humor, Pictorial, John Bull (Symbolic character), Arcimboldesque figures, Demons, Kicking, Liberty cap, and Printing presses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The man wots got the whip hand of 'em all [graphic].
6. The march of intellect [graphic]
- Creator:
- Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1829?]
- Call Number:
- 829.00.00.15+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire against corruption with an image of a huge automaton representing the new London University (later University College, London) tramples over greedy clerics, doctors, lawyers and the crown. Five lines of text below image: "I saw a vision, a giant form appeard, it's eys where [sic] burning lights even of Gas, and on its learned head it bore A Crown of many towers, It's Body was an Engine yea of steam it's arms where [corn?] and the legs with which it stode like unto presses that men called printers use, from whence felt ever and anon small Books that fed the little people of the Earth, It rose and in it's hand it tool a Broom to sweep the rubish [sic] from the face of the land, the Special pleaders & thier [sic] wigs also & the Quack Doctors also and the ghosts & those tha twhear Horns & the Crowns of those kigns that set themselv's above the laws & the Delays in Chancery it utterly destroy'd, likewiase it sweept from the Clergy every Plurality, Nevertheless the Lawyers & the Parsons & divers others kick't up a great dust!!!"
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Date from online British Museum catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- University College, London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Education, Higher, Avarice, Balloons (Aircraft), Clergy, Demons, Justice, Lawyers, Machinery, Physicians, Rulers, and Steam
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The march of intellect [graphic]
