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1. A messenger to the moon [art original].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1783]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 88 Box D207
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A witch flying to the left on a broomstick and suckling a cat, discharges a blast of "inflammable air" towards a large sphere suspended midair behind her. A spectator standing below holds a torch to the stream of air and says, "How blue it burns!" Another man identified as a F.R.S. (Fellow of the Royal Society) stands to the right watching the scene and observes, "We shall now have a Lunatick Journal." Behind the Fellow of the Royal Society is another spectator identified as A.S.S. who boasts of having a ticket to Georgium Sidus (i.e., Uranus).
Description:: Title from inscription in black ink in the artist's hand above image., Date supplied by cataloger., Print after image is described in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy Georg, v. 4, no. 6335, and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Antiquarians, Balloons (Aircraft), Witches, and Spectators
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A messenger to the moon [art original].

2. All fours [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [30 March 1802]
Call Number:: Bunbury 802.03.30.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Design in an oval. Two men playing cards at a small round table. The man on the right pulls out an ace of spades from the five cards in his hand and shows it with a grimace of satisfaction. His opponent (left), in profile to the right, looks at it with an expression of consternation, frowning and opening his mouth wide. The pack and other cards lie on the table. The men are probably portraits. The successful player is middle-aged, plainly dressed, with a bob-wig; the other is younger, very thin, and more fashionably dressed, with a long pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from text below image., Questionable attribution to Rowlandson from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 14 March 1783 by J.R. Smith. Cf. No. 6341 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Watermark.
Publisher:: Publish'd Marh. 30, 1802, by Iohn Harris, No. 3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8 Old Broad Street
Subject (Topic):: Card games
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > All fours [graphic]

3. Les caprices de la goute, ballet arthritique [graphic].

Creator:: Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 January 1783]
Call Number:: 783.01.01.01++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Ballet arthritique
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two staves of music below image., Temporary local subject terms: Advertisements: 'Buzaglo' on wooden cases -- Stoves: Buzaglo's patent -- Dances: ballet arthritique -- Quacks: Buzaglo -- Exercises for cure of gout -- Medical: wooden cases for treatment of gout -- Bootikins -- Literature: quotation from A treatise on the gout, by Abraham William Buzaglo, ca. 1716-1788, 3rd ed., p. 58-59., and Watermark.
Publisher:: Published as the act directs, Jany. 1, 1783 by P. Sandby, St. George's Row, Oxford Turnpike
Subject (Name):: Buzaglo, Abraham, 1715 or 1716-1788
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Les caprices de la goute, ballet arthritique [graphic].

4. Moses [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [27 February 1799]
Call Number:: Bunbury 799.02.27.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A stout, complacent-looking man rides a small horse in profile to the left. He has a very bad seat and is pulling hard on the curb; the animal puts down its head. A servant on a rough-looking pony canters behind him, carrying a basket of hay and a triangular box or package (perhaps his master's hat-box) under his left arm. The scene is a country road, with a signpost (left) pointing 'To Hackney, To Isling[ton'], and (down a turning on the right of the riders) to 'Shoredi[tch]'. The post stresses the idea conveyed in the drawing, that this is a citizen riding to or from his country-box in the suburbs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 23 Jan. 1783. Cf. no. 6339 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Original imprint statement has been mostly burnished from plate but is still faintly visible below image in lower right., and Watermark.
Publisher:: Published Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):: Black people, Horseback riding, and Servants
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Moses [graphic]

5. Razor's levée, or, [The] heads of a new wig ad-----------n on a broadbottom [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [21 April 1783]
Call Number:: 783.04.21.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:: Leaf 16. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Heads of the members of the new ministry stand on wig blocks in a barber's shop. The barber washes his hands in a bowl attached to a double stand with the bewildered looking head of Lord North and the happily smiling one of Charles Fox on it. Behind them stand blocks with the heads of the Duke of Portland, Lords Cavendish, Stormont (David Murray), Carlisle, and Admiral Keppel. Samuel House, a well known Fox supporter, and a plebeian politician, is seated, with his tankard in his hand, in a chair placed next to Keppel's head. The head of Burke behind him wears an unhappy expression, perhaps at the distance between him and the other cabinet members. Behind the barber on the floor lie the discarded heads of former ministers, the Duke of Grafton, Lord Shelburne, and Dundas. Above on the wall are mirror images of Charles I and Cromwell, ready to embrace each other. "A new Map of Great Britain and Ireland" above the fireplace is torn between Ireland and the British Isle on which the name 'England' is conspicously absent below Scotland and Wales
Alternative Title:: Heads of a new wig ad-----------n on a broadbottom and Heads of a new wig administration on a broad bottom
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Watermark: countermark I V., and Some subjects identified by DeGrey below plate mark.
Publisher:: Published 21st April 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, England, and London
Subject (Name):: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, House, Samuel, -1785, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Barbers, Barbershops, Boxes, Wigs, and Maps
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Razor's levée, or, [The] heads of a new wig ad-----------n on a broadbottom [graphic]

6. Razor's levée, or, [The] heads of a new wig ad-----------n on a broadbottom [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [21 April 1783]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Leaf 16. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Heads of the members of the new ministry stand on wig blocks in a barber's shop. The barber washes his hands in a bowl attached to a double stand with the bewildered looking head of Lord North and the happily smiling one of Charles Fox on it. Behind them stand blocks with the heads of the Duke of Portland, Lords Cavendish, Stormont (David Murray), Carlisle, and Admiral Keppel. Samuel House, a well known Fox supporter, and a plebeian politician, is seated, with his tankard in his hand, in a chair placed next to Keppel's head. The head of Burke behind him wears an unhappy expression, perhaps at the distance between him and the other cabinet members. Behind the barber on the floor lie the discarded heads of former ministers, the Duke of Grafton, Lord Shelburne, and Dundas. Above on the wall are mirror images of Charles I and Cromwell, ready to embrace each other. "A new Map of Great Britain and Ireland" above the fireplace is torn between Ireland and the British Isle on which the name 'England' is conspicously absent below Scotland and Wales
Alternative Title:: Heads of a new wig ad-----------n on a broadbottom and Heads of a new wig administration on a broad bottom
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching with stipple and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 40.1 x 27.4 cm, on sheet 42.7 x 28.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 16 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:: Published 21st April 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, England, and London
Subject (Name):: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, House, Samuel, -1785, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Barbers, Barbershops, Boxes, Wigs, and Maps
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Razor's levée, or, [The] heads of a new wig ad-----------n on a broadbottom [graphic]

7. Razor's levée, or, [The] heads of a new wig ad-----------n on a broadbottom [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [21 April 1783]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 16. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Heads of the members of the new ministry stand on wig blocks in a barber's shop. The barber washes his hands in a bowl attached to a double stand with the bewildered looking head of Lord North and the happily smiling one of Charles Fox on it. Behind them stand blocks with the heads of the Duke of Portland, Lords Cavendish, Stormont (David Murray), Carlisle, and Admiral Keppel. Samuel House, a well known Fox supporter, and a plebeian politician, is seated, with his tankard in his hand, in a chair placed next to Keppel's head. The head of Burke behind him wears an unhappy expression, perhaps at the distance between him and the other cabinet members. Behind the barber on the floor lie the discarded heads of former ministers, the Duke of Grafton, Lord Shelburne, and Dundas. Above on the wall are mirror images of Charles I and Cromwell, ready to embrace each other. "A new Map of Great Britain and Ireland" above the fireplace is torn between Ireland and the British Isle on which the name 'England' is conspicously absent below Scotland and Wales
Alternative Title:: Heads of a new wig ad-----------n on a broadbottom and Heads of a new wig administration on a broad bottom
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 27.
Publisher:: Published 21st April 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, England, and London
Subject (Name):: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, House, Samuel, -1785, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Barbers, Barbershops, Boxes, Wigs, and Maps
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Razor's levée, or, [The] heads of a new wig ad-----------n on a broadbottom [graphic]

8. Symptoms of rearing [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [27 February 1799]
Call Number:: Bunbury 799.02.27.04+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "An elderly country parson, in profile to the right, on a horse which rears almost vertically, he clasps the animal round the neck, and is seated on his hind-quarters, having lost his stirrups and slipped from the saddle. His whip flies through the air behind him, his coat-tails fly out, and the sheets of his sermon inscribed 'IOB' protrude from his pocket. A small dog (left) rushing towards the animal's hind-legs and barking furiously appears to have caused the 'symptoms of rearing'. The parish clerk, with two large volumes under his arm, beside the horse, looks over his right shoulder and stoops or runs to escape being trampled on. Trees and a church steeple are indicated in the background (right). A similar subject to British Museum Satires Nos. 5914-17, also by Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:: Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 23 January 1783. Cf. No. 6340 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Original imprint statement has been mostly burnished from plate but is still faintly visible below image., and Watermark: J. Ruse.
Publisher:: Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):: Horseback riding, Dogs, and Books
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Symptoms of rearing [graphic]

9. The aerostatick stage balloon Setts out from Swan with two Necks Lad Lane every Monday Morg. / [graphic]

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, attributed name
Published / Created:: [23 December 1783]
Call Number:: 783.12.23.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A balloon about to rise from the ground encircled by three tiers of galleries or narrow platforms, protected by railings. Behind the railings sit the passengers. In the highest tier are three ladies notorious at that time for their amours ...: Grace Elliott or Eliot, née Dalrymple, known as 'Dally the tall', she holds a fan, turning her head in profile to the left, towards Perdita (Mary Robinson), who clasps her hands ecstatically; Lady Worsley sits on the right. In the centre gallery sit ex-ministers: North (left) and Fox (right) in the centre, North's arm on Fox's shoulder; Fox turns his head to North with an expression of satisfaction. Each rests his right hand on the railing in front of him, and these hands hold an inconspicuous thread which is attached to the nose of the Duke of Portland (left), who turns in profile to the right. On the right, a little apart, sits Burke dressed as a Jesuit (see British Museum Satires No. 6205) looking in profile to the right towards the Pope, who stands on the gallery, emerging from behind the curve of the balloon. He wears furred robes and his triple crown; as a pendant to him on the extreme left is the Devil looking towards the ministers with a pleased expression; over his arm he holds a net. In the lowest gallery sit celebrated quacks and other London characters. These are (left to right) "Vestina', the goddess of Health who advertised the virtues of the celestial bed (incorrectly said to have been Lady Hamilton), sits next her employer, Dr. Graham; they look at each other; she holds a sceptre wreathed with a garland. Jeffery Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat, stands, knock-kneed, with his sack over his shoulder in his accustomed attitude when calling 'old wigs'. Sam House sits resting a foaming tankard of porter on the railing in front of him, the tankard inscribed "House Ward[our] Stre[eet]". Katerfelto, turned in profile to the right, gazes up at the moon through his telescope; in his left hand is a paper, "Wonders, Wonders Most Wonderfull Wonders", the usual heading of his advertisements, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6162. His black cat sits on the railing facing him, saying, "are there Mice in the Moon Master". In the upper right corner of the design is the moon, a crescent-shaped profile inset in a circle, looking down at the balloon. The balloon is encircled longitudinally by eight ropes which meet in a knot beneath it and are there attached to four stouter ropes attached to the four corners of a platform which rests on the ground, from which the balloon appears about to ascend. On this platform is a tub inscribed "Vanity", bubbling over with soapsuds inscribed "Froth". Beside the platform (right) stands a Frenchman capering on one leg and flourishing a knife. He says, "Oh Begar dis be von fine Cargo." ... In the background are the roofs and spires of London, St. Paul's being prominent on the left, the Monument on the right. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., "Hanibal Scratch" might be a pseudonym of John Nixon; see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, page 842., Text beneath title: Setts out from Swan with two Necks Lad Lane every Monday morg., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Twenty lines of verse in four columns below image, etched above and on either side of title: Who choose a journey to the Moon, may take it in our Stage Balloon ...
Publisher:: Pubd. Decr. 23, 1783, by Wm. Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Elliott, Grace Dalrymple, -1823, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, Worsley, Seymour Dorothy, Lady, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799, Graham, James, 1745-1794, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, House, Samuel, -1785, Katterfelto, Gustavus, -1799, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Monument, The (London, England), Beer, Balloons (Aircraft), Cats, Devil, Drinking vessels, Mistresses, Politicians, Quacks, Ropes, Scepters, Telescopes, Wash tubs, and Knives
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The aerostatick stage balloon Setts out from Swan with two Necks Lad Lane every Monday Morg. / [graphic]