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1. Davy Jenkins [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 October 1825]
- Call Number:
- 825.10.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Octr. 1,1825 by J. Robins & Co., Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row
- Subject (Topic):
- Woodcutting, Woodcutters, Goats, and Sleeping
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Davy Jenkins [graphic]
2. Death and the woodman [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1776?]
- Call Number:
- 776.00.00.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a rural landscape with trees in the right rear of the print, Death in the form of a skeleton stand with his scythe and reaches down to touch an elderly white-bearded woodman who has fallen in the grass. The latter points to the burden of sticks which he has dropped, his axe lying on the ground as well
- Description:
- Title etched between two columns of verse in six lines each below image., Numbered in plate '339' in lower left corner., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix: Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles., Verse in plate based on Aesopian fable: A poor old woodman trudg'd along the road bending beneath the double load of faggots and of age. Alas! he cry'd. is there like me a wretch beside in all the country round? Quite spent and almost out of breath, he throws his burden on the ground, bemoand his fate and call'd on Death. Come Death, o come, and end my pain. Death came, and ask'd, what would you have of me? Only that you would be so kind said he, to help me with my bundle up again., and Publication date erased from print.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, publish'd as the act directs
- Subject (Topic):
- Death, Skeletons, Scythes, Axes, Fuelwood, Woodcutting, Woodcutters, Aged persons, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Death and the woodman [graphic].
3. Miseries of the country [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 April 1807] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 50. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A rectangular plot enclosed by palings and gate and surrounded by trees outside an old-fashioned country house (left). The plot has four rectangles of turf set in gravel which a fat man in a dressing-gown with a cloth tied over his head is rolling, a dog running in front. A fatter man in night-cap, shirt-sleeves, and waistcoat (split up the back) holds a pair of dumb-bells, turning to a young woman (left) who is sawing a log of wood supported on trestles. Beside the paling is a dove-cote on a pole."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Passing the worst part of a rainy winter in a country ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Text below title: Passing the worst part of a rainy winter in a country so inveterately miry as to imprison you within your own premises so that by way of exercise ..., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 10823 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806; see no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 123., and On leaf 50 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 12, 1807, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James Street, Adelphi and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- Country life, Fences, Gates, Trees, Dwellings, Dumbbells, Obesity, Dogs, Woodcutting, Saws, and Axes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of the country [graphic]
4. The importance of truth exemplified in the life of the celebrated Washington when a youth, afterwards president of the United States of America. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1832?]
- Call Number:
- 835.00.00.249++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- At six years old, when full of boyish tricks and Cherish, like Washington, the love of truth, Manhood's best hope, and fairest charm of youth
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., A poem about the cherry tree incident in the childhood of George Washington engraved below image in four columns: At six years old, when full of boyish tricks, Washington oft' amuzed himself by chopping sticks ... Manhood's best Hope, and Fariest Charm of Youth., Below the caption title is an illustration of young Washington and his father outside their house; the poem is printed below the illustration., and Printed in red on cotton.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Washington, George, 1732-1799, and Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Subject (Topic):
- Childhood and youth, Conduct of life, Axes, Cherry trees, Honesty, Legends, and Woodcutting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The importance of truth exemplified in the life of the celebrated Washington when a youth, afterwards president of the United States of America. [graphic]
5. [A farmhouse, man with barrow] [art original].
- Creator:
- Hunt, William Henry, 1790-1864, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1825 and 1864?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H939 no. 2 Box D128
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a farmyard, a man pushes a wheelbarrow. The farmhouse stands behind the man. Tree branches and tools for cutting wood are scattered throughout the farmyard
- Description:
- Title from inscription in graphite pencil on verso: Hunt, William Henry, 1790-1864. A farmhouse, man with barrow in pen and watercolor., Inscription in graphite pencil on verso: Brought from attic to print room by WSL, 1-16-75., and William Henry Hunt, English watercolor painter, 1790-1864.
- Subject (Topic):
- Farms, Farmhouses, and Woodcutting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A farmhouse, man with barrow] [art original].
