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1. Grand-pappa in his glory!!! [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [13 February 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.02.13.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Grand-papa in his glory
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker identified in the British Museum online catalogue., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: There was a laugh & a craw ... ., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Variant state, with verse below title, of No. 8785 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Nurseries -- Pets -- Furnishings: window curtain tassles., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Febry. 13, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Grand-pappa in his glory!!! [graphic].
2. "She brought out a dram to warm me and my servants and we were very merry and comfortable" [art original]
- Creator:
- Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1890]
- Call Number:
- Folio 225 884S Copy 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Lady Cecilia Johnston, shown three-quarter length, turns slightly left but looking back over her shoulder as she reaches for a carafe on an elaborately carved hutch in a fashionably decorated room. She wears a dress with lace sleeves, her hair up in a lace cap. Behind her on the right, one cat is curled in an upholstered chair while another sits in front. Through the window behind, a winter scene, with snow covering the ground, a church, and a leafless tree
- Description:
- Title written below image, a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to Lord Nunham, 7 July 1777 in reference to Lady Cecilia Johnston., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 150., and Bound in as page 234 in volume 6 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
- Subject (Name):
- Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817,
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "She brought out a dram to warm me and my servants and we were very merry and comfortable" [art original]
3. Doctor Syntax & dairy maid [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1812]
- Call Number:
- Print00193
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Syntax sits beside a pretty dairymaid in a dairy, while a cat laps from a bowl of cream. They are watched from the doorway by a distressed woman, who unjustly suspects Syntax's intentions."--British Museum catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Doctor Syntax and dairy maid
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reissue, with additional aquatint and statement of responsibility added, and with plate number changed from "Plate 11. Vol. 3" to "Plate 21". For the earlier state, which was published in the Poetical magazine on 1 October 1810 as an illustration to The schoolmaster's tour, see no. 11682 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 177., Probably a plate from an early edition of William Combe's The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque. Nearly all the plates from the 2nd edition of this work have the imprint "London, Published 1 May 1812 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand"; see Royal Academy Collection online catalogue, record no.: 06/4306., "Plate 21"--Upper right corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior.
- Publisher:
- R. Ackermann
- Subject (Name):
- Combe, William, 1742-1823.
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Doctor Syntax & dairy maid [graphic]
4. Miseries of human life [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- October 1807.
- Call Number:
- 807.10.00.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life': three tailors (or his apprentices) at work disturbed by woman carrying a tray of cucumbers on her head
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: While deep in study and lost in thought in the complicated profession of a taylor and all on a sudden disturbed by the shrieks of a woman crying cucumbers., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: J Ruse., and Countermark: 1804.
- Publisher:
- Published by R. Ackermann Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of human life [graphic]
5. Effects of passion [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [between 1812 and 1817]
- Call Number:
- 812.00.00.118
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in a sitting room, a man in a fit of anger kicks over a chair and table set with tea; a pitcher, cups and saucers, tongs and other tableware are in flight or shattered on the floor. The man holds his wig in his left hand as a woman looks on with fear. Two cats fight in front of a fireplace above which hangs a seascape with rough waters and lightening. On the back wall another painting shows a man standing over a woman
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Plate numbered "38" in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., 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):
- Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Effects of passion [graphic].
6. The corporal in good quarters [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [18 July 1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.07.18.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 36 x 24 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published July 18th, 1802 by S. Howitt, Panton Street, Hay Mart
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The corporal in good quarters [graphic]
7. The honey moon [graphic].
- Creator:
- P., J., printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 20, 1790.
- Call Number:
- 790.03.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A thin man with a very large nose and lips embraces his new, very large wife whose features are equally exaggerated. They stand at the edge of a bed, he almost falling on her lap. A cat stands on a bracket shelf pulling at the man's pigtail queue. On the wall a picture amplifies the subject
- Alternative Title:
- Honeymoon
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Companion print: Six weeks after the marriage., Printmaker from companion print., Artist from copy at the Library of Congress., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The honey moon [graphic].
8. Abelard and Eloisa [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, 20 Apr. 1778.
- Call Number:
- 778.04.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A very fat gentleman on the left paying court to an ugly old lady on the right; both are seated with the gentleman with a small dog beneath his chair and a cat near his feet; the lady is holding a fan and wearing the towering hairstyle of the period. Behind them draperies are pulled aside revealing shelves of books
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Place of publication follows publisher's street address., Numbered in lower left of plate: 382., Variant of George 4557, without verses below design, but with imprint date present., and Contemporary pencil ms. notation identifying subjects: Mr. Mason & Mrs. Montague.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Montague, Elizabeth Robinson, 1720-1800. and Mason, William, 1725-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Abelard and Eloisa [graphic].
9. High life below stairs [graphic]
- Creator:
- Caldwall, James, 1739-1819, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 20 May 1772.
- Call Number:
- 772.05.20.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young maid seated by the kitchen table is admiring in a small mirror her coiffure as it is being arranged by a footman. A little girl playing by the window is mimicking his work on her rag doll. In the foreground on rihgt, an old woman is washing clothes in a large tub. On the other side of the kitchen an maid plays a mandolin while singing together with a footman seated by her side. A small shaggy pet dog sits on an open music book by their feet, howling in accompaniment. A kitten plays with the ribbons of a hat left leaning against the table leg on the floor. In the background is a large fireplace with dishes and candlesticks on the mantle and a bird-cage from which a large black bird peeks curiously at the hairdressing in progress
- Description:
- Title from item., After painting by Collet titled: High taste in low life, exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1765. Cf. Catalogue of the paintings, sculptures ... exhibiting by the Free Society of Artists, 1765, no. 63., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Townhouse kitchen -- Containers: Warming pan.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, publish'd as the act directs
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > High life below stairs [graphic]