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1. I'd be a butterfly born in a bower [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1828?]
- Call Number:
- 828.00.00.16+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Poor man on crutches cries out his song in the street during a thunderstorm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from similar prints after Joe Lisle that were published by Berthoud & Son in 1828. Cf. No. 15624 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a later state published in 1830 by S. Gans, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1993,1107.43., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Handicapped.
- Publisher:
- Published by Berthoud & Son, 65, Quadrant, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Disabled veterans, Cries, Crutches, and Rain
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > I'd be a butterfly born in a bower [graphic]
2. Mars and Venus, or, Sir Cecil chastised [graphic] / Annibal Scratch fecit
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 April 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.04.02.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A furious veteran with a wooden leg and bandaged eye and a maid servant attack Sir Cecil Wray with a crutch and a broom, respectively. The maid stands on a piece of paper inscribed,"Tax on servants" and in front of a padlocked door to the "Register Off[ice] for Maid Serv[ants]." On the opposite side of the image, in the background, is the crumbling building of the Chelsea Hospital. A reference to Sir Cecil's proposals to tax the employers of maid servants and to close the Chelsea Hospital that housed disabled veterans
- Alternative Title:
- Sir Cecil chastised
- Description:
- Title from item. and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published April 2nd, 1784, by Willm Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805. and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England).
- Subject (Topic):
- Great Britain, Politics and government, Political elections, Disabled veterans, Servants, Peg legs, Crutches, Brooms & brushes, and Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mars and Venus, or, Sir Cecil chastised [graphic] / Annibal Scratch fecit
3. The Chelsea pensioner [art original]
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [May 1790]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 53 Box D305
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A pretty young woman sits facing left under a tree and talks to an elderly pensioner with a little girl sitting on his knee. Behind the young woman another girl stands listening. Both young women are well-dressed with large hats and muffs. On the extreme left a small boy stands behind the pensioner presenting arms with a long pole. A dog sits at the pensioner's feet
- Description:
- Title from ink inscription in the artist's hand below image. and Signed by the artist.
- Subject (Topic):
- Disabled veterans, Crutches, Boys, Dogs, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Chelsea pensioner [art original]
4. The Greenwich pensioner [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 June 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.06.25.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Broadside ballad by Charles Dibdin, with an etched headpiece showing the interior of a tavern with a one-legged pensioner holding a beer tankard decorated with an anchor (center), singing the song, while a maid holds a mug to another who has lost both arms (left). On the right two men play a game (draughts?) at a table. On the wall behind them is another broadside 'Poor Jack', also about a sailor with words by Dibdin. On the windows at the entrance of the tavern are postings advertising rum and gin. Several are dressed in the uniform of Greenwich pensioners
- Description:
- Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses: " ... written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The oddities.", Lettered with the artist's initials in the one-legged pensioner's hat and with his full name on the edge of the table on the right., Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, by Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, where may be had, price 6d. plain and 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Bachelors' Hall, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Barber's Wedding, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibding and others. In Fores's exhibition may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides of illustration., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 25, 1791, by W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
- Subject (Topic):
- Amputees, Crutches, Dance, Disabled veterans, Games, Interiors, Peg legs, Pipes (Smoking), Sailors, British, Manners & customs, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Greenwich pensioner [graphic]
