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1. Comfort in a hurricane [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1803]
- Call Number:
- 803.05.12.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men and a dog in a row boat in rough water
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered '298' in lower right corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Three lines of caption below title: Bless me how we are tossed about, I never saw such rough weather in my life; I hope the boat will not upset; Pray ferry-man has there been many people lost in crossing here? "Lost, did you say! No I never knew of any one to be lost there's my brother he was drowned here last week, but we found him next day., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd May 12, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Drowning, Dogs, Ferries, and Rowboats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Comfort in a hurricane [graphic].
2. Mr. and Mrs. Vite's journey to Vindsor and Vest Vickham von Vitsunday [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1821]
- Call Number:
- 821.03.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Heading to printed verses ... A river scene, with Windsor Castle in the background (left). A boatman standing in a punt has fished from the water a 'cit's' wig, while another holds a grappling-iron. A fat woman on the bank throws up her arms at sight of the wig. Two 'Eaton boys', arm-in-arm in the background, watch the woman. Some 'vanton Eaton boys' had 'popt Vite in the vater'. He was drowned."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Mr. and Mrs. Vite's journey to Windsor and West Wickham on Whitsunday
- Description:
- Title from letterpress heading to verses., Two lines of text below title: Written and composed by Mr. Rhodes; and sung with unbounded applause by Mr. Dowton, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in his entertainment of summer-amusement., Four columns of verse below title: A vorthy cit von Vitsun-day ..., Publication line at end of verses: Published 13th January, 1818, by Whittle and Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street, London., Plate numbered "490" in upper left corner., and For a reduced verson of this design, see No. 14971 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
- Publisher:
- Published March 1st, 1821, by Richd. Holmes Laurie, 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- Windsor Castle,
- Subject (Topic):
- Rivers, Boats, Wigs, and Drowning
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. and Mrs. Vite's journey to Vindsor and Vest Vickham von Vitsunday [graphic].
3. Raising the royal George [graphic]
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 January 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.01.21.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, submerged in water, his head and hands raised in supplication above the waves, is being pulled out by four men standing in "Victory's Boat." They are, from left to right, Admiral Keppel, Lord Shelburne, John Dunning, and the Duke of Richmond. A "Diving Bell" with a head of a judge, possibly Thurlow, is attached to the boat by another rope. Watching from the shore are Charles James Fox, with a fox's head, and Edmund Burke. Fox comments that "As maligrida [Shelburne] now does reign / all their labour is in vain," to which Burke adds, "if boreas was here he would much swell / and prevent the efects of the Diving Bell." 'Boreas,' the fictitious designer of this print is Lord North. The printmaker Twitcher is Lord Sandwich. The title alludes to the loss of the warship "Royal George" during repairs in Portsmouth in 1782
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to John Nixon. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 21st. Jan. 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., England, and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783., Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of, 1735-1806., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., and Royal George (Ship)
- Subject (Topic):
- Diving bells, Shipwrecks, Boats, Ropes, Drowning, Crowns, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Raising the royal George [graphic]
4. The coffin expedition, or, Boney's invincible armada half seas over [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 January 1804]
- Call Number:
- 804.01.06.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Gunboats in the form of coffins are foundering or about to founder. Each has a single cannon in the bows, and a mast with a triangular sail whose corner is held in the teeth of the skull which surmounts the mast. The crews all wear shrouds and bonnets rouges; on the skulls also are bonnets rouges. Some of the men are screaming in the water, where a floating skull holds the end of a sail in its teeth, looking round fiercely at one of the drowning men. Others are still in the coffin-gunboats, holding muskets or making gestures of despair. One says: "Oh de Corsican Bougre, was make dese Gun Boats on purpose for our Funeral." In the background are two British men of war. Two tiny sailors say: "I say Messmate if we dont bear up quickly there will be nothing left for us to do", and, "Rigt [sic] Tom, & I take them there things at the mast head to be Boney's Crest, a Skull without Brains." A satire on the manifest impracticability of an invasion (see British Museum Satires No. 10008) by gunboats without the command of the sea, cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 9995, &c, 10125, 10223, 10231, 10260, 10277."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Boney's invincible armada half seas over
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement beneath imprint: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening., Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F., and Mounted at the corners: 30 x 42 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Coffins, Gunboats, Cannons, Rifles, Skulls, Liberty cap, Drowning, Warships, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The coffin expedition, or, Boney's invincible armada half seas over [graphic].
