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1. A Birmingham toast as given on the 14th of July by the Revolution Society [art original].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1791]
Call Number:: Drawings G41 no. 2 Box D300
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned,) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility. On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance""--British Museum catalogue
Description:: Title inscribed in brown ink below image., Date based on published Gillray print., Description of published Gillray print in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7894., Description of published Gillray print in Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times / edited by Thomas Wright. London : Chatto and Windus, [1873?], p. 130., Description of published Gillray print in Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray ... / by Thomas Wright, 1851, no. 58., and A 'counterprint' or transfer in brown ink from another print on verso: A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the Revolution Society.
Subject (Name):: Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, and Constitutional Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Toasting, Chalices, and Eating & drinking
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A Birmingham toast as given on the 14th of July by the Revolution Society [art original].

2. A Parliamentry toast [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 March 1809]
Call Number:: 809.03.02.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Six men at a dinner-table, four in regimentals. An officer stands (right) to give a toast, the man seated on his left having said "Come Jack favor us with a Toast". He responds: "Here is the Lady that can raise Five Hundred Members!!" A civilian on his right says: "very fair--very fair". The man at the foot of the table (left) asks his civilian neighbour "How much did you give to be Gazzetted. The man answers gloomily: Five hundred hard cash!!" The sixth man says: "I did not think it would have been done up so soon-- I had promised at least a Dozen promotions"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue., (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947) See No. 11216, &c. A reference to Mrs. Clarke's effect on the Commons, cf. No. 11238. Wilberforce records in his diary: 'House examining Mrs. Clarke for two hours--cross-examining her in the Old Bailey way--she elegantly dressed, consummately impudent, and very clever: clearly got the better in the tussle' (1 Feb.). 'Mrs. Clarke by fascinating the House has prevented its degradation by appearing to stifle the inquiry, and take too strong a part with the Duke of York--curious to see how strongly she has won upon people' (Feb. 26)., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., and Mounted to 28 x 42 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 2nd. 1809 by Thos. Tegg
Subject (Name):: Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852
Subject (Topic):: Eating & drinking, Military officers, and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A Parliamentry toast [graphic].

3. A capital joke [graphic].

Published / Created:: [September 1823]
Call Number:: 823.09.00.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A group of gentlemen seated at an oval table, with glasses full of wine, laugh uproariously at a joke as they look down at the dog at the foot of the table
Description:: Title from text at bottom of image., Companion print to: No effect., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Pub. Sept. 1823 by J. Dickinson, 114 New Bond St.
Subject (Topic):: Dogs, Eating & drinking, Laughter, and Wine
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A capital joke [graphic].

4. A club of artist's [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1754]
Call Number:: Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on the opponents of William Hogarth, suggesting that Paul Sandby's 'Burlesque sur le Burlesque' "will Serve to Whipe your Bum"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Lettered with captions in the image, the title, fourteen lines of verse 'Patrons of Worth Encouragers of Arts ... Oh,. kindly puff their Praise when e'er You Sh-e' and 'According to act of Parliment 1754'., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 206 in volume 3.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Artists, Eating & drinking, and Clubs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A club of artist's [graphic].

5. A country club [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1806 and 1811?]
Call Number:: Bunbury 806.00.00.50
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The interior of a bare and plainly furnished room in a country inn; a number of middle-aged and plainly dressed men stand waiting for dinner to be served. Through a door in the back wall a serving-boy enters with a tureen, followed by a stout woman carrying a turkey, who is followed by a man-servant. A man (left), wearing spurred jack-boots, stands in profile to the left to hang his hat on a peg. He faces a framed notice: 'Club Law". In the centre two men, one wearing top-boots, the other in quasi-military dress, face each other, grinning. A third tries to insinuate himself into the conversation. On the right a stout man stands at a table before a punch-bowl and a sugar-basin: his hands are folded and his eyes closed as if in prayer; between his legs sits a large cat. Beside and behind him a man with a bottle in one hand sniffs at another bottle. An irate man (left) stands at the end of the table, watch in hand. Above the door a picture of a mounted huntsman hangs askew. On the wall are (left) hats and sticks, (right) a map of the world in two hemispheres
Description:: Title from caption below image., Printmaker and publication dates from Grego. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. ii, p. 58, 214., Artist from earlier print of which this is a reduced copy. See no. 7452 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge, and text erased from lower left corner of sheet., and Additional shading added in pencil to lower left corner of design.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Cats, Eating & drinking, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A country club [graphic].

6. A drap of whisky [art original]

Creator:: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:: [1792]
Call Number:: Drawings D574 no. 11 Box D117
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A caricatured old man shown half-length to right, sipping from a small glass and his arms around a bottle, resting his elbows on a table, wearing tattered clothes and a hat over a scarf around his head; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the related print
Alternative Title:: Drap of whiskey
Description:: Title written in ink beneath image., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., Numbered "404" in ink in lower left., and For the related print, published by Bowles & Carver, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1738.
Subject (Topic):: Whiskey, Bottles, and Eating & drinking
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A drap of whisky [art original]

7. A fowl with the gravy to it [graphic].

Published / Created:: [8 August 1803]
Call Number:: 803.08.08.01
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: A group of men dining around a table, one pouring gravy into the pocket of another
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate numbered '309' in lower left corner., From he Laurie & Whitlle Droll's series., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Two lines of text below title: Old man. Hey Hey; what are you doing, do you mean to pick my pocket. O no Sir, only observing you put a fowl there, I have taken the liberty to help you to a little gravy, as it would be dry eating of itself., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Publish'd Augt. 8, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):: Eating & drinking, Joking, and Servants
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A fowl with the gravy to it [graphic].

8. A free mason [graphic].

Published / Created:: [February 1831]
Call Number:: 831.02.00.02+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Thirteen small designs on one plate
Description:: Title from caption below center 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:: Published Feby. 1831 by S. Gans, 15 Southampton St., Covt. Garden
Subject (Topic):: Freemasonry, Courtship, Couples, and Eating & drinking
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A free mason [graphic].

9. A good dinner spoil'd by the ridiculous custom of drinking to friends with a full mouth [graphic]

Published / Created:: [1775]
Call Number:: 775.02.01.01 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Eight people crowd around a dining table, a woman on the right having fainted, perhaps choking, while two gentlemen attempt to revive her. Other diners continue eating as a maid carries in a dripping tray of meat and a dog begs from a woman on the left. Two caricature portraits hang on the background wall
Alternative Title:: Good dinner spoiled by the ridiculous custom of drinking to friends with a full mouth
Description:: Title from item. and Mounted on paper 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England. and England
Subject (Topic):: Dinners and dining, Toasts, Food habits, Social life and customs, Eating & drinking, and Dining rooms
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A good dinner spoil'd by the ridiculous custom of drinking to friends with a full mouth [graphic]