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1. "Ah! Sure such a pair was never seen so justly form'd to meet by nature" Old Sherry : dedicated to Old Bags / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 23, 1820.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 25. George Humphrey shop album. Page 51. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "From two huge green bags, pear-shaped and broad-based, emerge respectively the heads of the King and Queen. They stand on the surface of a table forming the base of the design. The King's bag (left) is the larger; with averted head he looks sideways at his wife with an expression of terrified fury. She looks towards him with demure provocation. He wears a crown, she a triple ostrich plume in her hat to show that she is denied her status. Round the vast girth of the King's bag is a buckled garter; round the Queen's a blue (Garter) ribbon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13802) inscribed '. . . Droit. Honi . Soit. Qui . Mal. y . Pense.' By the former bag is a paper: 'Ordered to lie [scored through] lay on the table'; by the latter: 'Secret Committe [sic]--'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Mounted on page 25 of: George Humphrey shop album.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bags, Tables, Crowns, Feathers, Belts (Clothing), and Ribbons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Ah! Sure such a pair was never seen so justly form'd to meet by nature" Old Sherry : dedicated to Old Bags / [graphic]
2. "Ah! Sure such a pair was never seen so justly form'd to meet by nature" Old Sherry : dedicated to Old Bags / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 23, 1820.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 25. George Humphrey shop album. Page 51. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "From two huge green bags, pear-shaped and broad-based, emerge respectively the heads of the King and Queen. They stand on the surface of a table forming the base of the design. The King's bag (left) is the larger; with averted head he looks sideways at his wife with an expression of terrified fury. She looks towards him with demure provocation. He wears a crown, she a triple ostrich plume in her hat to show that she is denied her status. Round the vast girth of the King's bag is a buckled garter; round the Queen's a blue (Garter) ribbon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13802) inscribed '. . . Droit. Honi . Soit. Qui . Mal. y . Pense.' By the former bag is a paper: 'Ordered to lie [scored through] lay on the table'; by the latter: 'Secret Committe [sic]--'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Mounted on page 51 of: George Humphrey shop album., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 38.9 cm, on sheet 28 x 40.9 cm., and With identifications of "George IV" and "Q. Caroline" written in pencil below image, as well as the explanation "the green bags with reference to their divorce were ordered to lie on the table" written in pencil below title.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bags, Tables, Crowns, Feathers, Belts (Clothing), and Ribbons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Ah! Sure such a pair was never seen so justly form'd to meet by nature" Old Sherry : dedicated to Old Bags / [graphic]
3. A Bath Adonis worshiping the idol of his affections [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1775?]
- Call Number:
- 775.02.01.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man wearing laced coat and sword and holding a snuff box leans on an elaborately carved console table of the pump room at Bath, admiring himself in a mirror. An illustration for the "History of Captain S_: or, the Bath Adonis."
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date and publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Extended to 26 x 18 cm.
- Publisher:
- The Matrimonial Magazine?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bath (England) and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Mirrors, Wallpaper, and Tables
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Bath Adonis worshiping the idol of his affections [graphic].
4. A Dutch concert [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1769?]
- Call Number:
- 770.00.00.100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Inside of what appears to be a simple cottage, a woman and two men are gathered around a table. The woman, sitting at the table, holds an open music book. One of the man leans over her shoulder in order to read the music while he is playing the violin. The other man, sitting at the opposite side of the table with a tall glass in his left hand and a happy expression on his face, is singing. In front of the table on the floor stands a large decorated jug with a lid. A pipe and a tobacco box lie on the table
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Publication date inferred from publisher's activity dates., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Musical instruments -- Sheet music -- Containers: jug with a lid -- Glass: tall glass -- Furniture -- Architectural details: board floor., and Mounted to 20 x 15 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Gapper in New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Violins, Tables, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Dutch concert [graphic]
5. A Gothic table [art original]
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1800]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
- Collection Title:
- Page 4b. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of the table of Sicilian jasper on a black frame, designed by Richard Bentley, in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., and Inlaid on page 4b in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Tables
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Gothic table [art original]
6. A beau-clerk for a banking-concern [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [March 1825]
- Call Number:
- 825.03.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mrs. Coutts (right), fat, swarthy, and moustached, sits at a table, holding out a cheque for £100.000 to Lord Burford. Her Cheque Book lies on the table. He steps forward, hat in hand, left hand on breast, in profile to the right. She says: Why you seem to be a good looking hard working young fellow, but I must tell you my business is extensive And I shall expect you will employ your time day and night for the benefit of the Concern, you must also be humble and submissive, should this be realized on Trial I will make you a Sleeping Partner. And here's a trifle for you to buy a pair of gloves. He answers with eager deference: You may depend upon it Madam I shall endeavour to give you every satisfaction. I shall be very attentive and if I can't get through the business as you like, you are at liberty to employ an Assistant. Mrs. Coutts is décolletée and bejewelled, wearing a turban trimmed with a paradise-plume. The gold-bordered tablecloth is weighted with balls inscribed £20,000 and £9,000. Large money-bags are on the floor behind her: £800,000 and . . . 000. Under her chair are a glass and a decanter of White Tape. Behind her is a picture of heaped sovereigns and money-bags. Other pictures are a cow looking over the wall of Mrs C--s Dairy, and (left) a castle: View near St Albans. The chairs are decorated with coins pouring from cornucopias."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 32 x 46.4 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 1825 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837 and St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849
- Subject (Topic):
- Tables, Tablecloths, Checks, Turbans, Jewelry, Bags, Money, Chairs, Cornucopias, and Pictures
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A beau-clerk for a banking-concern [graphic]
7. A brace of blackguards [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 June 1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.06.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Three men in a tavern with three pictures on the wall with images of pugilists, a portrait of Buckhorse and two images of fights. The one man has his head on the table, presumably passed out and asleep. The other man sits in a chair looking out at the viewer, a club in his hand and a dog at his feet. The third man stands behind him, his fists postitioned ready for a bout, although he holds a smoking pipe in his left hand. On the mantel are glasses and flasks of liquor
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Manuscript notion identifies the seated man as "Morland the artist" and the man standing behind him as "Rowlandson"., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., For a description of the reissue or alternate version of this design from 1812, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 230., Temporary local subject terms: Tankards -- Pictures amplifying subjects: 3 prints of pugilists., and Identifications of the two figures added in ink in a contemporary hand -- Morland and Rowlandson; secondary border line around design also added in ink.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the act directs, June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay on the Steine, Brighthelmstone
- Subject (Name):
- Morland, George, 1763-1804 and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, British, Boxing, Chairs, Dogs, Drinking vessels, Fireplaces, Pipes (Smoking), Sports posters, Tables, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A brace of blackguards [graphic]
8. A certain great personage learning to spell [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1770]
- Call Number:
- 770.09.00.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire on the Duke of Cumberland's poor spelling with references to his criminal conversation with Lady Grosvenor. He is shown at a table with a satyr holding a fool's cap over his head as a tutor stands beside the table where the Duke works. Also beside his chair is a monkey on his hind legs. On the wall hangs a birch rod
- Description:
- Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 5 (1770), page 88., and Mounted to 33 x 46 cm.
- Publisher:
- Oxford magazine
- Subject (Name):
- Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790
- Subject (Topic):
- Satyrs (Greek mythology), Monkeys, Fools' caps, Tutoring, Clergy, Tables, and Chairs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A certain great personage learning to spell [graphic]
9. A cup of tea and a dish of chat [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, George, active 1824-1831, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1830] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 35. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, with slight alteration to dialogue below image; the letters "omp" in "Romp" have been burnished from plate and replaced with an underscore., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Five numbered lines of dialogue below title: 1. So! they say Miss Stiff R- is in the straw!! 2. Why sure, is it a girl? ..., and On leaf 35 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Topic):
- Tea, Kettles, Gossiping, Tables, Candles, Fireplaces, Cats, and Accidents
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A cup of tea and a dish of chat [graphic]
