- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd 23d Feby. 1782.
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 12. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire contrasting English and French styles of dress. A stout middle-aged Englishman wearing a heavy coat and three-cornered hat and carrying a stick, is walking to left in a Parisian street with a small boy in attendance. Passers-by are amused by his lack of elegance: on the left, a hairdresser wearing his hair in a large queue, with scissors at his waist and an apron, carries a parasol and raises his hand in surprise; a fat monk grins; an elegant man driving a cabriolet and his footman dressed in furs smile; a worker wearing loose trousers and wooden shoes folds his arms and stares; two dogs follow the Englishman."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: Cabriolet -- Trades: Hairdresser -- Domestic service: Footman -- Frenchmen -- French tailors -- The Grand Tour., Mounted on page 12 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper, partly hand-colored ; sheet 32.8 x 41.6 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, France, and Paris.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, City & town life, Carriages & coaches, Dogs, Staffs (Sticks), and Monks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Englishman at Paris, 1767 [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd 23d Feby. 1782.
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 782.02.23.01+ Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 12. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire contrasting English and French styles of dress. A stout middle-aged Englishman wearing a heavy coat and three-cornered hat and carrying a stick, is walking to left in a Parisian street with a small boy in attendance. Passers-by are amused by his lack of elegance: on the left, a hairdresser wearing his hair in a large queue, with scissors at his waist and an apron, carries a parasol and raises his hand in surprise; a fat monk grins; an elegant man driving a cabriolet and his footman dressed in furs smile; a worker wearing loose trousers and wooden shoes folds his arms and stares; two dogs follow the Englishman."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: Cabriolet -- Trades: Hairdresser -- Domestic service: Footman -- Frenchmen -- French tailors -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark: L.V.G.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, France, and Paris.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, City & town life, Carriages & coaches, Dogs, Staffs (Sticks), and Monks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Englishman at Paris, 1767 [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1813?]
- Call Number:
- 813.00.00.23
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A street scene in Paris, at corner of Pont Neuf: a blind man and a lame man beg on the sidewalk beside a bookseller's stall, the seller in glasses looing up at his shelves under an awning. Two street vendors sit in the street: a man with a peg leg holds a brush up along side his shoe shining equipment; above his head a sign with a cage hanging from it reads "La fond. Cond proprement les chiens et coupe les chats et tient depot de mort au rats.". Beside him a woman shears a sheep. Above her head a sign on the right margin: Catrinne coup chien et chat et son mari va-en ville. On the left along the wall a woman carries a dog in a bag and a turkey in her arms. Two other men show signs of shame and fear
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on secondary support.
- Publisher:
- Chez Noel Fréres, rue St. Jacques no. 16 et rue des Prêtres St. Germain-l'Auxerois, no. 22
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Paris.
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life, Beggars, Blind persons, Bookselling, Peg legs, Pleading (Begging), Ratcatching, Sheep shearing, Shoe shining, and Street vendors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Un coin du Pont Neuf [graphic].
- Creator:
- Godissart de Cari, 1774-1848, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1814 and 1829]
- Call Number:
- 814.00.00.39
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A very fat man, stuck in a turnstile in a passage between two buildings, is helped by a young boy (right) with a suitcase (a boot-black?) and a man in fur cap, perhaps a carrier whose handcart leans against the wall (left). The passage is identified on the left as "Passage de la Boule Rouge". A poster on the building on the right warns, "Avis aux etrangers sur les dangers de Paris"; below this advice is the printmaker's name and the imprint statement
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Series title from impression in the Paris Musées Collections., Imprint statement and printmaker name from image of a broadside., Series title and number from caption above image., Sheet trimmed to image with loss of all text., "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue., and Trimmed to image: sheet 19.3 x 23.6 cm.
- Publisher:
- Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq, St. Honoré
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Paris.
- Subject (Topic):
- Occupations, Turnstiles, Obesity, and City & town life
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Un peu d'aide fait grande bien le gros Lu-lu à son petite Nie-nie / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1814]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
- Collection Title:
- V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "[Top image]: A plump, comely woman sits full-face behind a table whose surface forms the base of the design. Her dress is cut low, and her hair piled in a pyramid; her back is reflected in a large wall-mirror. On the table are trays filled with cards, dishes of fruit, a reading lamp, and a plant in a pot. A thin elderly woman, similarly dressed, stands looking at her in profile to the right. [Bottom image]: A fashionably dressed woman sits in profile to the left, at an ornate table raised above the floor of the café, studying a pamphlet or menu on which is the word 'Paris'. Her arm-chair is decorated with ornaments, the arm terminating in a ram's head. Customers and waiters (left) are on a smaller scale. Columns with ornate capitals support the roof, and the wall is decorated with large paintings of nude and heroic figures."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Titles etched below images., Variant state lacking year in artist's signature. For a state with "1814" etched after both instances of John Nixon's "J.N." initials, see nos. 12409 and 12410 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Publisher and date of publication from description of variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Two images on one plate, each with individual title and statements of responsibility etched below., Plate numbered "236" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.1 x 24.6 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., and Leaf 80 in volume 4.
- Publisher:
- Thomas Tegg
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., France, Paris., and Paris
- Subject (Topic):
- Restaurants, Cafes, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Madame Very restaurateur, Palais Royal Paris [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1814]
- Call Number:
- 814.00.00.03
- Collection Title:
- V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "[Top image]: A plump, comely woman sits full-face behind a table whose surface forms the base of the design. Her dress is cut low, and her hair piled in a pyramid; her back is reflected in a large wall-mirror. On the table are trays filled with cards, dishes of fruit, a reading lamp, and a plant in a pot. A thin elderly woman, similarly dressed, stands looking at her in profile to the right. [Bottom image]: A fashionably dressed woman sits in profile to the left, at an ornate table raised above the floor of the café, studying a pamphlet or menu on which is the word 'Paris'. Her arm-chair is decorated with ornaments, the arm terminating in a ram's head. Customers and waiters (left) are on a smaller scale. Columns with ornate capitals support the roof, and the wall is decorated with large paintings of nude and heroic figures."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Titles etched below images., Variant state lacking year in artist's signature. For a state with "1814" etched after both instances of John Nixon's "J.N." initials, see nos. 12409 and 12410 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Publisher and date of publication from description of variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Two images on one plate, each with individual title and statements of responsibility etched below., Plate numbered "236" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Watermark: Charles Wise.
- Publisher:
- Thomas Tegg
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., France, Paris., and Paris
- Subject (Topic):
- Restaurants, Cafes, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Madame Very restaurateur, Palais Royal Paris [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1820?]
- Call Number:
- 820.00.00.60
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Passage. To the right -English blacking is the attraction where Parisians do -and those who choose ..., and Second sheet attached to print 11 x 17 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Paris (France), France, and Paris.
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life and Arcades (Shopping facilities)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Passage [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1820?]
- Call Number:
- 820.00.00.59
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Streets. On the wall are bills announcing the numerous public amusements for the evening sales, &c. and a vendor of fruit is beguling a dearth of customers ..., and Second sheet attached to print 6 x 17 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Paris.
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life and Ladders
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Streets [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1820?]
- Call Number:
- 820.00.00.58
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Streets. At the corner is a restaurateur's -in the window are announced, in addition to the variety of customary bill of fare, the anglo-inducements of "Rossbif" and "Welch Rabbit" ..., and Second sheet attached to print 10 x 17 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Paris.
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life and Storefronts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Streets [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1820?]
- Call Number:
- 820.00.00.57
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Streets of Paris
- Description:
- Title engraved image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Streets of Paris. In front of a grocer's shop is a coffee roaster-adjoining a butcher's-by an admirable arrangement, all bullocks, sheep, &c. being slaughter'd at one extremity of Paris ..., and Second sheet attached to print 7 x 17 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Paris.
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life, Storefronts, and Carts & wagons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Street-Paris [graphic].