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2.
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1680]
- Call Number:
- 680.00.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Harlequin, wearing a costume decorated with tools and animals of the conjuring trade, balances on a ladder facing right. The laughing audience is seen beyond the edge of a wooden stage in front of a sheet screening the scene, suggesting a street perfo...
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Harlequin (Fictitious character), Theatrical productions, Stages (Platforms), and Audiences
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Harlequin on a ladder].
3.
- Creator:
- Steevens, George, 1736-1800, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1800]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A tracing of a 1731 print after Hogarth: Satire on Orator Henley and his followers. A view of his Oratory in Clare Market with Henley preaching from an open-air platform in front of the building, one cloven hoof protruding from beneath his robe. A mon...
- Description:
- Title from text in image.
- Subject (Name):
- Henley, John, 1692-1756 and Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
- Subject (Topic):
- Angels, Audiences, Butchers, Carriages & coaches, Clergy, Clowns, Defecation, Monkeys, Preachers, and Preaching
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The oratory inveniam viam aut faciam. [art original]
4.
- Creator:
- Pranker, Robert, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1765]
- Call Number:
- 765.00.00.93++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A Methodist preacher preaching to an open-air congregation with a cloth in one hand, two women preparing to steal a pair of shoes in the midst of the crowd, various people looking on including an apple seller with a cart, a ballad seller with a baby o...
- Description:
- Title engraved below image.
- Publisher:
- Published according to act of Parliament, & sold by the proprietor John Griffiths, Chief Porter of the Middle Temple, opposite the General Post Office, Middle Temple Lane, & the print shops &c.
- Subject (Name):
- St. Luke's Hospital (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Preaching, Audiences, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Kites (Toys), Pickpockets, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Enthusiasm displayed [graphic]
5.
- Published / Created:
- [1775?]
- Call Number:
- 775.00.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Probable book illustration, within ornamental frame, of a man declaiming from a raised platform before an audience composed chiefly of men in the foreground and of women in the upper gallery, the setting illuminated by candles on the table before the ...
- Alternative Title:
- School of Shakespeare
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Subject (Topic):
- Dramatic productions, Acting, Actors, Audiences, and Stages (Platforms)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The School of Shakespear [graphic].
6.
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [178-?]
- Call Number:
- 780.00.00.81
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Two elderly women in hats sit, the one on the left is facing forward with arns across her chest; the woman on the right turns to the right and holds a sheet in her hands
- Description:
- Title below image.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Women, Audiences, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > At a concert [graphic]
7.
- Creator:
- Livesay, Richard, -1823?, printmaker, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1782]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Theatre stage with two dancers; a woman (La Barbarina) jumping with her legs apart and a man (George Desnoyer) with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles."--British Museum online ca...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd March 1, 1782 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields
- Subject (Name):
- Campanini, Barbara 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
- Subject (Topic):
- Audiences, Dancers, and Singers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The charmers of the age [graphic]
8.
- Published / Created:
- [25 May 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.05.25.02.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the right, the chairman of the Robin Hood Society leans over a rostrum toward the speaker, Jeffery Dunstan, a hawker whose physical deformities and wit led to his election as the "mayor of Garrett" shown in the image behind him on the wall. The car...
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 25, 1783, by W Humphrey, No 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Debates and debating, Audiences, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Robin Hood Society [graphic].
9.
- Published / Created:
- [1783?]
- Call Number:
- 783.05.25.02.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the right, the chairman of the Robin Hood Society leans over a rostrum toward the speaker, Jeffery Dunstan, a hawker whose physical deformities and wit led to his election as the "mayor of Garrett" shown in the image behind him on the wall. The car...
- Description:
- Title etched at bottom of image.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Debates and debating, Audiences, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Robin Hood Society [graphic].
10.
- Creator:
- Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 February 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.02.12.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Dr. James Graham, the famous quack, stands on a small platform or pedestal, addressing an audience of both sexes who sit and stand in front of him. He stands rather to the right of the design looking left, his right hand raised, his left holding a ro...
- Alternative Title:
- Docter himself pouring out his whole soul for 1 s.
Doctor himself pouring out his whole soul for 1 s. - Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs Feby. 12, 1783, by R. Rusted, No. 3 Bridge St., Ludgate Hill
- Subject (Name):
- Graham, James, 1745-1794, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Quacks, Audiences, and Public speaking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The docter [sic] himself pouring out his whole soul for 1 s [graphic]
11.
- Creator:
- Pollard, Robert, 1755-1838, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [28 June 1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.06.28.01 Framed, shelved in Object Room Rack 1.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An evening scene in Vauxhall Gardens. On the extreme left is the orchestra with the organ behind and performers on the kettledrums, string and wind instruments. The vocalist, Mrs. Weichsel, sings, in profile to the right, from the adjacent (and sligh...
- Alternative Title:
- Vauxhall
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd June 28th 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Vauxhall Gardens (London, England), London (England), England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818., Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1737-1793, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Pasley, Thomas, Sir, 1734-1808, Perry, James, 1756-1821, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, and Topham, Edward, 1751-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Social life and customs, Parks, Audiences, Concerts, Couples, Crowds, Musicians, Orchestras, Peg legs, and Singers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Vaux-hall [graphic]
12.
- Creator:
- Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1785.
- Call Number:
- Print00701
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Graham, the well-known quack, stands above and behind a crowd of listeners, all men, some in profile, some in back view, some full-face, the heads and shoulders only being visible, except in the foreground where there is a row of half length figures ...
- Alternative Title:
- Dr. James Graham lecturing in Edinburgh
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Graham, James, 1745-1794
- Subject (Topic):
- Quacks and quackery, Public speaking, Audiences, Chandeliers, and Sconces
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Dr. Graham lecturing in Edinburgh] [graphic]
13.
- Published / Created:
- [28 February 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.02.28.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire on Madame Mara: She sits in an armchair decorated with Masonic symbols which is in the center of a concert room, with a boarded floor and low platform along the back for the performers. She sings the lines "Oh, Oh, de roasta beef-a de charman...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Feby. 28th, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3, Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Wapping (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833
- Subject (Topic):
- Social life and customs, Masons, Audiences, Concerts, Dogs, Etiquette, Harps, Musical instruments, and Musicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Wapping concert Madam Mary informs her friends and the public in general, that she has opened her winter concert at the Hog in Armour Wapping ... [graphic]
14.
- Published / Created:
- [30 May 1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Theatre stage with two dancers; a woman (La Barbarina) jumping with her legs apart and a man (George Desnoyer) with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles."--British Museum online ca...
- Description:
- Title etched below image, preceded by letters "A.B." and followed by "C.C. Prickt lines shew the rising Height."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
- Subject (Topic):
- Audiences, Dancers, and Singers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Charmers of the age [graphic].
15.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1 June 1790]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A crowd, gathered in the courtyard under the sign of The George Inn on the route to Brighton, examine a horse seemingly under auction; a man in the doorway holds up a hammer. People look out at the scene from the windows of the inn. Two men converse w...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd June 1, 1790, by Messrs. Robinsons, Paternoster Row
- Subject (Topic):
- Animal auctions, Audiences, Travelers, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Crawley [graphic]
16.
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1790]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 790.07.01.09 Box 115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either sid...
- Description:
- Title etched above image.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]
17.
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either sid...
- Description:
- Title etched above image.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]
18.
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either sid...
- Description:
- Title etched above image.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]
19.
- Creator:
- Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, attributed name
- Published / Created:
- May 12, 1790.
- Call Number:
- 790.05.12.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The King of Spain sits on a circular dais under a canopy, turning his head away from the English ambassador (left), a stout John Bull wearing top-boots behind whom stand four pugilists. Three Spaniards with pikes stand on the extreme right behind the...
- Description:
- Title etched above image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain.
- Subject (Name):
- Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819, Humphries, Richard, -1827., Bryan, Benjamin, 1753-1794., and Ward, Joseph, active 1790.
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Ambassadors, British, Audiences, Boxers (Sports), Ethnic stereotypes, Kings, and Reception rooms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The English ambassador and his suite before the King at Madrid, 1790 [graphic]
20.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1 June 1790]
- Call Number:
- 790.06.01.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A crowd, gathered in the courtyard under the sign of The George Inn on the route to Brighton, examine a horse seemingly under auction; a man in the doorway holds up a hammer. People look out at the scene from the windows of the inn. Two men converse w...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd June 1, 1790, by Messrs. Robinsons, Paternoster Row
- Subject (Topic):
- Animal auctions, Audiences, Travelers, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Crawley [graphic]