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1. A mendicant [graphic]
- Creator:
- Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 March 1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 90. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A friar standing in a landscape, a walking stick in his left hand and his hat down by his side in his right, a sack slung over his shoulder; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "Second published state, after publication line altered"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.823., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text below title: It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted mild, pale, penetrating, free from all common place ideas of fat contented ignorance looking downwards upon the Earth, it look'd forwards, but look'd as if it look'd at something beyond this world. Vide Sterne., Illustration to Laurence Sterne's A sentimental journey through France and Italy., and Mounted on page 90 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Published March 8th, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- Monks, Beggars, Staffs (Sticks), Bags, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A mendicant [graphic]
2. Courier anglois [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [13 February 1773]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 773.02.13.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on an English post courier (as opposed to a French courier, see British Museum Satires No. 4737): a man on horseback, blowing a horn, with an enormous sack at his back; he rides along a country road towards the right where a gibbet stands with two hanging bodies."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Early state. For later states with altered imprint statements, see Lewis Walpole Library call no. Bunbury 774.05.03.01+ and no. 4736 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Likely companion print to: Courier francois., and Temporary local subject terms: Couriers -- Post-horns.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, 13th Feby. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134, New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Horseback riding, Bags, Delivering, Horns (Communication devices), Hangings (Executions), and Gallows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Courier anglois [graphic]
3. Courier anglois [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 May 1774]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 774.05.03.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., For variant states with different imprint statements, see Lewis Walpole Library call no. Bunbury 773.02.13.01+ and no. 4736 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Likely companion print to: Courier francois., and Temporary local subject terms: Couriers -- Post-horns.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, 3d May 1774, by J. Bretherton, No. 134, New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Horseback riding, Bags, Delivering, Horns (Communication devices), Hangings (Executions), and Gallows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Courier anglois [graphic]
4. Courier anglois [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 May 1774]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 774.05.03.01+ Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., For variant states with different imprint statements, see Lewis Walpole Library call no. Bunbury 773.02.13.01+ and no. 4736 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Likely companion print to: Courier francois., Temporary local subject terms: Couriers -- Post-horns., and 1 print on laid paper : soft-ground etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 30.3 x 43 cm, on sheet 36 x 55 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, 3d May 1774, by J. Bretherton, No. 134, New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Horseback riding, Bags, Delivering, Horns (Communication devices), Hangings (Executions), and Gallows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Courier anglois [graphic]
5. A thing of shreds and patches. Hamlet [art original]
- Creator:
- Carruthers, William, active 1824, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1824]
- Call Number:
- Drawings C319 no. 1 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor of a beggar dressed in ragged, patched clothes, leaning on two crutches and wearing a bag slung across his body with the words "Scraps thankfully received" lettered upon it. He wears an eye patch on his right eye; a pipe sticks out of his hat
- Alternative Title:
- Scraps thankfully received
- Description:
- Title, a quote from Hamlet, written in ink beneath image., Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower portion of image. Artist's full name "Wm. Carruthers Esqre." is written within wash-line border at bottom., and For a lithograph of this design in reverse, published March 1825 by E. Hull and Rowe & Walker, see Wellcome Collection reference: 664653i.
- Subject (Topic):
- Beggars, Poor persons, Refuse disposal, Bags, Crutches, Eye patches, and Pipes (Smoking)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A thing of shreds and patches. Hamlet [art original]
6. "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]
7. "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]
8. "And when Ahithophel saw that his councel was not followed, he saddled his ass, & arose & went & hanged himself &c." [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [31 January 1821]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 35. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An imitation of British Museum Satires No. 6015, Gillray's 'Ahitophel in the Dumps'. Liverpool, emaciated and despairing, and much caricatured, rides an ass along a road on a desolate heath towards a gibbet (left), to which carrion birds are flying. His arms are folded, his head sunk on his breast; from his pocket hang a noose of rope and a paper: 'Paines & Penelties' [sic]. The bag to his wig is a green bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735, and to the ass's tail is tied a clyster-pipe, emblem of Sidmouth."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Mounted on page 35 of: George Humphrey shop album.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 31st, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Ahithophel (Biblical figure)
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Despair, Donkeys, Vultures, Nooses, Gallows, Bags, and Medical equipment & supplies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "And when Ahithophel saw that his councel was not followed, he saddled his ass, & arose & went & hanged himself &c." [graphic]
9. Landlord & tenant [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1817 and 1819?]
- Call Number:
- 817.00.00.25+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A dandy (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029), with a handsome profile, wearing knee-breeches, advances with a mincing step and outstretched hands towards an ugly farmer who stands facing him with a large stick and wearing top-boots and broad-brimmed hat. The tenant holds a money-bag and is fiercely prognathous. The landlord: "My dear Sir--I am rejoiced to see you--I hope your lovely family are well--You are a charming Man--correct in every point--in short your countenance is an index to your mind." The farmer: "You certainly are flattering me--here is your Rent.--as to my family--thanks to the Lord, my Wife, and all the brats, be gone to kingdome come." There is a carpeted floor."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Landlord and tenant
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Artist identified as Capt. Hehl in the British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and "One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819 ..."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Farmers, Hats, Staffs (Sticks), Bags, and Landlord & tenant relations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Landlord & tenant [graphic].