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101.
The humrous farce of Jobson and Nell from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[approximately 1750]
Call Number:
750.00.00.11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Inside a humble house, a man and woman standing together at right, the woman with hand on hip and leaning against the man, both looking towards a cleric at left who turns away with a rod in his hand, a tankard resting on a table before him, the door o...
Alternative Title:
Humorous farce of Jobson and Nell
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Name):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Clergy, and Shoemakers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The humrous farce of Jobson and Nell from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens. [graphic]

102.
The night mare [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
800.00.00.186+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An image derived from Henry Fuseli painting titled "The Nightmare" from 1781. The incubus has been replaced with a caricature of Napoleon. This image shows a woman asleep on a bed, a little man sitting on her chest pulling back her see-through covers,...
Alternative Title:
Nightmare
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Sleeping, Nightmares, Chamber pots, and Books
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The night mare [graphic].

104.
The sweating sickness, or, The imaginary malady (a bona fide fact). [graphic]

Published / Created:
[2 December 1799] and [1799]
Call Number:
Print10015
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to verses printed below in four columns. Six grinning 'cits' stand round one of their number who is in night-cap and waistcoat. Behind is a curtained bed. The verses relate a trick at a Sunday 'dining country jaunt' for which lavish prov...
Description:
Letterpress title printed partially on plate below image, partially below plate line.
Publisher:
Published 2d Decr. 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London and Jack Rider, printer
Subject (Topic):
Sweating-sickness, Beds, Bedrooms, Chamber pots, Interiors, Obesity, People associated with commercial & service activities, and Practical jokes
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The sweating sickness, or, The imaginary malady (a bona fide fact). [graphic]

105.
The sweating sickness, or, The imaginary malady (a bona fide fact). [graphic]

Published / Created:
[2 December 1799] and [1799]
Call Number:
799.12.02.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to verses printed below in four columns. Six grinning 'cits' stand round one of their number who is in night-cap and waistcoat. Behind is a curtained bed. The verses relate a trick at a Sunday 'dining country jaunt' for which lavish prov...
Description:
Letterpress title printed partially on plate below image, partially below plate line.
Publisher:
Published 2d Decr. 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London and Jack Rider, printer
Subject (Topic):
Sweating-sickness, Beds, Bedrooms, Chamber pots, Interiors, Obesity, People associated with commercial & service activities, and Practical jokes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The sweating sickness, or, The imaginary malady (a bona fide fact). [graphic]

106.
The unlucky discovery [graphic].

Published / Created:
publish'd 1 Jany 1771.
Call Number:
771.01.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman sits on the edge of a bed hung with curtains, as an older woman points accusingly at her, an angry look on her face and a pair of men's breeches in her hand. The young woman has a look of shame and sorrow on her face as she holds a cloth...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Beds, Mothers, Trousers, Women, and Young adults
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The unlucky discovery [graphic].

107.
This is trusting a servant to do any thing! She has been and left the warming-pan in my lodger's

Published / Created:
[between 1838 and 1840?]
Call Number:
Maidment Un58 no. 38 Box 6
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A maid pulls at the peg leg of a man in bed, mistaking it for the handle of a warming pan. A single sock and shoe lay on the floor beside the bed; a candle sits on the bureau in the background, in front of a small mirror
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St.
Subject (Topic):
Women domestics, Beds, Peg legs, Pulling, Candles, and Mirrors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > This is trusting a servant to do any thing! She has been and left the warming-pan in my lodger's bed, the good for nothing hussey. Hollo! What the duce are you going at with my leg? D'ye hear? Are you going to pull me out of bed? [graphic]

108.
Tight lacing [graphic]

Published / Created:
[5 March 1777]
Call Number:
777.03.05.01.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly lady with towering coiffure topped with feathers and ribbons holds tightly to the post of a canopy bed, as her equally old and ugly maid, bracing a foot on the lady's cork rump, tightens her stays
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 5 Marh. 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho ...
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Beds, and Bedrooms
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing [graphic]

109.
Tight lacing [graphic]

Published / Created:
[not before 1782]
Call Number:
777.03.05.01.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly lady with towering coiffure topped with feathers and ribbons holds tightly to the post of a canopy bed, as her equally old and ugly maid, bracing a foot on the lady's cork rump, tightens her stays
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Beds, and Bedrooms
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing [graphic]

110.
Tight lacing, or, Fashion before ease [graphic]

Published / Created:
[ca. 1777] and [printed ca. 1812]
Call Number:
777.00.00.10+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an elegantly decorated bedroom, a young woman with hair piled high in the fashion of the 1770s, holds tightly to a bedpost, while a man (her servant or husband) tugs on her stay-laces, and is in turn held around his waist by a female servant, who i...
Alternative Title:
Fashion before ease
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Corsets, Fashion, Dogs, Monkeys, Beds, Bedrooms, and Tug of war
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, Fashion before ease [graphic]

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