- Published / Created:
- [5 September 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.09.05.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Image at the heading to printed verses in five stanzas: A bull rampages among broken crockery in a China Warehouse; John Mug inscribed over the door (right). Mug flies in the air, having been tossed out through the shattered window, and is about to descend in a scavenger's cart (left). From British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text etched below image., Text below title, in letterpress: ... written by Mr. C. Dibdin; composed by Mr. Reeve; and sung by Mr. Grimaldi, with unbounded applause, in the new comic patomime, called "Harlequin highflyer, or Off she goes," at the Aquatic Theatre, Sadlers Wells, Printmaker signature in lower left corner of image., Three columns of verse in letterpress below title: You've heard of a frog in an opera-hat, 'Tis a very old tale of a mouse and a rat; O could sing you anothr as pleasant, may hap, Of a kitten htat wore a fine high caul'd cap ..., and Plate numbered in upper left corner: 496.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Sept. 5, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bulls, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Disasters, Show windows, Stores & shops, and Tableware
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A bull in a china-shop [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- 9 Novr. 1785.
- Call Number:
- 785.11.09.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '563' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original issue without imprint date; dated in the Catalogue ca. 1760., and Mounted.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Architectural follies, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Clergy, Dogs, Gates, Parks, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A master parson returned from duty [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1793]
- Call Number:
- 785.11.09.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Plomer., Numbered '348' in lower left corner., and Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original print was published by Carington Bowles in 1760 and 1785.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Architectural follies, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Clergy, Dogs, Gates, Parks, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A master parson returned from duty [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- 9 Novr. 1785.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '563' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original issue without imprint date; dated in the Catalogue ca. 1760., No. 34 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., and 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 37.2 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Architectural follies, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Clergy, Dogs, Gates, Parks, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A master parson returned from duty [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [1778?]
- Call Number:
- 778.00.00.19+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady, wearing over her dress a military coat with epaulets, stands plying her whip as she drives the two small white ponies who pull her carriage past the Cox Heath signpost. Her clothes mirror those of the fat and elderly militia officer who sleeps in the seat at her side, his hands clasped around his sword. A large dog sits in front of her. Observing the spectacle from a side road are three country travellers in a covered wagon which bears a sign "The Maidstone Common Stage Waggon".
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date erased from print., Date surmised from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", and Numbered in lower left of plate 391.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his map & print warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, British, Military officers, Sleeping, Clothing & dress, Carriages & coaches, Covered wagons, Horses, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An officer in the light infantry, driven by his lady to Cox-Heath [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- Nov. 6, 1776.
- Call Number:
- 776.11.06.01+
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a possible allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire) and the motto "Swift".
- Alternative Title:
- Phaetona, or, Modern female taste and Modern female taste
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Sheet mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
- Subject (Topic):
- Carriages and carts, Women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Horses, Clothing & dress, Hats, Hairstyles, Carriages & coaches, and Coach drivers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Nov. 6, 1776.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a possible allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire) and the motto "Swift".
- Alternative Title:
- Phaetona, or, Modern female taste and Modern female taste
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 10., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
- Subject (Topic):
- Carriages and carts, Women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Horses, Clothing & dress, Hats, Hairstyles, Carriages & coaches, and Coach drivers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1821 or 1822]
- Call Number:
- 821.00.00.22+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Lord Fife drives Mlle. Noblet in a gig; a groom sits in a dickey behind
- Alternative Title:
- Quelle noblesse virtute et opera
- Description:
- Title etched below image. The letter 't' in "noblet" is scored through and the letters 'sse' etched above., Watermark: 1821., and On verso, printseller's ticket: Tomlinson, Print and bookseller, Stationer &c., No. 3 Wades-Passage, Bath.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by S.W. Fores, corner of Sackville St., Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Fife, James Duff, Earl of, 1729-1809.
- Subject (Topic):
- Carriages & coaches and Actresses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Quelle noblet virtute et opera [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately May 1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.05.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of an elegant carriage showing details of the structure; one of the back wheels is shown on a rock to demonstrate the stability of the carriage. Parts of the carriage have been labelled with letters suggesting that the print was accompanied by a letterpress legend
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Publication date based on presentation inscription from John Hatchett to the Royal Society, 13th May 1789., Dedication below image: To the most noble the Marquis of Landsdown, this plate of His Lordship's carriage is most humbly inscribed by His Lordship's most obedient servant the inventor and patentee, John Hatchett, Long Acre London., One of a series of two plates., and Elaborate watercolor & body color, heightened with silver and partly finished with shellac or gum arabic.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Carriages & coaches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The coach of safety this view sheweth that when the wheels are raised to twice the height of any other carriage they will not turn over ... [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Hatchett, J. (John), printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately May 1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.05.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of an elegant carriage showing details of the underside of the wheels; the body and coach box are shown upright
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Publication date based on presentation inscription from John Hatchett to the Royal Society, 13th May 1789., Dedication below image: "To the most noble the Marquis of Landsdown, this plate of his Lordship's carriage is most humbly inscribed. By his Lordship's most obedient servant the inventor and patentee, John Hatchett, Long Acre London.", One of a series of two plates., Elaborate watercolor & body color, heightened with silver and partly finished with shellac or gum arabic., and With a wash drawing of a coachman, reins in hand, added behind the front wheels.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Carriages & coaches and Coach drivers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The coach of safety this view shews that when the wheels are turn'd over, the body and coach box still keep their perpendicular direction ... [graphic]