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1.
Complaint [art original].

Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1799 or 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 2 Box D170
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A trio of servants with hats removed meekly approach a magistrate to register their complaint: '... Mr. Sparemalt and Mr. Doublechalk charge us four pence a pot for porter'. The seated, bespectacled magistrate haughtily challenges their grumbling and proclaims, 'that great men may combine and charge you poor wretches what they please ...'
Description:
Title from heading inscribed in ink above image, in artist's hand., Date based on events depicted. See St. James's Chronicle or the British Evening Post (London, England, January 2, 1800 - January 4, 1800)., Attributed to Woodward., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Complaints (Rhetoric), Complaining, Judges, Coach drivers, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Complaint [art original].

2.
The grumbler 1748 [graphic]

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1748]
Call Number:
748.00.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A gentleman wtih an angry, disappointed look on his face sits at a table in a coffeehouse filling his pipe with tobacco. On the table is a sugar bowl, a drinking glass, and a sugar basin. Below the design is engraved in two lines: You grumbled at the war; Here is a P-----ce for you, and be d----d to you
Description:
Title engraved above image., Attributed to Hogarth., Publisher identified from address: George Bickham., Two lines of text below image: You grumbled at the war; here is a p-----ce for you and be d----d to you., Earlier state, with different year in title and without the initial "B" forming a monogram with the "H" in printmaker's name, and without a third line in the caption below image. Cf. No. 3921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: Strasburg lily (partially cut off at top) with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, according to act of Parliamt
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Complaining, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The grumbler 1748 [graphic]

3.
The Tories retiring from office on their last legs [graphic].

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Tories complaining and walking on crutches with one leg left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "82" in brown ink in lower left corner of design., and No. 82.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Amputees, Crutches, and Complaining
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Tories retiring from office on their last legs [graphic].

4.
"Gueuses d'affiches! ..." [graphic]

Creator:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879, printmaker
Published / Created:
[5 May 1839]
Call Number:
Print01307
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from street address., Written in image: h.D., Above image: L'annonce et la Réclame, 1., Published in Le Caricature 5 May 1839., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Proprietary medicine.
Publisher:
Chez Bauger R. du Croissant 16 and Imp. d'Aubert & Cie
Subject (Topic):
Deceptive advertising, Patent medicines, Men, Baldness, Complaining, Posters, Advertisements, Top hats, and Sticks (Staffs).
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > "Gueuses d'affiches! ..." [graphic]

5.
How d'ye do? [graphic]

Published / Created:
[20 October 1786]
Call Number:
Print00205
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly invalid sits in an armchair, his gouty legs swathed, a shawl over his head, a pair of bands shows that he is a parson. He turns to his visitor, an elderly lady seated next him in a similar armchair, wearing a hooded cloak over her cap, and holding a muff. Both talk emphatically, their faces and gestures rendering the subject very expressively. An elderly footman (left) hands two glasses of wine on a salver. Beside the host is a circular table with a bowl; behind the armchairs is a folding screen. Two windows, an oval mirror, a chair and low circular table (left) complete the design. In the manner of a pen drawing."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Comfort & relief often found in relating one's complaints and Comfort and relief often found in relating one's complaints
Description:
Title etched below image., Text in bottom part of image: Comfort & relief often found in relating one's complaints., "Possibly etched by Rowlandson"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1932,0226.13., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For a probable earlier state, before the title "How d'ye do?" was etched in lower margin, see no. 7088 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20 Octr. 1786 by E. Jackson, Mary-le bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Visiting the sick, Muffs, Older people, Clergy, Sick persons, Visiting, Complaining, Servants, Interiors, Screens, and Mirrors
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > How d'ye do? [graphic]

6.
Pray yer vurchip t'other day you thought as how my child had not to yer satisfaction proved her

Published / Created:
[1834]
Call Number:
834.00.00.16
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man stands before two officials with his daughter at his side to report the seduction of his daughter
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Caption continues: ... but now sir she is ready to swear that the willain has seduced her again last night.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Ductoe & Stephen's lithogy., 70 St. Martin's Lane
Subject (Topic):
Complaining and Pregnancy
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Pray yer vurchip t'other day you thought as how my child had not to yer satisfaction proved her ruinated ... [graphic].