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1. [A dancing bear] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 July 1801]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 801.07.21.01 Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
- Description:
- Title from description of earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 1 April 1774. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print on laid paper : etching and drypoint, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.3 x 26.9 cm, on sheet 25 x 32 cm., Imperfect; artist and printmaker signatures mostly erased from sheet., Watermark: J. Whatman 179[...?]., and Publisher's stamp (partially trimmed) in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.[F.].
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 21, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Trained animals, Chains, Wind instruments, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A dancing bear] [graphic]
2. [A dancing bear] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 July 1801]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 801.07.21.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
- Description:
- Title from description of earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 1 April 1774. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark, partially trimmed: A. Stace 1801.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 21, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Trained animals, Chains, Wind instruments, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A dancing bear] [graphic]
3. The hopes of the family an admission at the university / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 May 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.05.23.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on a socially aspirational family: a youth is being examined by a tutor for admission to Cambridge university; the tutor, in academic robes, is seated at a table pointing at a large mathematical volume resting beside a globe; the youth stands counting on his fingers while his eager father, wearing countryman's boots, urges him on; on the left a woman, probably the tutor's housekeeper, holds two volumes, one lettered "Longinus", and on the right an elegant undergraduate stands smiling; on the wall behind are portraits of "Dr Allcock" and "Mrs Allcock", a Roman bust with turned down mouth on the lintel above the door, and a frame with the plan and elevation of a building."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 3 Jan. 1774 by J. Bretherton. Cf. no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., and Watermark: I. Taylor.
- Publisher:
- Printed and publish'd as the act directs, May 23 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- College administrators and Students
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The hopes of the family an admission at the university / [graphic]
4. Every sous begad! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.02.14.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 10 June 1774. Cf. no. 4720 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: 1804.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Feb. 14, 1799, by John Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Every sous begad! [graphic]
5. Musick on an entire new plan [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [between 1782 and 1803]
- Call Number:
- 774.01.01.08
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Music on an entire new plan
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date extrapolated from dates of publisher's operation at the address given in imprint. See I. Maxted's London book trades, 1775-1800, p. 113., Copy with variant title. Cf. No. 5261 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Satirized musette -- Animals: boar -- Furniture: music stand -- Wooden legs., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Musical instruments and Peg legs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Musick on an entire new plan [graphic]
6. What's! this my boy Tom [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Jany. 1, 1774.
- Call Number:
- 774.01.01.06+ Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 46. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printed on one sheet with a companion print: What's! this my girl Nan., Temporary local subject terms: Male fashion, 1774., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by MDarly
- Subject (Topic):
- Farmers, Pipes (Smoking), and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > What's! this my boy Tom [graphic].
7. [Picking out lice - second study] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Tobin, James, -1817, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1774]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3588 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 3. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- In the collection of James Harris Esqr
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Mounted on page 3 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Pasted beneath print is a strip of paper, likely trimmed from the verso of the same sheet, which bears a note in the printmaker's hand: The drawing with a pen and [...?], by A. Ostade in possion. of Mr. Harris.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Netherlands.
- Subject (Topic):
- Country life, Interiors, Fireplaces, Barrels, and Hygiene
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Picking out lice - second study] [graphic]
8. The light guinea, or, The blade in the dumps [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [1774?]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 239. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on untrustworthy young men: a prostitute, with a powdered wig wearing a dressing gown open to reveal her chemise and petticoat, sits at a table using scales to weigh the coin offered by a well-dressed young man which is lighter than its proper weight; behind is a curtained bed."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Blade in the dumps
- Description:
- Title from item., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Dated to circa 1773-1774 in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.1.86., Four lines of verse below title: Dull are the times, since trade I first began, our gold was sterling then, and true each man ..., Numbered '291' in lower left of plate., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 36.9 x 25.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge., and Tipped in at page 239 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Draperies, Dandies, British, Prostitutes, Scales, and Tables
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The light guinea, or, The blade in the dumps [graphic].
9. Mon Seigneur Le Cox with his snuff & snuff box treating Madam Durème with a snuff of the same. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [18 March 1774]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 104. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Folded to 31.5 x 25.5 cm., and Bound in opposite page 104 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 18th, 1774, by H. Bryer, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, French, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Snuff
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mon Seigneur Le Cox with his snuff & snuff box treating Madam Durème with a snuff of the same. [graphic]
