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1. Curate going on duty [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.00.00.36
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date conjectured from period of printer's activity., Later, altered version of no. 6153 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Print based on "A journeyman parson going on duty".
- Publisher:
- Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, England, Horseback riding, Taverns (Inns), and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Curate going on duty [graphic].
2. The shaver and the shavee [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1808]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 807.00.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Interior view; a barber has covered his client with soap; prints and wigs hang on the wall
- Description:
- Title etched in bottom part of image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson by Grego., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., and A reduced copy in reverse of no. 4756 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
- Publisher:
- R. Ackermann
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The shaver and the shavee [graphic]
3. Misiries of high life [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.03.01.01.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Miseries of high life
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of text below title: Briskly stooping to pick up a ladys fan at the same moment, when two other gentlemen are doing the same and so making a cannon with your head against both of theirs and without being the happy man after all. Miseries of human life., Printseller's announcement within design: Price one shilling cold., Cf. Later reissued without imprint statement, no. 11107, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 8., Temporary local subject terms: Coxcombs -- Male costume 1808 -- Female costume 1808., and Numbered '3' in ms. near upper edge of sheet.
- Publisher:
- March 1st, 1808, Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Misiries of high life [graphic]
4. Misiries of high life [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1 March 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.03.01.01.2+
- Collection Title:
- V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An ugly coxcomb leeringly hands a fan to one of two ladies walking off to the right. Behind (left), the heads of three stooping men collide. On the extreme left is the Prince of Wales, opera-hat under his arm, facing a woman, immodestly décolletée, who ogles him. Two other men and two women stand near them. The scene is the foyer of a theatre."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Miseries of high life
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Later state; place and date of publication have been burnished from beginning of imprint statement., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "London, March 1st, 1808, Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside." Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 808.03.01.01.1+., Two lines of text below title: Briskly stooping to pick up a ladys fan at the same moment, when two other gentlemen are doing the same and so making a cannon with your head against both of theirs, and this without being the happy man after all. Miseries of Human Life., Plate numbered "222" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling could."--Lower left corner of design., and Temporary local subject terms: Coxcombs -- Male costume, 1808 -- Female costume, 1808.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Misiries of high life [graphic]
5. Coke and gas, coal and oil [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [9 March 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.03.09.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Coal and oil
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Two lines of text below design: "Dant clara incendia lucem ..."
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Rd. Spence, 9th March, 1808, Gt. Ormond Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Coke and gas, coal and oil [graphic]
6. The barber of Seville / by P. G.
- Published / Created:
- [15 March 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.03.15.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Caption title, below image., "Extracted from the Monthly mirror-new series, no. XIV.", Place of publication follows street address., Plate numbered: 484., Plate mark: 18.6 x 22.4 cm., Letterpress poem below engraved image begins: A comely young lad liv'd, a few years ago, in a street in the city of Seville, who took by the nostrils full many a beau, and soon brought their chins to a level ..., Watermark: Ivy Mill. Countermark: 1809., and Date of printing: 1809?
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Mar. 15, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballads, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The barber of Seville / by P. G.
7. Winging a shy cock [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- March 29, 1808.
- Call Number:
- 808.03.29.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Whitelocke stands passively, directed to the left., with flexed knees while two little drummer-boys complete his humiliation. One (l.) stands on tip-toe to cut off his epaulet, while the other stands on a drum behind him, breaking his sword over his head. Sword-belt, scabbard, gorget, epaulet, regimental buttons, and gold lace lie on the ground, as does a music-book open at 'The Rogue March', with a fife lying across it, to indicate that he has been drummed out of the army. On the left. the Devil, half length, emerges from the ground, surrounded by fire and smoke; he offers Whitelocke a cocked pistol, saying, "Now fellow if thou hast a spark of courage left take this." Whitelocke answers: "Have you taken the flint out." See BMSat 10974, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Print executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or George Cruikshank. See British Museum catalogue., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 29 x 17 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Whitelocke, John, 1757-1833
- Subject (Topic):
- Devil
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Winging a shy cock [graphic].
8. Johnny Newcome in love in the West Indies [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.04.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Six designs on one plate arranged in two rows, with borders in which the inscriptions are engraved. Johnny is a smartly dressed young man. There is a landscape background in Nos. 1 and 3 (in which Johnny wears a top-hat and top-boots). In Nos. 2, 4, 5 a boarded floor indicates an interior. [1] With folded arms and bowed head he approaches from behind a hideous and grinning negress who holds a tobacco-pipe. Above: Smitten with the charms of Mimbo Wampo a sable Venus, daughter of Wampo Wampo, King of the Silver Sand Hills in Congo. [2] Bare-legged he sits in a chair, his bare foot held by the negress who sits on the ground at his feet. Above: Delicately declaring his Love to the aimable Mimbo Wampo, while she is picking his Cheqoes. "You lub me Massa" eh! eh!? [3] Johnny and an old negro wearing only breeches face each other. Beside the latter is a large jar inscribed Feathers, Grave Dirt, Egg Shells, &c. Above: Consulting Old Mumbo Jumbo the Oby Man, how to get possession of the charming Mimbo Wampo. "Lets me alone for dat Massa." [4] He kneels at the feet of the negress taking her hand; she sits on a stool smoking a pipe. Four comparatively handsome women stand in a row watching, two are black, two are white but negroid. Above: Mr Newcome happy, Mimbo made Queen of the Harem. [5] He embraces Mimbo; two other negresses stand behind her, one holding two pale-skinned black-haired infants, the other with a third infant held on her head in a tray. Two other children stand by their mother. Above: Mr Newcome taking leave of his Ladies & Pickaneenees, previous to his departure from Frying Pan Island to graze a little in his Native land. [6] Portrait heads of the children, numbered I to 9, arranged in three rows. Above: A few of the Hopeful young Newcomes. Below the whole design: J. Lucretia Diana Newcome, a delicate Girl very much like her Mother; only that she has a great antipathy to a pipe, and cannot bear the smell of Rum. 2 Penelope Mimbo Newcome. 3 Quaco Dash Newcome prodigiously like his father. 4 Cuffy Cato Newcome. 5. Caesar Cudjoe Newcome. 6 Helena Quashebah Newcome. 7 Aristides Juba Newcome. 8 Hector Sammy Newcome, a child of great spirit, can already Damnme Liberty and Equality and promises fair to be the Toussaint [see No. 10090] of his country. 9 Hannibal Pompey Wampo Newcome
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Companion print: West India luxury!!, and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill. Countermark: 1825.
- Publisher:
- Published April 1808 by William Holland, Cockspur Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- West Indies.
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Johnny Newcome in love in the West Indies [graphic]
9. The little chimney-sweep a favourite ballad, founded on fact / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [12 April 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.04.12.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title in letterpress below image above text of ballad., Heading to song continues: Written by Mr. Upton, and set to music by Mr. W. T. Parke-The music sold by Mr. Fentum, No. 78 Strand., Twenty six lines of verse printed on broadside portion of sheet: Twas a keen frosty morn, and the snow heavy falling, when a child of misfortune was thus sadly calling, "Sweep! sweep! I am cold, and the snow's very deep, "O, pray take compassion on poor little sweep! "Sweep! sweep!" ..., and Plate numbered '486' in lower left corner.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Apr. 12, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The little chimney-sweep a favourite ballad, founded on fact / [graphic]
