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1.
A disappointed dinnerhunter A bullet in ; A long sermon ; A neglected genius. [art original]

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 3 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A drawing of four scenes, with caricatured figures with large heads and very small bodies. Upper left: A man with a monocle (right) inquires of the butler on a threshold with pillar to his left, "Is your master within. No Mr. Smallfeast he's gone out ...
Description:
Title from captions written each image.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Butlers, Clergy, Congregations, Soldiers, British, and Sleeping
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A disappointed dinnerhunter A bullet in ; A long sermon ; A neglected genius. [art original]

2.
A picture of wants, or, Human nature delineated [art original].

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 9 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A group of twelve man and women of various ages and walks of live -- tradesmen, a clergy, a spinster, a military officer, a gentleman in shackles, a servant, a frail, sickly man, etc. -- stand full length facing the viewer. Above their heads are brief...
Alternative Title:
Human nature delineated
Description:
Title from caption in artist's hand written below image.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Distress, Men, Military officers, Occupations, and Women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A picture of wants, or, Human nature delineated [art original].

3.
After the invasion the levée en masse, or, Britons strike home. [graphic]

Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[6 August 1803]
Call Number:
802.08.06.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three volunteers or militiamen, three-quarter length figures, exult at the head of Bonaparte which one of them (right) holds up on a pitchfork, saying, "Here he is Exalted my Lads 24 Hours after Landing." The head is in profile to the left, the sharp...
Alternative Title:
Levée en masse, or, Britons strike home and Britons strike home
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 6th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Soldiers, British, French, Militias, Pitchforks, Heads (Anatomy), Decapitations, and War casualties
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > After the invasion the levée en masse, or, Britons strike home. [graphic]

4.
How to do things by halves [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:
812.00.00.111 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man on horseback, whip in hand but not in use, is shown attempting to clear a stile flanked by hedgerows; his horse's forelegs are on the ground and one of its hind legs caught between the slats. Behind them, a second rider with a look of consternat...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > How to do things by halves [graphic].

5.
How to do things by halves [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1812 and 1817]
Call Number:
812.00.00.111 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man on horseback, whip in hand but not in use, is shown attempting to clear a stile flanked by hedgerows; his horse's forelegs are on the ground and one of its hind legs caught between the slats. Behind them, a second rider with a look of consternat...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > How to do things by halves [graphic].

6.
Principal characters in the new play of The road to royalty! [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately May 1829]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Laid in. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Twelve reduced copies (hand-coloured woodcuts), crude and sometimes simplified, of caricatures, arranged in three rows of four, each in a border, having an additional title above the design, the original title (except in No. 9) being below. The origi...
Description:
Title from text at top of sheet.
Publisher:
Printed and published by T. Rockliffe, 65 Ratcliff Highway
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, George V, King of Hanover, 1819-1878, Wetherell, Charles, Sir, 1770-1846, Winchilsea, George William Finch-Hatton, Earl of, 1791-1858, Anglesey, Henry William Paget, Marquis of, 1768-1854, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character) and Caricatures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Principal characters in the new play of The road to royalty! [graphic].

7.
Quite politely [art original]

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 6 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A gentleman in a riding habit (left) rides his horse through the door of a cottage startling the family who sit at their dinner table. The man's hunting dog jumps at the young son who sits closest to the door; he screams in terror, his fork and knife ...
Description:
Title from caption written below image in artist's hand, with the words trimmed along the lower edges with loss of the descenders.
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Eating & drinking, Families, Interiors, Horseback riding, and Hunting dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Quite politely [art original]

8.
Sin ie cure [art original].

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 2 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A full-length caricature of an obese clergy man who wears a bishop's hat (?) and smokes a long pipe as he walks left. He carries a pig and a chicken under his left arm. He holds a Bible in his left hand, and he carries a bottle in his pocket. He ha...
Alternative Title:
Sinecure
Description:
Title from caption written below image.
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Chickens, Clergy, Obesity, Pipes (Smoking), and Swine
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sin ie cure [art original].

9.
Sin ie cure [art original].

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 2 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A full-length caricature of an obese clergy man who wears a bishop's hat (?) and smokes a long pipe as he walks left. He carries a pig and a chicken under his left arm. He holds a Bible in his left hand, and he carries a bottle in his pocket. He ha...
Alternative Title:
Sinecure
Description:
Title from caption written below image.
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Chickens, Clergy, Obesity, Pipes (Smoking), and Swine
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sin ie cure [art original].

10.
Spiritual advice [art original].

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 4 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The more finished of the two wash drawing on recto shows a drunken tradesman (perhaps sailor or dustman) holding onto a post. Above him is written by the artist, "Niccup who are ye staring at. Take a little sober advice and go home for you seem to be ...
Description:
Title from caption written below image on recto, in artist's hand.
Subject (Topic):
Intoxication and Occupations
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Spiritual advice [art original].

11.
Spiritual advice [art original].

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 4 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The more finished of the two wash drawing on recto shows a drunken tradesman (perhaps sailor or dustman) holding onto a post. Above him is written by the artist, "Niccup who are ye staring at. Take a little sober advice and go home for you seem to be ...
Description:
Title from caption written below image on recto, in artist's hand.
Subject (Topic):
Intoxication and Occupations
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Spiritual advice [art original].

12.
Sporting characters [art original].

Creator:
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1822? and 1831?]
Call Number:
Drawings H43 no. 1 Box D128
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On recto, two men walk to the left in a wood with guns. The man behind (right) holds his gun by the barrel pointed towards his companion's posterior; he wears colored spectacles, a top hat, and is smoking a cigar. The man in front (left) looks back to...
Alternative Title:
I never likes to go out with a man as do'nt [sic] carry his gun like a sportsman
Description:
Title written in ink at top of sheet on the recto; alternative title from dialogue written in ink below image.
Subject (Topic):
Chimney sweeps, Donkeys, Hunting, Rifles, Smoking, and Sunglasses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sporting characters [art original].

13.
Sporting characters [art original].

Creator:
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1822? and 1831?]
Call Number:
Drawings H43 no. 1 Box D128
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On recto, two men walk to the left in a wood with guns. The man behind (right) holds his gun by the barrel pointed towards his companion's posterior; he wears colored spectacles, a top hat, and is smoking a cigar. The man in front (left) looks back to...
Alternative Title:
I never likes to go out with a man as do'nt [sic] carry his gun like a sportsman
Description:
Title written in ink at top of sheet on the recto; alternative title from dialogue written in ink below image.
Subject (Topic):
Chimney sweeps, Donkeys, Hunting, Rifles, Smoking, and Sunglasses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sporting characters [art original].

14.
The Evening mail 1802:Apr.21/23

Published / Created:
-1868.
Call Number:
File 61 Ev92++
Container / Volume:
1802:Apr.21/23
Image Count:
4
Alternative Title:
Evening mail (London, England : 1789) and Mail
Description:
Beir Delta 11.83 : Imperfect: Following issues mutilated with loss of text: nos.11785, 13798,13861, 14048, 14436, 14627,14659, 14988. Duty Stamps: One Penny, Dieu et mondroit. Semi annual dates on spines for year 1850 switched. Spine for 1850:January ...
Publisher:
J. Walter and T. Holl
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Evening mail 1802:Apr.21/23

15.
The fox at the cupboard [art original]

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 5 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a cottage with an old woman asleep in a chair, her feet resting on a low footstool in front of open door (left); in her lap she holds an open book and a pair of spectacles. On the right, a boy in a smock stands on a stool in ...
Description:
Title from caption in artist's hand written below image.
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Cats, Cupboards, Dwellings, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Sleeping, and Women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The fox at the cupboard [art original]

16.
The hungry epicure disappointed [art original]

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 8 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man with a queue wig and wearing spectacles (right) sits expectantly at a small round tea table set for two; his hands on the table glench his knife and fork, his napkin tied around his neck like a bib. He leans forward as he eyes the food approach...
Description:
Title from caption written below image.
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Cookery, Eating & drinking, Dining tables, Starvation, and Tableware
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The hungry epicure disappointed [art original]

17.
The present state of John Bull [art original]

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 7 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
John Bull stands defiantly in the center of a crowd of angry men -- military officers, gentlemen of various ages, tradesmen, and an amputee -- most of whom hold out bills ranging between £50 and £5000; the speech bubbles above their heads read: "King'...
Description:
Title from caption written below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxation, Anger, Crowds, Demonstrations, Dogs, Men, Military officers, and Obesity
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The present state of John Bull [art original]

18.
The striking likeness [art original]

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 1 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An artist (left) with a caricatured face looks on with horror as a bust falls on the head of the Lord, the sitter, who jumps and shreaks with pain, his foot breaking the window (right). In the background the Lord's round, well-dressed wife looks on in...
Description:
Title from caption written above image on recto; image on verso untitled.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Boxers (Sports), Boxing, Couples, Distress, Pain, Sculptors, and Sculptures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The striking likeness [art original]

19.
The striking likeness [art original]

Creator:
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 1 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An artist (left) with a caricatured face looks on with horror as a bust falls on the head of the Lord, the sitter, who jumps and shreaks with pain, his foot breaking the window (right). In the background the Lord's round, well-dressed wife looks on in...
Description:
Title from caption written above image on recto; image on verso untitled.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Boxers (Sports), Boxing, Couples, Distress, Pain, Sculptors, and Sculptures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The striking likeness [art original]

20.
The trials of Charles Shaw, aged 16, for murdering John Oldcroft, aged 9. Richard Tomlinson for

Creator:
Shaw, Charles, -1834
Published / Created:
[1834]
Call Number:
File 52 Sh534 834+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
G. Smeeton, Printer, 74, Tooley Street
Subject (Geographic):
England, Staffordshire., and England.
Subject (Name):
Oldcroft, John., Shaw, Charles, -1834., Tomlinson, Richard, -1834., and Smith, Mary, -1834.
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Infanticide), Trials (Murder), Murder, and Hangings (Executions)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The trials of Charles Shaw, aged 16, for murdering John Oldcroft, aged 9. Richard Tomlinson for murdering Mary Evans, his sweetheart. Mary Smith, for drowning her infant child. Who all three received sentence of death, at the late Staffordshire assizes, execution last Wednesday, March 19, 1834

21.
Would-be-juvenile [art original].

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
Published / Created:
[1810?]
Call Number:
Drawings H437 no. 3 Box D128
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An awkward couple, caricatured and drawn full-length, are shown dancing. An older woman whose decorative plumage extends beyond the man's head, has a crooked nose and lanky features. The man, somewhat younger, has a protruding chin
Description:
Title from caption in brown ink, below image.
Subject (Topic):
Dance and Couples
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Would-be-juvenile [art original].

22.
[Folio album of 144 caricatures] [graphic].

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker, collector
Published / Created:
[between 1782 and 1810]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Image Count:
123
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A folio album of 144 caricatures mounted on 87 sheets, mostly etchings, with some aquatints and other satirical prints, some hand-colored, and one pen-and-ink drawing laid in.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Folio album of 144 caricatures] [graphic].

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