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1. View of the new front, towards Bridges Street, of the principal entry to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane [graphic] = La nouvelle façade, vers Bridges Street, de la principale entrée du Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- Creator:
- Begbie, P., printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, 1776.
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View of the grand front of the theatre; a lion and unicorn to left and right of the pedament at top, with a sculpture of armour and weapons in the centre, pillasters across middle of building and an iron balcony above ground floor; in foreground to right a carriage and a sedan chair, to the left street traders and other figures."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Nouvelle façade, vers Bridges Street, de la principale entrée du Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- Description:
- Titles engraved below image, in English and French., "Possibly an illustration from 'The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam', 1773-1822"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catlalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.3116., and Tipped in at page 640 (leaf numbered '89' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, London., and London,
- Subject (Name):
- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England), and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, structures, etc, Buildings, Theaters, Facades, Carriages & coaches, Sedan chairs, Street vendors, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of the new front, towards Bridges Street, of the principal entry to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane [graphic] = La nouvelle façade, vers Bridges Street, de la principale entrée du Theatre Royal Drury Lane
2. Iphigenia's late procession from Kingston to Bristol [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Apl. 15, 1776 [not before 16 May 1776]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 53 C46 776
- Collection Title:
- After page 16. Trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, attending her trial for bigamy. The maids of honour hold a bottle marked "cordial". They are followed by a fat chaplain, a physician with a bigwig and sword, and a lean apothecary with a big enema syringe and "Seven figures walk from left to right. First is the (so-called) Duchess of Kingston, short and stout. She is saying "By God and", and holds out her hands with a gesture of affirmation. Behind her walk three young women, her 'maids of honour', who are tall and slim in contrast with their mistress. One carries a large square bottle inscribed "cordial". All four ladies are dressed alike in the fashion of the day with low bodices and high coiffures decorated with feathers and flowers. Next comes a fat clergyman, his mouth open as of shouting. He is followed by the physician wearing a big-wig and sword. Last walks the apothecary, lean and bent, also wearing a sword, and carrying an enormous and ornately decorated syringe which rests on his right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Elizabeth Chudleigh married the Hon. Augustus John Hervey secretly in 1744; the marriage was not registered until 1759. In 1769 a consistory court declared her unmarried, after which she married Evelyn Pierrepoint, 2nd Duke of Kingston, in 1770. She was tried and convicted for bigamy in 1776, the surgeon Caesar Hawkins having testified to the birth of her son by Hervey. She left England immediately and lived thereafter in Paris, St Petersburg and Rome., Title engraved above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with text added below image. For an earlier state lacking this text, see National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D32146., Date of publication based on date of newspaper citation below image., Text below image: Then the Duchess was brought into court attended by her chaplain, physician, apothecary, & three maids of honor. Morning post, May 16, 1776., "Price 1 sh."--Lower right, below image., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Syringe -- Apothecary -- Medows, Philip, 1708-1781., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries -- Clyster., and Tipped in after page 16 in an extra-illustrated copy of: The trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right Honourable the House of Peers ... London : Printed for Charles Bathurst, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXVI [1776].
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 and Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
- Subject (Topic):
- Pharmacists, Physicians, pharmacists, physicians, chaplains, Chaplains, Trials (Bigamy), Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, and Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Iphigenia's late procession from Kingston to Bristol [graphic]
3. [Margery Inkle dressing her hair] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hibbart, William, 1725-1808, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 30 Dec. 1776, as the act directs.
- Call Number:
- 49 3069
- Collection Title:
- Opposite half-title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Margery in stays and petticoat seated before her dressing-table holds the monstrous erection on her head. Her father, Inkle, seated on a chair (right), watches in astonishment. A maid stands by an open door (left) holding the cock which has been robbed of its tail-feathers, some of which lie on the ground, others adorn Margery's head-dress. A cat miaows at the cock."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker identified as William Hibbart in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1855,1208.65. Formerly attributed to William Hassel by Mary Dorothy George., Later state, with etched shading lines added in the background. Earlier state is a plate from: Anstey, C. An election ball. Bath : S. Hazard, 1777. Cf. No. 5386 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf 23 x 14 cm., and Mounted opposite half-title page in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by C. Anstey
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Corsets, Dressing tables, Roosters, Feathers, and Cats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Margery Inkle dressing her hair] [graphic]
4. Iphigenia's late procession from Kingston to Bristol [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Apl. 15, 1776 [not before 16 May 1776]
- Call Number:
- Print00020
- Collection Title:
- After page 16. Trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, attending her trial for bigamy. The maids of honour hold a bottle marked "cordial". They are followed by a fat chaplain, a physician with a bigwig and sword, and a lean apothecary with a big enema syringe and "Seven figures walk from left to right. First is the (so-called) Duchess of Kingston, short and stout. She is saying "By God and", and holds out her hands with a gesture of affirmation. Behind her walk three young women, her 'maids of honour', who are tall and slim in contrast with their mistress. One carries a large square bottle inscribed "cordial". All four ladies are dressed alike in the fashion of the day with low bodices and high coiffures decorated with feathers and flowers. Next comes a fat clergyman, his mouth open as of shouting. He is followed by the physician wearing a big-wig and sword. Last walks the apothecary, lean and bent, also wearing a sword, and carrying an enormous and ornately decorated syringe which rests on his right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Elizabeth Chudleigh married the Hon. Augustus John Hervey secretly in 1744; the marriage was not registered until 1759. In 1769 a consistory court declared her unmarried, after which she married Evelyn Pierrepoint, 2nd Duke of Kingston, in 1770. She was tried and convicted for bigamy in 1776, the surgeon Caesar Hawkins having testified to the birth of her son by Hervey. She left England immediately and lived thereafter in Paris, St Petersburg and Rome., Title engraved above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with text added below image. For an earlier state lacking this text, see National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D32146., Date of publication based on date of newspaper citation below image., Text below image: Then the Duchess was brought into court attended by her chaplain, physician, apothecary, & three maids of honor. Morning post, May 16, 1776., "Price 1 sh."--Lower right, below image., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Syringe -- Apothecary -- Medows, Philip, 1708-1781., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries -- Clyster., 1 print : etching, on laid paper ; sheet 30.4 x 37.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 and Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
- Subject (Topic):
- Pharmacists, Physicians, pharmacists, physicians, chaplains, Chaplains, Trials (Bigamy), Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, and Clergy
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Iphigenia's late procession from Kingston to Bristol [graphic]
5. Bunkers Hill, or, America's head dress [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [19 April 1776]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A lady (three-quarter length) in profile to the right. with the enormous coiffure of 1776-7 grotesquely exaggerated. Her hands are in a muff. Her inverted pyramid of hair supports three quasi-circular redoubts surrounded by cannon on which troops are fighting. On each is a flag large out of all proportion to the soldiers. There are also a train of artillery, and a number of tents. All the men in the redoubts are dressed as British soldiers but are firing point-blank at each other; their three flags are decorated respectively with an ape, with two women holding darts of lightning, and with a goose."--British Museum online catalogue and "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 5335. Evidently intended to satirize the fighting at Bunker Hill, 17 June 1775. For similar satires on hair-dressing see British Museum Satires No. 5378, apparently a parody of this print."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- America's head dress and America's headdress
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Year of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and Second of two plates on leaf 56.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 19 by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, History > Revolution, 1775-1783, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Muffs, Soldiers, British, Flags, Apes, and Geese
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bunkers Hill, or, America's head dress [graphic].
6. Cupid's tower [graphic] .
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1776]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A lady (half length) in profile to the left with an enormous pyramid of hair in the fashion of the day. On the broad summit of the pyramid lies a miniature cupid fitting an arrow to his bow and about to aim in the direction in which the lady is looking. She wears the fashionable 'full-dress' of the period."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Two lines of verse below title: Fair tresses Man's imperial race ensnare, and beauty draws us with a single hair., and First of two plates on leaf 56.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 1, 1776, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, and Cupids
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cupid's tower [graphic] .
7. The city rout [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- May 20, 1776.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 28. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Persons standing in conversation at a party. The principal figures are two elaborately dressed ladies of plebeian, elderly, and unattractive appearance who face each other; one holds a card, the other a fan. Their hair is awkwardly dressed in the enormous mounds then fashionable, see British Museum Satires No. 5370, &c. On the left a short, fat, and awkward footman brings in a tray on which is a triple stand of jelly-glasses, a foaming tankard of beer, &c. The other guests are men; one wears a furred alderman's gown. In the centre of the back wall is a picture of a man with a distraught expression dressed as a seaman or working man, who is being devoured by two lions, one on each side. Above his head are the letters 'S.P.Q.L.' On the back of the print a note in a contemporary hand explains this as "Senatus populusque Londoniensis the Aldermen and Commoners of London". On the right wall is visible the lower part of a whole length portrait of a man in a furred livery gown."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., State without plate number. Cf. No. 5372 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Aldermen: Part of livery gown -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Lions devouring working man -- 'Senatus populusque Londoniensis' see S.P.Q.L. -- City rout -- Food: Jelly-glasses served on triple stand -- Dessert -- Footmen in livery -- Cards -- Beverages: Beer -- Tankards -- Tray: Dessert tray -- Glasses: Jelly glasses -- Headdresses., and On leaf 28.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. accog. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, and London
- Subject (Topic):
- Parties, Social life and customs, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Wigs, Fans, Servants, and Feathers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The city rout [graphic].
8. The preposterous head dress, or, The featherd lady [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- March 20, 1776.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 27. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady seated at dressing table is attended by a hairdresser standing behind her on a stool, and arranging ostrich feathers in her towering coiffure. Her maid (?) also with her hair in an inverted pyramid, approaches carrying a basket of fruit and vegetables, several of which already adorn the first woman's hair
- Alternative Title:
- Preposterous headdress, or, The featherd lady, Featherd lady, and Feathered lady
- Description:
- Title etched below image., State without plate number. Cf. No. 5370 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., On leaf 27., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm., and Imperfect; sheet mutilated in lower right corner with loss of year from end of imprint statement.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Feathers, and Hairdressing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The preposterous head dress, or, The featherd lady [graphic].
9. Billy Blubber, or, The flying buck going to the enchanted castle / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [6 July 1776]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 11. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An enormously fat gentleman, with a footman stationed at his rear, brandishes a whip as he drives his phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The signpost behind him reads "to Salthill" with a mile marker on the right reading "XIX miles". A crest of a donkey's head adorns the side of the carriage
- Alternative Title:
- Flying buck
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On leaf 11.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, July 6, 1776, 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Carriages & coaches, Whips, Servants, and Traffic signs & signals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billy Blubber, or, The flying buck going to the enchanted castle / [graphic]