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1. A journeyman parson with a bare existence [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 25 June 1782.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The interior of a poor wooden house, a parson's family of four gather around a table covered in a tablecloth worn with holes. They are eating beans, while he sits on the right, gnawing a bone; his wife (left) nurses the youngest child. Behind her on the wall are two shelves of books above which hangs a bird in a birdcage. To her left, the curtains around the canopy bed are also torn. A small cat (foreground) looks up at the parson. On the floor beside the parson's chair lies a sheaf of papers with the title "Charity sermon".
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Numbered "481" in lower left corner., No. 24 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Canopy beds, Birdcages, Breast feeding, Cats, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Families, Interiors, and Poverty
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A journeyman parson with a bare existence [graphic].
2. The Irish poets grace to a short allowance! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [January 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.01.00.06.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Scene in a ramshackle attic, with a curtained bed on the right. A family sit at a table covered with a tattered cloth, on which are part of a loaf and four small potatoes. The ragged, lean, and elderly man (left) faces his still more haggard wife. A small boy stands by his mother, a youth and little girl sit opposite. All scowl with dismay at the meagre fare. A starving cat miaows. The man recites: "O! thou that blest the loaves and fishes, Look down upon these two poor dishes, And though the 'tatoes are but small, Oh make them large enough for all. For if they should our bellies fill 'Twill be a kind of Miricle!!!""--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 9., Printseller's announcement following imprint statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent., and Cf. No. 11469, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of later state with modified imprint statement.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Janry., 1807 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Ireland.
- Subject (Topic):
- Irish, Social conditions, Cats, Ethnic stereotypes, Families, Potatoes, Poverty, and Starvation
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Irish poets grace to a short allowance! [graphic]
3. The benevolent physician [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [...] [not before 9 November 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.11.09.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A generous physician refusing money for services rendered from a poor family and "The interior of a room showing no trace of actual poverty. The invalid, a man, fully dressed but wearing a nightcap, sits in an upholstered arm-chair by the fire. A little girl stands at his knee; at his side on a tray or table are two bowls and a medicine bottle labelled 'as before'. The physician, a well-dressed man wearing a bag-wig, is about to leave the room (right); he puts coins into the hand of a young woman holding an infant. The room is papered, a half-tester bed with curtains stands against the wall. Tea-things are ranged along the chimney-piece, over which is a framed picture of a Christ healing the blind man."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., A publication date of 1783 was originally suggested in the British Museum catalogue; however, the British Museum has since acquired an impression with an intact publication date of "9 Novr. 1782." See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.837., Description based on an imperfect impression; publication date erased from sheet., Four lines of verse in two columns beneath title: The benevolent physician takes no fee, of those that need him much in poverty. To poor distress'd, and those of small estate, he money gives, takes only of the great., Companion print to: The rapacious quack., and Plate numbered "486" in lower left.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians, British, Families, Sick children, Interior decoration, Fireplaces, Biblical events, Canopy beds, Painting, Poverty, Beneficence, Patients, fireplaces, medicine bottles, beds (furniture), poverty, patients, Clothing, Money, Medicine bottles, House furnishings, Benevolence, and Beds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The benevolent physician [graphic].
4. The drunkard's progress from the pawnbroker's to the gin shop from thence to the workhouse thence to the goal & ultimately to the scaffold. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852
- Published / Created:
- January 1st, 1834.
- Call Number:
- 834.01.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender's shop to the "Temple of Juniper: Best gin". In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).
- Description:
- Title from text below image., The prints for Every body's album & caricature magazine were made by C.J. Grant. See British Museum online catalogue., Publisher from dealer's description., Text following date: To be continued once on every fortnight., Text below series title: An original pictorial comical satirical political sentimental caustical whimsical philosophical topographical theatrical theological poetical pastoral rumbostical moral periodical., "Excuse us pray if we do our best, to make as much waste paper as the rest!"--Above image., and "Price 6d plain and 1s colour'd."--Above image, right edge.
- Publisher:
- J. Kendrick
- Subject (Topic):
- Almshouses, City & town life, Families, Gin, Jails, Intoxication, Poor persons, Poverty, and Pawnshops
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The drunkard's progress from the pawnbroker's to the gin shop from thence to the workhouse thence to the goal & ultimately to the scaffold. [graphic]
5. The drunkard's progress from the pawnbroker's to the gin shop from thence to the workhouse thence to the goal & ultimately to the scaffold. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852
- Published / Created:
- January 1st, 1834.
- Call Number:
- 832.00.00.37
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender's shop to the "Temple of Juniper: Best gin". In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).
- Description:
- Title from text below image., The prints for Every body's album & caricature magazine were made by C.J. Grant. See British Museum online catalogue., Publisher from dealer's description., Text following date: To be continued once on every fortnight., Text below series title: An original pictorial comical satirical political sentimental caustical whimsical philosophical topographical theatrical theological poetical pastoral rumbostical moral periodical., "Excuse us pray if we do our best, to make as much waste paper as the rest!"--Above image., "Price 6d plain and 1s colour'd."--Above image, right edge., and Imperfect, sheet trimmed with loss of text above image: 17.4 x 26.1 cm.
- Publisher:
- J. Kendrick
- Subject (Topic):
- Almshouses, City & town life, Families, Gin, Jails, Intoxication, Poor persons, Poverty, and Pawnshops
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The drunkard's progress from the pawnbroker's to the gin shop from thence to the workhouse thence to the goal & ultimately to the scaffold. [graphic]
6. The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ward, William, 1766-1826, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.07.01.03++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Poverty-stricken family in bare, attic interior; man seated at left beside table, skinny dog beside him, looking away from woman, standing in centre mending garment, watched by boy lying on floor and resting on stool at right, looking up from his reading; young woman sitting dejectedly with bellows beside fireplace, at right; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Effects of youthful extravagance and idleness
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: What misery in a narrow scale confined! The mournful work of one degenerate mind ..., and Companion print to: The fruits of early industry & oeconomy.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd July 1, 1789, by T. Simpson, St. Pauls Church Yard
- Subject (Topic):
- Bellows, Dogs, Interiors, Families, Poor persons, Poverty, Sewing, and Fireplaces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness [graphic]
7. The miseries of idleness [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hudson, Henry, active 1782-1792, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 January 1790]
- Call Number:
- 790.01.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A bare interior with a man sitting smoking at a table with a tankard at his elbow, his wife sitting listlessly with bowed head beside him, a little girl pawing at her skirts, a baby turning on a straw bed, its clothes in disarray, and a little boy gnawing on a bone in front of the table, next to a barrel, a dog jumping up at him, with tattered clothes forming curtains around a bed behind them; after Morland."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., After a painting in the National Gallery of Scotland, accession no.: NG 1836., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Companion print to: The comforts of industry.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Jany. 20, 1790, by J.R. Smith, No. 31 King Street, Covent Garden
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Families, Infants, Poor persons, Poverty, Pipes (Smoking), Dogs, and Barrels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The miseries of idleness [graphic]
8. The rapacious quack [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [...] [not before 9 November 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.11.09.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A greedy medical practitioner demanding a leg of bacon for payment from a poor family and "The interior of a room showing no trace of actual poverty. The invalid, a man, fully dressed but wearing a nightcap, sits in an upholstered arm-chair by the fire. A little girl stands at his knee; at his side on a tray or table are two bowls and a medicine bottle labelled 'as before'. The physician, a well-dressed man wearing a bag-wig, is about to leave the room (right); he puts coins into the hand of a young woman holding an infant. The room is papered, a half-tester bed with curtains stands against the wall. Tea-things are ranged along the chimney-piece, over which is a framed picture of a Christ healing the blind man."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., A publication date of approximately 1760, later amended to 1783, was originally suggested in the British Museum catalogue; however, the British Museum has since acquired an impression with an intact publication date of "9 Novr. 1782." See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.3161., Description based on an imperfect impression; publication date erased from sheet., Four lines of verse in two columns beneath title: The rapacious quack quite vext to find, his patient poor, and so forsaken; a thought soon sprung up in his mind, to take away a piece of bacon., Companion print to: The benevolent physician., and Plate numbered "487" in lower left.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Quacks and quackery, Avarice, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Clothing & dress, Diseases, Families, Poverty, Quacks, Bacon, Children, Costume, Country life, and Sick
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rapacious quack [graphic].
9. [Arme familie] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Klinger, Max, 1857-1920, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1889]
- Call Number:
- Print20138
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Poor family
- Description:
- Title, date, and edition supplied by curator., Below image on left: Max Klinger Rad. Op. II. I. Th. No. 9., Plate 9 from cycle Vom Tode, Erster Teil, Singer 179/V., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Families and Family Life., and Vom Tode Erster.
- Publisher:
- Druck v. Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig
- Subject (Topic):
- Tuberculosis, Poverty, Terminally ill parents, Death (Personification), Families, Sick persons, Gravedigging, and Skeletons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Arme familie] [graphic]
