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1. A pugilistick club [graphic]
- Creator:
- Barlow, Inigo, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Decr. 1, 1789.
- Call Number:
- 789.12.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Pugilists club
- Description:
- A celebration in a sporting club. In the center of the room before a large table, a man in a hat (with a black eye?) raises a gavel in an attempt to bring order as two members begin a fist-fight and others converse and laugh. One member restrains a woman as she attempts to hit a man on the head with a tankard; the man appears already unconscious and injured. Boxing gloves, tankards and glasses, hats, and a stick are scattered on the floor in the foreground. The room is lighted by the candles in a candelier. On the walls are a clock, two pictures of fighers -- one of Humphrys and the other of Mendoza; a broadside "Rules" (damaged); a broadside entitled "Last dying speech & confession of W[...]st the Boxer" with a picture of a gallows at the head; and, a picture of two men boxing (the pictures amplifying the subject). On the table are several tankards, wine glasses and punch bowl, smoking pipes, a broadsheet torn in two (World Diary), and a book "Rules for boxing"., Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., The left portion of the plate was later published as 'Frontispiece' (no date) in Carlton House magazine with the title: The ending of the old year., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title, printmaker's signature, and partial loss of imprint., Plate from: The Attic miscellany, v. 1, p. 81., Title added in a contemporary hand on the mount below the image: Odd-Fellows-Lodge., and Mounted to 24 x 32 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs, by Bentley & Co.
- Subject (Name):
- Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Mendoza, Daniel, 1764-1836, and Humphries, Richard, d. 1827
- Subject (Topic):
- Boxing (Sports), Chandeliers, Clocks, Clubs, Fraternal organizations, Fighting, Interiors, and Pipes (Smoking)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A pugilistick club [graphic]
2. Anecdote maçonnique [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 November 1786]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated, others standing. On the left sit the French members, the most prominent being Cagliostro; all wear masonic aprons. ... "--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Masonic anecdote
- Description:
- Titles in English and French etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Captions in French and English etched under each title, respectively., Thirty lines of verse in French below image on left, under the heading, "Abregè de l'histoire du Comte Arabe": Nè Dieu sait où, maintenu Dieu sait comme ..., Thirty lines of verse in English below image on right, under the heading, "Abstract of the Arabian Count's memoirs": Born God knows where, supported God knows how ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, and imprint statement mostly erased from sheet; imprint from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdresser -- Hairdressers: Mr. Barker, King Street, Bloomsbury -- Opticians: Mr. Mash -- Interior of the Freemasons' Lodge of Antiquity -- Freemasons' symbols -- Furniture -- Upholstered chair -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Glass decanter -- Glass bottle -- Wine glasses -- Punch bowls., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 53.8 x 48.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 7 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd November 21st, 1786, for the proprietor by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
- Subject (Topic):
- Freemasonry, Quacks and quackery, Fraternal organizations, Interiors, Dining tables, Chairs, Candles, and Eating & drinking
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anecdote maçonnique [graphic]
3. Anecdote maçonnique [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 November 1786]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 786.11.21.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated, others standing. On the left sit the French members, the most prominent being Cagliostro; all wear masonic aprons. ... "--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Masonic anecdote
- Description:
- Titles in English and French etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Captions in French and English etched under each title, respectively., Thirty lines of verse in French below image on left, under the heading, "Abregè de l'histoire du Comte Arabe": Nè Dieu sait où, maintenu Dieu sait comme ..., Thirty lines of verse in English below image on right, under the heading, "Abstract of the Arabian Count's memoirs": Born God knows where, supported God knows how ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, and imprint statement mostly erased from sheet; imprint from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdresser -- Hairdressers: Mr. Barker, King Street, Bloomsbury -- Opticians: Mr. Mash -- Interior of the Freemasons' Lodge of Antiquity -- Freemasons' symbols -- Furniture -- Upholstered chair -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Glass decanter -- Glass bottle -- Wine glasses -- Punch bowls., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1797 on the right side of sheet; fleur-de-lis on the left side.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd November 21st, 1786, for the proprietor by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
- Subject (Topic):
- Freemasonry, Quacks and quackery, Fraternal organizations, Interiors, Dining tables, Chairs, Candles, and Eating & drinking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Anecdote maçonnique [graphic]
4. Charge to the overseers of the hundred of [blank] in the county of [blank].
- Creator:
- Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain)
- Published / Created:
- [nor before 1798]
- Call Number:
- File 63 798 So678+
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Docket title., Date based on reference to this text on page 291. See Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, 1811., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row St. James’s, for the Society for the Bettering the Condition of the Poor, and to be had gratis by the Members of the Society; and by others, at one shillling a dozen
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Parishes (Local government), Law and legislation, Fraternal organizations, Almshouses, and Poor
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Charge to the overseers of the hundred of [blank] in the county of [blank].
5. Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 October 1808]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 646 808 M58 v.2
- Collection Title:
- V. 2 Microcosm of London.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Interior view of the hall; showing the company on the day of the annual dinner; young girls walk in procession through hall, as company gathers standing at tables forming a u-shape."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 38., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 79.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 1st Octr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Freemasons. United Grand Lodge of England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fraternal organizations, Events, Interiors, Parades & processions, and Banquets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street [graphic]
6. Original, ancient, & honourable lumber troop [graphic] : Eagle & Child, Shoe Lane
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1733]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- An invitation in letterpress with an engraving above with allegorical figures
- Alternative Title:
- Original, ancient, and honourable lumber troop and Harrison's tobacco paper
- Description:
- Title engraved in image., Date from Paulson., Formerly attributed to Hogarth. See R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 17, p. 35., Contemporary ms. note on sheet, below arms: December 29. 1784. Mr. John Nichols was made a Trooper. Wm Wright Colen., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Copy., 1 print : etching in red ink ; sheet 12.2 x 7.9 cm., and On page 3 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Allegories and Fraternal organizations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Original, ancient, & honourable lumber troop [graphic] : Eagle & Child, Shoe Lane
7. Original, ancient, & honourable lumber troop [graphic] : Eagle & Child, Shoe Lane
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1733]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- An invitation in letterpress with an engraving above with allegorical figures
- Alternative Title:
- Original, ancient, and honourable lumber troop and Harrison's tobacco paper
- Description:
- Title engraved in image., Date from Paulson., Formerly attributed to Hogarth. See R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 17, p. 35., On page 3 in volume 1 with Steevens' note above: Copy., and Number in pen and ink, lower left: No. 12.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Allegories and Fraternal organizations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Original, ancient, & honourable lumber troop [graphic] : Eagle & Child, Shoe Lane
8. Rehabilitating Manila Lodge #761
- Creator:
- Elks (Fraternal order). Manila Lodge No. 761 (Manila, Philippines), publisher
- Published / Created:
- 1946-1949.
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 756
- Image Count:
- 52
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Photograph album containing 36 black and white photographs by unidentified photographers depicting the process of rehabilitating the lodge of the Elks fraternal order in Manila, Philippines from 1946-1949. Photographs depict the ruins of the lodge following its occupation by Japanese soldiers; views of the reconstruction of the lodge, from 1946-1949; exterior views of the completed lodge; interior views of the completed lodge, including scenes of the bar, dining room, library, ladies' lounge, and lodge room; studio portraits of the construction committee members, architect, interior decorator, and contractors; and studio portraits of the lodge officers for 1948-1949. Also included in the album are brief printed texts, including: descriptions of the lodge building and its history; descriptions of the pictured rooms; a description of the process of rehabilitation and a listing of the allocation of funds for the construction of the building, interior furnishings, and decor; and an accounting audit by Price, Waterhouse & Co. of the receipts and expenditures of the construction committee during the rehabilitation process
- Description:
- The Elks, also known as the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, is a fraternal order founded in the United States in 1868., Text in English., Title from recto of leaf six., Place and date of creation from internal evidence., and Portraits captioned on facing pages.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Philippines, Manila, Philippines., and Manila (Philippines)
- Subject (Name):
- Elks (Fraternal order). Manila Lodge No. 761 (Manila, Philippines)
- Subject (Topic):
- Americans, Social life and customs, Architects, Building, Buildings, Repair and reconstruction, Clubhouses, Contractors, Fraternal organizations, Interior decorators, Buildings, structures, etc, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rehabilitating Manila Lodge #761
9. The Graham Charitable Society, instituted Septr. 13th anno 1759. : His Grace the Duke of Montrose, Patron
- Creator:
- Graham Charitable Society
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1820]
- Call Number:
- File 66 820 G739+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title from text engraved in image., All engraved., Text at continues: "... [Blank.] Being found duly qualified & having paid the sum of [blank], was this day admitted a member & is hereby declared entitled to the privileges of this society.", "Drawn by Wm. Warren, Glasgow. Engraved by A.W. Warren, London."--Engraved at bottom of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Scotland, Glasgow., and Scotland.
- Subject (Topic):
- Charities, Fraternal organizations, Allegories, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Graham Charitable Society, instituted Septr. 13th anno 1759. : His Grace the Duke of Montrose, Patron
