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1. A city officer taught by Miss Tittup to cock his spontoon with proper grace [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [10 January 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.01.10.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A fashionably dressed young woman (left) stands before a very large bear (left) dressed in a military uniform, wig, and tricorne hat. She strokes his chin with her left hand as she gently clasps the tip end of the spear that the bear holds in his left hand
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. as the Act directs Jany. 10, 1782 by T. James, No. 14 Castle Strt. Oxford Market
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Bears, Clothing & dress, Couples, Military uniforms, British, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A city officer taught by Miss Tittup to cock his spontoon with proper grace [graphic]
2. A long pull, strong pull, and pull all together [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [9 January 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.01.09.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- William Petty, Lord Shelburne, braces himself against the door to the Treasury in order to resist the pull of the rope tied around his waist. He is helped by John Dunning dressed in legal wig and cloak. The four men attempting to remove Shelburne from the Treasury are, from left to right, Charles James Fox, intent on forming a new administration; Admiral Augustus Keppel and the 3rd Duke of Richmond, both members of the Shelburne administration but opposing Shelburne; and Edmund Burke, later paymaster-general in the Fox-North administration
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and The figure on the right identified by George as Edmund Burke is identified here as Lord John Cavendish.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Jan. 9th, 1783 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of, 1735-1806., and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Ropes, Tug of war, Military uniforms, British, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government, 1760-1789
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A long pull, strong pull, and pull all together [graphic].
3. A morning frolic, or, The transmutation of sexes [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the Act directs [25 March 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.03.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A soldier and a woman in deshabille swapping clothes; the woman standing hands on hips on the left wearing the sword and tricorn; the man sitting demurely on the right holding a fan and wearing a bonnet; tea-tray and four poster bed behind, a dog jumping up at a parrot on the left and a book open on the floor inscribed 'Ovid's Metamorphoses done into English';"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Transmutation of sexes
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate line., and Publication date from British Museum catalogue. Date burnished from plate.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Cross dressing, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Boudoirs, Tableware, Furniture, Pets, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A morning frolic, or, The transmutation of sexes [graphic]
4. A scene in the park [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [9 July 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.07.09.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire: a group of fashionably-dresed people inspect a military encampment and a cannon."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item. and Sheet trimmed.
- Publisher:
- Pub accg. to act July 9 1780 by M Darly 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Cannons, and Flags
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A scene in the park [graphic].
5. A trip to Cocks Heath [graphic]
- Creator:
- Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [28 October 1778]
- Call Number:
- 778.10.28.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A crowd of visitors on the right are shown approaching the military camps at Coxheath indicated on the left with tents and cannon. The crowd, preceded by a barking dog, is chiefly comprised of women, led by a prostitute in pseudo-military garb who is carried on the shoulders of a soldier. Behind her a young woman leads a fat military officer wearing a large wig and carrying his sword in his hand. Following are two elderly women, one with a large muff, the other holding crutches and seated in a wheelbarrow pushed by an old man. Other women and soldiers make up the crowd. In the left foreground are three cannons, inscribed "9 P.", "9 Pounder", and "G.R. 12", the latter being admired by several women
- Alternative Title:
- Trip to Coxheath
- Description:
- Title from item., Signed in plate by artist I.M. [i.e. J. Mortimer?] and by engraver W.H. probably William Humphrey., and Also attributed to Gillray.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Oct. 28 1778 by W. Humphrey
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Cannons, Crowds, Military uniforms, British, Military training, Courtesans, Wheelbarrows, Dogs, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A trip to Cocks Heath [graphic]
6. A vieu [sic] of Plymouth [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- May 4, 1780, accg. to act.
- Call Number:
- 780.05.04.02.1 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A raree-show man (right) is exhibiting his peep-show, in a box inscribed "A Vieu of Plymouth", to Lord Amherst, in profile to the right, who stoops down, his hands on his knees, to look through one of the two round holes. The showman says, "There you see Cannons without Carriages and Carriages without Cannons. There you see Generals without Orders there you see &c. &c." The show-box is supported on trestles. Amherst is in general's uniform, wearing the ribbon of the Bath. Behind him, partly cut off by the left margin of the print, stands a Grenadier at attention, holding a musket; he watches the general with a grin. Beneath the design is engraved: "Col Mushrooms Compts to Lord Am------t recommends this cheap but Satisfactory mode of viewing distant Garrisons hopes his Lordship has received the Golden Pippins a few of them are for his Secretary.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Vieu of Plymouth and View of Plymouth
- Description:
- Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by M. Darly (39) Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797 and Great Britain. Board of Ordnance.
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, British, and Peepshows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A vieu [sic] of Plymouth [graphic].
7. An officer in the light infantry, driven by his lady to Cox-Heath [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [1778?]
- Call Number:
- 778.00.00.19+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady, wearing over her dress a military coat with epaulets, stands plying her whip as she drives the two small white ponies who pull her carriage past the Cox Heath signpost. Her clothes mirror those of the fat and elderly militia officer who sleeps in the seat at her side, his hands clasped around his sword. A large dog sits in front of her. Observing the spectacle from a side road are three country travellers in a covered wagon which bears a sign "The Maidstone Common Stage Waggon".
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date erased from print., Date surmised from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", and Numbered in lower left of plate 391.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his map & print warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, British, Military officers, Sleeping, Clothing & dress, Carriages & coaches, Covered wagons, Horses, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An officer in the light infantry, driven by his lady to Cox-Heath [graphic]
8. Beating up for fencibles [graphic]
- Creator:
- Stewart, Graham, -1786, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1780?]
- Call Number:
- 780.00.00.155
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Outside a country tavern, a recruiting officer with a sword in his right hand holds up a purse in his left, facing right before 4 grotesquely drawn long-haired yokels who grin foolishly at the prospect. Behind the officer stands a drummer wearing a grenadier's cap on which is inscribed the words "War for ever".
- Description:
- Title from item., Place of publication suggested by engraver's name, possibly identifiable with Graham Stewart the wood-engraver who died in 1786 (cf. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish artists)., Date based on that suggested for no. 5796 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Title in the British Museum catalogue: Beating up for recruits, originally designed by Robert Dighton.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Recruiting & enlistment, Military uniforms, British, Hats, and Drums
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beating up for fencibles [graphic]
9. Beating up for recruits [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1780?]
- Call Number:
- 780.00.00.46
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Outside a country tavern, a recruiting officer with a sword in his right hand holds up a purse in his left, facing right before 4 grotesquely drawn long-haired yokels who grin foolishly at the prospect. Behind the officer stands a drummer wearing a grenadier's cap. In the far distance is a horse-drawn covered wagon
- Description:
- Title from item. and Date from British Museum online catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53, Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Recruiting & enlistment, Military uniforms, British, Hats, Drums, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beating up for recruits [graphic]
