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1. A tour to the Hebrides Bossy Bounce preparing for the Scotch professors to kiss / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [19 April 1786]
- Call Number:
- 49 3069
- Collection Title:
- Opposite title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7030. Johnson, as a bear with a human head (a profile portrait), walks (left to right) up a mountain. Boswell as an ape with a quasi-human head is seated on the bear's back facing the tail, which he holds up, beckoning with his right hand to two bare-legged men in Highland dress who are climbing up the mountain behind Johnson. In the foreground are thistles."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., A companion print to: A tom tit twittering on an eagle's back-side., On paper watermarked "W.J.", and Tipped in opposite 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:
- Published 19th April 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Scotland.
- Subject (Name):
- Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethnic stereotypes, Clothing & dress, Bears, and Monkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tour to the Hebrides Bossy Bounce preparing for the Scotch professors to kiss / [graphic]
2. An Abyssinian breakfast [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [3 March 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.03.03.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man in Scottish dress kicks a bull as he cuts it with a knife crying, "Hoot! Damn yeen. Saul what de ye hoke for." Also pictured a abyssianian couple skin a lion. A sphynix with a confused look sits as a stream pours out from under his chair with a crocodile and crabs floating in the water and frogs observing from the side. Monkeys in the trees observe the scene below. A other four-legged animal emerges from the tent in the distance
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse on each side of title: There, which the squeamish souls of Britain shocks, ... ., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark (countermark) : V I.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 3, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Egypt, Ethiopia., and Nile River.
- Subject (Name):
- Bruce, James, 1730-1794
- Subject (Topic):
- Description and travel, Antiquities, Clothing & dress, Scottish, Bulls, Crabs, Crocodiles, Frogs, Lions, Monkeys, Tents, and Tourists
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An Abyssinian breakfast [graphic].
3. Love, or, An exquisite at his devotions [graphic].
- Creator:
- Crowquill, Alfred, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Sepr. 1825.
- Call Number:
- 825.09.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An effeminate dandy, elongated and with very thin arms and legs, leans back in a chair, one thin arm drooping to the ground, the other curving over his head, his fingers caressing a curl on his forehead. He gazes sideways with a languishing smile at his reflection in the toilet-table glass. He has a thread-like moustache, blue tail-coat with high collar and sleeves, a rose in the button-hole, a white collar and cravat, white waistcoat with a long gold watch-chain round the neck, long light pantaloons, tight from the knee, full at the waist; low pumps with very-pointed toes. On the dressing-table are brush and comb, stoppered bottle, &c, and long tube-like bottle (of Eau de Cologne). Behind (right) on a similar chair a monkey squats admiring its face in a hand-glass. The room is bare, but carpeted to the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Exquisite at his devotions
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to Crowquill from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on upper edge.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by E. King 23 Chancery Lane
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dandies, Dressing tables, Mirrors, Monkeys, and Rugs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Love, or, An exquisite at his devotions [graphic].
4. Monstrosities in the gardens of the Zoological Society, or, The Regent's Park turned into a bear garden [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- 1829.
- Call Number:
- 829.00.00.10+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Regent's Park turned into a bear garden
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by E. King, Chancery Lane
- Subject (Geographic):
- Regent's Park (London, England), and England
- Subject (Name):
- London Zoo (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Muffs, Zoos, Zoo animals, Bears, and Monkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Monstrosities in the gardens of the Zoological Society, or, The Regent's Park turned into a bear garden [graphic].
5. Slight of hand by a monkey, or, The lady's head unloaded [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, [25 October 1776]
- Call Number:
- 776.10.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady walking along a high orchard wall has her enormous headdress, trimmed wtih lace and ribbons, pulled from her head by a monkey perched atop the wall. She clasps her hand to her bare head, a look of surprise on her face. A man perched on a ladder picking apples in the orchard looks over the wall in amusement at the scene. A butcher's boy with a large tray stands in the street equally amused by the scene
- Alternative Title:
- Sleight of hand by a monkey and Lady's head unloaded
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Publication date from Horace Walpole's impression in the New York Public Library., and Plate numbered '344' in lower left corner.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Apple orchards, Hairdressing, Butchers, Clothing & dress, and Monkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Slight of hand by a monkey, or, The lady's head unloaded [graphic].
6. Slight of hand by a monkey, or, The ladys head unloaded [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [between 1812 and 1817]
- Call Number:
- 812.00.00.108
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady walking along a high orchard wall has her enormous headdress, trimmed wtih lace and ribbons, pulled from her head by a monkey perched atop the wall. She clasps her hand to her bare head, a look of surprise on her face. A man perched on a ladder picking apples in the orchard looks over the wall in amusement at the scene
- Alternative Title:
- Sleight of hand by a monkey, or, The ladys head unloaded and Ladys head unloaded
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., Numbered '23' in upper right corner., Probably a copy of a mezzotint with the same title that was published in 1776 by Carington Bowles. Cf. No. 4546 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Apple orchards, Clothing & dress, Hairdressing, Monkeys, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Slight of hand by a monkey, or, The ladys head unloaded [graphic].
7. Taste in high life [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1798?]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 74K(b) Box 115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Sheet trimmed to: 213 x 278 mm., and Ms. annotation in ink, lower right corner: '6'.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Taste in high life [graphic]
8. Taste in high life [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1798?]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 746.05.24.01.2 Box 105
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., and Hogarth's signature erased from this impression.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Taste in high life [graphic]
9. Taste in high life [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1798?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: See Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 259., and On page 105 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 20.9 x 27.2 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Taste in high life [graphic]
