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1. A bouncer. A belcher [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [20 January 1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.01.20.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Belcher
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female Costume: Fur wrap -- Male Costume, 1802., and Watermark: J Whatman 1794.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Janry. 20, 1802 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Fur garments, Muffs, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A bouncer. A belcher [graphic].
2. A man and his wife!! [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Octr. 26, 1800.
- Call Number:
- 800.10.26.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Tentatively attributed to G.M. Woodward in unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: A woman and her husband!!, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Female dress: Parasols -- Hand-muff., Mounted to 38 x 30 cm., and Mounted on verso of Lot 19. Part of the Townland of Coolcarta East. The estate of Mrs. Eliza Felicia West, situate in the County of Galway. Ordnance sheet 100, 101 made by order of the Commissioners for the Sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland, by Hodges & Smith, 104 Grafton Street, Dublin [n.d.].
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by W. Holland, 50 Oxford Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Spouses, Muffs, Umbrella, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A man and his wife!! [graphic].
3. A special constable [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1845?]
- Call Number:
- 845.00.00.39
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text below title: "It's of no use ma'am, large bodies are not allowed to walk about, so you must disperse yourself.", and "Price 6 d."
- Publisher:
- Published at the Punch office
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Muffs, and Police
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A special constable [graphic].
4. A spoony a person of a weak mind easily imposed on, Q, to which does it belong. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [April 1817]
- Call Number:
- 817.04.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Imprint statement was either partially burnished from plate or erased from sheet., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. April 1817 by [S.]W. Fores, Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, British, Muffs, and Eating & drinking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A spoony a person of a weak mind easily imposed on, Q, to which does it belong. [graphic]
5. Animated nature, or, Lady en famille [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.02.20.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Lady en famille
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: French term for pregnancy.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 20th 1786 by J. Wicksteed, No. 30 Henrietta Strt. Covent Garden
- Subject (Topic):
- Pregnancy, Cats, Dogs, Muffs, Hats, and Squirrels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Animated nature, or, Lady en famille [graphic].
6. Borders for rooms. [graphic] / Plate 4
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 April 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.04.01.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Three strips arranged horizontally, intended to be cut and arranged as a border; a succession of little scenes, with the words of the speakers etched above, several of the figures grotesque, with large heads
- Description:
- Title etched below image; plate number "Plate 4" etched in upper left., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Probably one of twenty-four sheets published by Ackermann in a series entitled "Borders for rooms and screens." See Grego., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 1, 1799, at Akermans [sic] Gallery, No. 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Courtship, Muffs, and Hand lenses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Borders for rooms. [graphic] / Plate 4
7. Buck metamorphos'd, or, Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris [graphic]
- Creator:
- Smith, Gabriel, 1724-1783, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.99+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Samuel Foote in character; whole length, standing, wearing the latest 'French' fashions, including large fur muff, wig with pointed sides, mis-matched tights, and coat with over-sized cuffs; his outfit is scrutinized by two English gentlemen to the right; two men in background, one preparing a hat, bending over a dressing table with mirror."--British Museum online catalogue and On the back wall are two large framed pictures, both with scenes from mythology. On the left, Apollo with bow and arrow pursues Daphne who has begun the turn into a laurel tree. On the right, Leda and the swan
- Alternative Title:
- Buck metamorphosed and Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on the first performance of The Englishman returned from Paris, which premiered at Covent Garden Theatre in 1756., Probably published no later than 1760, when Robert Withy began trading on his own from a Cornhill address. His partnership with John Ryall, at the Fleet Street address listed here, is documented by prints and trade cards in the British Museum from the 1750s. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For a probable reissue of this plate, published by C. Sheppard in the 1790s, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,60.14., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 231, no. 15., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Ryall & Robt. Withy, at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777
- Subject (Topic):
- Performances, Actors, British, Clothing & dress, Comedies, Muffs, Dressing tables, Paintings, Supernatural beings, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Buck metamorphos'd, or, Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris [graphic]
8. Bumpology [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 February 1826]
- Call Number:
- Print00044
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A phrenologist, De Ville, in his consulting room, feels the forehead of a loutish gaping youth who kneels on a cushion at his feet. Behind the boy stands his stupid-looking mother, grinning with delight at her son. De Ville, who wears plain old-fashioned dress, has a grotesquely shaped skull fringed with scanty hair; his left hand rests on an open book on his table on which is a skull, numbered phrenologically and resting on a paper: Thurtell [murderer] shown to be Craniologically an Excellent Character. Behind him stands an assistant with a porcine profile writing in a note-book: Very large Wit N° 32. A large book-case covers much of the wall (right). There are also portrait heads illustrating grotesque misshapen features, and a bust on a pedestal with a satyr-like profile."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of quoted text below title: "Pores o'er the cranial map with learned eyes, Each rising hill and bumpy knoll descries, Here secret fires, and there deep mines of sense, His touch detects beneath each prominence.", and For an earlier state before aquatint added, see no. 15157 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 24th, 1826, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Strt., London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- De Ville, J. and Thurtell, John, 1794-1824.
- Subject (Topic):
- Phrenology, Costume, Caricatures and cartoons, Bookcases, and Muffs
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Bumpology [graphic]
9. 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].
