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11.
Cooks, scullions, hear me evr'y mother's son canto 2d. [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:
[1787]
Call Number:
787.00.00.01.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Against the wall hang birds, &c., and a poster: Royal Bill of Fare ... second course."--British Museum catalogue, description of a variant state with different title
Alternative Title:
Cooks, scullions, hear me every mother's son and Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Variant state, with different title, of a plate issued with the title: Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat. Cf. No. 7187 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Peter Pindar's The Lousiad.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
Subject (Topic):
Cooks, Servants, Poultry, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Cooks, scullions, hear me evr'y mother's son canto 2d. [graphic]

12.
The farm yard [graphic].

Creator:
Kingsbury, Henry, active 1776-1798, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 April 1786]
Call Number:
786.04.29.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A farm-yard scene with Windsor Castle in the distance (right). In the centre four pigs feed at a trough; George III (right) and Queen Charlotte (left) stand on each side of it facing each other in profile, both slightly caricatured. At the King's feet are a bucket and a young pig. The Queen scatters grain to chickens and ducks. On the right a guardsman walks off carrying a bundle of turnips across his shoulder (see BMSat 6946). In the background (left) are haystacks and farm buildings; from one projects the sign of a royal crown inverted. A young woman (probably one of the princesses) advances with a basket (cf. BMSat 7897). On the right is a large placard on a post, 'Mantraps & Spring Guns'. Behind it are sheep."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Attributed to Kingsbury in Angelo's Reminiscences, 1904, v. i, p.326., Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman., and Queen Charlotte and George III identified by ms. note in a contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aprll [sic] 29, 1786 by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Windsor Castle,
Subject (Topic):
Farms, Farmers, Poultry, Sheep, Haystacks, Military uniforms, British, Signs (Notices), Swine, and Troughs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The farm yard [graphic].

13.
British invalid driving foreign animals from proceeding to the camp [graphic]

Creator:
Austin, William, 1721-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
published as the Act directs, Jany. 1, 1780.
Call Number:
780.01.01.04.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item. and Trimmed to plate line on top and bottom.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Military camps, Entertainers, Bears, Monkeys, Donkeys, and Poultry
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > British invalid driving foreign animals from proceeding to the camp [graphic]

14.
A certain personage in the character of a fool as he perform'd it at Whitchurch & elsewhere

Published / Created:
[1770]
Call Number:
770.08.00.09
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satire on the the criminal conversation between the Duke of Cumberland and Lady Grosvenor with Cumberland wearing a fool's cap; a servant spills a glass of wine on the Duke. The scene takes place in a bedchamber with a curtain around the bed, with a table set with a meal including wine bottles, wine glasses, and roasted fowl. On the wall hangs a large mirror
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from that of the periodical for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 5 (1770), p. 75., Text above image: For the Oxford mag., and Mounted to 33 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790 and Grosvenor, Henrietta Grosvenor, Countess, -1828
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Interiors, Fools' caps, Fools & jesters, Table settings & decorations, Bottles, Drinking vessels, Wine, Intoxication, Poultry, and Chairs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A certain personage in the character of a fool as he perform'd it at Whitchurch & elsewhere [graphic].

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