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1. A Negro market in the West Indies [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1831]
- Call Number:
- 831.00.00.51+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene of a busy market in the West Indies with enslaved, free Africans, and white mingling amongst the vendors: The Black vendors are seated on the ground with their wares displayed around them, including produce (mellons, pineapples, bananas, etc.), livestock (goats, pigs, poultry, etc.); one man (left) is holding a lizard (iguana?); a little boy holds a bird on his finger. One woman carries her chickens and a piglet in a basket balanced on her head. Customers, both Black and mixed-race, mingle with vendors. White women with umbrellas and white men wearing hats walk among the vendors; a horse and carriage and buildings are in the background
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Based on a 1806 etching with the title: Negroes Sunday Market at Antigua. Engraved by Cordon, Pub. by G. Tustolini, London, 1806. See National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK. Accession reference: National Maritime Museum, ZBA2594., Motte started publishing in 1818 in Paris, opened a branch in London in 1830, and moved to 70 St. Martin's Lane in 1831. See British Museum online catalogue., "From an original drawing taken in 1806."--Lower left, below design., After W.E. Beastall and the engraving by Cardon. Cf. Negroes Sunday market at Antigua / engraved by Cardon. Pub. by G. Tustolini, London, 1806. Accession reference: National Maritime Museum, ZBA2594., and Imprint partially burnished and illegible.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Motte, 70 St. Martins Lane
- Subject (Geographic):
- Antigua.
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Animals, Farm produce, Markets, Poultry, and Slave trade
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Negro market in the West Indies [graphic].
2. London market. Poultry / [graphic] : No. 3
- Creator:
- Dubourg, Matthew, active 1806-1838, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 May 1822]
- Call Number:
- 822.05.10.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of a poultry shop, displaying turkeys, geese, ducks, and, oddly, pigs and rabbits
- Alternative Title:
- Poultry
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of a set of four views of London markets, the other prints showing "Meat," "Fish," and "Fruit" markets., and For a related drawing at the Yale Center for British Art, see accesssion no.: B1977.14.4099.
- Publisher:
- Published May 10, 1822, by Edwd. Orme, Editor of Prints to the King, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Markets, Food vendors, Poultry, and City & town life
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > London market. Poultry / [graphic] : No. 3
3. The modern Orpheus, or, Affected musician [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1800]
- Call Number:
- 800.12.01.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A gentleman sits on a barrel in a farm yard playing his trumpet. The pigs, chickens, geese, a cat and dog and the run away in terror; a cow looks on the scene with a worried expression; chickens on the roof line of an outbuilding look as if they are about to take flight like the doves leaving the dovecote that is tumbling down in the background. The farmer in a smock and his family and dog also run away in the distance
- Alternative Title:
- Affected musician
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Six lines of verse in two columns below title: The ancient Orpheus play'd such rigs, in music, he could charm the pigs ..., Plate numbered '252' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: farm cottage
- Publisher:
- Published 1st Decr. 1800 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Barrels, Birdhouses, Dwellings, Donkeys, Musical instruments, Poultry, Swine, and Trumpets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The modern Orpheus, or, Affected musician [graphic].
4. A flight of parsons!! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 February 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.02.24.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A country yokel in a hat and smoking a pipe sits on a stool beside a simple table outside in a farm house opposite a pigsty wtih a large pig and her piglets and chickens and their chicks running around in alarm. In the upper left sky a flock of parson in the form of birds fly in various directions. A second man sits on the gate looking up at the clergy/birds
- Description:
- Also attributed to Isaac Cruikshank in unverified information from card., Publisher's statement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Paper watermarked T.W. 1795., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of plate: S.W.F.
- Publisher:
- Published Febry. 24, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Agricultural laborers, Clergy, Farms, Pipes (Smoking), Poultry, and Swine
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A flight of parsons!! [graphic]
5. Village cavalry practising in a farm-yard [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [18 December 1794]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mounted yokels, riding right to left, make havoc in a farm-yard. One only wears uniform; he shouts at them from the right, with upraised hand. A man riding a horse with blinkers fires a blunderbuss, shutting his eyes; he damages a pigeon-house and kills pigeons. He is riding up to a well in which a terrified man has sought shelter, clutching the rope and looking over the top. Two other inexpert horsemen use clubs, one a flail, one a pitchfork. A witch-like old woman holding a broom lies on her back; her basket of cocks and hens has been overturned and the birds escape. A bull and a bulldog face each other belligerently. In the background (left) a fierce engagement between farmers, labourers, and horsemen is in progress."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Temporary local subject terms: Military: Country recruits -- Guns: Blunderbuss -- Flails., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.7 x 72 cm, sheet 24.3 x 73 cm., and Mounted on leaf 61 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Decemr. 18, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Military training, Military uniforms, Firearms, Pigeons, Wells, Pitchforks, Farmers, Swine, Poultry, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Village cavalry practising in a farm-yard [graphic]
6. Village cavalry practising in a farm-yard [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [18 December 1794]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 794.12.18.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mounted yokels, riding right to left, make havoc in a farm-yard. One only wears uniform; he shouts at them from the right, with upraised hand. A man riding a horse with blinkers fires a blunderbuss, shutting his eyes; he damages a pigeon-house and kills pigeons. He is riding up to a well in which a terrified man has sought shelter, clutching the rope and looking over the top. Two other inexpert horsemen use clubs, one a flail, one a pitchfork. A witch-like old woman holding a broom lies on her back; her basket of cocks and hens has been overturned and the birds escape. A bull and a bulldog face each other belligerently. In the background (left) a fierce engagement between farmers, labourers, and horsemen is in progress."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Temporary local subject terms: Military: Country recruits -- Guns: Blunderbuss -- Flails., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Decemr. 18, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Military training, Military uniforms, Firearms, Pigeons, Wells, Pitchforks, Farmers, Swine, Poultry, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Village cavalry practising in a farm-yard [graphic]
7. City sportsmen, or, The first of September a ballad. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 September 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.09.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A group of sportsmen stand amongst the gravestones in a churchyard cemetary aiming their guns at a flock of birds. Their hunting dogs run toward the birds. In a grave behind a tombstone (left), a gravedigger cowers in fear, a skull and pick axe beside him. In the distance the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral (?).
- Alternative Title:
- First of September
- Description:
- Caption title printed in letterpresss below etching., Imprint engraved below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 45 x 29 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Sepr. 1st 1792 by J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Cemeteries, Game bird hunting, Gravedigging, Hunting dogs, Poultry, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > City sportsmen, or, The first of September a ballad. [graphic]
8. Favourite chickens going to market [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [26 July 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.07.26.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young woman carries a basket of chickens in one hand and a brace of fowl in her other hand as she sets out to the market. She looks out at the viewer as she is watched by a woman in the doorway of a cottage on the right. She is accompanied by a litle girl who also holds a chicken. Another large basket sits on the ground on the right opposite a chicken with her three little chicks
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Publisher's stamp in lower right corner.
- Publisher:
- Published July 26, 1792, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Baskets, Dwellings, Girls, Poultry, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Favourite chickens going to market [graphic].
9. The absent man [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1o January 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.01.10.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Printmaker identified from the original drawing for this print in the Huntington Library collection. and Temporary local subject terms: Absentmindedness: walking into a pond -- Bridges: stiles.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd 10th Jany. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., No. 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 and Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Fans (Accessories), Poultry, Umbrellas, and Walking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The absent man [graphic].
