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A proctor without a wig [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
Jan. 14, 1797.
Call Number:
797.01.14.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat, bald-headed man draped in a sheet, his beard coated with lather, sits full-face, looking sideways with angry apprehension at a lean barber (left) holding a razor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and bottom., Numbered 'Plate 51' in upper left corner., Placement instructions: 'Page 121', in upper right corner., Plates from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... England & South Wales, by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1798.
Publisher:
London by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Barbers and Shaving equipment
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A proctor without a wig [graphic]

2.
Positive love [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
Feb. 7, 1799.
Call Number:
799.02.07.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Eight lines of verse below title: Cast my love thine eyes aroud [sic] view thine swain upon the ground ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1799.
Publisher:
Published at Akermann's [sic] Gallery, No. 101 Strand, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples and Obesity
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Positive love [graphic]

3.
The strangers at home [graphic].

Published / Created:
[4 March 1797]
Call Number:
797.03.04.04
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three well-dressed men sit at a small rectangular table drinking, singing, and smiling. The visible part of the room is bare, but framed pictures and a wall-paper above a dado indicate that it is well furnished. Beneath the title two verses of a drinking-song are engraved, beginning: 'Glorious Apollo from on high beheld us.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., Fifteen lines of a drinking song in two columns below image: Glorious Apollo from on high beheld us ..., Numbered '178' in lower left below image., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: parlors -- Furniture: chairs -- Wallpaper -- Glass: wine glasses -- Singing -- Furnishings: pictures., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1798.
Publisher:
Published March 4th, 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The strangers at home [graphic].