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1.
Governor Wall's ghost! by J----s! / [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[21 July 1802]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A street scene lit by a lamp projecting from a high brick wall: 'Maiden Lane'. A tall man, very thin and pale, walks (right to left), wearing spectacles, a cane in his right hand. His shoulders are thickly sprinkled with powder, cf. BMSat 8190, &c. He terrifies an Irish fishwife, who holds up both arms to avert the spectre, turning away with a terrified stare, saying, "Governor Wall's Ghost! - [the only title] by J .... s!" Her basket of fish falls to the ground. The man is corpse-like, and his clothes seem to hang on a skeleton. The woman is stout and very ragged. Beside her a tunnel penetrates the wall, slanting down from the street-level, under an arch inscribed 'Cyder Cell[ars]', a famous night-resort in Maiden Lane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in speech bubble within image. and Mounted on leaf 78 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 21st, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Governor Wall's ghost! by J----s! / [graphic]

2.
The examination of a young surgeon [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1811]
Call Number:
Print00030
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Caricature of a young surgeon undergoing questioning by his peers. A satire on the Royal College of Surgeons, London and "Plate from the 'Scourge', ii. 263 (second state). Members of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons sit on the outer side of a horse-shoe table, four on each side of the Master, who sits in a raised chair, wearing a gown, bands, and hat. On the table before him are a skull and bone. The examinee, trembling and insignificant, stands on the extreme left, facing a man who has risen from his chair to say angrily, "Describe, the Organs of Hearing"; the latter's neighbour listens intently through an ear-trumpet. The next Examiner sleeps with folded arms; next, and on the Master's right, is a man turning his back on the Master and holding his nose while he studies a book: 'Question upon Wind I Suppose a man was to . . . What w . . . you . . .' The aged and toothless Master (Sir Charles Blicke, 1745-1815) listens with senile intensity through an ear-trumpet. On his left two Scots, ungainly fellows wearing tartan, are absorbed in conversation; one says: "you paid too dear for it brother Sergeant," the other takes snuff from a mull. Next is a fat man with swathed gouty legs; crutches lie on the ground beside him; he has a paper 'THH [sic] COW POX CRONICLE', suggesting that he is Jenner (not a surgeon). He has a pen in his mouth, spectacles on forehead, and looks sideways at his neighbour, a lean old man who is intently counting piles of coin. In the foreground is a trough containing books; a man stands near it holding a large volume and looking towards examiner and examinee. A man leaves the room (right) looking over his shoulder with shocked distress, and exclaiming "Oh!" In his pocket is a paper: 'A Peter on the Gravel'. The Master's chair is decorated with skulls; from its back projects a striped pole supporting a skull which serves as a wig-block, emblem of the old connexion between surgeons and barbers, see No. 9092, &c. Under the chair are money-bags, one inscribed '£50', the other 'For Shirt'. Behind the chair are two niches or alcoves in each of which a skeleton is suspended by the neck from a rope; one (left) is 'Govenor [sic] Wall' [see No. 9845], the other 'Lady Brownrigg'. These are symmetrically flanked by four pictures: [1] a prizefight between a black pugilist and a skeleton at which the Master of the College presides, standing before his chair. [2] Saartjie Baartman, 'the Hottentot Venus', see No. 11577, &c., stands in profile to the right while 'Nobody', a man whose legs are jointed to his shoulders as in No. 12438, &c., points with amusement at her huge posterior. [3] A young woman without arms or legs, placed on a bergere, is inspected by an ugly man, who points at her. [4] A brazen cow (or golden calf) is supported on a garlanded pillar on whose base is a crown; round this men, apparently surgeons, dance gleefully, holding hands in a ring. On the extreme left of the wall is an ornate clock, showing that the time is eleven. It is topped by a grinning figure of Time holding an hourglass. On the ground is a paper: 'At the sign of the Cow's Head Lincolns Inn Feilds'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 2 (October 1811), page 263., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Examination for license -- Vaccination controversy.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 1st, 1811, by M. Jones, 5 Newgate Strt
Subject (Name):
Blicke, Charles, Sir, 1745-1815, Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835., Earle, James, Sir, 1755-1817., Home, Everard, Sir, 1756-1832, Dundas, David, Sir, 1735?-1820., Biffin, Sarah, 1784-1850., Baartman, Sarah, Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823, Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802., Brownrigg, Elizabeth, 1720?-1767., and Royal College of Surgeons in London.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine and art, Physicians, Questioning, Surgery, Surgeons, Table, Deafness, Gout, Medical students, and Hearing aids
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The examination of a young surgeon [graphic]

3.
A representation of Governor Wall ordering Serjeant B. Armstrong, without a trial, to be tied to a

Published / Created:
[1802]
Call Number:
File 63 802 R425
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
An illustrated handbill describing the execution of Joseph Wall, former Governor of Goree, for unlawful execution in 1782 of Serjeant B. Armstrong. The large woodcut illustration depicts the punishment devised by Wall and shows the victim being whipped by presumably enslaved "black men" described in detail in the verses below
Description:
Caption title., Printed in two columns., Partially in verse; the short description of Wall's execution is followed by a six stanza poem, with the heading "A copy of verses on the melancholy occasion.", Publisher's advertisement following imprint: - Where may be had, price 6d. the Trial of Governor Wall, including a biographical account of his life, and the whole particulars of his execution., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Davenport, 6, George's Court, St. John's Gate, London
Subject (Name):
Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802,
Subject (Topic):
Punishment & torture, Whipping, and Enslaved people
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A representation of Governor Wall ordering Serjeant B. Armstrong, without a trial, to be tied to a gun, at Coree, in Africa, and inhumanly flogged by Black slaves, who were changed every twenty-five lashes

4.
Governor Wall's ghost : Tune -- Snug Little Island

Published / Created:
[approximately 1802]
Call Number:
File 763 802 G721
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Caption title., Slip song handbill; letterpress text with woodcut illustration., and Tipped onto a backing sheet. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802
Subject (Topic):
Ghosts and Nightmares
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Governor Wall's ghost : Tune -- Snug Little Island

5.
The balance of justice NB in a few days will be published the old gunner lashed to the shrouds

Published / Created:
[3 March 1802]
Call Number:
802.03.03.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"From the opposite ends of a horizontal balance hang (left) a triangle from which are suspended the corpses of thirteen sailors, and (right) the body of a military officer in uniform (Governor Wall); all have bandaged eyes. The balance hangs in front of a stone building, in the centre of which is an open door showing men seated at a council table, a messenger stands in the doorway giving a dispatch box marked 'GR' to another messenger, saying, "Deliver this Immediatly He must Die." The pilastered doorway is inscribed: 'Justitiae Soror Fides'; above it are kneeling statues of Truth and Justice; between them they support an inscribed tablet: 'It is determined that British Justice shall never be Stained by Partiality, while the poor & ignorant suffer for their Folly the Rich shall also suffer for their Brutality and Infamy.' On the wall are two placards: (left) 'An Account of the Mutiny', and (right) 'A Full True and Particular Account of the Trial of ... For the Murder of ...' This is headed by a print of a man being tied to a cannon and flogged, while an officer looks on and soldiers stand at attention."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top.
Publisher:
Pud. March 3d 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802.
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Mutiny), Mutiny, Courtrooms, Hangings (Executions), Justice, Military officers, British, and Sailors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The balance of justice NB in a few days will be published the old gunner lashed to the shrouds. [graphic]