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1.
Dance in a madhouse [graphic]

Creator:
Bellows, George, 1882-1925, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1917]
Call Number:
Print20079
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in pencil below image center., Inscribed in plate: Geo Bellows., Date supplied by catalogue raisonné., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., In pencil at lower right: Geo Bellows., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Insanity; Patients, psychiatric; Hospitals, U.S.A., and In lower margin in pencil: B43 [illegible]; x20 300.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Mental illness, Psychiatric hospitals, Psychiatry, Mentally ill persons, Dance, Couples, Despair, and Excitement
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Dance in a madhouse [graphic]

2.
The last jig, or, Adieu to Old England [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 January 1818] and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 43. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in a tavern cellar, with a young woman, gaily dressed, dancing a jig with a man wearing an apron; at left, a sailor playing the violin, at right, a sailor sitting on steps and leaning forward, smoking, resting his arms on a barrel, another beside him holding a bowl, a young woman standing behind them with a hand on the shoulder of each; behind, three amorous couples, including a sailor sitting on another barrel
Alternative Title:
Adieu to Old England
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.808., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 363., and On leaf 43 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 20th, 1818, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
History, Jig (Dance), Couples, Dance, Kissing, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The last jig, or, Adieu to Old England [graphic]

3.
Geordie and Willie "keeping it up" Johnny Bull pays the piper!! / [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 31. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The pair, both very bulky in Highland costume, are back to back. The King (right), wearing a feathered bonnet, a huge sporran, and a sword, stoops to kiss a lady (see British Museum Satires No. 14384), hands clasped behind her neck; he says: "The Sweetest hours that 'ere I spent, it was among The Lasses O! Other ladies eagerly wait their turn. One, behind the King, covers her face with her fan. Curtis, grotesquely obese, and directed to the left, capers, snapping his fingers. He wears a turtle in place of sporran, and in his belt are knife, fork, and ladle. Round his neck is a double chain of sausages. He sings: "Georgie loves good ale & wine And Geordie loves good Brandy And Geordie loves to Kiss all the Girls As sweet as Sugar Candy"-- God save the King Huzza my Boys!! I'm the Boy for a bit of a Jollification! play up Piper!! A piper (left) with bare, thin, and misshapen legs plays and dances. A stout Highlander watches with a grin. Frontispiece, perhaps issued separately, to 'Kilts and Philibegs!! - The Northern excursion of Geordie, Emperor of Gotham: and Sir Willie Curt-his, the Court Buffoon, &c. &c.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 14389 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 607., Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1091., and On leaf 31 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published Sept. 3, 1822, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Obesity, Kissing, Daggers & swords, Sausages, Bagpipes, Turtles, and Dance
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Geordie and Willie "keeping it up" Johnny Bull pays the piper!! / [graphic]

4.
Coalition dance [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 3. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Lord North, Charles Fox, and Edmund Burke, holding hands, dance around a post surmounted by a bust with the face covered by a volume entitled, "Whole duty of man." A ribbon identifying the bust as "K. Wisdom 3rd," hangs around the post. An owl is perched on the bust's head. Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and a biretta holds a volume open to the title "Little Red Riding Hood", an allusion to one of his speeches. A demon, seated on a rock at the foot of the post, plays the dance tune on his fiddle
Description:
Title etched above image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6205 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Text below image: "Let us dance & sing, God bless the King, for he has made us merry men all.", Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 47., and On leaf 3 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Dance, Priests, Demons, Owls, and Violins
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Coalition dance [graphic]

5.
Der triumph des kalten wassers [graphic]

Creator:
Geiger, Andreas, 1765-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1856]
Call Number:
Print01138
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Triumph of cold water
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Above title: Scenen aus Wien; No.40., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Wien, im Bureau der Theaterzeitung, Rauhensteingasse No.926
Subject (Topic):
Hydrotherapy, City & town life, Water use, Wells, and Dance
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Der triumph des kalten wassers [graphic]

6.
Danse de caractères [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1850?]
Call Number:
850.00.00.10+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A collection of small vignettes with dancers along and in pairs, some drawn as stick-figures, in a variety of dance positions
Description:
Title from text in top part of image. and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their Sporting & Fine Print Repository & Frame Manufactory, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Topic):
Dance and Dancers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Danse de caractères [graphic].

7.
The real polka as danced by Signor Jacko-na-ni and Madlle. Puss-i-a-ni. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1848?]
Call Number:
848.00.00.11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Shown full-length a cat and monkey in costume walking arm in arm
Description:
Title from text below image. and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Publisher:
William Follit, City Repository of Arts, 63 Fleet St. and Printed by W. Kohler
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Dance, Monkeys, and Cats
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The real polka as danced by Signor Jacko-na-ni and Madlle. Puss-i-a-ni. [graphic]

8.
[Frontispiece to Gray's Poems] [art original]

Creator:
Thomson, Henry, 1773-1843, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1843]
Call Number:
532 C768d Copy 3
Collection Title:
Frontispiece. Poems by Mr. Gray.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two women in neoclassical dress hold garlands and dance around a bust statue of Thomas Gray; trees and bushes are seen in the background
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower left corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Bound in as the frontispiece in an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Gray's Poems.
Subject (Name):
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771,
Subject (Topic):
Women, Dance, and Sculpture
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to Gray's Poems] [art original]

9.
Fores's dancing envelope [graphic].

Creator:
Leech, John, 1817-1864, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1840]
Call Number:
841.00.00.27
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Number three in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's hunting envelope, Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's alderman envelopes, etc
Description:
Title from text above image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., "No. 3"., Imprint from related 'envelope' prints published by Messrs. Fores., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement.
Publisher:
Messrs. Fores
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Ballet dancers, Dancers, Dance, Postal stationery, and Teachers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Fores's dancing envelope [graphic].

10.
The fashionable quadrille preceptor : containing the first six sets of Almack's Lancers

Published / Created:
[183-?]
Call Number:
NLy40 825fg
Image Count:
28
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Engraved t.-p., On cover: Eleventh edition., and Possibly the Thomas Wilson, dancing master at the King's Theatre in the early part of the 19th century, who wrote several works on dancing. cf. C.W. Beaumont. Bibliography of dancing. London, 1929.
Publisher:
Page & Son
Subject (Name):
Professor of dancing from the King's theatre and Wilson, Thomas, dancing master
Subject (Topic):
Dance and Quadrille (Dance)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The fashionable quadrille preceptor : containing the first six sets of Almack's Lancers, Caledonians, Hibernians, Guards, Red Coats, Hussars, La Gallopade, &c., &c. / by a professor of dancing from the King's Theatre.

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