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1. The sorrows of Werter. The last interview
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, etcher
- Published / Created:
- [29 March 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.03.29.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Werter clutches his head in anguish as he stands before Charlotte on a sofa supporting her head on one hand as she reaches out imploringly towards Werter. The pictures on the wall amplify the subject
- Alternative Title:
- Last interview
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Text below publisher's line: At length with the firm determined voice of Virtue she cried Werter, and he was awed by it, tearing himself from her arms., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark in center of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 29 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14 Marylebone Street Golden Square
- Subject (Name):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Distress, Grief, Love, and Parlors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The sorrows of Werter. The last interview
2. Misery [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [2 February 1788]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury Drawer 788.02.00.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A mother selling her daughters to two men at the door of their cottage, pushing one distraught girl out of the door and extending her hand for the payment, at left the father turns away from the transaction with shame, as the sister kneels on the floor with hands clasped, desperately pleading with him to reconsider, at the right of the basic room a young man sits solemnly, a little girl leaning against his leg and a baby in a crib in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Two lines of verse below image, one on either side of title: To barter virtue, see the parent led, and with a child's dishonour, purchase bread., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Cottages -- Baby in cradle -- Pottery jugs.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, Feby. 2d 1788, by J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, Portland Place
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Cradles, Disgrace, Distress, Dwellings, Dogs, Domestic life, Hunters, Interiors, and Pitchers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Misery [graphic]
3. Brought to trouble & woe by cards, dice, and E.O [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1790?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Design in an oval. A man seated at a table (half length to left) on which he leans his elbows, his face puckered with distress."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Brought to trouble and woe by cards, dice, and E.O.
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue, Sheet trimmed with loss of number "363"., No. 7 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Distress and Gambling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Brought to trouble & woe by cards, dice, and E.O [graphic].
4. [Bad news] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- 1791?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 60 Box D165
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor depicting a group of four men sitting around a table containing several empty and spilled pewter tankards responding with shock, distress, and sadness to one of their number reading aloud from their local newspaper
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Cf. Lewis Walpole Library Drawings Un58 no. 59 for a watercolor, probably from the same artist, that continues the 'news' theme.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Newspapers, Sadness, Distress, Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, and Tobacco pipes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Bad news] [art original].
5. Avarice & dissipation [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.06.04.07
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young gentleman with a riding crop, a macaroni, stands before a money-lender leaning on a table, his hands on a bag of gold coins. The young man offers a packet of papers wrapped with a ribbon to the older man as he glances up from his task of counting up his wealth, his feather pen in his mouth
- Alternative Title:
- Avarice and dissipation
- Description:
- Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '4' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Avarice, Distress, Usury, and Dandies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Avarice & dissipation [graphic].
6. Mirth ; Anguish [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.06.04.11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men sit facing each other as the one on the right pulls on a string which has been tied around a front tooth of the man on the left. His left foot bent up and braced in the patient's left hand, the large-nosed doctor laughs as he pushes a redhot coal in a pair of large tongs towards the patient's mouth. The patient screams in agony as his head is forced back and to the side, his hand pushing the tongs away
- Alternative Title:
- Anguish
- Description:
- Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '8' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Dental equipment & supplies, Dentistry, Distress, Happiness, and Pain
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mirth ; Anguish [graphic].
7. Fellow feeling [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.06.04.12
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the center man sits in a chair facing a woman, slightly below her. He uses a pair of tongs to extract her front tooth as she winces in pain, clutching the arm of her chair right hand and crumpling her straw hat with her left. Leaning on the back of the dentist's chair, a second man stares at the scene, wide-eyed and grimacing as he hugs himself in sympathy
- Description:
- Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '9' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Dental equipment & supplies, Dentistry, Distress, and Pain
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fellow feeling [graphic].
8. Grief ; Pleasure [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.06.04.24
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An elderly townsman leans over a table complacently counting gold coins, holding up a finger to enjoin silence on a countryman who appeals to him with an expression of despair. The latter's elderly wife, equally distressed, stands behind him on the left, a hand on her husband's shoulder
- Alternative Title:
- Pleasure
- Description:
- Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '22' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Variant issue, with plate number, of no. 11670 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Coins, Couples, Distress, Grief, and Happiness
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Grief ; Pleasure [graphic].
9. Ah! those happy days are fled forever [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1825]
- Call Number:
- 825.00.00.10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A couple sit in two chairs, the man with his back to his wife is asleep with his hands resting on his large belly. The woman thin and with a forelorn look on her face sits in a large comfortable chair, looking out, her book at her side and a handkerchief in her hand
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Distress, Marriage, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ah! those happy days are fled forever [graphic].