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1.
Opposite motives [art original].

Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 36 Box D210
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young male suitor kneels to offer a marriage proposal to an old maid sitting in a chair cooling herself with a fan
Description:
Title from contemporary pen and ink inscription on verso., Date supplied by cataloger., and Attributed to Woodward.
Subject (Topic):
Marriage proposals, Dandies, Single women, and Fans (Accessories)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Opposite motives [art original].

2.
Rules for a warm weather ball, or, Salutary conduct for corpulent dancers [graphic]

Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1806?]
Call Number:
811.00.00.42+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Scene in an assembly room. A mountainously fat woman stands fanning herself, as she talks to a stout man in old-fashioned dress. She says: "Dear me it is perdigus Hot! which would you advise me to do take a Rubber or Dance." He answers: "Dance first! Madam, and take the Rubber afterwards." A fashionably dressed but vulgar-looking man stands by, looking quizzically at the lady. In the background (left) is a high musicians' gallery, and below it four people dance a (?) country dance. There is a cut-glass chandelier. Through an ornate arched doorway four people are seen playing cards."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Salutary conduct for corpulent dancers
Description:
Title etched below image., Argus is a pseudonym for Charles Williams., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark: Cassell.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Fans (Accessories), Dance, and Chandeliers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Rules for a warm weather ball, or, Salutary conduct for corpulent dancers [graphic]

3.
[Two figures with fans] [art original].

Creator:
Walpole, Thomas, 1755-1840, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1797]
Call Number:
49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
Collection Title:
Page 162. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to Thomas Walpole from local card catalog record., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., and Mounted on page 162 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Fans (Accessories), and Muffs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Two figures with fans] [art original].

4.
[Two figures, one with a fan, the other with a muff] [art original].

Creator:
Walpole, Thomas, 1755-1840, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1797]
Call Number:
49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
Collection Title:
Page 163. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to Thomas Walpole from local card catalog record., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., The smaller sheet, on which the figure holding a muff is drawn, is pasted on the right portion of the larger sheet; the figure holding a fan is drawn on the left portion of the larger sheet., and Mounted on page 163 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Fans (Accessories), Muffs, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Two figures, one with a fan, the other with a muff] [art original].

5.
A girl of Modena [graphic]

Creator:
Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 June 1785]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 42. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman sitting on a bench in a landscape, full-length, three-quarter to right, with a hat and fan, trees in the left middle distance, a house across a field in the right background, in an oval; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 42 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 14th, 1785, by S. Watts, No. 50 opposite Old Round Court, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Modena., and Italy.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants, Clothing & dress, Fans (Accessories), Benches, and Dwellings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A girl of Modena [graphic]

6.
The humours of an Irish-wake, as celebrated at St. Giles's, London [graphic]

Creator:
Thornton, T., active 1780-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1794]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Page 244. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The new wonderful magazine, and marvellous chronicle. London : Published by Alex. Hogg, v. 3 (1794)., "Wonderful magazine"--Above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Irish wakes -- Drunkenness., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 10.8 x 15.3 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge and periodical name from top edge., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm; a small newspaper clipping (3.9 x 6.2 cm) is mounted below print, dated "1773" in ink., and Mounted on page 252 (misnumbered '244') in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Pubd. by C. Johnson
Subject (Geographic):
St. Giles in the Fields (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Churches, Wake services, Dead persons, Ethnic stereotypes, Alcoholic beverages, Intoxication, Drinking vessels, Vomiting, Clergy, and Fans (Accessories)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The humours of an Irish-wake, as celebrated at St. Giles's, London [graphic]

7.
[Shop card for Gordon's Old Fan Ware-House] [graphic]

Creator:
Sympson, Joseph, active 1710-1750, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1725]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Image of a fan surrounded by angels and women, with a crown above
Alternative Title:
Shop card for Gordon's Old Fan Warehouse
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker and date from Paulson., Extensively burnished and reworked plate, without former captions or signatures and with a small "J.S." inside the design. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 55 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Publisher:
Gordon's Old Fan Ware-House
Subject (Topic):
Fans (Accessories)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Shop card for Gordon's Old Fan Ware-House] [graphic]

8.
Evening Le soreé [sic] / [graphic] =

Creator:
Spooner, Charles, 1720-1767, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 June 1740]
Call Number:
Hogarth 740.06.23.02 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Copy of the third print in the Hogarth's series "Four Times of the Day. A dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River; the wife holds a fan with a design of Aphrodite and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds; behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman; to the right is a tavern with the sign of Sir Hugh Middleton's Head, two women and a man are in the tavern garden, other figures are visible through the window two of whom are smoking pipes; and a grape vine is climbing up towards the roof
Alternative Title:
Soireé and Soreé
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date from Paulson: "Publish'd 23d June 1740.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Matted to 379 x 279 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Myddelton, Hugh, Sir, 1560?-1631., Adonis (Greek deity),, and Aphrodite (Greek deity),
Subject (Topic):
Children, City & town life, Crying, Dogs, Fans (Accessories), Milkmen & milkwomen, Pipes (Smoking), Signs (Notices), Spouses, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Evening Le soreé [sic] / [graphic] =

9.
Spectators at a print-shop in St. Paul's Church Yard [graphic].

Creator:
Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
published as the act directs [...] [not before 25 June 1774]
Call Number:
774.06.25.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints and is surprised by a man with a warrant for his arrest."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to John Raphael Smith by Frankau., Later state, with plate number added. For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 3758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Date of publication inferred from earlier state with the date "25 June 1774" at end of imprint; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.379., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Description based on imperfect impression; date at end of imprint statement has been erased from sheet., and Plate numbered "300" in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, City & town life, Clothing & dress, Stores & shops, Window displays, Dandies, British, Prints, Fans (Accessories), and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Spectators at a print-shop in St. Paul's Church Yard [graphic].

10.
Noon [graphic]

Creator:
Simon, John, approximately 1675-1751, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1741]
Call Number:
741.00.00.16+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three young ladies in the open air among trees grouped on the left, one holding flowers and two holding fans, with a young man who looks at a cupid on a fountain with a sundial
Description:
Title from item., Four lines of verse in two columns on either side of title, begins: Boast not my power (thus Cupid seems to say) ..., One of four plates in an untitled series on the times of the day., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic]
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Cupids, Fans (Accessories), Fountains, and Women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Noon [graphic]

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