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1. Laugh & grow fat [graphic].

Creator:: Austin, William, 1721-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:: published as [the] act directs, November, 1778.
Call Number:: 778.11.00.01+
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: A man beats another man with a walking stick to the amusement of bystanders, who include a fishwife, a milkmaid, a chimney-sweep's boy, etc. A lengthy inscription in a scroll in the upper left corner begins: "Ha ha ha I can't help laughing ..."
Alternative Title:: Laugh and grow fat
Description:: Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark., and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Fighting, Crowds, Chimney sweeps, and Milkmen & milkwomen
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Laugh & grow fat [graphic].

2. Symptoms of a mob [graphic]

Creator:: Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 July 1799]
Call Number:: 799.07.01.03 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A large crowd of brawling men, some fallen with injuries, one being bitten by a dog; in the background a cat is thrown in the air, many clutching body parts in pain
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate numbered '8' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; printmaker's name erased from this impression., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: J. Baldrey
Subject (Topic):: Cats, Crowds, Dogs, Fighting, and Wounds & injuries
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Symptoms of a mob [graphic]

3. A pugilistick club [graphic]

Creator:: Barlow, Inigo, printmaker
Published / Created:: Decr. 1, 1789.
Call Number:: 789.12.01.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Pugilists club
Description:: A celebration in a sporting club. In the center of the room before a large table, a man in a hat (with a black eye?) raises a gavel in an attempt to bring order as two members begin a fist-fight and others converse and laugh. One member restrains a woman as she attempts to hit a man on the head with a tankard; the man appears already unconscious and injured. Boxing gloves, tankards and glasses, hats, and a stick are scattered on the floor in the foreground. The room is lighted by the candles in a candelier. On the walls are a clock, two pictures of fighers -- one of Humphrys and the other of Mendoza; a broadside "Rules" (damaged); a broadside entitled "Last dying speech & confession of W[...]st the Boxer" with a picture of a gallows at the head; and, a picture of two men boxing (the pictures amplifying the subject). On the table are several tankards, wine glasses and punch bowl, smoking pipes, a broadsheet torn in two (World Diary), and a book "Rules for boxing"., Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., The left portion of the plate was later published as 'Frontispiece' (no date) in Carlton House magazine with the title: The ending of the old year., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title, printmaker's signature, and partial loss of imprint., Plate from: The Attic miscellany, v. 1, p. 81., Title added in a contemporary hand on the mount below the image: Odd-Fellows-Lodge., and Mounted to 24 x 32 cm.
Publisher:: Published as the act directs, by Bentley & Co.
Subject (Name):: Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Mendoza, Daniel, 1764-1836, and Humphries, Richard, d. 1827
Subject (Topic):: Boxing (Sports), Chandeliers, Clocks, Clubs, Fraternal organizations, Fighting, Interiors, and Pipes (Smoking)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A pugilistick club [graphic]

4. He and his drunken companions raise a riot in Covent Garden [graphic].

Creator:: Bowles, Thomas, -1767, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1735]
Call Number:: Hogarth 735.00.00.19+ Box 200
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Plate from a pirated series of Hogarth's Rake's Progress, not based on one of the original prints: Covent Garden with St Paul's church and the buildings at the north-western corner of the piazza; the Rake (here called Ramble) and drunken friends are accosting women passers-by and the watch has arrived to set about them with staves."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title engraved below image., Printmaker and publisher from the Wellcome Collection online catalogue, Wellcome Library no. 38341i., Date of publication from Paulson and the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse beneath title: Young Ramble, without witt or dread, Does non a drunken party head ... Uplifted staves, drawn swords oppose, And stabs are well repaid with blows., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., and Window mounted to 29 x 43 cm.
Publisher:: John Bowles
Subject (Geographic):: Covent Garden (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):: Fighting, Intoxication, Rake's progress, Watchmen, and Women
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > He and his drunken companions raise a riot in Covent Garden [graphic].

5. These are matrimonial douceurs [art original]

Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created:: [1765?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A wife has chased her husband out of the house and comes up behind him, holding a broom above her head, ready to strike. He has stopped to pray, hands clasped in front of his chest. Through the open door of their house a chair and some shelves can be seen; a set of antlers hangs above the doorway. The face of another person is visible in a second-story window; they peer out at the scene, amused
Description:: Titled by the artist in ink below image., Signed in upper right corner with the artist's initials., Date from local card catalog record., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Subject (Topic):: Spouses, Fighting, Brooms & brushes, Prayer, Antlers, Doors & doorways, and Dwellings
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > These are matrimonial douceurs [art original]

6. Gin Lane [graphic]

Creator:: Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818
Published / Created:: June 1st, 1800.
Call Number:: Hogarth 800.06.01.03++ Box 310
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In the streets of the slum Ruins of St. Giles, Westminster, the only business are S. Gripe pawnbroker (left), Kilman Distiller (right) and the undertaker (background right). It is a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners -- charity children, mothers and babies, trades people, cripples, etc. -- shown dead or dying, fighting, or stupefied with drink. Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin". His dog looks down at the empty glass. On the right in a crumbling building a barber is shown hanging by his neck; below a crowd is being pushed back towards Kilman Distiller. Mid-ground a woman is being placed in a coffin, her child weeping on the ground beside the coffin. Another child is impaled on a spit and carried along by a cook with a bellows on his head. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so that the face is wizened and the eyes sunken
Description:: Title engraved above image., Caption below image: Gin cursed fiend with fury fraught, makes human race a prey; it enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away. Virtue and truth, driv'n to despair, it's rage compells to fly, but cherishes, with hellish care, theft, murder, perjury. Damn'd cup! that on the vitals preys, that liquid fire contains which madness to the heart conveys, and rolls it thro' the veins., Companion print: Beer Street., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3136., and Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 186.
Publisher:: Published by G.G. & J. Robinson Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):: Building deterioration, Children, Crowds, Death, Dogs, Fighting, Gin, Intoxication, Occupations, Pawnshops, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Slums, Starvation, Suicides, Street vendors, and Undertakers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Gin Lane [graphic]

7. Morning [graphic]

Creator:: Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 August 1797]
Call Number:: Hogarth 797.08.01.01++ Box 310
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An old woman, the prude, is standing near a crowd of people huddled around a bonfire in Covent Garden. She is crossing Covent Garden Piazza, disapproving of the amorous scenes outside the notorious Tom King's Coffee House. The print shows the morning and is part of a series representing the progress of the day
Description:: Title engraved below image., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 146., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2357., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
Publisher:: Published August the 1st, 1797, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, London
Subject (Geographic):: Covent Garden (London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Beggars, Children, City & town life, Couples, Crowds, Fighting, Food vendors, Kissing, Prostitutes, Quacks, Servants, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Women
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Morning [graphic]

8. Captain Wattle and Miss Roe [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [4 April 1798]
Call Number:: 798.04.04.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Three columns of verse below title: Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle, / He was all for love and a little for the bottle ..., Plate numbered '214' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: chairs -- Maps: wall-map of England -- Naval uniforms: officer's uniform., and Watermark: 1811.
Publisher:: Published 4th April 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):: Cats, Dogs, Fighting, and Eating & drinking
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Captain Wattle and Miss Roe [graphic].

9. Doctors differ and their patients die [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [23 December 1794]
Call Number:: 794.12.24.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A patient, wrapped in shroud-like draperies, sits (left) in a high-backed arm-chair gazing up and to the left. Two doctors in the foreground fight each other, overturning a round table on which are medicine-phials. A lean doctor (left) flourishes the wig of his fat opponent, whom he clutches by the neck-cloth. The fat doctor (right) siezes the other's pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '143' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Fist-fights -- Medicine bottles -- Walking staves -- Furniture: armchairs.
Publisher:: Published 23th Decr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):: Physicians, Fighting, Sick persons, Medicines, Wigs, Staffs (Sticks), Chairs, and Tables
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Doctors differ and their patients die [graphic].