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1.
[A woman swearing a child] [art original].

Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 11 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pregnant woman holds a bible in one hand and rests her other hand on her protruding stomach while 'swearing a child' before a shocked looking magistrate. The alleged father(?) is kneeling beside the woman with clasped hands and his hat removed and resting on the floor. Completing the scene a clerk apperas to be loudly advising the magistrate and a solemn looking constable stands off to the side
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Paternity, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Judges, Law & legal affairs, and Bibles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A woman swearing a child] [art original].

2.
Fun in an alley, or, The footman trapp'd.

Published / Created:
[between 1736 and 1763]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Footman trapp'd
Description:
Verse begins: "Come all you young gallants that's passing along,", In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., The range of dates and printers’ names are from the Bodleian Library Ballads database; see also David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Imprint below fourth column., Mounted on leaf 49. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Bow-Church-Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Paternity, Domestics, Love, Gifts, Foundlings, and Baskets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Fun in an alley, or, The footman trapp'd.

3.
Fun in an alley;, or, The footman trapp'd.

Published / Created:
[ca. 1760?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Footman trapp'd
Description:
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Verse begins: "Come all you young gallants that's passing along,", Imprint below fourth column., In this edition, the imprint reading is "Stonecutter Street, Fleet-Market"; the heading "John’s Confession" (middle of last column) is in roman type; and the first three words of the first line are "Come all you". In another edition (ESTC N1343), the reading is "Stonecutter-street, Fleet Market"; "John’s Confession" is in italics; and the first three words are "Come all ye"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by lines of ornamental type., Mounted on leaf 50. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Stonecutter Street, Fleet-Market
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Paternity, Household employees, Love, Gifts, and Foundlings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Fun in an alley;, or, The footman trapp'd.

4.
Le serment de la fille qui se trouve enceinte [graphic].

Published / Created:
[not before 1736]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Copy in reverse of William Hogarth's "Woman swearing a child to a grave citizen. A pregnant young woman standing to left, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to right, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to right, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed with loss of companion prints: Le baptême domestique and Convoi funèbre des Anglois., A reverse copy after J.V. Schley's print made for: Picart, B. Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde. Amsterdam : Chez J. F. Bernard, 1723, between pages 90 and 91?, After William Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., See reference to Schely print in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 309., and On page 11 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Paternity, Courtrooms, Couples, Judges, Law & legal affairs, Pregnancy, and Pregnant women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Le serment de la fille qui se trouve enceinte [graphic].