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1.
Arnold, engraver & copper-plate printer, No. 8, Bath Street, Birmingham [graphic].

Creator:
Arnold, Francis, approximately 1772-1829
Published / Created:
[not before 1818]
Call Number:
File 66 818 Ar742
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Trade card of the engraver and copper plate printer Francis Arnold. At center is a detailed vignette of a printer's workshop with two workers, one engaged in the process of engraving a copper plate and the other at the printing press, with sheets drying above and bind sheets at his feet. Engraved text on either side of the vignette lists some of the products offered: "Invoice heads, address cards, arms, crests, &c. &c."; and "Manufacturers patterns engraved and printed."
Alternative Title:
Arnold, engraver and copper-plate printer ...
Description:
Title from item., Date from business directories listing Arnold at this Bath Street address from 1818., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Francis Arnold
Subject (Geographic):
England and Birmingham.
Subject (Topic):
Printing industry, Engravers, Workshops, and Printing presses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Arnold, engraver & copper-plate printer, No. 8, Bath Street, Birmingham [graphic].

2.
The halt at the farriers shop [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 60. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Restrike; plate originally published ca. 1800?, Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 60 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Workshops, Blacksmithing, Horseshoes, Horses, Carts & wagons, and Infants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The halt at the farriers shop [graphic]

3.
T.F. Salter, hat maker, at the Gold Laced Hat and Fame, 47 Charing Cross, London military & naval

Creator:
Salter, T. F. (Thomas Frederick), active 1814-1826
Published / Created:
[between 1793 and 1843]
Call Number:
File 66 793 Sa176
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Trade card of Thomas Frederick Salter, a milliner who ran several shops in London during the late eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth century. The shopfront of his longest-standing premises at 47 Charing Cross is depicted at the bottom of the card, its windows full of hats in various styles, mostly men's hats. At the top of the card a depiction of the process of hat making, showing a team of men working on different elements of the manufacturing process
Alternative Title:
Hat making
Description:
Title from item., Above design in ruled border: Hat making., Date based on information in London merchant and post office directories., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., With advertisement printed in letterpress on verso: The cheapest hat-warehouse in the world. Thomas Frederick Salter, with gratitude, offers his best thanks for the great and continual increase in business which he has experienced for several years ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T.F. Salter
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Millinery, Stores & shops, Hat industry, Window displays, Workshops, and Hats
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > T.F. Salter, hat maker, at the Gold Laced Hat and Fame, 47 Charing Cross, London military & naval hats / [graphic]

4.
Cobler's hall [graphic].

Published / Created:
[not before 1793]
Call Number:
778.00.00.07.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a large room, the left side being a cobbler's workshop, the right a kitchen, a cobbler sits on a bench, before an open window, his hammer in hand. Behind him, on a table are dishes and food, and to the right a woman in an apron cooks with a large frying pan over the hearth grate. On the walls are displayed a number of tools, shoemaker's lasts, flatirons and tableware. An equestrian print with a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland on horseback hangs above the mantlepiece, and a bird in a cage hangs over the cobbler. A stairway is partially visible in the background, and a dog and cat sleep on the floor in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Cobbler's hall
Description:
Undated reissue, with publisher's name changed, of a print first published by Carington Bowles most likely in 1778. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, p. 786: Key to ... mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles., Date of publication inferred from paper and from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer., and Numbered in plate: 380.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Shoemakers, Shoemaking, Cooking, Kitchens, Workshops, Birdcages, Fireplaces, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Cobler's hall [graphic].

5.
Tight lacing, or, The cobler's wife in the fashion [graphic].

Published / Created:
[4 November 1777]
Call Number:
777.11.04.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In a cobbler's workshop a shoemaker has seized his wife by the arm and is about to beat her with a leather strap. Her partly laced stays are being tightened by the weight of the cobblers hammer. She wears her hair in the monumental fashion, and her high heels are visible beneath the hem of a quilted skirt. To the left is a chair beneath a casement window, while a bird in a cage is suspended from the ceiling on the right
Alternative Title:
Cobler's wife in the fashion and Cobbler's wife in the fashion
Description:
Title from item. and Eight lines of verse in 2 columns below image beginning: "The hoity head & toity waist, As now they're all the ton ..."
Publisher:
Published Novr. 4th 1777 by Wm. Hitchcock No.5 Birchin Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Corsets, Fashion, Wife abuse, Couples, Shoemakers, Workshops, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Furniture, and Interiors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, The cobler's wife in the fashion [graphic].

6.
[A farrier's shed] [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 October 1784]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A road-side scene; two horsemen stand by their horses outside a farrier's shed (left). One horse is held by a youth, the farrier stands beside it arguing with the rider who stands with his whip under his arm. The second (right) stands behind, beside his horse's head (its body being cut off by the right margin of the print), looking gloomily down at his watch. The shed is an open stone building with a pent-house roof; a farrier's hand and arm are just visible within it. Behind is a church tower among trees, its clock pointing to 8 o'clock. A sign-post (right) points 'To Liverpool xv Miles'. In the foreground (left) lies a dog."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Artist's signature within lower right portion of image: H. Bunbury del. 84., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statements of responsibility and imprint statement from lower edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: J,6.75., and Mounted on page 9 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 1st, 1784, by W. Dickinson
Subject (Topic):
Workshops, Blacksmithing, Horseshoes, Horses, Churches, Clock towers, Dogs, and Signs (Notices)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A farrier's shed] [graphic]

7.
[The work dispensary provides medical assistance, work, and housing to unemployed women suffering

Published / Created:
[1928]
Call Number:
Poster0197
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and date from item., From: Album - Exhibition Set, Venereal Diseases and the Fight Against Them. Published in Moscow by the People's Committee on Health, 1928., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Narkomzdrav, RSFSR
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, Prevention, Prostitution, Socialism, Women, Employment, Sewing machines, Dormitories, Cafeterias, Medical offices, and Workshops
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The work dispensary provides medical assistance, work, and housing to unemployed women suffering from venereal diseases] [graphic]., Трудовой профилакторий оказывает больным венерическими болезнями безработным женщинам лечебную помощь ...