Category Archives: Prints & Drawings

Coming out of a country theatre

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A large crowd of theatregoers file out of a theater and onto the street in a pouring rainfall and high winds that turns umbrellas inside out. One man has fallen and broken his lantern as a woman falls back over him as her shoes are being changed. The audience is a mix of classes, couples, old women, young boys, some carrying lanterns, one with a cane.

  • Artist: Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, artist.
  • Title: [Coming out of a country theatre] [art original] / F.G. Byron 1802.
  • Production: [England], [1802]

Catalog Record

Drawer Drawings B995 no. 2

Acquired April 2024

Iohn Bull refreshing the bears memory

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“John Bull, a sturdy citizen, displays to the Tsar who is a crowned bear on its hind-legs (left), an enormous open book: ‘John Bulls Journal’. This rests on the ground, and reaches to John’s chest; he points to the right.-hand page: ‘The Great the Magnanimous Catherine of Russia seized upon One third of the Kingdom of Poland and Kept it to herself – These Peaceful Danes Seiz’d on the City of Hamburgh.’ He says: “So you say Master Bruin, that my visit to Denmark has no parallel in History- do be so good as to turn your spectacles to this page and refresh Your Memory.” The bear peers gloomily through huge spectacles at the page. Round his neck is a collar: ‘This Bear belongs to Napoleo[n]’.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker.
  • Title: Iohn Bull refreshing the bears memory [graphic] / Cruickshank [sic] sct.
  • Publication: London : Published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, Decr. 20, 1807.

Catalog Record

807.12.20.01+

Acquired February 2024

A king-fisher, and a water-wag-tail

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A caricature of George IV fishing on Virginia Water, using his scepter as a rod, watched by a kingfisher and a wagtail. On the end of his line is a frog, which is being netted by Lady Conyngham, his mistress.

  • Title: A king-fisher, and a water-wag-tail [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. Jul. 13, 1826, by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, [13 July 1826]

Catalog Record

836.07.13.01+

Acquired September 2023

Bull bamboozled both ways

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Wellington (as Constable of the Tower of London) holds a pistol to the head of John Bull, as Henry Goulburn (Chancellor of the Exchequer) harangues Bull from the other side, forcing John to reach into his pockets to pay for the rebuilding of the Tower of London, seen burning in the background.

  • Printmaker: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker.
  • Title: Bull bamboozled both ways – robbed in one department, and burnt out in another [graphic] / C.J.G.
  • Publication: London : Printed and published by B.D. Cousins, 18, Duke-Street, Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, [after 30 October 1841]

Catalog Record

841.10.30.01++

Acquired February 2024

La taverne anglaise

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Interior view of an English tavern, with two men dining at a table in the left foreground (their dogs beside them looking up at the food) and another man reading a newspaper at a table to the right. A fourth man stands in the right background, his back to the viewer, looking out a window. A waiter carries a plate of food from the left.

  • Title: La taverne anglaise [graphic].
  • Publication: A Paris : Chez Martinet, et presentement chez Basset Md. d’Estampes et fabricant de papiers, peints, rue St. Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins, No. 64, [not before 1806]

Catalog Record

806.00.00.55

Acquired April 2024

Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste César…

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Portrait of d’Eon, nearly half-length, in profile to the right; wearing a dress and cap over their hair, including a medal; in an oval.

  • Printmaker: Le Beau, Pierre Adrien, 1748- printmaker.
  • Title: Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste César André Timothée, Déon de Beaumont, née à Tonnerre en 1728 [graphic] : a été Avocat au Parlement, Censeur Royal, Capitaine de Dragons, Chevalier de St. Louis, Ministre Plenipotentiaire de France a la Cour d’Angleterre / Desrais del. ; Le Beau sc.
  • Publication: A Paris : Chez Esnauts et Rapilly rue St. Jacques à la Ville de Coutances, A.P.D.R., [1780s?]

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Portraits D418 no. 2

Acquired February 2024

From the West Indies

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“Five passengers sit together on a bench against the side of a ship, all but a small boy, seemingly a mulatto, manifesting misery or resignation. The others (left to right) are a woman shrouded in black except for her chin, a planter in a long coat and broad-brimmed hat, his wife’s arm through his. A fat and hideous negress, awkwardly asleep. The deck is level.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Artist: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist.
  • Title: From the West Indies.
  • Publication: [England?] : [publisher not identified], [early 20th century?]

Catalog Record

900.00.00.02

Acquired February 2024

Collection of views and studies after nature with other subjects

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Leaf [1], title page plate; leaves [2]-[29] with plates numbered 1-36 with scenes cottages and views of rural areas; leaves [30]-[34] with plates 37-44 with images of allegorical and mythical figures; leaf [35] with plate numbered 45, a woman with a tub; leaf [36] with plates 46-47 two men in profile; leaf [37] with plate 47, a portrait of “T.K. [that is, Thomas Kirgate] Painted & etch’d by EE. Finish’d by I. Hall”; leaf [38] with plates 49-50 with classical motifs, cherubs and scrollwork; leaf [39] with plate 51, sea creatures and syrens.
Many plates signed “E.E.’ and dated 1784-1790.

  • Printmaker: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, printmaker.
  • Title: Collection of views and studies after nature with other subjects / designed and etched by Edward Edwards Associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], 1790.
  • Manufacture: [1794].

Catalog Record

Quarto 75 Ed96 794

Acquired December 2023

The triumph of mechanics in 1832

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A view of Walter Hancock’s steam omnibus Enterprise (built for the London and Paddington Steam Carriage Company) which was used to began a regular service between London Wall and Paddington via Islington on 22 April 1833.

  • Printmaker: Day, William, 1797-1845, printmaker.
  • Title: The triumph of mechanics in 1832 [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : W. Day, Lith. to the King, 17 Gate St., [approximately 1833]

Catalog Record

75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3

Acquired February 2024