Hot cross bunns, two a penny bunns

Posted on June 16, 2016 by km55

“A stout and burly woman stands at a street-door with a large basket of buns. A young woman and three children buy; the children help themselves, the woman holds a plate which she fills with buns. In the background (left) is a Georgian church with pediment and cupola; a fat parson in his surplice hurries along to escape from a woman and two children, who beg from him.”–British Museum online catalogue.

Printmaker: Merke, Henri, printmaker.
Title: Hot cross bunns, two a penny bunns [graphic] / Rowlandson delin. ; Merke sculp.
Publication: London : Pubd. May 4, 1799, at Ackermann’s Gallery, 101 Strand, [4 May 1799]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

799.05.04.01+

Acquired March 2016

Wife & no wife, or, A trip to the Continent

Posted on January 5, 2016 by km55

“The interior of a large church or cathedral. Burke, dressed as a Jesuit, standing within a low, semicircular wall at the foot of a crucifix, marries the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert. The Prince is about to put the ring on her finger. Fox gives her away, holding her left wrist. Beside him (right) stands Weltje in back view but looking to the left at the ceremony. A napkin is under his left arm, bottles project from his coat-pockets, and the tags on his shoulder denote the liveried manservant. To the left of Fox appears the profile of George Hanger. On the left North sits, leaning against the altar wall, sound asleep, his legs outstretched. He wears his ribbon but is dressed as a coachman, his hat and whip beside him. All the men wear top-boots to suggest a runaway match. Behind the Prince in a choir seat is a row of kneeling monks who are chanting the marriage service. The crucifix is partly covered by a curtain, but the legs and feet are painfully distorted … On the wall and pillars of the church are four framed pictures: ‘David watching Bathsheba bathing’, ‘St. Anthony tempted by monsters’, ‘Eve tempting Adam with the apple’, and ‘Judas kissing Christ’, the last being over the head of Fox.”–British Museum online catalogue.

Printmaker: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Title: Wife & no wife, or, A trip to the Continent [graphic] / design’d by Carlo Khan.
Publication: London : Publish’d by Willm. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane, London, March 27, 1786.

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

786.03.27.01.2++

Acquired October 2015

Account book of Rev. Miles Tarn

Posted on September 3, 2014 by km55

A personal account book kept by Miles Tarn beginning two years before he attended Queen’s College, Oxford and ending in the year of his death 1797. He provides a biographical sketch as well as details of the births, marriages, and deaths of his eleven children by his first wife, Mary (died 26 February 1784); he traces the history of the family estate at Wray beginning in 1615. The entry recording his marriage to second wife, Grace Peele of Cocersmouth is followed by an entry (in his wife’s hand?) that records the details of the time and date of his death and details of the funeral and burial. The bulk of the manuscript details his expenses. Of particular interest are the entries for the 1750’s as he set up a home in Dean after becoming rector. Items listed include: furniture, crockery, household utensils, clothing, fruit trees and gardening tools; monies lent and wages paid to workmen.

Author: Tarn, Miles, 1719-1797.
Title: Account book of Rev. Miles Tarn’s, Rector of Dean in Cumbria, 1735-1797.

Catalog Record

LWL Mss Vol. 212

Acquired January 2014

Visiting the sick

Posted on May 2, 2014 by km55

Printmaker: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Title: Visiting the sick [graphic] / J. Gillray fec[i]t.
Published:[London] : Pubd. July 28th, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James’s Street, [1806]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

806.07.28.01.1+

Acquired May 2007

Bookseller & author

Posted on April 21, 2014 by km55

In the center of a book-lined room the bookseller, with a pen behind his ear, his hands in his pockets, glasses pushed to the top of his head, stands looking down disdainfully at a manuscript being offered to him by a thin, timid looking man who stands nervously with his hat tucked under his arm. A clergyman with spectacles, his back to the two other gentlemen, perusing the shelves, stops to examine a volume. In the left foreground on the floor, in front of a library step stool, is a pile of books. Another pile of books lies in the right foreground in front of a door with a glass panel and curtains in the top half. To the left of the door is a sloping writing table with paper, ink stand, and pen.

Printmaker: Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Title: Bookseller & author [graphic] / H. Wigstead delint. ; S. Alken fecit.
Published: [London : Publish’d Septr. 25, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street, 1784]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

784.09.25.01+

Acquired December 2007

A picture of wants

Posted on March 27, 2014 by km55

A group of twelve man and women of various ages and walks of life — tradesmen, a clergy, a spinster, a military officer, a gentleman in shackles, a servant, a frail, sickly man, etc. — stand full length facing the viewer. Above their heads are brief expressions of their ‘wants’: “I want a job”; “I want more customers”; “I want a husband”; “I want for death”, etc. Only an obese gentleman on the right is content: “I want for nothing”; next to him, the military officer with a monocle says, “I don’t know what I want.”

Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist.
Title: A picture of wants [drawing].
Created: [England], [between 1830 and 1852?]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Drawings G761 no. 9 Box123

Acquired November 2013

Sin ie cure

Posted on March 21, 2014 by km55

A full-length caricature of an obese clergy man who wears a bishop’s hat (?) and smokes a long pipe as he walks left. He carries a pig and a chicken under his left arm. He holds a Bible in his left hand, and he carries a bottle in his pocket. He has a very large nose and a round checks. His very large belly is exaggerated further in graphite.

Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist.
Title: Sin ie cure [drawing].
Created: [England, between 1830 and 1852]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Drawings G761 no. 2 Box 123

Acquired November 2013

A disappointed dinnerhunter

Posted on March 17, 2014 by km55

A drawing of four scenes, with caricatured figures with large heads and very small bodies. Upper left: A man with a monocle (right) inquires of the butler on a threshold with pillar to his left, “Is your master within. No Mr. Smallfeast he’s gone out to dinner. Oh dear me, well your mistress will do just the same. & She’s out Sir. How provoking. Well, I’ll set down by the fire till they come home. I’m sorry to tell you that that’s gone out to.” Upper right: A soldier is shot by a man (Turk?) hiding in the tall grass and pointing a rifle. Lower half, left: In a pulpit a bald minister with spectacles rants and he holds up a Bible in his left hand ready to throw it at the sleeping congregation below, ” Ye sleepy crew if ye wont hear the word of God ye shall feel it.” Lower right: A simpleton in artist attire holds up a piece of paper with a stick figure drawing and says, “Don’t you think I improve.”

Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist.
Title: A disappointed dinnerhunter [drawing].
Created: [England], [between 1830 and 1852?]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Drawings G761 no. 3 Box 123

Acquired November 2013

The Reverend Mr. Edward Hitchin, B.D

Posted on July 18, 2013 by km55

A half-length portrait of The Reverend Mr. Edward Hitchin, dissenting minister at Spitalfields, looking forward, with body turned to the left, in wig and bands; a curtain behind, open on the left to reveal two shelves of book with only one spine title legible, “Bible”; oval frame.

Title: The Reverend Mr. Edward Hitchin, B.D. [graphic].
Published: [London] : Printed for Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London published as the act directs 20 April 1774

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Portraits H675 no. 1

Acquired April 2013

The sleepy congregation

Posted on July 18, 2013 by km55

A view of the interior of a church where the congregation (right) sleeps as the clergyman in his pulpit reads from the gospel; he uses a magnifying glass to read the text; an hour glass extends from the side of the pulpit. Below the clergyman sits the clerk who holds his eyeglasses in his hand and eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the left rather than the volume before him. The young woman’s holds in her hands a fan and book open to the word “matrimony”. Above the stained-glass windows a cupid hovers with his bow.

Title: The sleepy congregation [graphic] = La congregation tout endormi / W. Hogarth pinxt. et sculpt.
Created: [Paris?] : [s.n.], [1790s?]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Hogarth 790.00.00.02

Acquired April 2013

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Hot cross bunns, two a penny bunns

Wife & no wife, or, A trip to the Continent

Account book of Rev. Miles Tarn

Visiting the sick

Bookseller & author

A picture of wants

Sin ie cure

A disappointed dinnerhunter

The Reverend Mr. Edward Hitchin, B.D

The sleepy congregation

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