Broadsheet: 3 large woodcut blocks illustrations and verses
820.00.00.115+
Acquired November 2022
A copy in reverse of William Hogarth’s Plate 6 of A harlot’s progress: A dilapidated room with Moll Hackabout’s friends, mostly prostitutes, gathered around her open coffin, several of them weeping; one young woman stands with her back to the scene as she gazes at herself in the mirror. On the right, a clergyman spills his brandy as he surreptitiously gropes beneath a woman’s skirt; Moll’s serving woman, standing at the coffin with a wine bottle and glass in hand scowls at the pair. Under the window and to the left, the undertaker flirts with a pretty young prostitute who picks a handkerchief from his pocket. In the foreground Moll’s small son plays with a spinning top. Sprigs of yew (rosemary?) decorate her coffin; a plate of yew rests on the floor at the parson’s feet, another spring at her son’s feet.
Hogarth 768.03.25.14+ Box 210
Acquired December 2019
A copy in reverse of William Hogarth’s Plate 5 of A harlot’s progress: In a squalid room Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies. Her serving-woman reaches out to them in alarm to get their attention for the invalid, while another woman rifles through Moll’s portmanteau (with her initials as in Plate 1). A small boy knelling next to Moll’s chair scratches his head as he turns a joint of meat roasting in front of the fire while a pot overflows on the grate. An over-turned table with an advertisement “Practical scheme … ‘Anodyne” litters the floor in the foreground.
Hogarth 768.03.25.13+ Box 210
Acquired December 2019
A punishment meted out to runaway slaves in Dutch Surinam as recorded by Stedman.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
808.09.09.01
Acquired July 2016
First image, ‘Painting after life’ shows a skeleton (death) seated before an easel painting a portrait of the obese old man seated opposite and holding a cane. The subject is seated against a blank screen; a portfolio of other works is leaning against the screen. Beside the ‘artist’ is a box of paints and artist supplies.
Second image, ‘Death staring shipwrecked sailors in the face!!!’, shows a skeleton (right) seated on a rock with his head resting in his hands, elbows on his knees as he stares at two shipwrecked sailors (left) on a beach.
On the verso: an autograph letter from Ebenezer Gerard in Liverpool to Samuel Taylor Liverpool, dated 1826 February 5, in reference to “Prose by a poet” (by Montgomery James) which he compares to his own efforts since his illness, with the address incorporating watercolor and rebus material.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
826.02.05.01
Acquired July 2015
![[The little gray man]](http://lewiswalpole.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/lwlpr22181.jpg "[The little gray man]")
![Verso: [The little gray man]](http://lewiswalpole.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/lwlpr22182.jpg "Verso: [The little gray man]")
Wash drawing showing “The Little Gray Man” on his gibbet-wheel as a monkey seated on the chest of a corpse with the pair of dying lovers, Leopold and Mary-Ann, below. Written on the verso, in ink, three verses from the Matthew Gregory Lewis’s “Tales of Wonder The Little gray man” published in 1801.
Acquired September, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.