The cat’s-paw!

description below

A satire of William IV’s involvement in the debate leading up to the Reform Act of 1832: A cat with the face of William IV is being persuaded to pull a hot chestnut from a blazing fire by a bewigged monkey (Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham). The fire is labelled with words such as ‘rights’, ‘reform’, and ‘popularity’. A portrait of Whig Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, hangs above the fireplace.

 

  • Title: The cat’s-paw! [graphic] / E. Brookes delt.
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. by Marianne Humphreys, St. James’s Stt., [approximately 1832]

Catalog Record

832.00.00.52

Acquired November 2022

A little man’s night’s comforts

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Napoleon in bed wearing a nightshirt holds a map of Malta while visions of poison, soldiers poisoned in the hospital at Jaffe, the massacre at Paris 18 Vendimiaire, the invasion of England, ghosts of the 3800 murdered Turks on the sand hills of Syria, the surrender of Ajacio in 1793, Wellington seeking revenge, his attempting poison and murder by his own soldiers.

 

  • Title: A little man’s night’s comforts, or, Boney’s visions [graphic] / Lt. B.
  • Publication: [London?] : [publisher not identified], pubd. 14 July 1803.

Catalog Record

803.07.14.01+

Acquired June 2022

The politician

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A politician sits center in a chair before a table with a single candlestick on top. He holds the candle itself in his hand as he closely examines a sheet of paper, oblivious to the fact that the candle is burning a hole in the brim of his hat. Behind him on the wall on either side are two wall maps, one of western Europe and the tip of northern Africa and the other of the Americas and Asia.

 

  • Title: The politician [graphic].
  • Publication: [Alnwick] : Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick, [between 1812 and 1817]

Catalog Record

812.00.00.87 Impression 2

Acquired August 2022

Britannia mourn!

printed music sheet

Song sheet with an etching at top showing Britannia and Prince Leopold mourning at the tomb of Princess Charlotte. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional three stanzas in three columns below. Text and music within mourning border.

 

  • Creator: Keith, Robert William, 1787-1846.
  • Title: Britannia mourn! Elegiac verses on the much lamented death of H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, & consort of His Serene Highness the Prince of Coburg, who departed this life Nov. 6, 1817, in the 22nd year of her age / by the Revd. M. Sibley, and set to music by R.W. Keith.
  • Publication: London : Published at No. 91, Aldersgate Street, [1817]

Catalog Record

File 56 C47 817K+

Acquired August 2022

 

The sixth day of the trial of the late Queen Caroline

description below

“The interior of the House of Lords, crowded with nobles in the benches and galleries on either side, attending the trial of Queen Caroline for adultery with Pergami, her Italian secretary; George IV stands, hands on hips, in the left gallery, the editors of the Times and Courier lean over the front bench below it, Robert Gifford, attorney general, stands in front of them holding a finger to his chin thoughtfully while Spinetti interprets for a witness, Majocchi, at the bar, behind which Tyrwhitt, Long and Castlereagh, sit sifting papers to the left of the Queen’s solicitor and Denman, who takes a paper from Henry Brougham, the Queen sits to the right in front of the bar, Earl Grey stands in the right aisle, pointing with his right arm towards the witness, and the artist is shown standing with a folio under his arm on the far right.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Hayter, George, Sir, 1792-1871, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: The sixth day of the trial of the late Queen Caroline in the House of Lords, August the twenty third, 1820 [graphic] / GHayter invt., pinxit, et incidit, 1823.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1823]

Catalog Record

Drawer 823.00.00.28+

Acquired May 2022

The life and mysterious transactions of Richard Morris, Esq

printed text

  • Author: Old acquaintance.
  • Title: The life and mysterious transactions of Richard Morris, Esq. : better known by the name of Dick Spot, the conjuror, particularly in Derbyshire and Shropshire. / Written by an old acquaintance …
  • Publication: London : Printed by T. Maiden, Sherbourne-Lane, for Ann Lemoine, White-Rose-Court, Coleman-Street, and sold by T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row, [1798?]
  • Manufacture: [London] : Printed by T. Maiden, Sherbourne-Lane, Lombard-Street

Catalog Record

53 M877 798

Acquired March 2022

The Greeks : a poem “Venu de France d’une manière inconnue

printed title page

  • Title: The Greeks : a poem “Venu de France d’une manière inconnue ; ” dedicated to all the legs! with notes containing the arcana of greeking at play ; and sketches of the most illustrious Greeks! / by the author of the Pigeons, Fashion, &c. …
  • Edition: Twelfth edition.
  • Published: London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, 1817.

Catalog Record

763 817 G793

Acquired December 2021

Rural beauty, or, Vaux-Hal Garden

description below

“View overlooking gardens, showing a band playing from the orchestra on the right; elegantly dressed figures strolling through gardens or seated at tables amongst trees; head-piece illustration to ‘The Musical Entertainer’, p. 21; with the score of a song below, all printed from the same plate.”–British Museum catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker.
  • Title: Rural beauty, or, Vaux-Hal Garden / the words by Mr. Lockman ; set by Mr. Boyce ; Bickham sc.
  • Publication: [London] : [G. Bickham], [1737?]

Catalog Record

737.00.00.04

Acquired February 2022

The Matthew-orama for 1827, or, Cockney gleanings

description below

Mathews in sixteen of the impersonations in his yearly entertainment.

  • Printmaker: Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker.
  • Title: The Matthew-orama for 1827, or, Cockney gleanings, ain’t that a good un now? [graphic] / drawn & etched by Thos. Jones.
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. March 26, 1827, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess St., London, [26 March 1827]

Catalog Record

827.03.26.01++ Impression 2

Acquired April 2022

The ton : anecdotes, chit-chat, hints and on dits

printed title page

Hand-colored etchings attributed to George Cruikshank by Cohn.

  • Author: Hellēn, author.
  • Title: The ton : anecdotes, chit-chat, hints and on dits : dedicated to all the gossips / by the author of The Greeks … ; with six humorous prints.
  • Edition: Ninth edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, No. 41, Pall Mall, 1819.

Catalog Record

63 819 H477

Acquired December 2021