Tag Archives: Lithographs

“When shall we three meet again?”

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Two asses on a bare patch of ground, with the first line of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ below. The play begins with three witches in a storm deciding when to meet next (‘When the hurlyburly’s done, / When the battle’s lost and won’). That there are only two asses in this parody presumably means that the dedicatee of the print, whose name is withheld, is the third.

  • Printmaker: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker.
  • Title: “When shall we three meet again?” [graphic] : Dedicated to – / C.J.G.
  • Publication: [London?] : [G.S. Tregear?], [approximately 1830?]

Catalog Record

830.00.00.169

Acquired September 2023

S. Memoria Paulia Pompilia Benedicta

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A view of a cave, the entrance to which is decorated with a pediment and frieze.

  • Printmaker: Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: S. Memoria Paulia Pompilia Benedicta [graphic] / M.A.T.W., litho., Newlands, 1829.
  • Publication: [Hampshire, England] : [privately printed], [1829]

Catalog Record

829.00.00.119

Acquired June 2023

Frontispiece to the Botanical Magazine’s

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Twenty-six vignettes with scenes punning on various botanical terms.

  • Printmaker: Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: Frontispiece to the Botanical Magazine’s [graphic] / W. Newman invent. del. et lithog.
  • Publication: [London] : Published by James Pattie at his Wholesale Periodical & Caricature Shop, No. 16 High Street, St. Giles’s, [approximately 1834]

Catalog Record

834.00.00.31

Acquired February 2024

Gli avanzi del Tempio di Serapide

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View of the remains of the Roman Temple of Serapis, also known as The Serapeum, just north of Pozzuoli, Italy.

  • Artist: Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: Gli avanzi del Tempio di Serapide [graphic] / from a sketch by Mrs. Whitby 1823.
  • Publication: [Hampshire, England] : Newlands Press, 1826.

Catalog Record

826.00.00.92

Acquired June 2023

Pure loyalty

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A man stands beside a public water pump holding the ladle that is chained to the pump. Looking straight at the viewer, he toasts the King with water from the ladle. Below the image are the words “Pure loyalty. Here’s a health to the King God bless him.”

  • Title: Pure loyalty [graphic] : here’s a health to the King God bless him / J.W.G.
  • Publication: [London] : Published by G. Tregear, 123 Cheapside, London, 1830.
  • Manufacture: [London] : Dean & Munday’s Lithoy., Threadneedle St.

Catalog Record

830.00.00.168

Acquired August 2023

Memoirs of Prince Leopold, from his first arrival in England

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Illustrations: Engraved frontispiece portrait of Leopold, “sketched & engraved by G. Cruikshank.”–Woodcut title-vignette depicting Leopold weeping over the casket of his wife

  • Title: Memoirs of Prince Leopold, from his first arrival in England : with a variety of anecdotes of the Princess Charlotte, now first collected / by the editor of Hone’s editions of the “Life,” “Death,” & “Funeral,” of Her Royal Highness, to which this publication is a sequel.
  • Publication: London : Printed by and for William Hone, 67, Old Bailey, three doors from Ludgate Hill, 1817.

Catalog Record

53 L587 817

Acquired July 2023

Political cartoons relating to reform in Great Britain and the United States

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A series of crude (and in some cases explicitly racist) lithographed cards numbered 1-16, with scenes relating to political reform on both sides of the Atlantic. On British side, they cover the reforms to the franchise made by the 1832 Reform Act, poking fun at ‘poor distress’d turn’d out Boroughmongers’ (No. 1), the rural squirearchy (No. 7), Taxes (No. 9), the established Church (No. 10) and Irishmen (no. 12), among others. United States political issues are shown in the second card which reuses – with added racist slurs – the design of Edward Williams Clay (1799-1857) entitled ‘Hurrah! hurrah for Genl. Jackson!!’ under the caption ‘Life in Philadelphia’. Cards nos. 4 and 7, with yet more overt racism, use references to American segregationism to caricature British political positions.

  • Title: [Political cartoons relating to reform in Great Britain and the United States] [graphic].
  • Publication: [York, England] : W.F. Wodson, lith., Pavement, York, [approximately 1832]

Catalog Record

724 832 P769

Acquired July 2023

Castel Sardo

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View of the hilltop town, Castelsardo in Sardinia, Italy.

  • Printmaker: Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: Castel Sardo [graphic] / M.A.T. Withby, litho., Newlands, 1828.
  • Publication: [Hampshire, England] : [privately printed], [1828]

Catalog Record

828.00.00.107

Acquired June 2023