18th Century Walking Sticks

Last updated: Jan 21, 2025

• A European gentleman in a red coat by Levni, early 18th century
• Portrait of a woman with a beribboned walking stick
• Anna Orzelska by Antoine Pesne, c. 1728
• David Garrick as the drunken sailor in Mallet’s “Britannia, a Masque,” c. 1730-1786
• Dr. Robert Bragge, 1735-1750
• Sir James Dashwood by Enoch Seeman the Younger, 1737
• Children in an interior by Arthur Devis, c. 1743
• René Frémin by Maurice Quentin de la Tour, 1743
• Two men on a seat, one reading The Edinburgh Advertizer, by David Allan, c. 1744-1796
• A Taste in High Life by William Hogarth, 1746
• The Itinerant Pedlar by Paul Sandby
• Two men, one holding a cane, by Robert Sandby, c. 1754
• Arthur Holdsworth conversing with Thomas Taylor and Captain Stanombe by the River Dart by Arthur Devis, 1757
• Portraits by Carmontelle:
  Monsieur de Boutelière, capitaine de dragons (1757)
  Monsieur le curé de Treuzy (1758)
  Le duc de Fronsac (1758)
  Monsieur le comte de Coigny, aide maréchal général des logis de l’armée (1759)
  Monsieur Frontier, trésorier du Prince de Condé (1759)
  Monsieur le comte de Langeac (1759)
  Le comte de Scey, colonel du régiment du roi-dragon (1759)
  Monsieur le comte de Nantiat, major du régiment du roi-dragons (1759)
  Monsieur le comte de Cominges, capitaine de dragons (1759)
  Monsieur de Secaty
  Le baron de Bréget, capitaine au régiment de Caraman
  Monsieur le chevalier le Mairat, officier au régiment des gardes
  Monsieur le curé de Deuil, dans la vallée de Montmorency (1760)
  Jean-François Du Resnel du Bellay (1760)
  L’abbé le Cren (1760)
  Monsieur Girard et l’abbé de Neuville (1760)
  L’abbé Allaire, ancien pr&aecute;cepteur du duc d’Orléans
  Madame Bontemps, gouvernante des Tuileries qui a épousé le marquis de Bissy (1760)
  Monsieur de Gribeauval, inspecteur général de l’artillerie (1760)
  Monsieur de Bostel, de Strasbourg (c. 1760)
  L’abbé Mastaing
  Monsieur le chevalier de Valori
  Monsieur le Texier, caissier des fermes (1761)
  Monsieur le marquis de Valençay d’Estampes (1764)
  Monsieur le marquis d’Etampes (1764)
  Monsieur de Boisandré, commandant de la vénerie de Monsieur le duc d’Orléans (1764)
  Monsieur le duc de Penthièvre (1765)
  Monsieur le comte de Guisnes
  Monsieur le marquis de Beccaria et Monsieur le comte de Very, diplomate
  Le comte de Chabrillant (1766)
  Monsieur le Baron d’Holbach (1766)
  Monsieur de Montmort, grand croix de l’ordre de Saint-Louis, major des gardes du corps du roi
  Monsieur de Cassini, exempt des gardes du corps du roi (1767)
  Monsieur le comte de Croix (1768)
  Monsieur Augeard, maître d’hôtel du duc d’Orléans (1769)
  Monsieur de Bonneval, maître d’hôtel du duc d’Orléans (1769)
  Monsieur Beller, suisse de Monsieur le duc d’Orléans
  Monsieur le chevalier de Lastic, 1er gentilhomme de Monsieur le duc d’Orléans (1769)
  Monsieur le chevalier d’Estrez (1769)
  Monsieur le comte de Poudenx (1769)
  Monsieur de la Bussière, gentilhomme de Monsieur le duc d’Orléans
  Monsieur le comte de Hessenstein, fils naturel du roi de Suède
  Monsieur le Bailly de Grollier
  Madame la marquise de Courtebonne, madame de Montcalm et le comte de Puységure
  Monsieur le baron de Gleichen, envoyé de Danemark (1769)
  Monsieur le chevalier d’Arcy, de l’Académie des sciences (1769)
  Monsieur Le Roy de l’Académie des sciences et l’abbé de Saint-Rémi, Chanoine de Notre-Dame
  Ducan, tailleur à Villers-Cotterets (1770)
  Monsieur le marquis de Dreneux
  Monsieur le marquis de Lusignan
  Monsieur de Marcenay, gendre de madame Herbert
  Monsieur le comte de la Porte et Mademoiselle sa fille
  Madame de Moracin (1776)
  Monsieur de la Rue
  Hyacinthe Hugues Timoléon, comte de Cossé
  Madame la marquise de Laage, née d’Amblimont (1783)
• V&A 1319-1900, a c. 1760s malacca walking stick said to have belonged to George III
• Old lady with a basket of flowers by Edward Edwards, c. 1760
• A country woman
• Caricature of George Bubb Dodington and Sir Thomas Robinson by Paul Sandby, c. 1761
• David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick’s “The Farmer’s Return” by Johan Joseph Zoffany, c. 1762
• John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy, 3rd Earl Breadalbane
• The Connoisseur by Benjamin West
• British gentlemen at Sir Horace Mann’s home in Florence by Thomas Patch, c. 1763-1765
• The Covent Garden Macaroni, c. 1766-1799
• The Nappy Lad, or Toping Buck, c. 1766-1799
• Englishman at Paris, 1767
• William, 6th Baron Craven by Francis Cotes, 1768
• The Drummond Family by Johan Joseph Zoffany, c. 1769
• In Place by John Collet, 1769
• Charles Colmore, Esq. by Francis Cotes
• Dr. Ralph Schomberg by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770
• Robe à la Polonaise, French, Gallerie de Modes, 1770
• The Lavie Children by Johann Zoffany, c. 1770
• Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Coltman by Joseph Wright of Derby, c. 1770-1772
• Portrait of a gentleman by Joseph Wright, c. 1770-1773
• Sir Benjamin Truman by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770-1774
• A Celebrated Connoisseur, c. 1770-1787
• The Irishman in the Jubilee, c. 1770-1812
• Sir Thomas Parkins, of Bunny, c. 1770-1815
• The Turf-Macaroni and The Female Turf Macaroni, 1771
• Thomas Sedgwick Whalley by John Taylor, 1771
• Captain Gabriel Maturin by John Singleton Copley, 1771
• Matthew Darly, c. 1771
• The Macarony Brothers, 1772
• The Sporting Undergraduate, 1772
• The Pantheon, 1772
• The Pantheon, 1772
• The polite Maccaroni presenting a nosegay to Miss Blossom, 1772
• The Full-Blown Macaroni, 1772
• Doctor Forceps, 1773
• Welladay! is this my Son Tom!, 1773
• What is this my Son Tom, 1774
• Squire John Wilkinson by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1775
• The British Army in Concord
• Family Group by Francis Wheatley, c. 1775-1780
• John Milnes, 12th Duke of St. Albans, by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1776
• Caricature of Matthew Darly, 1776
• Title page and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, venant d’herboriser dans les Jardins d’Ermeonville au mois de Juin 1778
• Voltaire, représenté âgé, en 1778
• Galerie des Modes, 7e Cahier, 4e Figure: Lady of Quality in Undress, walking in the morning in the Country. This dress is white, trimmed with bands of painted cloth, and consists of a petticoat and a bodice with a tail pulled up in the back. (1778)
• Galerie des Modes, 8e Cahier, 3e Figure: Bourgeoise walking with her daughter, she is dressed in a silk dotted with little flowers, and her daughter in buras trimmed with ribbons. (1778)
• Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 6e Figure: Young lady in a taffeta caraco, coiffed in a demi-cap; this dress derives from Nantes, in Brittany, where the Bourgesoises of the town wore it to the passage of M. the Duke d'Aiguillon in 1768. (1778)
• Galerie des Modes, 13e Cahier, 2e Figure Robe à la Versailloise of grey gros de Naples, trimmed with plain muslin, white tassels, the petticoat of a soft green through which one sees the flounce, ribbons of soft green, wearing a hat. The parasol is of a very soft blue-violet. (1778)
• Portrait of a gentleman by Edward Nash, c. 1778-1821
• Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg, by John Singleton Copley, 1779
• The Peddler by Louis Joseph Watteau, 1779
• The Doctor’s Pill by John Collett
• Sir Henry Bate-Dudley, Bart., by Thomas Gainsborough, 1780
• Free Natives of Dominica by Agostino Brunias, 1780
• Galerie des Modes, 29e Cahier, 7e Figure (1780)
• A dishevelled man grimacing and walking awkwardly with a cane
• Back view of a man with a stick under his right arm by Henry William Bunbury
• Late 18th century applique fabric shadow boxes: A stroll down a country lane
• Widow Costard’s cow and goods, distrained for taxes, are redeemed by the generosity of Johnny Pearmain, by Edward Penny, 1782
• Galerie des Modes, 58e Cahier, 6e Figure: The enticing Ogler, he is coiffed with a hat à la Mexborough and dressed in a striped Coat. (1784)
• Galerie des Modes, 41e Cahier (1784)
• Galerie des Modes, 58e Cahier, 5e Figure: Stock-jobber of the Palais Royal, at the public school, he is dressed in a morning Coat and coiffed with a Jockey Hat.
• The Vicar of Wakefield: The Return of Olivia, 1786
• Magasin des Modes, 2e Cahier, Plate I: Again a redingote in a new form. … In her hand is a light cane. (November 30, 1786)
• Magasin des Modes, 5e Cahier, Plate I (December 30, 1786)
• Galerie des Modes, 56e Cahier, 3e Figure: Morning redingote surmounted by a wide collar. (1787)
• Galerie des Modes, 56e Cahier, 4e Figure: Redingote closed in the front to the bottom with buttons of brilliants. (1787)
• Galerie des Modes, 56e Cahier, 5e Figure: Petit-Maître in Wool Coat, the Pockets, the Collar, and the Buttonholes embroidered: Gilet with pockets, also embroidered etc. (1787)
• Galerie des Modes, 56e Cahier, 6e Figure: Young Lady in a Camlet Redingote: pink Taffeta Petticoat, Hat à la Bastienne surmounted by Plumes and Aigrettes. (1787)
• Galerie des Modes, 59e Cahier, 1e Figure: Young élégante, coiffed in a Toque à la Couronne d’Amour, dressed in an informal morning Gown etc. (1787)
• Jacob Isaacs by Ralph Earl, 1788
• General Thomas Gage by John Singleton Copley, 1788
• Inn interior with a woman and baby, 1788
• Two Shadows in Conversation (Lord Kames & Hugo Arnot), 1788
• Captain Grose’s visiting card with his stick Cuddy, c. 1788
• Daniel Boardman by Ralph Earl, 1789
• George Morland by Thomas Rowlandson
• Selling Guinea Pigs by George Morland, c. 1789
• Colonel William Taylor by Ralph Earl, 1790
• Jailer by Franz Feyerabend, 1790
• The Pedagogue, 1790
• The Connoisseurs by Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1790
• The Snuff Shop by Thomas Rowlandson
• A Sick Bed by Thomas Rowlandson
• The Miseries of the Country by Thomas Rowlandson
• Lord Harrington Leaving Mother Matthew’s by Thomas Rowlandson
• A Guinea-Pig, 1790-1799
• The Fortune-Teller by Martin Drolling, 1790s
• An aſs of the ton, 1791
• William Floyd by Ralph Earl, 1792
• Outside the Ale-House Door by George Morland, 1792
• A long string of resolutions for a new year, 1792
• Auguste Vestris by Adèle Romany, 1793
• Self-portrait by Joseph Ducreux, 1793
• A view of a pound and cottages, at Stanmore, Middlesex, c. 1793-1832
• Paul I by Stepan Stchukin, 1797
• Niels Ryberg with his son Johan Christian and his daughter-in-law Engelke, née Falbe by Jens Juel, 1797
• A horse sale in Hopkins’s Repository, Barbican, by Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1798-1800
• Parisian Dresses for 1797: Les Croyables, au Péron
• Mutual confidence in the year 1799
• Fatherly Advice, 1799
• Portrait of a gentleman, his right hand supported by a walking stick, late 18th century
• A Soldier’s Return by George Morland, late 18th century
• An old woman carrying a basket by John Augustus Atkinson
• An old fisherwoman with two women digging for bait by Francis Wheatley
• Back Front and Side Views of modern Men of Fashion (Fashions a little before 1800)
• A Man of Fashion in 1700 / A Fashionable Man in 1800
• Register Office for the Hiring of Servants by Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1800-1805
• Walking Sticks and Round-A-Bouts for the Year 1801 by Thomas Rowlandson
• Le Goût du Jour N^o. 2, 1802
• Caricature of Beau Nash by Robert Frankland, 1802
• Full-length figure of a man dressed in black holding a walking stick by Robert Frankland
• The Spoiled Child, Scene III, c. 1802
• Sir William Worthy’s Blessing from “The Gentle Shepherd” by David Allan, 1808
• Three Principal Requisites to form a Modern Man of Fashion by Thomas Rowlandson, 1814
• The Vicar of Wakefield: The Vicar Selling his Horse by Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1817