Toby Fillpot [graphic].

Description

Title: Toby Fillpot [graphic].
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
Fawkes, Francis, 1720-1777.
Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, Londo[n]
Abstract: "A jovial and enormously stout man sits on a chair holding a large frothing jug in his right hand, a pipe in his left. Behind him are trees. His contour resembles that of a Toby jug. Beneath the design are verses beginning: 'Dear Tom this brown Jug that now foams with mild Ale (In which I will drink to sweet Nan of the Vale) was once Toby Fillpot, a thirsty old Soul ...' The verse describes how a potter formed the jug out of the clay of Toby when he had long been buried."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue.
Later state of a print originally published by Carington Bowles in 1786.
Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer, Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31.
The eighteen-line ballad "The brown jug" by Francis Fawkes is etched in three columns below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Michael Finney; April 2003;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Ballads England 1786
Mezzotints England London 1793
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Toby jugs
Obesity
Tobacco pipes
Gardens
Pitchers
Subjects: Toby jugs
Obesity
Tobacco pipes
Gardens
Pitchers
England > 1786
England > London > 1793

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