Toby Fillpot
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16192345
Description
- Title
- Toby Fillpot
- Contributor
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Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher. - Published / Created
- published as the act directs 3 April 1786.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
- 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
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Title etched below image.
After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue.
For a description of a later state with variant imprint, see no. 7118 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
The eighteen-line ballad "The brown jug" by Francis Fawkes is etched in three columns below image.
No. 35 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries.
Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering. - Provenance
- From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 35.2 x 25.1 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 C697 770
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Ballads England 1786
Mezzotints England London 1786 - Material
- mezzotint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Toby jugs
Obesity
Tobacco pipes
Gardens
Pitchers - Subjects
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Toby jugs
Obesity
Tobacco pipes
Gardens
Pitchers
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7697575
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192345
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