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1.
"Here's a health to the Dutchess of York", "wherever she goes" Coldstream Guards. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1791]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Compare: "Here's a health to the Duke of York", "wherever he goes". Cf. No. 8417 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., No. 19 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms and Drinking vessels
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "Here's a health to the Dutchess of York", "wherever she goes" Coldstream Guards. [graphic]

2.
500£ a year will do, for me and for you [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1796?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Design in an oval. An elderly man (half length), full-face, with folded arms, grins broadly. He wears spectacles and is bald except for side-curls and a small pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Five hundred pounds a year will do, for me and for you
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '401' in lower left corner., No. 14 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., Sheet trimmed with loss of number "401"., and 1 print : mezzotint on wove paper ; sheet 14.5 x 11.1 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Wigs and Eyeglasses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > 500£ a year will do, for me and for you [graphic].

3.
A bagnio scene with a white-leggd chicken coaxking [sic] an old dotard. [graphic]

Published / Created:
as the act directs, 2nd March, 1778.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men in a brothel, one sitting on the right uncorking a bottle, the other putting his arm around the shoulder of a prostitute, leering as she adjusts his cravat, urged by the Madam who rises from a sofa in front of a round table with punch-bowl and glasses, one hand on a paper; a screen behind to right, two oval landscapes, a cartouche and a picture of Venus among rocks on the wall behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 2010,7081.823., No. 55 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Furnishings, Interiors, Paintings, Prostitutes, and Screens
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A bagnio scene with a white-leggd chicken coaxking [sic] an old dotard. [graphic]

4.
A bailiff and an attorney. A match for the devil [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs, 18 April 1793.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lawyer sitting on the left at his desk looks over his shoulder and points with his quill pen as he gives instructions to two thuggish bailiffs who carry bundles of writs. In his hand is a form with 'Middlesex' and 'Wit' written at the upper left and midway down the sheet 'Jno. Doe & Richd. Roe'; on the wall above his desk is pinned a sheet 'Bills of costs, 1793.' The view out the window in the center of the image shows buildings along a water front, a rowboat on the river, and a smoking stack in the distance. On the back wall on the right are bookshelves with titles such as Burn's Justice and Practice Kings Bench
Alternative Title:
Match for the devil
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "627" in lower left corner., No. 47 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Bailiffs, Desks, Law offices, and Lawyers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A bailiff and an attorney. A match for the devil [graphic].

5.
A bird so large and firce it made this pair of bully freeks afraid [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1797?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book x, page 127 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 61 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A bird so large and firce it made this pair of bully freeks afraid [graphic].

6.
A collection of drolleries [graphic].

Published / Created:
1770-1797.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
71
Abstract:
A collection of 69 prints, mostly mezzotints issued Carington Bowles and those reissued by Bowles and Carver, as well as some prints issued by Robert Sayers. Also tipped in are a collection of the illustrations from the 4th edition of Thomas Bridges' A burlesque translation of Homer (London, 1797).
Alternative Title:
Facetious
Description:
Title from title page in mss., Bound in red morocco with marble boards with spine title: Facetious., Title page handwritten in mss with collection spelled "colletion"., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Subject (Name):
Homer
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of drolleries [graphic].

7.
A comical case [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs 4 June, 1791.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three doctors, grinning with satisfaction, stand in conference in an apothecary's shop. One (left), very corpulent, his spectacles pushed up on his forehead, holds a bottle labelled 'The Draughts as before Mr Costive'. His vis-à-vis stands chapeau-bras, holding a cane. Both wear old-fashioned dress with tie-wigs. The third, standing behind and between them is more fashionably dressed. On the counter (right) is a pestle and mortar, pill-box, and medicine phials, one labelled going to rest. Behind it are shelves on which are glass jars of varying sizes containing coloured liquids."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "608" in lower left corner., No. 45 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Drugstores, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Physicians, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A comical case [graphic].

8.
A country attorney and his clients Avocat de la campagne avec ses clients. [graphic] =

Published / Created:
published as the act directs, 2 March 1785.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lawyer wearing spectacles and with a feather pen in his mouth sits at a tall desk in his study while country bumkins solicit him with payment in dead animals and produce -- e.g., rabbits, fowl, and piglets. His clerk (behind him at the desk) smiles as he also writes with a feather pen. On the wall (right) hangs a map of Great Britain and above it on a bookshelves large folios with titles 'Strange reports' and 'Burn's justice'.
Alternative Title:
Avocat de la campagne avec ses clients
Description:
Title from text below image., Title in English and French., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "553" in lower left corner., No. 30 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Barter, Country life, Law offices, and Lawyers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A country attorney and his clients Avocat de la campagne avec ses clients. [graphic] =

9.
A deep one and a knowing one [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs 25 April 1791.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two racing men in consultation on a race-course, with horses, jockeys, and a post-chaise in the background (left). They lean against a paling in front of the gable-end of a wooden barn or stable. One (left), with short unpowdered hair, wears a high-crowned hat and a long coat with many capes, he holds a riding-whip and a 'List of the Horses' printed in three columns and headed by a print of horses leaving the starting-post. The other wears a cocked hat, powdered hair or wig, and holds a 'Betting Book' and pencil-case in his right hand. Both wear spurred top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '607' in lower left corner., No. 44 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., and 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 25.2, on sheet 38.6 x 27.1 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Fences, Gambling, Horse racing, Race horses, Racetracks, and Stables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A deep one and a knowing one [graphic].

10.
A drap of whiskey [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1793]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A caricatured old man shown half-length to right, sipping from a small glass and his arms around a bottle, resting his elbows on a table, wearing tattered clothes and a hat over a scarf around his head; in an oval; after Dighton; republished state"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist identified as Dighton in the British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of number "404". Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "404" in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., No. 8 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Drinking vessels and Intoxication
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A drap of whiskey [graphic].