A satire, divided into quarters, with four small scenes of different episodes of persons trying to collect their Christmas boxes. In the first square in the upper left, a plump supplicant in an apron holds out his hat to a scowling-faced man with a k...
Alternative Title:
Christmas boxes
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Wm. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Charity, Christmas, Social life and customs, Begging (Pleading), Cemeteries, Clergy, Dogs, Milestones, Muffs, and Obesity
"George III, dressed like a farmer, rides a sorry horse towards Windsor. Queen Charlotte sits pillion behind him like a farmer's wife; he is in profile, she full-face, both feet in a wide stirrup or platform. He points awkwardly with his stick towards...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 24, 1786, by J. Phillips, No. 164 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
A jolly fat parson,with an egg basket over his right arm and chicken, pigs, and geese bursting from his pockets and the tops of his boot, rides a horse to the right towards a sign that reads "120 Miles to London." On the extreme left a pig walks from...
Alternative Title:
Country parsons return from tithing
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd & sold by W. Humphrey, No. 3 Lancaster Street
Drawing of a tall sign, with a post similar to that of a street lamp, displaying a rectangular portrait of a man surrounded by ornamentation. The man, possibly a politician, is shown bust-length in profile to the left; he has a long nose that curls up...
Description:
Title written in image.
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Traffic signs & signals, Milestones, and Portraits
"Lord Denbigh (right) stands in profile to the left on a country road, his aquiline nose exaggerated. A procession of six foxhounds, the last of which has just left his mouth, runs down his body and along the road from right to left. A fox runs across...
Description:
Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh and Master of the Royal Foxhounds until he was turned out of office by the 1782 change in ministry.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April the 16, 1782 by J. Langham. No. 11 St. Bride's Passage, & sold by T. Cornell, Bruten Street
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Denbigh, Basil Feilding, Earl of, 1719-1800.
Subject (Topic):
Milestones, Dogs, Vomiting, Foxes, Fox hunting, and Clothing & dress
"A thin, sharp-featured man walks in the teeth of the wind, holding on his hat, and with his left hand in his breeches pocket. His hat-brim, hair, cravat, coat, the tail of his shirt, the strings of his breeches and shoes, all fly backwards. He walks ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
