A trade card for Thomas Martin, illustrated around the perimeter with tools of his trade including various kinds of knives and a fork, scissors, pocket books, belt buckles, and cocks. Also in three corners are images of a composer seated before type trays, a printer working at his press, and a weaver working his loom
Description:
Title from text in central oval of the design., Title continues: ... where merchants, shopkeepers, &c. may be supplied with a great variety of table knives & forks, razors, scissars [sic], pen & pocket knives, buckles, brass cocks, Japan'd wares, pocket books, books on various subjects, bound or in quires; silk handkerchiefs, velveteens, ... wholesale terms., Text around oval: Birmingham & Sheffield. Wholesale warehaouse., Date of publication based on other works by Martin published from this location. See English short title catalog, nos. T058628 and N66748., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
A scene in London, possibly near St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, shows a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street; a pregnant ballad-seller chants while her baby cries and a parrot above her head on the lamp post squawks; a milkmaid and other street-traders cry their wares; one small boy plays a drum while another urinates under the startled gaze of a small girl who holds a rattle and stands by a house made of toy blocks; an itinerant oboist plays; a dustman carries his basket and a bell; a knife-grinder sharpens a cleaver, a dog barking at his feet; on the roof at the right two cats fight (both shown with arched backs) just beyond the chimney from which a chimney sweep emerges
Description:
Title based on published original., Date based on Dent's years of activity., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 152, Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Specimen of Trusler's book., and On page 103 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blocks (Toys), Cats, Children, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Musical instruments, Musicians, Noises, Occupations, Parrots, Street vendors, and Urination
A man in a coat with military facings, identified as Woodford Rice, stands in the middle of a room holding in his left hand a book open to the title page, "The Rutland Volunteers," and with a frontispiece that is a copy of this print. In the background, a military hat and a sword lie on a chair, togetehr with table with writing materials on it. Above the table hangs a plan depicting General Burgoyne's position against the French and Spanish armies at Villa Vellia Ford in 1762 where Captain Rice distiguished himself in the battle
Description:
Title and publication date from no. 6316, of which this print appears to be a variant. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Rice, Woodford, -1784.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, Furniture, Inkstands, and Clothing & dress