A prosperous farmer, who leans on his walking stick as he stands over his chubby, young worker who is caught resting under a tree; he scratches his head as he leans up on his elbow. His scythe is half-hidden in the left foreground. On the right in the distance, a woman and two other young men rake the hayfield. The farmer's dog sniffs the ground, right foreground
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '351' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below title: Farmer. You lazy rascal what do you do here, why don't you work? such a fellow as you does not deserve the sun to shine on him. Haymaker. Indeed Master I thought so, therefore I've lain myself down in the shade., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 4, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Farmers, Hay, Laziness, and Raking (Sweeping)
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of caption arranged in two columns: "I am glad to see you well" -"O' faithless breath ..., Plate numbered '359' in the lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 23, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of caption below title: Gentlemen I am not going to the further end of the country to prove what I say; the road which I am obliged to pass to my nown [sic] house, is quite unpassable to any thing but a beast ..., Plate numbered '366' in the lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Inkwell -- Burns Justice.
Publisher:
Published 10th Septr., 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below design: "Bless your eye-sight; remember the sweeper, pray do: -Bless your honour's eye-sight." -"Why do you bless my sight? My eyes are very good." -"Yes sir, your eyes are good, but if they should fail, you have no nose to hang your spectacles on.", Plate numbered '337' in the lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 14, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A man selling watercress, from a basket, in Hanover Square
Alternative Title:
Watercresses
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Phillips, R. Modern London., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. note in ink above image: Hanover Square.
Publisher:
Published April 25, 1804 by Richard Phillips, 71 St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Hanover Square (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, City & town life, Peddlers, and Vegetables
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two columns of caption text below design., Plate numbered '339' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1803.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
20 stone reduced to mere skeleton and Twenty stone reduced to mere skeleton
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four columns of verse below design: Will Waddle, whose temper was studious and lonely, hir'd lodgings that took single gentlemen only ..., Plate numbered '356' in the lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published July 12, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of caption below title: "Well Robin as you have been to the playhouse, what is your opinion of it?"..., Plate numbered '361' in the lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London