Title from item., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: invalid -- Medical Disease: sleeping sickness -- Furniture: sofa., and Printseller's identification mark located in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below title: "Upon my word Mr. Love-ease, this will never do, here you are enjoying your bottle & nap all the afternoon, while I am fagging every where, I have been these 3 hours with the shop full of customers, & don't know which way to turn."____"I am glad of it friend Dowlas, you know I engaged as a sleeping partner.", Plate numbered '332' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Yawns.
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Publish'd Feby. 1st, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., One line of caption below title: Pray friend did you ever shave a monkey? N-n-no Sir, but -if -if you will -s-s-sit down I'll -t-t-try., Plate numbered '368' in the lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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Published Octr. 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The interior of a lawyer's office. A smartly dressed young man (l.), pen in hand, crouches in a ranting attitude, addressing an elderly man in old-fashioned dress, who gapes at him in dismay. On the r. a burly maidservant holds a pail of water, prepared to fling its contents, while a terrified old lady watches from the extreme right. The room contains a sloping desk, stool, shelves with papers, large volumes, and a box inscribed '9 to 12'. On the wall is a large calendar: 'Year 1803' and a notice of 'Terms and Returns'. Below the design: 'Dramatic Phrensy, to no place confind At freedom roves, and occupies the Mind, The Lawyers Clerk, Old Square-toes will to cross, Who spouts Lothario when he should engross All on a sudden from his writing stoops, My fierce ambitious soul declining droops His simple Master by - cries "whats the matter? Tom's in a fit here - Betty bring some water!' (Tom quotes the dying Lothario in Rowe's 'Fair Penitent', iv. I.)"--British Museum online catalogue
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Printmaker and plate number from British Museum catalogue., No. 5 of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Temporary local subject terms: Ink well -- Lawyer -- Calendar., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
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Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
"scene in a coffee-house or tavern, the tables (l.) separated by the high backs of benches topped by short curtains, leaving a wide floor-space (r.). A young man, fashionably dressed, postures as if terror-struck before two astonished waiters (r.); a broken decanter and spilt wine lie at his feet; the foremost waiter points to the mess. The second waiter holds a punch-bowl. A man seated at the nearest table watches in quizzical amusement. An ornate wall-mirror reflects a lighted candelabra. Below the design:'Like dire Macbeth, - with sudden glare and start, Young Vapid studious o'er the Tyrants part, Like a stuck pig he stares - and trembling stands, Down falls the glass and bottle from his hands, Th' affrighted Waiter saw his tackle broke, While thus his attitude - and thus he spoke "Thou canst not say I did it bloody Banquo? Yes cried the Waiter "by my soul I can though.'"--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Printmaker and plate number from British Museum catalogue, Number 2 in a series of six plates: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Two columns of verse below design: Like dire Macbeth, -with sudden glare and start, young vapid studious o'er the tyrants part ..., Temporary local subject terms: Punch Bowl -- Candelabra., and Watermark: Russel & Co. 1797.
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Pubd. Januy. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"A handsome advocate in wig and gown addresses a vast but comely lady who stands full face. They are on a broad pavement outside (?) the Session House, before which marches a sentry. On the left. is an equestrian statue. A brief-bag hangs from his arm; from her wrist dangles a tiny sunshade. Below the title: 'A Celebrated Scotch advocate happening some Years ago to meet Lady W------ [? Wallace, see 'D.N.B.' and BMSat 7405] complimented her Ladyship on looking so well "Lord!" said she "I am as fat as a Whale!" - "I wish I were Jonah."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A tender salute and pleasant reply
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Title etched below image., Artist from British Museum catalogue., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below title: A celebrated Scotch advocate happening some years ago to meet Lady W- at a public place in Edinburgh complimented her Ladyship on looking so well. "Lord!" said she "I am as fat as a whale!" -"I wish I were Jonah"., Plate numbered '360' in the lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Sunshade -- Advocate -- Sentry -- Session House.
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Publish'd July 25, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A fat, ugly woman, seated full face on a commode, in the form of a chair."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., and Possibly a reissue of a plate published by Samuel Howitt in 1801. See British Museum online catalogue.
"Illustration to a song engraved in three columns below the title: A scene on the shore, with a frigate in the offing. A grotesque naval officer, with wooden leg and black patch over one eye, takes the wrist of a young sailor of feminine appearance who holds a pistol. In the background (right) a dead sailor lies across the body of a woman. The song relates that Billy Taylor was taken by a press-gang; his sweetheart dressed as a sailor to follow him, but discovered his inconstancy with 'a lady gay', and shot him With his fair one in his hand. The last verse:'When the Captain com'd for to hear on't He werry much applauded her for what she'd done, And quickly he made her the first Lieutenant, Of the Gallant - Thunder Bomb.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
True and lamentable ballad call'd Billy Taylor
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Title below image, at head of verses., Plate numbered '367' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., One line of text above design: (Sung by Mr. Bannister, of Drury Lane Theathre, Mr. Fawcett, and Mr. Emery, of Covent Garden. &c &c &c.), and Ten numbered stanzas of verse below title: Billy Taylor was a gay young fellow, full of mirth and full of glee, and his heart he did diskiver, to a lady gay and free ...
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Publish'd Sepr. 24, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Eye patches, Homicides, Military officers, British, Peg legs, Sailors, Sailing ships, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below design: School Mistress__"Milk a bear, child spell that again."____Child__"These three chil-dren mil-cah bore." School Mistress__"Aye, Aye, Aye, they might milk a boar__go on.", Plate numbered '327' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: School --Kettle -- Eye Glasses -- Birch Rod -- Interior Cottage -- Education: Day School.
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Publish'd Jany. 12th, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
