"A young woman in rustic dress standing in a field with a cockerel in a cage near her feet, courted by a youth who leans over the fence behind to right, offering her a posy."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Numbered "529" in lower left corner., No. 4 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):
Birdcages, Chickens, Couples, Courtship, and Villages
An elderly man and woman are sitting in armchairs in front of a cottage, each smoking a pipe. The woman holds a glass, the man a pitcher. They are surrounded by farm animals. A beehive, a birdcage and birdhouses are in the background
Description:
Title from item., Two columns of verse below image on either side of title: Old Darby with Joan by his side, you've oft times regarded with wonder ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Livestock, Birdcages, Birdhouses, Beehives, Chairs, and Windmills
Two young women involved in an affectionate conversation watch a pair of doves perched on top of an open cage
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Plate numbered '203' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Doves -- Bird cages -- Female dress, 1770 -- Pearl necklace.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Outside a pretty well-kept cottage a young woman kneels pleading before a farmer in a smock holding his hand as she jestures to a sailor. The sailor in response jestures to her. In the distance is a ship on the water. A bird hangs in a cage just outside the door; chickens eat from a bowl while a plough sits in the foreground on the right
Alternative Title:
Jolly carpenter
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered '306' in lower left of plate., Four numbered columns of verse below title: I that once was a ploughman, a sailor am now ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: cottages -- Young women.
Publisher:
Published 24th Octr. 1793 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Carpenters, Chickens, Dwellings, Plows, Sailors, British, and Ships
Volume 1, page 15. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist attribution based on an impression of the print being included in Horace Walpole's bound collection of works by and after Henry William Bunbury., Date supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 15 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
