"A man in Scottish dress, with a voluminous cloak, embracing a young woman in a striped dress who sits on the right, with bushes behind and the edge of a cottage in the background to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Verse "from the favourite song, The Highland Laddie" in two columns below title: A painted room and silken bed, May please a lawland laird and lady; But I can kiss and be as glad, Behind a bush in's Highland Pladdie., Numbered "490" in lower left corner., No. 2 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 Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
A fashionably dressed young woman sits on the ground near a pond making a wreath (or a chaplet). Her head is covered with a pleated cap, its cover lies by her feet. In the background, her young admirer in fashionable riding clothes watches her with adoration from behind the fence
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '509'., Illustration to a song from Arne's adaptation of Milton's Comus (1738)., and Below the title are four verses from the song The lass with a delicate air.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A young couple is sitting at a round table. The girl, smiling at her companion, is pointing to a mousetrap with a mouse in it. The young man, holding a cat under his left arm, reciprocates with a gesture of self-assurance
Description:
Title from item. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
A sailor (just returned, his dropped knapsack in the right foreground) supports his swooning wife, overcome at seeing him return, outside a thatched cottage, while a little girl and a little boy (broom in hand) on the left hurry up to help; a pig in the foreground, two lush trees in the yard, and a ship and sea in the background; illustration to a song., Title etched below image and above verses., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered '300' in lower left of plate., Three columns of verse, each 14 lines, below title: Bleak was the morn when William left his Nancy ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 17th June 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bags, Brooms & brushes, Children, Couples, Dwellings, Homecomings, Sailors, British, Ships, Swine, and Young adults
From the left a well-dressed maiden pulls a length of twine from around the right stocking of a country boy who sleeps on a grassy bank under four large, leafy trees. The eight lines of Gay's poem Shepherd's week quoted on either side of the title describe her intention of joining the twine to her garter to form "a true loves knot."
Alternative Title:
Hobnelia
Description:
Title from item., Publication date following the phrase "Publish'd as the Act directs" has been burnished from plate., Numbered '506' in lower left of plate., Dated tentatively from plate number. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, Appendix, p. 786-7: Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles., and Four lines in two columns on either side of the title: As Lubberkin once slept beneath a tree ... from the favourite Pastoral of Gay's Shepherd's work.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Three couples outside a country tavern along a river back. One pair dance while another sit together on a bench, and the third stand at the open gate, the man blow a pipe and striking a tambor (drum). The sign hanging outside the inn shows a crescent moon
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Companion print: [Pedlars talking]., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Engrav'd and pubd. according to act Augt. 5, 1780, by T. Gaugain, N. 4 Little Compton Street. Soho
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dancers, Musical instruments, and Signs (Notices)
In two rows of three, from top left: a young man, his right knee resting against a rock, pulls back his short cape to reveal a small bouquet of flowers; a young couple embrace and toasting with wine glasses; a young couple seated and in conversation; a young woman in a headdress with feathers and touches to her face a folded fan; a couple dance; an older, short woman stands in profile to the right, her head slightly turned towards the viewer
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: royal cipher with initials GR inside a cirle.
