A sleeping clergyman sits in an armchair, oblivious to a maid tickling his nose with the tail of a sucking pig, just delivered by a man standing in the open doorway. On a table is an inkstand and quill, a wine bottle, glass and candle with a book enti...
Alternative Title:
Tythe pig no bad sight and Pleasing method of rousing the doctor
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Tithes, Church of England, Clothing & dress, Practical jokes, Dogs, and Swine
"Satire: a scene outside an inn, the 'Old Noted Gin and Purl House. By Chris. Catch-Penny', with a fishwife on the left squaring up to a Frenchman, while others look on."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Poll Dab a match for the Frenchman
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowels, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1904); as a very young child seen whole-length within rectangular frame, lying on ground embracing poodle, facing front, wearing light dress and cap; landscape behind; before title changed."--British Museum online ca...
Description:
Title engraved on smaller plate printed below larger plate with image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1775, for W. Shropshire, No. 158 & T. Watson, No. 142 New Bond Street
"Portrait, half-length in an oval frame directed to right, holding a volume in left hand against his chest labelled 'Witsii Oeconomia', looking towards the viewer, wearing plain suit, bands, and bell-bottomed wig; after Russell."--British Museum onlin...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Portrait, whole-length seated directed to left, looking away to right, wearing fur-trimmed robe and chain of office, gesturing outwards with right hand, left hand holding scroll labelled 'Magna Charta', leaning to right with left elbow on a table lit...
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable John Wilkes Esqr., Lord Mayor of the City of London
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Satire: a poor country curate at home, reading the Bible while peeling turnips for the evening meal, rocking a cradle on the right, and listening to his son's schooling; verses beneath record that his wife is "at washing" (perhaps for other families)...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Cradles, Children, Families, Interiors, Clergy, and Welsh
"Despair, an old man, sits in ragged clothing on the ground with instruments of suicide at his left hand, the corpse of Sir Terwin beside him and a skeleton on the rocks behind; to the left the Red Cross Knight holds a dagger to his own neck as Una ru...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published June 1st, 1775, by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, London
Nocturnal scene of a churchyard, with a raven perched in a large tree. Below him a sexton with his shovel points towards the left, while glancing back towards a corpulent clergyman, a lawyer holding a candelabra and a shield depicting skull and bones,...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1437); half-length looking to right wearing clerical bands and a cap, holding a book under his left arm"--British Museum online catalogue
Half length portrait to the right, in an oval, of a man wearing a long curled wig and a cravat; tentatively identified as Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend
"Portrait seated whole-length to right on couch beside pillar, upper body turned to left holding open portfolio on table at left beside papers and vase, head turned to face right; wearing loose, flowing robe and turban."--British Museum online catalog...
A man sitting in an armchair with his gouty foot on a footstool in front of him, looking up in pain at a maidservant who pours water from a kettle on the leg, distracted by a page standing behind the chair, another woman drinks beside the door in the ...
Description:
Title from published state.
Publisher:
Publised [sic] by Messrs Sayer and Bennet, Fleet Street
Title, printmaker, artist, publisher, and publication date from Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
