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 background on the right, and a little boy takes something from the table on the left; after Penny; scratched-letter state
Description:
Title from published state., Scratch-letter proof; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 158, page 598., and Companion print to: The virtuous comforted by sympathy and attention.
Publisher:
Publised [sic] by Messrs Sayer and Bennet, Fleet Street
"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 rushes to stop him, a donkey beside her; after West (Staley 220)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image. and For an earlier state with scratched lettering, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1838,0425.63. See also: Whitman, A. British mezzotinters: Valentine Green, 190.
Publisher:
Published June 1st, 1775, by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, 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) and compares him with the lazy "proud Prelate"; on the wall hangs the popular image of 'Shon Ap Morgan' (see 1983,0625.9).""British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Eight lines of verse are inscribed in two columns on either side of title: "Tho' lazy, the proud prelate's fed... And rocks the cradle with his foot."
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
"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. and Temporary local subject terms: Fishwomen -- Frenchmen -- Public houses, exteriors -- Signs -- Signboards -- "The Fighting Cock" -- Publicans -- Gin -- Purl -- Billingsgate -- Male wigs: bag -- Poll Dab -- Chequers.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowels, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
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, and a doctor with his gold-headed cane and vial
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in plate: 326., Bottom edge of image retouched in the plate with drypoint., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, volume 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Verse in plate: Near the church-yard grim Death's purveyors see, with emblems fit a close connected three! One shows a phial, and the other two look their assent, as if they'd say t'will do: The sexton pleas'd stands ready to attend, points to the grave and eyes his greatest friend. Th'ill boding raven seems to croak aloud, swallow the dose, and that bespeaks your shroud., and Publication date erased from this copy of the print.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
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 entitled "Tythe laws fully consider'd". At cat pulls from the table a paper labelled "Bans of marriage", while on the floor near a small dog a large book lies open to "Poem on good living". The clergyman's portrait and that of a woman hang on the wall behind him beside a map entitled "A Plan of the doctor's parish."
Alternative Title:
Tythe pig no bad sight and Pleasing method of rousing the doctor
Description:
Title from item. and Numbered in plate: 328.
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
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., Date of publication from printmaker's known place of activity., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"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 online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1902,1011.2709., and Price following imprint: Price 2s.
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 littered with papers inculding a copy of his letter 'To the Gentlemen Clergy & Freeholders of the County of Middlesex', sword, inkstand and coronet, with plaque showing Hercules defeating the hydra on the wall; reworked state republished after 1775."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable John Wilkes Esqr., Lord Mayor of the City of London
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist tentatively identified as John Dixon in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.10.12., "This appears to be a copy in the same direction of a mezzotint by John Dixon dated 1768"--Curator's comments for an earlier state, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.748., Reworked state, with alterations to both inscription and image. Among the image alterations are the chain around Wilkes's neck being changed into a collar of office; a mace and sword being added to the right; Wilkes's waistcoat having embroidery added; and the tablecloth having a fringe added. For the earlier state published in 1770, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.748., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Plate numbered "308" in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Half-length, portrait of Joseph Carreras, Spanish poet and chaplain to Catherine of Braganza
Description:
Title from text below image., Retouched state, with inscription beneath sitter's name erased and re-engraved in smaller letters; this is the third state according to Whitman, and the second state according to J.C. Smith., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Lettered below title with the measurements of the original picture and the Walpole crest with motto 'Fari Quae Sentiat'., Plate 15 in the first volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788., and On verso in Walpole's hand: F. Walker.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1775, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London