A lawyer wearing spectacles and with a feather pen in his mouth sits at a tall desk in his study while country bumkins solicit him with payment in dead animals and produce -- e.g., rabbits, fowl, and piglets. His clerk (behind him at the desk) smiles as he also writes with a feather pen. On the wall (right) hangs a map of Great Britain and above it on a bookshelves large folios with titles 'Strange reports' and 'Burn's justice'.
Alternative Title:
Avocat de la campagne avec ses clients
Description:
Title from text below image., Title in English and French., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "553" in lower left corner., No. 30 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
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6912; a similar group of men in a similar room stand or sit at a rectangular table singing from a large music-book held open on the table. Punch-bowl, wine-bottle, glasses, pipes, a tumbler are on the table which is covered by a heavy cloth. Their expressions are more serious than those of the catch-singers. Two men in the background are smoking, one of whom is lighting his pipe. A dog sits in the foreground looking up at the singers. The words of the glee are engraved beneath the print, beginning: 'Which is the properest Day to drink, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,'; republished state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Allegresse
Description:
Title from item., Artist from description in Sotheby's catalog., Publication date assigned by the repository based on the series number., Twelve lines of verse below image., Numbered '567' in series., and Temporary local subject terms: Glee Club -- Punch bowls -- Wine bottles -- Glass: wine glasses -- Tablecloths -- Interiors: Robert Smith's house in St. Paul's Church Yard -- Carpets.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Singing, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Wine, Drinking vessels, and Dogs
"Satire: a parson saying farewell to his family as he prepares to ride off on his unkempt horse to give a 'Charity Sermon'; they stand outside a thatched cottage on the right and a milestone indicates that they are 70 miles from London; their small boy holds a copy of 'The Youth's Instructor'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier issue
Description:
Probable reissue of no. 3756 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, pt. 2. Original issue without imprint date; dated in the Catalogue ca. 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '564' in lower left corner., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: journeyman parson -- Signs: milestones -- Cottages: exterior -- Architectural details: windows with diamond pattern -- Country churches -- Country houses -- Charity sermons -- Male costume: fastening on sleeves of shirt -- Children's costume: young boy -- Baby -- Hats: mob-cap -- Horses., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '563' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original issue without imprint date; dated in the Catalogue ca. 1760., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '563' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original issue without imprint date; dated in the Catalogue ca. 1760., No. 34 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., and 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 37.2 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
Hodges, C. H. (Charles Howard), 1764-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 October 1785]
Call Number:
Drawer 785.10.27.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Companion print to "Children spouting comedy" published by J.R. Smith August 29, 1786., Temporary local subject terms: Children acting -- Expressions of speech: spouting., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 27, 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Murphy, John, approximately 1748-approximately 1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
[31 March 1785]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 156); seated almost whole-length and in three-quarter profile to left, his right hand to his cheek and his left holding papers lettered "India Bill", resting on the table to left with statuettes of Samson and a boxer, and books; open letter proof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 338 (leaf numbered '159' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 31st, 1785, by Wm. Austin, drawing master and print-merchant at No. 41 St. James's Street, & for the engraver by W. Dickinson, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809,
"Gilpin gallops (right to left) past the 'Bell' at Edmonton. His wife leans from the balcony over the door. With her are three children and a woman holding an infant. Two horsemen are in pursuit, one holds up Gilpin's wig. A spaniel barks. The inn appears to be drawn with some topographical correctness. A sign bestrides the road (right) with the words 'The Old Bell \ An Ordinar[y] \ Late Lan' and, below the bell, 'J. King from'. Another sign is on the front of the house."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Gilpin's return from war
Description:
Title from caption below image., Verse in three columns below title begins: "Away went Gilpin, and away went Gilpin's hat and wig; He lost them sooner than at first for why? They were too big ...", Numbered "558" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 31 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 Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Chasing, Dogs, Families, Horseback riding, Horses, and Taverns (Inns)
Title from item., Publication date and the text, 'Published as the Act directs' removed from the plate. Date from British Museum catalogue., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Series number removed from the plate. Numbered '543' in series. Cf. British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Compass (instrument for drawing) -- Masons -- Farmyards -- Harvesting -- Fishing -- Mill-wheels -- Windmills -- Country churches -- Bags of money -- Shipwrecks -- Gambling -- Drunkenness -- Jails -- Gallows -- Male costume, 1785.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"A young woman stands within a compass inscribed 'Fear God', holding an open book inscribed 'The Pleasures of Imagination Realized'. At her feet is an open chest full of guineas from which hang bank-notes and jewels; it is inscribed 'The Reward of Virtue'. A small dog stands beside her. In the background (right) is a country house, on the left farm-buildings and haystacks. The four corners are filled ... with the disasters which beset the woman who does not 'keep within compass'. (1) A woman weeps dejectedly with cards and an empty purse on the ground at her feet. (2) A drunken woman lets an infant fall from her arms; on the wall is a torn print inscribed 'Domestic Happiness'. (3) A woman is being conducted to the watch-house by two watchmen, one with his lantern, the other with a rattle. (4) She beats hemp in Bridewell, a man standing behind her with a whip, as in Hogarth's 'Harlot's Progress'. The words round the circle are the same as in BMSat 6903. Beneath the circle is inscribed 'Prudence produceth esteem'."--British Museum catalogue., The first three words of the title at the top and "Prudence produceth Esteem" below, followed by four lines of verse. The whole title appears around the circumference of the circle., Four verses of four lines begins: Instead of cards my fair-one look, (I beg you'll take it kind) Into some learned author's book, And cultivate your mind. ..., Companion print to: Keep within Compass and you shall be sure, to avoid many troubles which others endure., and Reissue of No. 6907 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6. Lacks series numbering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
