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Published / Created:: [26 July 1792]
Call Number:: 792.07.26.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A young woman carries a basket of chickens in one hand and a brace of fowl in her other hand as she sets out to the market. She looks out at the viewer as she is watched by a woman in the doorway of a cottage on the right. She is accompanied by a litle girl who also holds a chicken. Another large basket sits on the ground on the right opposite a chicken with her three little chicks
Description:: Title etched below image. and Publisher's stamp in lower right corner.
Publisher:: Published July 26, 1792, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):: Baskets, Dwellings, Girls, Poultry, and Women
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Favourite chickens going to market [graphic].

Published / Created:: [July 1792]
Call Number:: 792.07.00.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In a natural setting under a tree stand a young couple in rustic dress. The young man (left) is asking the pretty young woman (right) to marry him, smiles demurely at him
Description:: Title etched below image., Eight lines of verse in two columns: Sylvia sweet can you love me. My mother to it will agree. She would sooner give a cow, Then I should die of love of you ... I would not for a crown, be wedded to a clown, Go for a looby go., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Publisher's stamp in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:: Published July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):: Couples and Courtship
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Go for a looby go [graphic].

Published / Created:: [July 1792]
Call Number:: 792.07.00.04+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A soldier who has lost his right arm begs from an elderly man in old-fashioned dress whose hands are deep in his coat-pockets. The miser (right) walks away scowling sideways at the soldier. Beneath the title: He had a canvass bag which contain 'd what would answer the purpose, but his Callous soul caught the alarm at the Old Souldiers supplication; & it was hurried with rapidity of lightning into his pocket.' Behind is a high stone wall and a London street-lamp
Description:: Title from item., Quote from a story of the same title from The adventures of a hackney coach printed below the title: He had a canvass bag which contain'd ..., and Publisher's device in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:: Published July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Kilner, Dorothy, 1755-1836.
Subject (Topic):: Amputees, Carriages & coaches, Military uniforms, British, Stone walls, Street lights, and Veterans
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The miser [graphic].