Three men sitting at a table, two of them holding drinking glasses, one opening a barrel. A waiter is filling more glasses on a tray and the preacher of the sermon is holding a glass and an open book with the word "Malt" on the page. A second table (c...
Alternative Title:
Extempore sermon preached by Fredrick Fiery-Face ...
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Sold by C. Dicey & Co. in Aldermary Church Yard, London
A young, richly dressed and very tipsy youth staggers towards the viewer over the top of a hill. His wig is flying off; his neckwear is disarranged. In the crook of his right arm he carries a straw-covered wine bottle and a half full wine glass in his...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Samuel Lyne at the Globe in Newgate Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Drinking songs, Intoxication, Alcoholic beverages, and Taverns (Inns).
Etching with twenty-three people in the dress of various nations surrounding a map of Saxony, Silesia, Bohemia, etc. with Prague ("Praag") in the center of the map. Dialog ribbons (in French and in Dutch) are attached to eighteen of the people includi...
Alternative Title:
De Praagsche Rariekiek
Description:
Title in French and Dutch from illustration.
Publisher:
by Jan 't Lam, Boekverkooper bezuyden 't Stadhuys, naer de copy van London ; Publish'd according to act of Parliament, by T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row
Four designs enclosed by scrolls, with six lines of verse inscribed below two top and bottom left design, and eight lines of verse inscribed below bottom right design
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Sold at [the] Blackmoors Head against Surry Street in [the] Strand
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
"Satire based on a novel of the same title on the cruel and hypocritical behaviour of a female former convict with four scenes enclosed within rococo scrolls. The scene on the left shows Polly Haycock, visibly pregnant, standing on a quay chained with...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Branch, Elizabeth and Haycock, Mary, active 1741
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Carriages & coaches, Criminals, Dogs, Horses, Masks, Prison laborers, Servants, Enslaved people, and Whips
The text lists probable expenses of a "batchelor-housekeeper" in comparison with those of a married man. Below the list are four columns of quotations on married bliss from various poets. In the etching, a lady and a gentleman on the left stand with t...
Alternative Title:
Apology for matrimony
Description:
Imprint from illustration.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament by John Osborn in Pater-Noster Row
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Marlborough, Charles Spencer, Duke of, 1706-1758, Sherlock, Thomas, 1678-1761, and Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770
