Caption title., In verse; without the music., A broadside ballad about the Queen Caroline affair., First line: O such wonders there never was known ..., and Inscribed "500 October 19th 1820" in ink beneath title, suggesting that this was the printer's copy? For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Marshall, printer, Newcastle
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
"Scene in a London churchyard, lit by a waning moon. An old woman, wife of Thimble, a tailor, wearing a hooded shroud, emerges from a grave beside a spade, pickaxe, skulls, &c. She threatens with two bones the terror-struck sexton who sits on the ground. He had come 'To saw off her finger, and steal the ring'. She frightens him away. The refrain: 'With her roley, poley, gammon, and spinnage Heigho! says Thimble.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Caption title from letterpress text printed below image (plate mark 18.2 x 22.9 cm)., "Tune-Heigho! says Rowley.", Two columns of verse in letterpress below title: Thimble's scolding wife lay dead ; -Heigho! says Thimble ..., Sheet trimmed to within thread margin of plate mark on two sides., and Plate numbered '510' in upper left corner.
Publisher:
Published 16 Septr. 1809 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"An elderly Scots bonnet laird or farmer stands repeating the song, which is a complaint of the extravagance and misconduct of his wife. He wears a round Scots bonnet and a tartan plaid over his coat, long stockings, and shoes tied with strings, tattered gloves from which his fingers protrude; a cane is suspended from his left wrist. He holds in his left hand a small tankard with an open lid indicating in London 'a dram', or gin. In the background is a small house, partly visible on the left, outside which stands the wife, drunk and flourishing a similar tankard; a wine-bottle lies at her feet, a man leans from the window. On the right is a farm building with a horse, two cows, and a broken fence. In the foreground (right) is a large thistle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wholly and fairly
Description:
Title from caption below image, Illustration to a song in Scots engraved beneath the title with the refrain: 'O! gin my Wife wad drink Hooly and Fairly'., Verse in three columns below title begins: "Oh what had I ado for to marry My wife she drinks naithing but Sack and Canary ...", Numbered "581" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 36 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 well-dressed man kneels on the ground, yawning; his arm is round the waist of a young woman, who pushes him away. The neat, plain room has a French window with a small iron balcony. The verses relate the mishaps of the singer, owing to inapt yawns: in his patron's face, on the verge of an appointment, when about to kiss the lady he hoped to marry (illustrated), and (the worst) while being shaved."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Yawner
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '454' in lower right corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Three numbered stanzas below title: How I love to laugh! Never was a weeper ...
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 8, 1807, by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Johnstone (left) and Mrs. Bland (right), as O'Rourke O'Daisy and his wife Dolly, sing; he smiles at the audience with raised hat, she smiles at him. There is a landscape background with a gate leading to a house."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Two columns of verse in letterpress below title: Mr. Johnstone. Long ago from my country I trotted away, knowing well how to rake and to tumble the hay ..., Plate numbered in upper right corner: 51[5]. Partially trimmed., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published 4th April 1810 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Johnstone, John Henry, 1749-1828 and Bland, Mrs. 1770-1838 (Maria Theresa Catherine),
You've been one fellow Bill and Times are hard, and I don't know what I'm going to do
Description:
For voice and piano., Title page in yellow and black illustrated with drawing signed "Starmer" of two African American men and photograph of Clarice Vance., and Publisher's advertisements on page [2] and unnumbered page at end.
Caption title., In verse., An abridged version of An appeal from the bulls to the cows., Not to be confused with "Parody on the Beggar's petition"; the first two lines of the present work are: Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, / Whose gilded yacht has borne him to your shore., Satire in verse on George IV., At bottom are sixteen lines in four stanzas with the heading "Song, adapted to Moore's melody. Tune--"The harp that once, in Tara's halls." These verses concern George IV's estranged wife Queen Caroline., "Price one penny."--Following imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by J. Fairburn, 110, Minories
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Moss, Thomas, 1738 or 1739-1808.
Verse begins: "Ye commons and peers,", Attributed to Benjamin Bragge as vendor by Foxon on strength of a Daily Courant advertisement., Fourteen stanzas in this edition., Mounted on leaf 48. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
sold by Benjamin Bragge
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Steeples, Campaigns & battles, Massacres, and History
A negro footman stands with a coin in his hand as he sings. Behind him a lawyer sits at his desk accepting a bag of money from his client; the lawyer's young assistant sits on the other side of the slanted desk. Through the open door to the street, a gentleman strolls in front of an apothecy's shop door, above which can be seen a mortar and pestle
Description:
Title engraved above image, Plate numbered '394' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whttle series of Drolls., and Six stanzas in three columns engraved below image: Great way off at sea, where at home I've been-ee, Buckra man fetch me, from de coast of Guinea; Christian massa pray, he call me hathen doggy ...
Publisher:
Publish'd May 20th, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
The print celebrates the British defeat of the French and Spanish in the Battle of the First of June 1794 under the command of Admiral Richard Howe. A British sailor stands on a wharf in front a pub, silhouetted by two British flags; he is grinning at the viewer as he holds his prize money in one hand and bludgeon and a roll of paper in the other. Beside him a woman leans in at the window of the pub as a man with a clay pipe in his mouth hands her a bowl of punch; a large dog rests beneath the window at her feet. Several patriotic signs are posted over the pub walls. In the background a man-of-war lies at anchor, and a row boat with several sailors heads towards shore
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse below title: O! Dear had I but words to tell, O! Dear what I this moment feel ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of imprint and text.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st Augt. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
First of June, Battle of the, 1794, Bars, Sailors, British, Victories, and Sailing ships
