"Heading to engraved verses: 'Sung by Mr Fawcett, at Covent Garden, in the Popular Farce of We Fly by Night.' In a bare farmhouse room a married couple in a truckle-bed quarrel violently. The man kneels on the bed, threatening his wife with his fists. An infant cries in a cradle, its forehead marked with an oblong patch. The moon shines through an uncurtained casement. Check curtains hang against the wall to screen the upturned bed in daytime. The verses relate that the pair agreed to apply for the (Dunmow) flitch of bacon, but quarrelled violently as to whether it should be fried or boiled. As a result 'all the little Clarks, Were mark'd with a rasher of bacon.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Flitch of bacon
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication follows publisher's street address., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls, plate numbered: 419., Six numbered verses below title: The spruce Mr. Clark, Was a young Essex spark ..., One line of text above design: Sung by Mr. Fawcett, at Covent Garden, in the popular farce of We fly by night., and Printed not before 1814 based on watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 1, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A rhymed rebus purporting to be a reply to a sailor's letter from his girl, describing her fears for him upon hearing of a storm at sea, her joy at getting his letter, and her promise to remain true to him despite having other suitors
Description:
Title from item., A letter in the form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: 'to' by a toe, 'sailor' by a figure of a sailor, 'letter' by an envelope., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Publication date partially erased from this impression and the last two digits, i.e., '76,' supplied in contemporary manuscript., and Watermark: 1814.
Publisher:
Printed 21st October 17[...], by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Hieroglyphics, Love letters, and Military uniforms
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Expressions of Speech: 'Son of a gun'., Watermark: 1814., Date in subtitle altered in m.s. from 1802 to 1792., and Date in imprint altered in m.s. from 1803 to 1793.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 12th, 1793, by Whittle & Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street
"A fashionably dressed man stands directed to the left, erect and debonair, a cane under his left arm. He takes a pinch of snuff, holding, besides the snuff-box, his top-hat. He has whiskers and small pigtail. From his coat-pocket projects a bottle labelled 'Two Spoonsfull to be taken at Bed time'. On the ground is a pill-box on its side, spilling its contents. He wears two thistles in the breast of his coat; a thistle-plant grows near his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Trip from Oxford to the land of cakes
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Prescriptions -- Thorn stick canes -- Scotland -- Male costume: 1809 -- Snuff boxes., Leaf 4 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.2 x 19.8 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads & Co. 1808., and Figure identified as "Mr. Ireland" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Ireland, John, 1745-1839
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Medicines, Pills, Staffs (Sticks), Snuff, and Thistles
"A fashionably dressed man stands directed to the left, erect and debonair, a cane under his left arm. He takes a pinch of snuff, holding, besides the snuff-box, his top-hat. He has whiskers and small pigtail. From his coat-pocket projects a bottle labelled 'Two Spoonsfull to be taken at Bed time'. On the ground is a pill-box on its side, spilling its contents. He wears two thistles in the breast of his coat; a thistle-plant grows near his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Trip from Oxford to the land of cakes
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Prescriptions -- Thorn stick canes -- Scotland -- Male costume: 1809 -- Snuff boxes., and Watermark: 1814.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Ireland, John, 1745-1839
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Medicines, Pills, Staffs (Sticks), Snuff, and Thistles
Caption title; engraved rhymed letter in form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: "lady" by a profile of a young woman, gentleman a profile of a young man., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Lewis Walpole Library 799.10.21.05: Publication date partially erased from this impression and the last two digits '70' supplied in contemporary manuscript., Temporary local subject terms: Hieroglyphs -- Letters., and Restrike not before 1814; date from watermark '1814'.
Publisher:
Printed 21st October 17[70], by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Three columns of verse in letterpress below title: Early one morning a jolly brisk tar, signal been made for sailing ..., and Plate numbered '494' in upper left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
