"Two men and two women, all tipsy, drink and dance in an ale-house, while beer gushes from a barrel whose spigot has been removed. Through a casement window a woman is seen running off with a joint of mutton on a dish. This John and his drunken wife Joan have thrown from the window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '412' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Six numbered stanzas of verse arranged in three columns below title: John Appleby was a mans name and he liv'd near the sign of the kettle, his wife was call'd Joan Quiet, because she could scold but a little ...
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title and place of publication from item., Date derived from poster style and subject., In image, the woman is depicted holding a small barrel inscribed: Delna la Vivandière. Marie Delna starred in the comic opera "La Vivandière" in 1895., In margin lower right: Imp. Camis Paris., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Imp. Camis Paris
Subject (Name):
Delna, Marie, 1875-1932,
Subject (Topic):
Patent medicines, Tonics (Medicinal preparations)., Opera singers, Eating & drinking, Barrels, and Military uniforms
Title and place of publication from item., Date derived from poster style and subject., In image, the woman is depicted holding a small barrel inscribed: Delna la Vivandière. Marie Delna starred in the comic opera "La Vivandière" in 1895., In margin lower left: Imp. Camis. Paris., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Differs slightly from Poster0098.
Publisher:
Imp. Camis Paris
Subject (Name):
Delna, Marie, 1875-1932,
Subject (Topic):
Patent medicines, Tonics (Medicinal preparations)., Opera singers, Eating & drinking, Barrels, and Military uniforms
Title from item., Artist and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from street address., Above image: L'imagination. No. 7., Originally published in Le Charivari, 18 June 1833., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Alcohol.
Publisher:
L. de Bénard rue de l'Abbaye, No. 4 and On s'abonne chez Aubert galerie véro dodat
Title from item., In margin top right: Imagerie d'Épinal, No. 926., Date supplied by curator., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Devils & demons; Panaceas.
Publisher:
Imagerie Pellerin
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Devil, Miracle workers, Miracles, Wine, Alcoholic beverages, Medicine shows, Patent medicines, Barrels, Spectators, Contests, Eating & drinking, and Death
Verse - "Let every one that is to mirth inclin'd,"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the imprint is at the foot of the last, below a row of type ornaments; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 75. 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.
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Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow Lane, London
Menage as champanzee in Perouse and Menage as chimpanzee in Perouse
Description:
Title in ink in lower border., Frederick Menage performed as Chimpanzee in the pantomime "Perouse, or the Desolate Island" in 1801., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Design in an oval. A head with lank, unkempt hair and melancholy, twisted features, mouthing grotesquely, appears to emerge from a tub; this is a section of a tub held by the performer on a table. Reference to G.A. Stevens's Lecture on Heads (1764).
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. October 10, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Half length front view of a young woman with ermine-trimmed gown and muff, and with extremely tall coiffure, of which beer barrels form the side curls. On top of her head an inverted rooster is held down by foxes on either side, the enormous tails of the three animals forming further ornament to the hair
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: V.2, 95.
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of text below image: Why damme! Messmate you're done up ..., Plate numbered '173' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Naval uniforms: sailors' uniforms -- Beer barrels -- Dishes: tankards -- Drunkenness.
Publisher:
Published 24th Octr., 1796, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, British, Military uniforms, Barrels, Beer, Drinking vessels, Pipes (Smoking), Smoking, and Intoxication
