Verse begins: "You youthful charming lady's fair,"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; imprint at foot of the last column, below a series of long dashes; the columns are separated by rules composed of long dashes., 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 58. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
"A paunchy and bespectacled clergyman standing at left, reading nearsightedly from a paper on which are seen the words 'Petitioner will ever Pray', to a veteran soldier with a wooden left leg standing indignantly at right, who waves a stick in his right hand at the parson, and holds his tricorne in his left; their speech is above their heads. The clergyman: 'Well friend Cartridge. I have drawn up your petition, mentioned wounds, long service &c &c - concluding as usual, "And your petitioner will ever pray!' The soldier: 'Will ever pray! - that may do very well for a parson, - but d-d bad coming from an Old Soldier! - No - Ill have it inserted, "And your Petitioner" will ever fight!'"--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vetrans petition and Veteran's petition
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 16th 1800, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Peg legs, Petitions, Veterans, and British
A parson glares angrily through a monocle at a piece on paper in his hand labelled "Tithe table ..." A country yokel in a smock holding a walking stick stares at him with a downcast look
Description:
Title from item., Original design attributed to Woodward in the British Museum catalogue., and Five lines of verse below title, beginning: Then the vicar, Full of fees customary, with his burying gloves ...
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural laborers, Clergy, Monocles, People associated with agriculture, and Tithes
A song sheet, all engraved, with an oval image of an obese clergyman with a pipe in hand walking beside the caricatured figure of Jewish man, who carries a lantern, printed above two staves of music with the first verse, above 16 verses in three columns. On the left behind them is building with a lean-to while on the right in the distance across a body of water is a church with a steeple
Description:
Title engraved above image., Other editions attribute the text to George Alexander Stevens (1710-1784) in English short title catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 2nd, 1784, by J. Binns, Leeds, and J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Ethnic stereotypes, Intoxication, Pipes (Smoking), and Lanterns
"A fat vicar with pipe and glass standing in a doorway, regarding a nervous thin clerk, who holds another glass and a lantern; scene illustrating the tale of 'the vicar and Moses', in which the clerk came to fetch the vicar to bury an infant but stayed to drink with him till past midnight, when both staggered out to go to the church; verses to the song below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered '(Plate I)' in lower right below image., First of two plates illustrating a popular song under the same title., Thirty-two lines of verse (first half of the song) printed in two columns below title: At the sign of the horse, old Spintext of course, ..., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published July 17th, 1795, by I. Coard, No. 11 Lisson Street, Edgware Road
"Graveside scene at night; a fat vicar swathed in a surplice and looking at a book by the light of a lantern held up by a thin, singing clerk, from whom he also takes some snuff; the open grave to left, the child's coffin beside it, mourners behind, shrouded so that all but one face is invisible, the church in the background; scene illustrating the tale of 'the vicar and Moses', in which the clerk came to fetch the vicar to bury an infant but stayed to drink with him till past midnight, when both staggered out to go to the church; verses to the song below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered '(Plate II)' in lower right below image., Second of two plates illustrating a popular song under the same title., Thirty-two lines of verse (second half of the song) printed in two columns below title: Then Moses went on, Sir; the clock has struck one, ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published July 17th, 1795, by I. Coard, No. 11 Lisson Street, Edgware Road
Title from item., Publication date, based on dates of the passage of the Boston Port Act and Quebec Bill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Québec (Province).
Subject (Topic):
Boston Port Bill, 1774, Clergy, Crutches, Eyeglasses, Gout, Hammers, Hypodermic syringes, Ladders, and Money
A group of clergymen sit around a table in a tavern drinking and smoking and conversing with a Quaker. Some of their hats are hanging on pegs along the wall on either side of a framed picture of a man on a race horse. A fire is blazing in the fireplace to the left
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '383' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of descriptive text below title: Toasts and sentiments were going regularly round from the gentlemen of the cloth, but when it came to Broad-brim's turn he refused! Saying that it was not customary with his profession, to give either toasts or sentiments ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 12, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Great Britain, Eating & drinking, and Pipes (Smoking)
