Title etched below image., Imprint from book in which this plate was included., Plate from: Caulfield, J. Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II, v. 1., Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: dissenters -- Churches: interior., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet., On wove paper, trimmed within plate mark, window mounted to 19 x 10 cm., mounted to 31 x 31 cm., and 1 print : etching ; sheet 18 x 10 cm.
Title etched below image., Imprint from book in which this plate was included., Plate from: Caulfield, J. Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II, v. 1., and Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: dissenters -- Churches: interior.
Title from caption above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse below image: What! is the Parliament dissolv'd at last? ..., Temporary local subject terms: Parliamentary elections, October 1710 -- Whigs -- Wills -- Pallbearers -- Grave-diggers -- Emblems: calves' heads and axes -- Physicians -- Medical: dying patient -- Allusion to King Charles I -- Dr. Pede, fl. 1710 -- Touchin, fl. 1710., and Bowditch's ms. annotations on mounting sheet; mounted to 32 x 45 cm.
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved broadside with nine stanzas of song in two columns separated with an ornamental border and illustrated in the upper portion of sheet. One staff of music at bottom of design., Opening words: The devil did complain he was not well ..., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Samuel Lyne, map and printseller at the Globe in Newgate Street, London
A group of ladies sit in highback chairs around a circular table, drinking tea and gossiping. On the table in front of the lady on the right, lays a book open to pages which read "Chit-Chat"; her lap dog sits looking up at her eagerly while a demon hides under the table at her feet. The ladies sit in a well-appointed parlor decorated with a rug, an elaborate mirror, and curtains. Above the fireplace hangs a picture of a clergyman carrying a woman on his back to church. To the left Envy chases Truth and Justice out the open door. On the right two gentlemen peer into the room through an open window and listen to the ladies' conversation. The engraved lines below in verse berates women for their love of gossip and inability to follow the dictates of the ninth commandment, forbidding one to bear false witness against one's neighbor. To the left of the fireplace is a niche filled with cups, plates, and other tableware
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: 1710?., Later state, published no earlier than 1740, i.e., the beginning date of John Bowles's business location at Cornhill. See London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted, p. 26, Sixty-nine lines of verse engraved in three columns below image: How see we scandal (for our sex too base), seat its dread empire in the female race ..., Dated from the Westminster Paving Act of 1766., and Mounted to 33 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by Jno. Bowles, Print and Map Seller, at No. 13 in Cornhill, London
Subject (Name):
Woodward, John, 1665-1728.
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Eavesdropping, Envy, Ethics, Furnishings, Gossiping, Justice, Niches, Parlors, Pets, Tea parties, and Truth
Title and publication date from the British Museum Catalogue., Earlier state of No. 1541 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Mounted to 30 x 20 cm.
