A large stout man, with an expression of resignation on his face, walking between village houses, staggers under the weight of a drunken woman reposing on his back, a glass marked 'gin' in her raised right hand, her bosom exposed. On her lap sits a monkey holding on to the man's wig and thus pulling it off his head. A magpie is sitting on monkey's shoulders. Around the man's neck is a heavy chain with a huge padlock inscribed 'wedlock' hanging in the center. Behind the group, from a pigsty attached to the house on the left and inscribed, 'She is as drunk as David's sow' a pig sticks out its head. From the roof of the same house is suspended a sighboard showing two cats and decorated at top with bull's horns. Above the horns is an inscription, 'The Christian mans arms, or, the cuckolds fortune.'
Alternative Title:
Matrimony
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from John Smith's address at Cheapside., Two columns of verse below image: A monkey, a magpuye & wife, is the true emblem of strife ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, & John Smith in Cheapside
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1760?]
Call Number:
760.00.00.84
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Scene in a country churchyard
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Graveyards -- Buildings: country church -- Crowns: coronet -- Devil -- Death.
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., Ffiteen lines of text below title describing the proceeding of the court: The court consisting of the following ladies ..., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Admiral John Byng's trial -- Female dress, ca. 1757., and Mounted to 41 x 29 cm.
Title from item., Printmaker and publisher from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse on either side of title: I'll sing you a ditty and warrant it true, give but attention unto me a while ..., Sixth plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Series title only on Plate 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: unidentified countermark (initials MW(?) in a circle).
Title from caption below image., Text following title: Canada is represented in the figure of an Indian paying homage to her royal conqueror ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left and at top., and Written in contemporary hand in the upper right corner: "76"
"A satire on marriage; An old man seated with one leg bandaged and raised on chair in front of him, being attended to by a maid; behind him his young wife is locked in an embrace with her younger lover."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from a unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Disease -- Cantharides -- Curtains -- Birds -- Furniture: upholstered armchair -- Cuckolds.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Adultery, Women domestics, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Crutches, Clocks & watches, Draperies, Birdcages, Parrots, Chairs, and Bells
Title from item., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of text on either side of the title: [...] she terrible law when it fastens it's [sic] paw, on a poor man, it gripes 'till he's undone ..., First plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Other plates in this series do not have series title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials GR below., and Lower left corner torn off resulting in loss of artist's name and some of the text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Title from item., Publisher from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Seventh plate in the series The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Series title only on Plate 1., Two columns of verse on either side of title: O. Hob. Zure never was zeen such a rebel, Thou worst of undutiful boys ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: unidentified countermark (initials MW(?) inside a circle).
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse on either side of title: Wife. Oh! My poor boy, O. Hob. His looks are stark wild ..., "Plate IV"--Below title., Fourth plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Series title only on Plate 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials GR below.
Hob surprised by Sir Thomas with Mr. Friendley's letter
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in four columns on either side of title: (Sr. Tho. sings) To guard my Hesperian tree, requires more care than of old ..., Second plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Series title only on Plate 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials GR below.
Title from item., Printmaker and publisher from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of verse on either side of title: Friend. sings. O fly from this place, dear Flora, thy taylor has left thee free ..., Eighth plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Series title only on Plate 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials GR below.
Title from item., Printmaker and publisher from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of verse on either side of title: Hob. Now we zell zeveral other zorts of liquors,and wine too an occasion be ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Hob's petition to Sir Thomas to be saved from the well
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Third plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora., Publication date based on publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: I never till now was conzarned in strife, have mercy, Sr. Thomas, & spare poor Hob'd life ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller near Serjeant Inn, Fleet Street
First title from image, second title devised by cataloger., Imprint from title page accompanying prints., Plate from: A book of caricaturas : on 59 copper-plates, with [the] principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner, with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas / by M. Darly. Cornhill [England] : Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill, [176-?]., Plate numbered: "9"., With: [Profiles of eight men, facing in both directions] / My. Darly invt. 1762. Numbered: '10'., Reissue., and Not bound; in box labeled "Darly 1763".
Title from item., State with original title and without additional image below title. Cf. British Museum catalogue, no 3733., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Architects -- Bridges: Blackfriars' Bridge, London -- Medals., and Mounted to 35 x 46 cm.
Title from item., Two columns of verse below title: In country village lives a vicar, fond--as all are!--of tythes and liquor ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: country vicar -- Customs: tithing -- Architectural details: Georgian fac̦ade -- Emblems: peacock as vanity -- Birds: peacock -- Villages -- Buildings: country church -- Jokes -- Food: fruit -- Swaddled babies -- Turnstiles -- Bundle of wheat.
Down with the devil, pope, French King and Pretender
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Another George has fled this weeping ball , being summon'd hence by Heavens mighty call ..., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Satan -- Popes -- Angels -- Emblems: scales of justice., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Clement XIII, Pope, 1693-1769, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
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.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow Lane, London
Titles from images., Imprint from title page accompanying prints., Plate from: A book of caricaturas : on 59 copper-plates, with [the] principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner, with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas / by M. Darly. Cornhill [England] : Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill, [176-?]., Plate numbered: "3"., With: Mouths / MDarly invt. et sculp. 176 according to act. Numbered: '4'., Reissue., and Not bound; in box labeled "Darly 1763".
Titles from images., Imprint from title page accompanying prints., Plate from: A book of caricaturas : on 59 copper-plates, with [the] principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner, with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas / by M. Darly. Cornhill [England] : Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill, [176-?]., Plate numbered: "7"., With: External circular carrics / My. Darly 1762. Numbered: '8'., Reissue., and Not bound; in box labeled "Darly 1763".
