"An infant Bacchus sitting on a barrel with a flaggon in its right hand, raising a glass in its left, liquid flowing from the barrel into a bowl next to a flaggon at the base and bushes behind; used as an advertisement for the Royal Cumberland tavern, Vauxhall, after relevant additional inscription added."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title supplied by cataloger., For earlier state, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: page numbered 36 in Folio 75 B28 804., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On leaf numbered 21 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and bottom., Numbered 'Plate 28' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 68' in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Temporary local subject terms: Newspapers: 'The Sun' -- Newspapers: 'Cronicle' [sic] -- Newspapers: 'Times' -- Newsmen -- Butchers -- Bristol., and Watermark: R & E 1799.
"Plate 29 [but numbered 30] to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Three elderly men, one holding a pipe, sit fast asleep, framed in an open casement window of the Globe inn. A date in a medallion, '161 - ', is above the window. Sketched at Torrington, a place 'supremely dull'."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and sides., Numbered 'Plate 29' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 78' in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Temporary local subject terms: Inns: 'Globe' at Torrington -- Torrington: Globe Inn -- Architectural details: windows -- Sleeping., and First digit in number in upper left altered to either '3' or '6'.
Title devised by curator., Possibly etched by Caroline Crighton. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Waller no. 24., Date based on that of a similar print in the same collection. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Waller no. 24., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title devised by curator., Possibly etched by Caroline Crighton. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Waller no. 24., and Date based on that of a similar print in the same collection. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Waller no. 24.
Title devised by curator., Possibly etched by Caroline Crighton. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Waller no. 24., Date based on that of a similar print in the same collection. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Waller no. 24., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title devised by curator., Possibly etched by Caroline Crighton. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Waller no. 24., Date based on that of a similar print in the same collection. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Waller no. 24., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"A game at whist at a round card-table. 'Betty' (left) holds out, with a triumphant grin, the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick. Her mistress, Miss Humphrey, sits on her left. The two men are said to be Tholdal, a German, who turns his head in astonishment towards Betty, and Betty's partner, Mortimer, [Or, according to Wright and Evans, Mr. Jeffrey (presumably the enemy of Mrs. Fitzherbert) and Watson (presumably the print-seller), but in 'Scientific Researches' (23 May 1802) the former is identified by Wright as Tholdal, and in 'Connoisseurs . . .' (16 Nov. 1807) 'Watson' is identified by him as Mortimer.] a picture-dealer and restorer. A scene in Bond Street, shortly before the removal to St. James's Street. This print (reversed) appears in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather', 1808."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title, printmaker, date, and publisher from finished state. and Cf. No. 8885 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
