Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date conjectured from period of printer's activity., Later, altered version of no. 6153 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Print based on "A journeyman parson going on duty".
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, England, Horseback riding, Taverns (Inns), and Clothing & dress
A fat parson riding (right to left) on a small horse arrives at the high iron gate of his house, which is seen in the background. He points arrogantly to a groom in livery, who stands (left) holding another horse whose front half appears on the left. The groom raises his hat. A butler stands in front of the gate. In the distance among trees (right) is a church spire
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., Later version of a ca. 1782 print after Robert Dighton entitled: A master parson returning from duty. Cf. No. 6154 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
An old maid with a large chin and lump in her neck kneels in prayer before a simple table as a man looks down at her from a gap in the rafters. On the wall hang two notices entitled "Cupid's revenge" and "Love in a village".
Description:
Title from text below image., Date based on range of years in which Davison produced caritcatures. See: Isaac, P. Some Alnwick caricatures., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '4' in upper left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and For further information, consult library staff.
A poet sits at a table, pen in hand, posed to write on the sheet of paper before him. On the floor is a discarded piece of paper. His hat and coat hang from a peg on the wall beside the chimney above which is a shelf of books and a picture of a Greek temple. The only other furnishings in the room are a broken chair, a folding bed tilted up against the wall, and a chamber pot
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., Plate numbered '32' in upper right corner., After Hogarth's print of the same name, 1740., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Writing
A dejected-looking man stands barefoot, his shirt open, next to a stump of a tree, pulling a louse from his chest. In the distance is a walled city with two church spires
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left side., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Duvison [that is, Davison], Alnwick
An austere-looking man with a shaved head and ragged clothes, kneels in prayer before his simple meal, unaware that as he recites his blessing, his cat is drinking from his bowl. On the table is a book on which lay his spectacles; his hat hangs off the back of his chair. On the wall behind them is a picture of the three crosses on Calvary
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from Isaac., Numbered '27' in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A politician sits center in a chair before a table with a single candlestick on top. He holds the candle itself in his hand as he closely examines a sheet of paper, oblivious to the fact that the candle is burning a hole in the brim of his hat. Behind him on the wall on either side are two wall maps, one of western Europe and the tip of northern Africa and the other of the Americas and Asia
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., After the design by WilliamHogarth, published by Jane Hogarth 1775., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted.
A country woman in an apron and cloak, hands on her hips, laughs as she watches the havoc caused by a sow and her piglets who run in all directions on the road. A horse rears in panic and topples acouple and their buggy. Another man on horseback is pitched forward as his horse noses the piglet caught between his front legs. In the distance beyond a stone wall on the left is the town dominated by four steeples, on the right trees. While the woman is looking away, two small boys, eyeing her carefully, steal from the contents of her wheelbarrow
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Country life, Robberies, and Swine
The highlander falls back against a table, his one leg held by the 'druid' who sits on a chair made from a barrel as he tends a wound on the Scotsman's calf
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Numbered '15' in upper left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted.
A French woman engages in a fist fight with a startled customer as his friend looks on in horror. Her hook-nosed colleague sits at a table and extends an offer of a shellfish (lobster?) the brawlers
Alternative Title:
Frenchmen in Billingsgate
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted.
