In two columns with the title in a ribbon atop a woodcut below stanza one. Stanzas 2 and 3 below image. A sailor at a seaside tavern (Jack Ocum) dances with a young woman as he holds his tankard. The fiddle music is played by a man who stands beside a woman in the tavern doorway. In the distance on the right is a sailing ship and along the shore, two men in a row boat
Alternative Title:
Oddities. Song
Description:
Title from item., One of the songs from Charles Dibdin's 'The oddities', first presented in 1789., First line reads: A sailor's life's a life of woe., Imprint transposed from above around lower edge of image and from the bottom of the sheet., Anonymous. By Charles Dibdin., and Not in ESTC.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Pitts, Great Saint Andrew St. ; Sold by C. Sheppard, Lambert Hill, Doctors Commons
A thin man with a very large nose and lips embraces his new, very large wife whose features are equally exaggerated. They stand at the edge of a bed, he almost falling on her lap. A cat stands on a bracket shelf pulling at the man's pigtail queue. On the wall a picture amplifies the subject
Alternative Title:
Honeymoon
Description:
Title from caption below image., Companion print: Six weeks after the marriage., Printmaker from companion print., Artist from copy at the Library of Congress., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Interiors, Marriage, Spouses, and Wigs
Title etched below image., Unverified attribution to Dent from local card catalog., Publication information from the Library of Congress copy. Cf. LC 3:42., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Dissenters -- Symbols: dove of peace -- St. Paul's Cathedral -- Dice and dice-box -- Reference to St. Stephen's Chapel -- Reference to the House of Commons -- Literature: reference to Richard Price's Observations on civil liberty -- Literature: reference to Edmund Burke's A philosophical inquiry into the origin of the sublime and beautiful -- Acts: repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, March 2, 1790 -- Thirty-nine articles -- Votes: majority 189 on repeal of Test and Corporation Act., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., One of a series of "Drolls.", Temporary local subject terms: Matrimony -- Adultery -- Cuckolds -- Infants -- Interiors: parlor -- Furniture: tables -- Chairs -- Wooden floors -- Smoking: pipes -- Tankards -- Pets: cats -- Emblems: mounted stag's head -- Female costume: morning dress., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799.
Publisher:
Published 1st May, 1790, by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched above image., Possibly after Woodward., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Seven lines of verse below title: Proceed we next unto the old incumbent at his gate ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Incumbents -- Old men -- Male costume: banyan -- Furniture: garden benches -- Architectural details: garden gates -- Spectacles -- Literature: parody on Shakespeare's As You Like It -- Literature: quotation from Richard Graves's The Spiritual Quixote.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Older people, Benches, Garden walls, Gates, Reading, and Eyeglasses
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse below image: The jay would for a gaudy peacock pass ..., Temporary local subject terms: Birds: peacocks -- Literature: quotation from Aesop's fable., and Window mounted to 20 x 24 cm.
In the center of a broad city street, a gaily-dressed lamplighter carries his ladder as he walks to the right. In his right hand he carries a can with burning end and a pair of scissors with a chain in a case hangs from his waist. In the distance (left) is a large building with a church spire rising behind, and on the right a pillar with a lamp and iron rail above a brick wall
Description:
Title from caption above verses etched below image: "By Mr. Dibdin.", Verse in three columns below title begins: "I'm jolly Dick the lamplighter, they say the sun's my dad, and truly I believe it sir, for I'm a pretty lad ...", Numbered "602" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Purchased by British Museum in 2010. For similar, see British Museum number 1935,0522.1.36 in the online catalogue., No. 41 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Cities & towns, Ladders, Lampposts, and People associated with manual labor
Title from text above image., Caption below image: The modern Judas, addressed to the free electors of Westminster., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following the imprint: "... at whose exhibition rooms may be seen the compleatest collection of comick & satiricat [sic] prints in Europe. Admittance one shilling.", Temporary local subject terms: St. Stephen's Chapel -- Elections: Westminster, 1790 -- Literature: allusion to Sheridan's School for scandal -- Naval uniforms: admirals' uniforms., and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis and initials LVG.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12, 1790 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Townshend, John, Lord
