Title from text below image., Artist identified as "Miss E. Dubuisson" and date given as approximately 1830 in the catalog record for the full series of prints at Harvard's Houghton Library: Sketches of character. The Mufflechop Family No.1-12. W. & J.O. Clerk are identified as the lithographers. The same artist attribution and dating is noted by Christine Thomson in her catalogue of color plate books in the collection of Norman R. Bobins., Third in a series of twelve comical prints telling the story of Mr. and Mrs. Mufflechop, beginning with their engagement and ending with their first child going off to school., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Published by T. Pewtress, 67 Newington Causeway, & Ackermannn [sic] & Co., 96 Strand
Title etched below image., Date assigned by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below center image., Twelve small designs on one plate, nine of which are individually titled: A rise in muslin; A rainbow; A fall in fannel; Ornamental painter & decorator; The advantages of keeping your carriage ... a dragsman; 1 in hand & 2 in crib; A sky light; Tell tale; Black game., 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: Fighting -- Children -- Families -- Carriages -- Rain -- Umbrellas.
Title from text above images., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Seven designs on one plate, each individually titled., and Temporary local subject terms:
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1830, by S. Gans, Southampton St.
A figure of an apothecary standing before a desk; his body is formed from the tools of his trade: vials, mortar and pestle, funnels, pill boxes, etc. His neck is a stack of pills. He holds a long scroll in his right "hand".
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by G.E. Madeley, Wellington St., Strand
Subject (Topic):
Hand tools, Mortars & pestles, Pharmacists, and Arcimboldesque figures
The figure of a barber whose body is formed from tools of his trade -- brushes, combs, razors, wigs, etc.-- stands grooming himself in front of a shaving mirror
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington St., Strand
"Satire showing an announcement from a pulpit in a church requesting the wardens to meet to consider eating the church."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Very uncommon parish dinner
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.298., Two lines of text below title: The churchwarden's got a wide mouth, and his grinders are like a sledge hammer. Vide old song., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
