Watercolor of a beggar dressed in ragged, patched clothes, leaning on two crutches and wearing a bag slung across his body with the words "Scraps thankfully received" lettered upon it. He wears an eye patch on his right eye; a pipe sticks out of his hat
Alternative Title:
Scraps thankfully received
Description:
Title, a quote from Hamlet, written in ink beneath image., Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower portion of image. Artist's full name "Wm. Carruthers Esqre." is written within wash-line border at bottom., and For a lithograph of this design in reverse, published March 1825 by E. Hull and Rowe & Walker, see Wellcome Collection reference: 664653i.
"Illustration to a song engraved in three columns below the title: A scene on the shore, with a frigate in the offing. A grotesque naval officer, with wooden leg and black patch over one eye, takes the wrist of a young sailor of feminine appearance who holds a pistol. In the background (right) a dead sailor lies across the body of a woman. The song relates that Billy Taylor was taken by a press-gang; his sweetheart dressed as a sailor to follow him, but discovered his inconstancy with 'a lady gay', and shot him With his fair one in his hand. The last verse:'When the Captain com'd for to hear on't He werry much applauded her for what she'd done, And quickly he made her the first Lieutenant, Of the Gallant - Thunder Bomb.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
True and lamentable ballad call'd Billy Taylor
Description:
Title below image, at head of verses., Plate numbered '367' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., One line of text above design: (Sung by Mr. Bannister, of Drury Lane Theathre, Mr. Fawcett, and Mr. Emery, of Covent Garden. &c &c &c.), and Ten numbered stanzas of verse below title: Billy Taylor was a gay young fellow, full of mirth and full of glee, and his heart he did diskiver, to a lady gay and free ...
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 24, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Eye patches, Homicides, Military officers, British, Peg legs, Sailors, Sailing ships, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
A large John Bull sporting an eye patch sits in an elegant theatre box, a broadside hanging over the edge: "The Pilot! Long Tom Coffin by Mr. T.P. Cook ... Black Eyed Susan."
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A stout and comely lady stands at the door of an ornamentally rustic cottage, shaking a cloth from which tiny officers leap out, holding money-bags. The cloth is inscribed in large letters 'Pin Money instead of Allowance'. She says: "This is a profitable Plan of his and pays me a Devilish deal better than he can, besides the Patronage!!" Five elderly officers of normal size (right) watch their pigmy rivals with consternation. One looks through his glass, saying, "To waste ones health in unwholesome Climates an then fail of promotion because we cannot fee ****** or Army Agents Agents.!!" Another says: "Mother Careys Chickens by - then we shall have a storm indeed!" A third exclaims: "What to spend our lives in the service of our Country, and to be thus degraded by a parcel of Boys!!" He has a wooden leg and a patch over one eye. Another had lost his right arm, and the group seem hardly fit for active service. The 'boys' wear fashionable crescent-shaped cocked hats with plumes, the others old-fashioned hats with cockade, loop, and button. Over the door is inscribed in large letters '... mus Cottage'. It has the ornamental Gothic windows with leaded panes and thatched roof of fashionable rusticity. Beside it is a weeping willow. Below the title: 'NB these Birds have lately been seen hovering about the Horse Guards'. Below the design: 'a Storm Finch, or stormy petterel (the Mother Careys Chickens of the Sailors). Procellaria Pelagica of Linnaeus. is seldom or never seen but in the great Ocean, and then when observed flying near a Ship, is the sure prognostication of a Storm, the analagy [sic] of effect has induced modern Naturalists to class these, with the Pelagica of Linnaeus, tho differing in plumage'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Imprint statement etched within upper portion of image., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners. Small tears along the right edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1808 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827., Great Britain. Army, and Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
Officers, Promotions, Recruiting, enlistment, etc, Military officers, British, Amputees, Dwellings, Doors & doorways, Eye patches, Mistresses, Peg legs, and Uniforms
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication from item., Below title: "She loved him for the dangers he had pass'd/ He loved her, that she did pity them." Shakespear., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1823, by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place
"The Mary Elizabeth (Nugent) Marchioness of Buckingham (died 1813) looks from a curtained bed towards her infant which is being shown by an old soldier to her husband, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who enters from the right, wearing a ribbon and sword. The soldier has a wooden leg and a patch over one eye; he says, "Deel my saul but he'll be a brave soldier your honor, he's got a noble Truncheon". Buckingham answers, "Thanks! thanks! my brave Serjeant, you shall be Knighted this day". Behind him, and on the extreme right, stand another old soldier with two wooden legs supported on crutches, and a man in a university gown and bands, carrying a jug inscribed 'Dublin University Pitcher'. The soldier says, "Downright robbery, by St Patrick! we'll be soon famished if our broth is to be stole from us in this manner". He looks towards a man in a Chancellor's wig and gown, seated on the extreme left and holding a bowl, who says to a nurse who stands over him : "Poo! Poo! good woman this is not caudle! this is the old Soldiers porridge!"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vice Queen's delivery at the old soldier's hospital in Dublin
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed by Grego to Rowlandson. Possibly by Henry Wigstead. Cf. British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Advertisement below title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection of caricature and other humorous prints in Europe. Admittance one shilling., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield.
Publisher:
Dublin pubd., London repubd by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Nugent, George Nugent Grenville, Baron, 1788-1850, Lifford, James Hewitt, Viscount, 1709-1789, Hely-Hutchinson, John, 1724-1794, and Royal Hospital Donnybrook.
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Children, Crutches, Daggers & swords, Eye patches, Food.., Military uniforms, Irish, Peg legs, Pitchers, School superintendents, and Soldiers
Three gentleman (former military?) stand on the sidewalk outside a London club conversing. One wears a patch on his eye and carries a talking stick; another one has a peg leg. The man on the left carries a walking stick and wears spurs on his boots
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed using an unidentified artist's device: A quadrisected circle with a dot in each quadrant., Last digit of the date etched over., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Conversation, Eye patches, Peg legs, and Staffs (Sticks)
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 25 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An injured husband with bandaged arm resting in a sling and eye covered by a patch cautiously confronts and reproves his unloving wife who previously kicked the former down stairs. In the foreground a hostile cat chases and swipes at a fleeing dog reflecting the quarrel of the married couple
Description:
Title from inscription below image in black ink in the artist's hand., Date supplied by cataloger., Attributed to Woodward., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Quarreling, Blaming, Confrontations, Wounds & injuries, and Eye patches
Leaf 30. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two soldiers; on the left, a middle-aged man who has lost an eye, an arm and a leg; on the right, a young man peering at the other through an eye-glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numberd "V. 2" in the upper left corner and "11" in the upper right corner of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Military uniforms -- Spying glasses -- Wooden legs., and Watermark, partially trimmed: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1773, accord. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Soldiers, Veterans, Hand lenses, Eye patches, Amputees, and Peg legs
Leaf 30. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two soldiers; on the left, a middle-aged man who has lost an eye, an arm and a leg; on the right, a young man peering at the other through an eye-glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numberd "V. 2" in the upper left corner and "11" in the upper right corner of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Military uniforms -- Spying glasses -- Wooden legs., Second of two plates on leaf 30., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1773, accord. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Soldiers, Veterans, Hand lenses, Eye patches, Amputees, and Peg legs
