A lawyer stands in his office between two disconcerted litigants who are turned and walking away from him. As he brings a fork with an oyster on it to his mouth, he offers half of the empty oyster shell to the man on the right. A bald, worn-down looking man (left), looks down at his half of the shell, mouth agap. On the wall behind them are rolls of documents and a shelf of books; other papers are tacked on the wall above the desk. On the desk (right) is an ink well with feather pens. The center of the design at the lower edge is decorated with the musical symbols for sharps and flats
Description:
Title from caption below image., Numbered "604" in lower left corner., Companion print: A flat between two sharps., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 42 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 Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Customer relations, Desks, Inkstands, Interiors, Lawyers, and Offices
"Satire on Quakers: a meeting house with a woman speaking and men and women assembled on benches and in galleries."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Below title: Preface to the reader. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.", Sixteen lines of text below image: A short examination &c. It is hoped that this little treatise will not be unfavourably received among the people called Quakers ..., Temporary local subject terms: Quakers -- Meeting-house of the Society of Friends., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Society of Friends, Interiors, and Friends' meeting houses
Title from caption etched above image., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Copy of no. 4079-4 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Bedchamber -- Furnishings: bed curtain -- Emblems: Scotch bonnet for Lord Bute -- Wall mirror -- Female dress: stays., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title etched below image., 'Ego' is the pseudonym of M. Egerton. See British Museum catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sore throat., and 1 print : aquatint and etching ; plate mark 233 x 181 mm.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Throat, Diseases, Sick persons, Interiors, and Drinking vessels
Title etched below image., 'Ego' is the pseudonym of M. Egerton. See British Museum catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sore throat.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Throat, Diseases, Sick persons, Interiors, and Drinking vessels
The interior of a printing shop with four men engaged in various stages of the printing process including typesetting, inking, pulling the printed sheets, and binding. Sheets are shown drying overhead. Each figure and equipment is keyed, A-K.
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Plate from: The new universal magazine, or, Gentleman and lady's polite instructor. London : M. Cooper, v. 2 (1752)., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Key lacking.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Printers, Printing industry, Printing presses, and Type setting
An interior view of the House of Peers, looking towards the King's seat, where he sits in state with officials holding swords and maces around him, peers sitting in benches lining the walls, which are decorated with crests and ships, others in a block in the centre, one standing in the centre foreground with his back to the viewer, holding a scroll in his right hand, and several standing conversing to either side. The throne is shown with a backdrop of a tapestry
Description:
Title etched below image., In upper right corner above image: Gent. Mag. Jany. 1769., and Plate from: The gentleman's magazine, or, Monthly intelligencer / by Sylvanus Urban. London : Edw. Cave, 1769, v. 39.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and Westminster Palace (London, England)
"The interior of Dulwich College Chapel. A stout man, probably the Master, wearing a gown, stands in a pulpit or desk (left), a large book before him, his eyes and mouth twisted in a sly leer. Below him (right) the figure of Edward Alleyne has risen from a tombstone and stands (half length) holding up the horizontal stone. He is surrounded by clouds. He wears hat, ruff, and a gown which differs from that of the living man chiefly in being furred. The figure is copied (in reverse) from the whole length portrait of Alleyne at Dulwich College. On the stone, beneath a coat of arms, is the inscription, a strip along the left being cut off by the lower margin of the print: 'Sacred | the Memory of | Edward Alleyne | Founder of this | College | Life Nov 26 | 1626 Æ 63 | Likewise | Joan his Dear | Wife who F | race 28 June 1623.' Next the Master is a sour-looking profile, and, below, three choristers (full-face), are grinning broadly."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Place of publication based on location of printmaker John Nixon.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Alleyn, Edward, 1566-1626., Alleyn, Thomas, -1805., and Dulwich College
"The interior of a church. Archbishop Markham (left) delivering a charge to his clergy. He stands (left) within the chancel rails; in his left hand he holds up a flaming torch; in his right hand, which rests on a balustrade, he holds a birch-rod and a paper inscribed "Factious C--y--n. [Countrymen], A Lamentable Want of Sobriety, Foremost in mischief. This is no Gainfull Traffick - Nonresistance &c. Explain'd. Vide my Sermon. Charity Thinketh no Evil &c. A perfectly detestable Faction &c." On the right, in the body of the church, sit clergymen dressed in gown and bands, they listen with varying expressions. Behind the archbishop is a table of the Ten Commandments, on which is inscribed, "... VI Thou shalt do no Murder and IX Thou shalt not bear false Witness &c." Below the design is etched, "Remarks upon a late charge delivered not 100 Miles from Y--k. Vide Rememr.pt. 2nd 1781- page 239."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Archbishop Laud charging his clergy
Description:
Title etched below image., Etched beneath title: Hac itur ad astra' Anglicé - This is the road to Lambeth., and Ms. note in ink in an unidentified hand on verso: Before price 2s. was etched. Numbered also on verso in upper left.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and York
Subject (Name):
Markham, William, 1719-1807.
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Interiors, Preaching, and Torches
A very fat gentleman on the left paying court to an ugly old lady on the right; both are seated with the gentleman with a small dog beneath his chair and a cat near his feet; the lady is holding a fan and wearing the towering hairstyle of the period. Behind them draperies are pulled aside revealing shelves of books
Description:
Title etched below image., Place of publication follows publisher's street address., Numbered in lower left of plate: 382., Variant of George 4557, without verses below design, but with imprint date present., and Contemporary pencil ms. notation identifying subjects: Mr. Mason & Mrs. Montague.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Montague, Elizabeth Robinson, 1720-1800. and Mason, William, 1725-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Couples, Interiors, Bookcases, Dogs, and Cats
