A sleeping clergyman sits in an armchair, oblivious to a maid tickling his nose with the tail of a sucking pig, just delivered by a man standing in the open doorway. On a table is an inkstand and quill, a wine bottle, glass and candle with a book entitled "Tythe laws fully consider'd". At cat pulls from the table a paper labelled "Bans of marriage", while on the floor near a small dog a large book lies open to "Poem on good living". The clergyman's portrait and that of a woman hang on the wall behind him beside a map entitled "A Plan of the doctor's parish."
Alternative Title:
Tythe pig no bad sight and Pleasing method of rousing the doctor
Description:
Title from item. and Numbered in plate: 328.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Tithes, Church of England, Clothing & dress, Practical jokes, Dogs, and Swine
Description from similar print in Lewis Walpole Library: A sleeping clergyman sits in an armchair, oblivious to a maid tickling his nose with the tail of a sucking pig, just delivered by a man standing in the open doorway. On a table is an inkstand and quill, a wine bottle, glass and candle with a book entitled "Tythe laws fully consider'd". At cat pulls from the table a paper labelled "Bans of marriage", while on the floor near a small dog a large book lies open to "Poem on good living". The clergyman's portrait and that of a woman hang on the wall behind him beside a map entitled "A Plan of the doctor's parish."
Description:
Title below image., Date supplied by curator., Below title is a poem in three columns: "The well fed rich Doctor now Dinner is o'er, In his Arm Chair gives way to an Afternoon's snore ..., In margin lower right: 102., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, at their Map and ... Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Tithes, Clothing & dress, Practical jokes, Dogs, and Swine
A view of the Stock Exchange, filled with members; the wall-clock points to 1:30. A few sticks and fists are raised above the crowd, and a hat flies up. In the foreground a horse, led in by two members, is incited by others to kick, a practical joke on its owner. Members in the foreground are after, or vaguely resemble, City portraits by Dighton. ... On the right, Wright stands with raised hand, amused at the horse. Montefiore in profile to the right, faces Hibers(?). Others are mentioned, including Bish. Among the crowd a bearded Jew is consipicuous. On a raised platform at each side stands a beadle
Alternative Title:
Billy White's poney made a member of the stock exchange and Billy White's pony made a member of the stock exchange
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A German copy of Hogarth's "The Discovery" (1743?): a scene in a bedoom where four gentlemen stand beside a curtained bed in which a black woman reclines; she reaches out to touch the chin of one of the men who has evidently just pulled back the curtain. The scene is thought to record a practical joke carried out on the lothario John Highmore by his friends: having arranged an assignation with an attractive young woman, they replaced her with a black prostitute. When he discovered the swap, on climbing into bed, they appeared from hiding. See Paulson
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker's name below image, right, most erased from this impression, After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 155., Date based on publication date of the Samuel Ireland copy of this Hogarth image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of text below title: Ein Personalcaricatur! Ein gewisser Highmore, der im Spiel und mit Mädchen sein Vermögen durchgebracht hatte ..., Plate numbered "30" in upper right margin., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal, v. 3, no. 2600., and Sheet laid on board.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Highmore, John, 1694-1759,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Actors, British, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Practical jokes, Prostitutes, and Women
A comic nighttime scene: a man in his night cap stands in the entrance of his front doorway holding a blunderbuss under his arm and a lit candlestick in his hand. He and his dog both show alarm at the sight of a horse tied to the knocker on the door. In the background (left), around the corner of the house the moonlight reveals two young men who watch in amusement, one laughing behind his hand. On the ground are clam shells. A lantern above the door provides further light on the subject
Alternative Title:
Disturbed by the nightmare
Description:
Title engraved below image., Engraved after a painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1828; see Oxford Dictionary of national biography, entry for Theodore Lane., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Bulcock, 163 Strand, July 1, 1828, & at Paris by H. Rittner, Boulevard Montmartre
"A woman grimaces as a boy holds up a mouse by the tail."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 16' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: It is impossible to account for antipithies in this instance. Horror is exited by the appearance of a harmless mouse., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Mice, Practical jokes, Older people, and Single women
A group of men sit around a table celebrating the new year as the clock passes midnight. Several of the men are quite drunk and one has fallen from his chair. Others laugh and talk as they toast each other with glasses of wine. One man is wearing a punch bowl on his head as his companion toasts the crowd with another steaming bowl of punch. The bowl is elaborately decorated with an oriental theme
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Geo. Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
Five persons, having been seated around a table laden with soup tureens and candlesticks, fall backwards, the servant having pulled back their chairs. The servants laugh at the scene from the hallway (right).
Description:
Title from heading above image., Date of publication burnished partially from plate., One line of text below image: "While your master is saying grace, take the chairs from behind the company & leave the room.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate mark: 1827.
"Illustration to verses printed below in four columns. Six grinning 'cits' stand round one of their number who is in night-cap and waistcoat. Behind is a curtained bed. The verses relate a trick at a Sunday 'dining country jaunt' for which lavish provisions were sent to the Roe Buck in 'the Forest'. The Club went on horseback, butter was hidden in the lining of one member's hat; he was induced to believe that he had 'sweating sickness', and was put to bed instead of sharing the feast."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Letterpress title printed partially on plate below image, partially below plate line., Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank by Krumbhaar., Four columns of verse below title: Tom Ruby was a merry wag as any in the town, and he full fifteen years had worn and grac'd the civic gown ..., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Fevers -- Anecdotes., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 200 x 247 mm, on sheet 439 x 298 mm.
Publisher:
Published 2d Decr. 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London and Jack Rider, printer
Subject (Topic):
Sweating-sickness, Beds, Bedrooms, Chamber pots, Interiors, Obesity, People associated with commercial & service activities, and Practical jokes
"Illustration to verses printed below in four columns. Six grinning 'cits' stand round one of their number who is in night-cap and waistcoat. Behind is a curtained bed. The verses relate a trick at a Sunday 'dining country jaunt' for which lavish provisions were sent to the Roe Buck in 'the Forest'. The Club went on horseback, butter was hidden in the lining of one member's hat; he was induced to believe that he had 'sweating sickness', and was put to bed instead of sharing the feast."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Letterpress title printed partially on plate below image, partially below plate line., Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank by Krumbhaar., Four columns of verse below title: Tom Ruby was a merry wag as any in the town, and he full fifteen years had worn and grac'd the civic gown ..., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Fevers -- Anecdotes.
Publisher:
Published 2d Decr. 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London and Jack Rider, printer
Subject (Topic):
Sweating-sickness, Beds, Bedrooms, Chamber pots, Interiors, Obesity, People associated with commercial & service activities, and Practical jokes
