A broadside with seven verses in letterpress below an engraving, representing three Red Indian Chiefs in their national costumes -- "The Stalking Turkey", "The Pouting Pidgeon", "The Man killer". This satire written on the occasion of the arrival in London of three chiefs of the Cherokee Nation, on an embassy to the Court of George III, and the impression these envoys produced on the English
Description:
Caption title., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Bowditch's annotations on mounting sheet., Annotated in an unknown hand below verse., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm; some damage to edges and lower corners.
Publisher:
Sold by the author, opposite the Union Coffee-House, in the Strand, near Temple-Bar, and by all the print and pamphlet seller[s]
"Heading to printed verses: 'Written and Sung by Mr. Emery, with unbounded Applause, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden'. A handsome young man wearing top-boots and striped waistcoat stands as if singing, in a landscape, outside a rustic inn (left). He relates his experiences first as head-waiter at the Red Cow, then as footman in various places. He has now 'cumm'd up to Lunnon to get a new place'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Three columns of verse in letterpress below title: Your zarvant, good gentlefolks, how d'ye all do? Dont'ee know me again, that you stare at me so! ..., and Plate numbered in upper left corner: 500.
Publisher:
Publish'd Nov. 14, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A young man stands singing on the boards of a theatre; trees form a background. 'Mr Mug', enslaved in Africa by 'a trading blackamoor', became 'his black Mandingo Majesty's white Minister of State'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Three columns of verse in letterpress below title: By trade I am a Turner, and Mug it is my name; to buy a lot of ivory to Africa I came ..., and Plate numbered in upper left corner: 495.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1, 1808, by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Caption title. Without imprint., Place of publication supplied by curator., First line: Three rosy fac'd Topers as ever was known, On a Frolick one night ..., Additional two lines of music "For the German flute.", This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Staff notation., and In ink upper right: 31.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Drinking songs, Sheet music, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Wine, Law, Clergy, and Songs
"Three revellers sit at a small round table on which is a large punch-bowl, each holding a full glass. A fat man in an arm-chair (right), full-face, each gouty bandaged leg supported on a stool, his left hand bandaged, and wearing a dressing-gown, with jovially contorted features, declaims the first part of the title. His neighbour, a young woman with her hand clasping her waist, declaims the second part. A wretched invalid (left), with stick-like limbs, looking on the verge of the grave, repeats the last part. The words, inscribed in scrolls, form the only title. They are the words of an old catch which continues: 'And is by all agreed the very best of physic' A patterned carpet, and cast shadows on a plain wall, complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print of which this is a copy
Description:
Title from text in speech balloons within image, transposed right to left., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication inferred from John Miller's entry in London Publishers and Printers, by Philip A.H. Brown (London, British Library, 1982)., Plate from: The caricatures of Gillray. London : John Miller, [between 1824 and 1827]., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray published 13 July 1799 by H. Humphrey. Cf. No. 9449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 265., Cf. Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 453., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Cholic -- Punch.
Publisher:
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Drinking vessels, Eating & drinking, Floor coverings, Alcoholic beverages, Intoxication, Living rooms, Medicine, Songs, and Singing
"Three revellers sit at a small round table on which is a large punch-bowl, each holding a full glass. A fat man in an arm-chair (right), full-face, each gouty bandaged leg supported on a stool, his left hand bandaged, and wearing a dressing-gown, with jovially contorted features, declaims the first part of the title. His neighbour, a young woman with her hand clasping her waist, declaims the second part. A wretched invalid (left), with stick-like limbs, looking on the verge of the grave, repeats the last part. The words, inscribed in scrolls, form the only title. They are the words of an old catch which continues: 'And is by all agreed the very best of physic' A patterned carpet, and cast shadows on a plain wall, complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print of which this is a copy
Description:
Title from text in speech balloons within image, transposed right to left., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication inferred from John Miller's entry in London Publishers and Printers, by Philip A.H. Brown (London, British Library, 1982)., Plate from: The caricatures of Gillray. London : John Miller, [between 1824 and 1827]., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray published 13 July 1799 by H. Humphrey. Cf. No. 9449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 265., Cf. Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 453., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Cholic -- Punch., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.6 x 31.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge., and Mounted to 23 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Drinking vessels, Eating & drinking, Floor coverings, Alcoholic beverages, Intoxication, Living rooms, Medicine, Songs, and Singing
"A woman standing examining a display of slip ballads that the seller, a "pinner-up", who is seated on a stool, has hung along a wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., After a painting by Henry Walton., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Plate numbered '410' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Music: song-sheets -- Male costume: song-sheet seller -- Female costume: maid-servant -- Trades: song-sheet seller -- Brooms -- Broadsides: King Charles' 12 good rules., Watermark., and Publication date erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Brooms & brushes, Stools, Street vendors, and Songs
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., Below title: Preston's Illustrations of Popular Songs (No.4)., A satire of a popular song written by Thomas H. Bayly., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mad dogs.
Publisher:
Published by Preston Burlington Arcade
Subject (Name):
Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 1797-1839.
Subject (Topic):
Rabies in dogs, Songs, Women, Dogs, and City & town life
Volume 1, page 75. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Seemingly signed with initials and dated by the artist; the indeterminate, monogrammatic signature may be "CAv." or "Av.", With three stanzas of a song from Henry Carey's 1735 ballad farce The honest Yorkshireman written below image: Come hither my country squire, take friendly instructions from me ..., and Mounted on page 75 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
A collection of 232 broadside ballads, pamphlets, and songs mounted, or laid in, in three volumes, mostly from the 18th century with a few possibly in the first years of the 19th century. All trimmed but some do include an imprint including some from Bath, Salisbury, Newcastle, Liverpool, Northampton, and perhaps Canterbury
Description:
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts (v. 2 and v.3) or Old English ballads (v.3).
