A man lies on his side in his bed beside his wife who facing the viewer, both in night caps, and lying against pillows. Only their heads are visible above the covers. Below title: "Caudle, you shan't close your eyes for a week-no you shan't-unless you tell me some of it" &c. (see Punch).
Alternative Title:
Mr. and Mrs. Caudle
Description:
Title from text within image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Attribution is questionable., Sheet partially trimmed., 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.by G. Johnson
Subject (Name):
Lolkes, Wybrand, 1733-.
Subject (Topic):
Dwarfism, Dwarfs (Persons)., Dwarfs, Human curiosities, and Spouses
"A woman sits up in bed, holding up a crying infant. Her lank husband stands stiffly beside her holding an infant's commode and lighted taper. Beneath, the incident is related in biblical language: 'And behold about the ninth hour Tabitha the Wife of my Bosom awoke, . . . [&c, &c.]'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Plate numbered '229' in lower left corner., Four lines of text below title: And behold about the ninth hour Tabitha, the wife of my bosom, awoke and said unto me, Arise Nathaniel speedily ..., and From the Laurie and Whittle series of drolls.
Publisher:
Published 9th April 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A man and wife sit side by side on upright chairs. The man holds a tankard; she sleeps, holding a tobacco-pipe and a small round box
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., and Plate numbered '25 published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions.
Illustration to verses printed in two columns. An elderly parson, holding his pipe, his back to the fire, makes gestures of rage towards his servant (right) who hurries terrified from the room as he drops a jug. His wife (left) holds his coat to restrain him, dropping a book from her lap as she sits in a chair with a slipcover. The verses in letterpress below the image relate that after a sermon on the misfortunes of Job, the parson told his wife that his 'patience and strength of mind' were equal to Job's, though she (like other women) was incapable of such restraint. His servant enters to tell him that the contents of a cask of ale had been spilt. His wife reproaches him for his violent abuse: "Job was not half so vext ..."; he says: "Answer me this, I say- Did Job e'er lose a barrel of such ale?" On the wall behing is a picture of Job suffering by the road as described in the Bible. See British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bad job
Description:
Titie from letterpress printed below the image. On this impression part of the title is printed below plate., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Text of the tale in letterpress printed in two columns below title: Twas at some country place, a parson preaching, The virtue of long sufferance was teaching ..., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., and Watermark: E & P 1796.
Publisher:
Published 20th November 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Job (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Biblical events, Chairs, Clergy, Fireplaces, Interiors, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Religious dwellings, Servants, and Spouses
Ten hand-colored engravings, depicting scenes from the Battle of Seringapatnam, form the border of a writing sheet, one each along the upper and lower edges and four on either side. Illustrations include, at the top, a battle scene; portraits of the British generals, Harris and Stuart; Tippoo Saib discovered among the slain, Tippoo's sons surrender; A sepoy upon a charge, An Indian soldier; Tippoo Sultan, Tippoo Sultan's wife; a design with flags, drums, cannons, swords and bugles. The battle scene and the image with the two sons include images of elephants
Alternative Title:
Conquest of Seringapatnam
Description:
Title from head of sheet., Numbered '65.' in lower right corner., With blank center of sheet filled in manuscript in black ink with an adage and a poem and signed: John Halton June 12th, Prescot School, 1801., and With watermark and countermark.
Publisher:
Published 18th Novr. 1799 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
India, India., Śrīraṅgapaṭṭaṇa., and Indian
Subject (Name):
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799, and Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799
A pretty young woman sits on the knee of an officer (left) wearing a gorget and cocked hat. She looks over her shoulder to speak to her elderly husband who leaves the room (right) supported on crutches: "Pray my Dear go and speak to Sir John in the mean while the Captain & I will push the point in this Quarter." He answers: "I'll go this momment. now is the Golden instant so dont be Idle but exert yourselves to have the affair well done & quickly." Over the doorway is a stag's head with antlers. The captain says: "Thanks, Sir. I trust your good Lady will Succeed in her Undertaking
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., State with street address '20 Strand' burnished from plate., and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 24, 1802 by T. Williamson, London
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Couples, Horns (Anatomy), Military uniforms, British, Sofas, and Spouses
Design consists of eight panels arranged in two horizontal rows, with lines of text etched in the top portion of each panel. In the upper left, an intoxicated woman in an arm chair, says "May we have in our arms what we love in our hearts. No tax upon gin! Here we go up, up, up, and there we go down, down, down!" The next shows a man prostrate on his back holding a lantern, with words above, "Bless me, is that the sun of the moon I see above there!" On the wall behind him a print with the title "The good woman" etched above the figure of a woman without a head. Third, a bare chested gravedigger looks up from his work in horror as a woman loses control of the pail of water on her head. Above them are the words, "Hollo! Damn your blood you old Faggot, where are you coming to?" The final panel in the top row shows an obese well-dressed woman vomiting, a bottle of "Comfort for the Cholick" in her left hand. The words etched above her head: "Too much of a good thing!". First on the left of the second row: a large, young woman with bare breasts and generally disheveled and quesy look on her face, walks on a cobblestone street; behind her in the distance a man shakes a cleaver in her direction. Above her the words, “I am a little sickish or so, but no matter, I've given Sal her gruel? She drink gin with me! Blast me she could as soon swallow the fat landlady!” The next panel shows a unconscious woman being carried on a man's back. The text above them reads, “She's got her quantum, by jingo, she smells as sweet as a daisy! But no matter, I'll get the blunt in the morning from her old goat of a keeper. 'Upon my conscience and soul he will have a precious bedfellow of her to night! In the third panel, bottom row, an old woman with spectacles bumps into a large rock, causing her to drop her bottle of gin and a bloody nose. Etched above her head are the words, “What's that for you sawcy reascal! Here, Watch! Watch! Watch! Lord a mercy upon me what a blow! My poor head spins like a top!” In the final panel, a military officer escorts a well-dressed young woman along a street as he brandishes a club. Above them is etched, "Stick, close, my dear, Charlotte. Hold up your head, my lily of the valley. I am as sober as a judge. Woman and wine for ever, damn me!”
Description:
Title from caption below images., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799., and Mounted on modern secondary support.
Publisher:
Pub. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
St. Giles in the Fields (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Social conditions, Couples, Gin, Gravedigging, Intoxication, Spouses, and Watchmen
A thin man in threadbare cloths, his toes poking out of his shoes, stands left scratching his head, a pained look on his face. On the right his large wife looks over her shoulder at him with a crossly, her hands on her large hips. A cat claws at the man's right leg. On the wall a pictures amplifies subject of the print: two cocks fight in a yard
Description:
Title from caption below image., Companion print: Honey moon., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms:
"Satire on marriage, illustrating a riotous scene in a country village where a shrewish wife and hen-pecked husband are mocked by their neighbours in procession. The couple ride on one horse, the man facing the tail, preceded by another man on horseback who throws grain from a pannier to the crowd. Further to the right, cuckold's horns in the form of a stag's head, a ram's head and a cow's head are held aloft, the latter attached to a woman's shift, and "rough music" is played on pots and pans. In the background, is a river and a similar procession takes place on the far bank.."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text above image., Undated later state, by a different publisher; see No.1703 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse below image: First pans and kettles of all keys, from trebles, down to double bass ..., Temporary local subject terms: Fairs: "Horn Fair", Charlton, Kent -- Banners: Horns and women's undergarments used as banners on stick -- Kitchen utensils: pots as noisemakers -- Ladles -- Horns: stag's head and antlers on stick -- Ram's horns on stick -- Cow's horns on stick -- Grain -- Distaffs -- Processions: Skimmington -- Buildings: cottages -- Rowboats -- Alehouses -- Signs with horns -- Tubs on poles -- Matrimony -- Countrymen -- Swans -- Shrews -- Literature: verse purported to be from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., Watermark and countermark., "Hudibras" at the end of verse erased from this impression., and Mounted to 36 x 51 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, Spouses, Marriage, Dwellings, Dogs, and Horses
