A red-nosed 'Cit' sits on a rock along a small waterfall on a stream outside a cottage, fishing. He grins as he holds up a fish that he has caught, the caption below conveying his thought: "Do you call that nothing?" The joke is that his bucket of fish that hangs off a tree branch next to him has been overturned and all the rest of the fish he has caught spill back into the stream
Leaf 32. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull stands on a stone on tiptoe under a tree, a rope round his neck attached to a branch of the tree. He holds the rope with both hands, to prevent strangulation. On the right stands a Frenchman (France) holding out a leek to John Bull, between them is a stream or river. John Bull is a moderately stout man with a thick neck, wearing an ill-made bob-wig, not the characteristic John Bull of later satires, who had already appeared, see British Museum Satires Nos. 5611, 5612. The Frenchman is very thin, wearing a night-cap, a long pigtail queue, a ruffled shirt, and sabots stuffed with grass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: France as a French peasant -- Emblems: Leek for France -- ?Reference to defeat at Yorktown., and Second of two plates on leaf 32.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Hangings (Executions), Nooses, Peasants, Onions, Streams, and Wigs
"A young shepherdess at left leads her flock through a stream, approaching a piper sitting on rocks at right, mountains behind; oval design; after Kauffman."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imprint at bottom of plate includes publisher's name and street address; secondary publication statement immediately below image includes publication date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Illustration to Marmontel's moral tale 'The shepherdess of the Alps'., and Mounted on page 103 of: Bunbury album.