Print with an image at the top and two columns of letterpress below: A middle-aged man in a robe sits in an upholstered armchair, his gouty foot resting on a footstool, and a pained look on his face; medicine and a bowl on the table beside his chair (left) and a crutch rests against a second stool (right). He reaches toward a younger woman in a cap and apron who is looking down and away from him. On the left is bed with curtains and on the wall, a framed picture of Cupid shooting an arrow. The letterpress text below, in two columns, provides a timeline for a man's life, starting at the age of 16 listed at the beginning of each line, tells the humorous tale of the consequences of a man putting off marriage for prideful reasons from age "16 - incipient palpitations towards the young ladies", through the ages of "29 - rails against the fair sex", "37 - indulge in every kind of dissipation", and "48 - thinks living alone quite irksome ...". Eventually, he resolves to have a prudent young woman as housekeeper and companion, gradually feeling some attachment to her and becoming completely under her influence. At age 60, as he begins to feel ill, and "grows rapidly worse, has his will made in her favour, and makes an exit."
Description:
Title from text below image., Date based on publishers' known dates of activity at this address: Samuel & Joseph Fuller are listed in the London Directories from 1809 to 1839 at this address., 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: Spinsters.
Publisher:
Published by S. and J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone-Place and Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Life cycle, Human, Gout, Single women, Women domestics, Canopy beds, Chairs, Crutches, Cupids, Servants, Medicines, Cats, and Dogs
Title from item., Published: The Political Register. Vol. 2, June, 1768., In lower margin: The Blood & Vitals from her Wounds he drew, And Fed the Hounds that help'd him to pursue. Dryden., British Museum description: Satirical frontispiece to the Political Register, June 1768, showing Britannia stabbed by Lord Bute, her blood caught in bowls held by Lords Weymouth and Barrington; behind on the right, Lord Mansfield hands a bowl of blood to Lord Chatham who is seated his gouty leg on a stool and holding a crutch; on the steps in front of them, Lord Talbot drinks greedily from another bowl, a spit hanging by his side instead of a sword identifies him Lord Steward of the Household; behind on the left, Fletcher Norton, in legal robes, stands drinking from another bowl, an unidentified man leans forward to look at Britannia as she falls back, and another lawyer stands behind drinking from yet another bowl., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793., Talbot, William Talbot, Earl of, 1710-1782., and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789.
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Politicians, Blood, Crutches, Bowls (Tableware)., and Homicides
Title from item., Two lines of quote below image: The blood & vitals from her wounds he drew, and fed the hounds that helped him to pursue. Dryden., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 2 (1768), p.385., Temporary local subject terms: Riots: reference to St. George's Fields, Southwark -- Weapons: dagger., and Mounted to 37 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
J. Almon
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Gout, Crutches, Surgery, and Tableware
Volume 2, page 45. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A gouty and obese man (right) seated in a chair plays the 'cello. Both legs are swathed, the feet wrapped in slashed coverings; the right leg rests on a stool. The Devil (left), hat in hat, holds in a pair of tongs a cinder against the right knee. Bottles and glasses stand on a table. A pair of crutches lean against the chair. The hands of a wall-clock point to 12.25."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state
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Title etched below image., Lettered state of no. 6881 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Temporary local subject terms: Music: Cello -- Furniture: Wall clock -- Medical disease -- Wine glasses -- Decanters., and Mounted on page 45 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, April 20th, 1785, by J. Jones, Great Portland Street
Volume 2, page 45. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A gouty and obese man (right) seated in a chair plays the 'cello. Both legs are swathed, the feet wrapped in slashed coverings; the right leg rests on a stool. The Devil (left), hat in hat, holds in a pair of tongs a cinder against the right knee. Bottles and glasses stand on a table. A pair of crutches lean against the chair. The hands of a wall-clock point to 12.25."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state
Description:
Title etched below image., Lettered state of no. 6881 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Temporary local subject terms: Music: Cello -- Furniture: Wall clock -- Medical disease -- Wine glasses -- Decanters., and 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 22.6 x 26.2 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, April 20th, 1785, by J. Jones, Great Portland Street
Volume 2, page 45. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A gouty and obese man (right) seated in a chair plays the 'cello. Both legs are swathed, the feet wrapped in slashed coverings; the right leg rests on a stool. The Devil (left), hat in hat, holds in a pair of tongs a cinder against the right knee. Bottles and glasses stand on a table. A pair of crutches lean against the chair. The hands of a wall-clock point to 12.25."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state
Description:
Title etched below image., Lettered state of no. 6881 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Temporary local subject terms: Music: Cello -- Furniture: Wall clock -- Medical disease -- Wine glasses -- Decanters., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 29.9 cm., and Imperfect; a thin strip of the sheet below title has been removed and the remaining parts of the sheet glued back together, with loss of the statement of responsibility.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, April 20th, 1785, by J. Jones, Great Portland Street
Leaf 79. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Overthrow of Doctor Slop
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each individually titled., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Reduced copies of two designs by Bunbury. Cf. Nos. 5215 and 5213 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Restrike, with added titles and borders. For the earlier state without titles, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession nos.: 59.533.1750 ; 59.533.1748., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1803; see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., and On leaf 79 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Verse - "Come all that love mirth, awhile lend an ear,"., In three columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; imprint at foot of the last column below a single rule; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 21. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Verse -- "A wealthy man of late, we hear,"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; imprint at foot of the fourth column, below a single rule; the columns are not separated by rules., Also published with title ’A cabinet of good counsel’., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 45. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
