Watercolor of a beggar dressed in ragged, patched clothes, leaning on two crutches and wearing a bag slung across his body with the words "Scraps thankfully received" lettered upon it. He wears an eye patch on his right eye; a pipe sticks out of his h...
Alternative Title:
Scraps thankfully received
Description:
Title, a quote from Hamlet, written in ink beneath image.
"Illustration to a song engraved in three columns below the title: A scene on the shore, with a frigate in the offing. A grotesque naval officer, with wooden leg and black patch over one eye, takes the wrist of a young sailor of feminine appearance wh...
Alternative Title:
True and lamentable ballad call'd Billy Taylor
Description:
Title below image, at head of verses.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 24, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Eye patches, Homicides, Military officers, British, Peg legs, Sailors, Sailing ships, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
A large John Bull sporting an eye patch sits in an elegant theatre box, a broadside hanging over the edge: "The Pilot! Long Tom Coffin by Mr. T.P. Cook ... Black Eyed Susan."
"A stout and comely lady stands at the door of an ornamentally rustic cottage, shaking a cloth from which tiny officers leap out, holding money-bags. The cloth is inscribed in large letters 'Pin Money instead of Allowance'. She says: "This is a profit...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1808 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827., Great Britain. Army, and Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
Officers, Promotions, Recruiting, enlistment, etc, Military officers, British, Amputees, Dwellings, Doors & doorways, Eye patches, Mistresses, Peg legs, and Uniforms
"The Mary Elizabeth (Nugent) Marchioness of Buckingham (died 1813) looks from a curtained bed towards her infant which is being shown by an old soldier to her husband, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who enters from the right, wearing a ribbon and swo...
Alternative Title:
Vice Queen's delivery at the old soldier's hospital in Dublin
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Dublin pubd., London repubd by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Nugent, George Nugent Grenville, Baron, 1788-1850, Lifford, James Hewitt, Viscount, 1709-1789, Hely-Hutchinson, John, 1724-1794, and Royal Hospital Donnybrook.
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Children, Crutches, Daggers & swords, Eye patches, Food.., Military uniforms, Irish, Peg legs, Pitchers, School superintendents, and Soldiers
Three gentleman (former military?) stand on the sidewalk outside a London club conversing. One wears a patch on his eye and carries a talking stick; another one has a peg leg. The man on the left carries a walking stick and wears spurs on his boots
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Conversation, Eye patches, Peg legs, and Staffs (Sticks)
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 25 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An injured husband with bandaged arm resting in a sling and eye covered by a patch cautiously confronts and reproves his unloving wife who previously kicked the former down stairs. In the foreground a hostile cat chases and swipes at a fleeing dog ref...
Description:
Title from inscription below image in black ink in the artist's hand.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Quarreling, Blaming, Confrontations, Wounds & injuries, and Eye patches
