"A fat vicar with pipe and glass standing in a doorway, regarding a nervous thin clerk, who holds another glass and a lantern; scene illustrating the tale of 'the vicar and Moses', in which the clerk came to fetch the vicar to bury an infant but stayed to drink with him till past midnight, when both staggered out to go to the church; verses to the song below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered '(Plate I)' in lower right below image., First of two plates illustrating a popular song under the same title., Thirty-two lines of verse (first half of the song) printed in two columns below title: At the sign of the horse, old Spintext of course, ..., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published July 17th, 1795, by I. Coard, No. 11 Lisson Street, Edgware Road
"A companion print to BMSat 7797. Three stout and elderly men sit at a small round table in a small enclosure immediately outside a house (right), and bounded by a high wall with a spiked gate. One (left) sleeps, his hat and wig on the ground beside him, the other two are smoking and are about to drink a toast, as is a man who stands (right) supported on a stick. A fifth man (left) walks off in back view."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures &c. Admittance 1 shill., and Companion print to: Dry souls.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 20, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from other prints in series., Originally published in Le Charivari, 12 March 1843., 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 (Topic):
Hydrotherapy, Sick persons, Water, Bucket brigades, Servants, and Glassware
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing depicting a green urn or vase with two handles that was apparently owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. Perhaps the large, damaged glass urn that was found near London and given to Horace Walpole by Dr. Charles Lyttelton, Bishop of Carlisle
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 33 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
