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Published / Created:
[8 August 1803]
Call Number:
803.08.08.01
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A group of men dining around a table, one pouring gravy into the pocket of another
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 8, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Joking, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A fowl with the gravy to it [graphic].
Creator:
Published / Created:
[6 July 1807]
Call Number:
807.07.06.01.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A jovial countryman leans on a rustic railing next to a tree, to address a fat elderly parson on horseback (riding to the left). He asks, "Ha! Ha, the knaust Doctor I be a rum fellow, Canst thee tell me why a parsons horse be like a king?" The parson ...
Alternative Title:
Dignity of a parsons horse
Description:
Plate numbered '136' in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 6th, 1807 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy and Joking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A riddle expounded, or, The dignity of a parsons horse [graphic]
Published / Created:
[1829]
Call Number:
829.00.00.100
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Devil and Joking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Monstrous good joke [graphic].
Published / Created:
[between 1711 and 1769]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
West country wager
Description:
Verse - "A noble young 'squire that liv'd in the west,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the first and second as well as the third and fourth columns are separated by ornamental rules.
Publisher:
printed and sold by John White, in Pilgrim-street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Songs, English, Joking, Man-woman relationships, Sex, Wagers, Hunting, Bows (Archery), Arrows, and Deer
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The merry broomfield, or, The west country wager. To a new tune. Licens'd according to order
