Title from item., Design for this print attributed to Yarbury. See British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Bush(?), fi. 1763 -- Morton(?), fl. 1763 -- Laurence, fl. 1763 -- John Saunders, 6th Bt. Sebright , 1725-1794 -- Allusion to Richard Nash, 1674-1761 -- Abel Moysey, 1743-1831 -- Cooper, fl. 1763 -- Lewis Clutterbuck, d. 1776 -- Chapman, d. 1781(?) -- Ford, fl. 1763 -- Walter Wiltshire, fl. 1763 -- Spurrier, fl. 1763 -- Attwood, fl. 1763 -- Axford, fl. 1763 -- Crook, fl. 1763 -- Dallamore, fl. 1763 -- Corporation of Bath -- Literature: allusion to Life of Richard Nash of Bath, Esquire, by Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774 -- Literature: quotation from Henry IV, pt. 1, ii.4.153, by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 -- Addresses: Bath citizens' address, May 28, 1763 -- Addresses: quotation from Allen's address, The gentleman's magazine, v. 33, p. 376-7, August 1763 -- Bath: Prior Park -- Inns: allusion to Greyhound Inn, Bath -- Magna Charta., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Allen, Ralph, 1694-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Leake, James, -1764, Ligonier, John, 1680-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Warburton, William, 1698-1779
Subject (Topic):
Clerks, Mayors, Medical equipment & supplies, Municipal officials, Occupations, Physicians, and Town criers
"The crier, his mouth wide open, with an angry expression, shakes his bell in the faces of three gaping and alarmed yokels (left). He wears a long old-fashioned coat, broad cocked hat and wig, and holds a cane. A young man with a pitchfork (right) loiters complacently. A path leads to a farmhouse (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Probably from the series of Drolls., and Three lines of text below image: Oyes! Oyes! This is to guie Notice, That Alice Grunt has lost from out her Stye last Night at 25 Minits past 10 o Clock two Pigs the one a black un 'tother Caroty un whoever will bring Um to the said alice Grunt - Or give inflammation where they have stolen or strayed shall have her thanks and the first sucking Pig from the Breed of old Nanny at Lammas day next - God save the King.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 16th 1793, by Robt. Sayer and Company, Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural facilities, Agricultural laborers, Bells, Pitchforks, and Town criers
A crier, his mouth wide open and with an angry expression, shakes his bell in the faces of three gaping and alarmed yokels (right). He wears a long old-fashioned coat, broad cocked hat and wig, and holds a cane. A young man (farmer?) with a pitchfork (left) loiters complacently. A path leads to a farmhouse (left)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date suggested by Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered "35" in upper right corner., and A copy in reverse after an earlier print of the title, published in Dec. 16, 1793, by Robert Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London (see British Museum satires no. 8411).
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural facilities, Agricultural laborers, Bells, Pitchforks, and Town criers
"Three strips arranged horizontally as in BMSat 9488. The subjects (with inscriptions) are a 'round-about' or primitive merry-go-round, a couple in a 'Tax'd Cart', a newsboy crying 'The Second Edition', street musicians with hurdy-gurdy, tambourine, and triangle, a Punch and Judy show, parson and clerk, a couple on a horse, a man selling garters, 'Long, and strong Scarlet Garters a penny a pair', a man with a performing bear and dancing dogs, a town crier, a pugilistic encounter."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., "No. 8."--Upper left corner., Three horizontal strips between borders., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of plate number. Missing text from impression in the British Museum., and Watermark: Iping.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 20th, 1799, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bears, Carts & wagons, Clergy, Clerks, Dogs, Fighting, Musical instruments, Newspaper carriers, Organ grinders, Puppet shows, Puppets, Street musicians, Town criers, Street vendors, and Trained animals
Portrait of the Edinburgh town crier, in profile to the right holding a bell in his right hand
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from volume., Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Portrait of the Edinburgh town crier, in profile to the right holding a bell up to the head of an imbecilic young man
Description:
Title and imprint from volume., Numbered '14' above the plate mark., and Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838.
Standing from left to right, John Wemyss the town crier with his bell, Robert Clerk, bookseller, and George Pratt, also Edinburgh town crier in 1784
Description:
Title and imprint from that of book. and Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838.
Depicts standing from left to right, John Wemyss the town crier with his bell, Robert Clerk, bookseller, and George Pratt, also Edinburgh town crier in 1784
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., and Numbered in lower right of plate: 181.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh
Subject (Name):
Wemyss, John, d. 1788., Clerk, Robert, 1738-1810., and Pratt, George, fl. 1784.
"Portrait of a whole-length figure of a man who is walking to our left with both hands thrust into the bosom of his waistcoat. The figure is in three-quarters view to our left, likewise the head. The man wears a hat, his head is very much liek that of a sheep; he appears to have but one eye, the right; his nose and jaws protrude, he wears a cravat, a coat without a collar, and with wide cuffs and large pockets in the skirts; in one of those pockets is a book marked, "For Sale by the Candle at G[arra]ways"; he wears knee-breeches, stockings and very large shoes with buckles in them."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Figure identified as Noah Blisson, town-crier, in the British Museum catalogue. Blisson's name, as well as "very like", are written on the British Museum impression., Further to identification as Noah Blisson: Advertisement in the General Advertiser of 4 March, 1746: 'For SALE by the CANDLE, at GARRAWAY's Coffee-House in Exchange-Alley' some Genoa velvets, Italian silks, and '87 Chests Leghorn Hats. ... Catalogues will be Timely dispersed by NOAH BLISSON, Broker.' From 1757-1768 he was tading as Blisson and Richard., Temporary local subject terms: Criers., Watermark: countermark IV., and Mounted to 42 x 27 cm.
