Toby Fillpot [graphic].[not before 1793]eng"A jovial and enormously stout man sits on a chair holding a large frothing jug in his right hand, a pipe in his left. Behind him are trees. His contour resembles that of a Toby jug. Beneath the design are verses beginning: 'Dear Tom this brown Jug that now foams with mild Ale (In which I will drink to sweet Nan of the Vale) was once Toby Fillpot, a thirsty old Soul ...' The verse describes how a potter formed the jug out of the clay of Toby when he had long been buried."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue.Later state of a print originally published by Carington Bowles in 1786.Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer, Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31.The eighteen-line ballad "The brown jug" by Francis Fawkes is etched in three columns below image.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.