Title from text above images., Four designs on one plate, each individually titled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Christmas.
Title from caption below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Christmas -- Christmas greetings -- Broadsides and posters on wall -- Musical Fesitval -- Choral Fund -- Illustrated broadsheets -- Beggers.
A satire, divided into quarters, with four small scenes of different episodes of persons trying to collect their Christmas boxes. In the first square in the upper left, a plump supplicant in an apron holds out his hat to a scowling-faced man with a kerchief tied over his hat and a walking stick under his arm as they meet in a road outside a building with a lamp. Behind him on the wall is a sign posted "Miser'. In response to the request, the miser says "Give you a Christmass box. Curse you don't I pay you for your meat." On the top row, right, a thin man (a grave digger?) with a pipe in his mouth, bows to an obese clergyman, with a fat dog at his heel, as they stand in the graveyard of a church. The gravedigger asks, "Most worthy Parson give me a Christmass box." The Parson replies, "Give you a halter you rascal. What should I give you a Christmass box for." In the lower left, clergyman shakes his walking stick at a surprised man who is carrying a large box on his back and secured with a strap over his forehead. The clergyman says to the laborer, "If you ever ask me for a Christmass box again, I'll physic you to death." They are standing in front of building with a lantern and sign that reads "Gargle Apothycary." The fourth square, lower right, shows old, hag-faced woman with a hat and muff standing in a parlor as she slaps the face of an astonished footman. She tells him, "Take that you saucy rascal for a Xmass box!" He replies, "What's that for. I did not want a box on the ear, not I."
Alternative Title:
Christmas boxes
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to: 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Wm. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Charity, Christmas, Social life and customs, Begging (Pleading), Cemeteries, Clergy, Dogs, Milestones, Muffs, and Obesity
Volume 1, opposite page 95. Anecdotes of painting in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Tipped in opposite page 95 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of Anecdotes of painting in England.
Manuscript, in a single hand, listing various household expenses paid by Sir Christopher Musgrave to Christopher Dobson for the period April through September 1754
Description:
In English., Title from heading., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Musgrave, Christopher, Sir. and Dobson, Christopher.
Burton, Charles, active 1823-1839, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1842]
Call Number:
842.00.00.05
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from heading above image., Nineteen images on sheet; each individually captioned., Captions include: First eclipse of the moon on record 720 B.C.; Jerusalem taken after a siege of 18 months, 587 B.C. Qy. "with master's gun"?; Xerxes' expeditions against Greece, 481 B.C. ..., and "Price 2d".
Title from text above image., "Price 3 s./ plain, 4 s./ color'd.", Design consists of central image surrounded by several concentric circles containing text., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Trimmed imprint formerly pasted on verso of sheet or matting, lost after unframing in 2004; transcription based on data from card catalog record.
Publisher:
Engraved & published by N.R. Hewitt, Buckingham Place, Fitzroy Sqe
Title from caption below image., Approximations of Chinese characters precede each line of text., Imprint statement erased from sheet. Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Chinese woman -- Dancing -- Stereotypes., Print numbered in pencil in upper right hand corner: 2., and Imprint statement erased from sheet.