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- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 25 June 1782.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The interior of a poor wooden house, a parson's family of four gather around a table covered in a tablecloth worn with holes. They are eating beans, while he sits on the right, gnawing a bone; his wife (left) nurses the youngest child. Behind her on ...
- Description:
- Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Canopy beds, Birdcages, Breast feeding, Cats, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Families, Interiors, and Poverty
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A journeyman parson with a bare existence [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 14 Feb. 1791.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lawyer stands in his office between two disconcerted litigants who are turned and walking away from him. As he brings a fork with an oyster on it to his mouth, he offers half of the empty oyster shell to the man on the right. A bald, worn-down look...
- Description:
- Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Customer relations, Desks, Inkstands, Interiors, Lawyers, and Offices
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A sharp between two flats a pearly shell for him and thee, the oyster is the lawyer's fee. [graphic]
4.
- Published / Created:
- 2 Sepr. 1784.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two politicians out of office sit shivering in a garret with very downcast expressions. The man on the left writes on a paper entitled 'Abusing Administration', with other similar papers scattered at his feet and those of his partner. Their landlady p...
- Alternative Title:
- Hors d'emploi
- Description:
- Title from caption below image, in English and French.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
- Subject (Topic):
- Poverty, Chamber pots, Costumes, Prices, Interiors, Furniture, and Emblems
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Out of place Hors d'emploi. [graphic] =
5.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 2 Feb. 1784.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a well-furnished room with a carpeted floor. A young woman turns aside with a gesture of disgust from a young man of simian appearance who is grinning sheepishly. Her father stands behind her with outstretched arms, pleading desperate...
- Alternative Title:
- Happiness sacrifised to riches
- Description:
- Title from text below image.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Couples, Fathers, Interiors, Marriage, Mirrors, Parlors, and Rugs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The first interview, or, Happiness sacrifised to riches [graphic].
6.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 24 March 1788.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a barber's shop. The barber, ranting and gesticulating wildly, holds up the open tragedy of Alexander the Great; in his right hand is a pair of tongs. His hair hangs loose and on his head is his barber's basin. He is fashionably dress...
- Description:
- Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, Apprentices, Barbers, Barber shops, Cats, Dressing & grooming equipment, Interiors, Laughter, Hairdressing, Poverty, Tragedies, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tragedy burlesqued, or, The barber turned actor [graphic].
