"Design in an oval. An elderly man (half length), full-face, with folded arms, grins broadly. He wears spectacles and is bald except for side-curls and a small pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Five hundred pounds a year will do, for me and for you
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
"Two men in a brothel, one sitting on the right uncorking a bottle, the other putting his arm around the shoulder of a prostitute, leering as she adjusts his cravat, urged by the Madam who rises from a sofa in front of a round table with punch-bowl an...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Furnishings, Interiors, Paintings, Prostitutes, and Screens
A lawyer sitting on the left at his desk looks over his shoulder and points with his quill pen as he gives instructions to two thuggish bailiffs who carry bundles of writs. In his hand is a form with 'Middlesex' and 'Wit' written at the upper left and...
Alternative Title:
Match for the devil
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
A collection of 69 prints, mostly mezzotints issued Carington Bowles and those reissued by Bowles and Carver, as well as some prints issued by Robert Sayers. Also tipped in are a collection of the illustrations from the 4th edition of Thomas Bridges' ...
"Three doctors, grinning with satisfaction, stand in conference in an apothecary's shop. One (left), very corpulent, his spectacles pushed up on his forehead, holds a bottle labelled 'The Draughts as before Mr Costive'. His vis-à-vis stands chapeau-b...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Drugstores, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Physicians, and Wigs
A lawyer wearing spectacles and with a feather pen in his mouth sits at a tall desk in his study while country bumkins solicit him with payment in dead animals and produce -- e.g., rabbits, fowl, and piglets. His clerk (behind him at the desk) smiles ...
Alternative Title:
Avocat de la campagne avec ses clients
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"Two racing men in consultation on a race-course, with horses, jockeys, and a post-chaise in the background (left). They lean against a paling in front of the gable-end of a wooden barn or stable. One (left), with short unpowdered hair, wears a high-c...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Fences, Gambling, Horse racing, Race horses, Racetracks, and Stables
"A caricatured old man shown half-length to right, sipping from a small glass and his arms around a bottle, resting his elbows on a table, wearing tattered clothes and a hat over a scarf around his head; in an oval; after Dighton; republished state"--...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
A simple-looking countryman scratches his head as he stands between a solicitor and a barrister in front of Westminster Hall; the solicitor, on the left, taps his nose and grins towards the viewer. The barrister with a watch and chain with fobs hangin...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Westminster Hall (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Clothing & dress, Customer relations, and Lawyers
"A man (left) leads by a rope the foremost of a crowd of prisoners sentenced to transportation who follow him from left to right. The two foremost are bearded Jews. Behind comes a knock-kneed youth taking a pinch of snuff; a man behind him is gnawing ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, no. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London
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
A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
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
"Three men stand in the doorway of the coach-house of a posting inn, through which is seen the courtyard with a post-chaise. The elderly French postilion (left) drinks from a large tankard, holding bones and meat in his left hand. He is caricatured; h...
Alternative Title:
A wet on the road and English and French postillions
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"Design in an oval. A stout jovial man (half length), his elbow on a table, smokes a long pipe and holds out a paper: 'An [H]onest Man will Fear God Honour the King and do as he would be Done By'. He is directed to the right and looks at the spectator...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1750 and 1790]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly man, with balding head and a beard, dressed in a long coat lined with fur, is sitting on a bench next to a table and holding in his hand a conical drinking glass. To the right, a younger woman is sitting behind the table and smiling while l...
"Design in an oval. A man seated at a table (half length to left) on which he leans his elbows, his face puckered with distress."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Brought to trouble and woe by cards, dice, and E.O.
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
In avenue of trees, an old farmer's wife (right), dressed in black silk hat and mantle and muslin apron, starts back in astonishment at seeing her daughter (left) dressed in the extreme fashion of 1765-1775, with high hair and hat perching on top; to ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Daughters, Dogs, Hairstyles, Servants, and Mothers
"An elderly Scots bonnet laird or farmer stands repeating the song, which is a complaint of the extravagance and misconduct of his wife. He wears a round Scots bonnet and a tartan plaid over his coat, long stockings, and shoes tied with strings, tatte...
Alternative Title:
Wholly and fairly
Description:
Title from caption below image
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"Design in an oval; a man (half-length) in profile to the right, slyly holds his thumb and forefinger against his nose. His hair falls on his collar from under a powdered wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Design in an oval; a copy of British Museum satire no. 7790 with the title "a beau". A half-length portrait of a man directed to the left but looking to the right with a slight smile on his face. His hair is very frizzed out beneath his hat and tied i...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"A lawyer on the left and a stout government minister on the right, seated at a table and clinking glasses with the Devil who is assisting them; the room is littered with money bags labelled 'Perquisites in Office' etc. and bills labelled 'Contrivance...
Alternative Title:
En emploi
Description:
Title from text below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Bribery, Corruption, Devil, Government officials, Lawyers, Money, Offices, and Toasting
"Interior of a poorly-appointed barber's shop. The barber (left) is shaving a customer who sits in profile to the left facing the window, he holds his razor carelessly, to his customer's alarm, while looking eagerly towards another customer, who sits ...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A young woman (Sally) works at her spinning-wheel in front of a farm building. With her left hand, she pushes away an elegantly clad young man (Squire) who is bowing to her. Next to his feet, a mother hen and chickens drink from a flat bowl; in the ba...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Gilpin gallops (right to left) past the 'Bell' at Edmonton. His wife leans from the balcony over the door. With her are three children and a woman holding an infant. Two horsemen are in pursuit, one holds up Gilpin's wig. A spaniel barks. The inn app...
Alternative Title:
John Gilpin's return from war
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Chasing, Dogs, Families, Horseback riding, Horses, and Taverns (Inns)
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1770]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Anne Day after Reynolds (Mannings 498); standing half-length to front with both hands in fur muff, her face half in shadow beneath Woffington hat, wearing ornate dress with lace and ribbons and posy at breast."--British Museum online cata...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at [the] Golden Buck in Fleet Street
"A young woman in rustic dress standing in a field with a cockerel in a cage near her feet, courted by a youth who leans over the fence behind to right, offering her a posy."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Chickens, Couples, Courtship, and Villages
"A fat man shown head-and-shoulders to right, sweating profusely and mopping his bald pate with a handkerchief; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
A well-dressed prostitute lounges on a sofa inside a tent in a military camp; behind her is a sword and a gorget. Behind the sofa is a screen with the same embroidered design; the ground is covered with an ornate rug. She holds a letter in her right h...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Subject (Topic):
Military camps, Prostitutes, Rugs, Screens, Sofas, and Tents
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
"An illustration of the song 'By Mr. Dibdin', which is engraved beneath the title, with the refrain, 'There's a sweet little cherub sits perch'd up aloft To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. ' Jack stands, looking at the spectator, holding a ...
Description:
Title from caption for verses etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"A ragged 'botching tailor' is climbing out of his bulk or stall (right) to attack with his goose a tailor who hastens from him, turning to snip his shears contemptuously. Above the penthouse stall is a placard, 'Simon Snip - maks & mendes Mens & Buoy...
Alternative Title:
Quarrelsome tailors and Two of a trade seldom agree
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Sewing equipment & supplies, Signs (Notices), Tailor shops, and Tailors
"An ugly woman shown half-length to left, a scarf wrapped over one eye and the other ear and tied under her chin, one arm around a tankard, holding up the other hand with thumb and forefinger pinched together; in an oval."--British Museum online catal...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"A pretty and coquettishly dressed milkmaid stands full-face, her pails hung from a wooden yoke across her shoulders. Her expression and pose suggest that she is about to receive favourably the overtures of an elderly beau who stands ogling behind her...
Alternative Title:
Printems et l'hiver and Printemps et l'hiver
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Milkmen & milkwomen, Pails, Villages, Seduction, Yokes, and Allegorical prints
"An illustration to the song 'By Mr. Dibdin' which is engraved beneath the title. The old pensioner with a wooden leg, a pipe in his left hand, a cudgel under his left arm, stands, directed to the left, pointing across the Thames at the river front of...
Description:
Title from text below image and above verses.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"A Welshman shown half-length seated looking towards the viewer, with left elbow on a table beside pipe, glass and carafe to right, pointing at his goat whose head appears to left, wearing plain coat over pale waist-coat, short powdered wig and broad ...
"The interior of a farrier's smithy. A country woman sits on a low stool, while a farrier pulls at her tooth with a pair of pincers which he grasps in both hands. He presses one foot on her outstretched leg while a grinning assistant holds her head in...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Blacksmiths, Dentistry, Forge shops, Pain, and Toothaches
"Design in an oval. A bust character-study of a fat and jovial man, directed to the right. He is plainly dressed, wearing a very bushy wig, and smokes a pipe."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"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
A design in five compartments, each occupied by a figure in profile to the right. Above each is an inscription. On the extreme left is a parson preaching from a pulpit; the head of the precentor appears in his desk beneath. Inscribed: 'I pray for all'...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817, Hunter, Andrew, 1743-1809, and Rocheid, James
"A man in Scottish dress, with a voluminous cloak, embracing a young woman in a striped dress who sits on the right, with bushes behind and the edge of a cottage in the background to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
In the center of a broad city street, a gaily-dressed lamplighter carries his ladder as he walks to the right. In his right hand he carries a can with burning end and a pair of scissors with a chain in a case hangs from his waist. In the distance (lef...
Description:
Title from caption above verses etched below image: "By Mr. Dibdin."
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Cities & towns, Ladders, Lampposts, and People associated with manual labor
"A sailor (left), who grins over his shoulder at the spectator, sits on a corded sea-chest pointing at his prize-money which is heaped up on a larger chest in front of him, coins spilling over the top of the chest. He is gaily dressed, wearing a hat w...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"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 t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Toby jugs, Obesity, Tobacco pipes, Gardens, and Pitchers
"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
"A caricature man shown half-length to left, wearing a frogged coat, hat and black cravat tied in a bow, grinning and clutching a bag of money with the ticket '£20,000'; republished state."--British Museum online catalogue
A three-quarter length view of a man in profile, looking left and holding a copy of the newspaper 'Gazette extraordinary' in his right hand and a shaving plate with a lump of soap and razor in his left hand. His features are highly caricatured
Alternative Title:
We are all in the suds
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
An old English farmer (left) dressed in top boots, breeches, a flat felt hat, and carrying a riding-whip arrives in town and is startled at seeing his son (right) dressed as a macaroni with very high toupée wig, a cane with a tassle, a sword, and a li...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Farmers, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs
An ugly man (left) and procuress in a hooded cloak (center) haggle over the price for a young, fashionably dressed prostitute (right) who holds a fan in her left hand. The procuress has her one hand on the man's left hand with her other hand on the yo...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map & Printsellers, No. 53, Fleet Street
An old apple-woman sits asleep beside a table on which fruit (apples and strawberries) is arranged, with baskets under the table. A dog sleeps beside her. A little boy (left) pushes a shaft of wheat up her nose as a little girl behind him eggs him on....
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Children, Dogs, Food vendors, Older people, Posting signs & notices, Produce stands, Sleeping, and Teasing
A group of five boys play under a large tree. One boy has climbed up the tree and is handing down a bird's nest with three fledgling birds to another boy on the left, who holds out his hat. On the right one boy gives another boy a ride on his back. On...
Alternative Title:
Boys taking a bird's nest
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
On a street in front of a church (right), possibly referencing the one built by George Whitfield in Tottenham Court Road and a tavern (left)with a sign identifying it as "The Old Goat New Revived", a make follower of Whitefield dressed in a quasi-Puri...
Description:
Title and date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Robt. Sayer & Jno. Smith
Subject (Name):
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Temptation, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
