"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., Verse "from the favourite song, The Highland Laddie" in two columns below title: A painted room and silken bed, May please a lawland laird and lady; But I can kiss and be as glad, Behind a bush in's Highland Pladdie., Numbered "490" in lower left corner., No. 2 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
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 (left) is a large building with a church spire rising behind, and on the right a pillar with a lamp and iron rail above a brick wall
Description:
Title from caption above verses etched below image: "By Mr. Dibdin.", Verse in three columns below title begins: "I'm jolly Dick the lamplighter, they say the sun's my dad, and truly I believe it sir, for I'm a pretty lad ...", Numbered "602" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Purchased by British Museum in 2010. For similar, see British Museum number 1935,0522.1.36 in the online catalogue., No. 41 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
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 pretty young woman sits in a chair as an older clergy man with spectacles kneels seduces her, slipping a gold purse on her lap
Description:
Title from caption below image., Verse in two columns below title begins: "Struggling 'twixt virtue and desire, accosted by a rev'rend sire, behold the pretty maid. How young the lass, how old the man. What then to win by gold's his plan and so she's not afraid. To beauty av'rice lends its key, and law dispenses with its fee, if beauty but consent; then cease, ye lovers, to despair, since a purse melts the stubborn fair, and gains the argument.", Numbered "78" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of imprint., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., No. 53 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, engravers & printsellers, at the Kings Arms Cornhill
A sailor, holding a bowl of water, sits on a bucking horse. The townspeople seem to mock the sailor
Description:
Title from caption below image., Numbered "475" in lower left corner., No. 22 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"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 with a ribbon favour, long pig-tail, striped trousers; a bunch of seals dangles from his waistcoat; a spotted handkerchief hangs from his jacket pocket. His smoking pipe lies on the ground behind him. In his right hand is a sheaf of papers inscribed 'List of Prizes taken at the [ ?] Huntinna St Eustatia'. Five money-sacks stand on the chest, three being inscribed respectively '£10,000', 'Spanish Dollars', and '£5,000'; a sixth lies open with coins issuing from it. Four wine-bottles, one labelled 'Made[ira]', and a glass also stand on the chest. Through an open sash-window is seen a man-of-war whose sails are being lowered. Pinned to the wall (left) behind the sailor's head is a broadside ballad headed by an oval bust portrait of George III and the words 'God save the King'; below the verses is a crown."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image., Verse in two columns below image: "Now the wars are all over, faith I'll live in clover; I've enough of this Pelf, for my friends and myself.", Numbered "561" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 32 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book ix, page 265 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Night clothes -- Candles., No. 63 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. Burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book viii, page 35 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Crowns., No. 66 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book viii, page 35 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: King -- Throne -- Fear., No. 67 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
"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 catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., For a description of a later state with variant imprint, see no. 7118 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., The eighteen-line ballad "The brown jug" by Francis Fawkes is etched in three columns below image., No. 35 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
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 dressed, but wears an apron, which, blowing aside in his violent action, displays a large hole in his breeches. A stool, jug, &c, have been overturned, hair-pins lie on the ground, a cat flees in alarm. His little apprentice (left), holding a wig and a tress of hair, looks on with amusement, as do a man and woman (right) who look over a flight of stairs which ascends from the room. The room is a poor one, with plaster coming from the wall, a broken candle on the chimney-piece, over which is a torn print of a tragedy-king reclining on a couch. Two wig-boxes stand on the floor, one inscribed 'Tragedy Wigs', the other 'Comedy Wigs'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Numbered "588" in lower left corner., No. 38 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
