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2.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1796?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '401' in lower left corner., No. 14 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., Sheet trimmed with loss of number "401"., and 1 print : mezzotint on wove paper ; sheet 14.5 x 11.1 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for and sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
- Subject (Topic):
- Wigs and Eyeglasses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > 500£ a year will do, for me and for you [graphic].
3.
- Published / Created:
- as the act directs, 2nd March, 1778.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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 and glasses, one hand on a paper; a screen behind to right, two oval landscapes, a cartouche and a picture of Venus among rocks on the wall behind."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 2010,7081.823., No. 55 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 R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Brothels, Furnishings, Interiors, Paintings, Prostitutes, and Screens
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A bagnio scene with a white-leggd chicken coaxking [sic] an old dotard. [graphic]
4.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, 18 April 1793.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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 midway down the sheet 'Jno. Doe & Richd. Roe'; on the wall above his desk is pinned a sheet 'Bills of costs, 1793.' The view out the window in the center of the image shows buildings along a water front, a rowboat on the river, and a smoking stack in the distance. On the back wall on the right are bookshelves with titles such as Burn's Justice and Practice Kings Bench
- Alternative Title:
- Match for the devil
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "627" in lower left corner., No. 47 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):
- Bailiffs, Desks, Law offices, and Lawyers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A bailiff and an attorney. A match for the devil [graphic].
5.
- Published / Created:
- [1797?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book x, page 127 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 61 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:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A bird so large and firce it made this pair of bully freeks afraid [graphic].
6.
- Published / Created:
- 1770-1797.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 71
- Abstract:
- 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' A burlesque translation of Homer (London, 1797).
- Alternative Title:
- Facetious
- Description:
- Title from title page in mss., Bound in red morocco with marble boards with spine title: Facetious., Title page handwritten in mss with collection spelled "colletion"., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Subject (Name):
- Homer
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of drolleries [graphic].
7.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 4 June, 1791.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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-bras, holding a cane. Both wear old-fashioned dress with tie-wigs. The third, standing behind and between them is more fashionably dressed. On the counter (right) is a pestle and mortar, pill-box, and medicine phials, one labelled going to rest. Behind it are shelves on which are glass jars of varying sizes containing coloured liquids."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "608" in lower left corner., No. 45 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):
- Drugstores, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Physicians, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A comical case [graphic].
8.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, 2 March 1785.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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 as he also writes with a feather pen. On the wall (right) hangs a map of Great Britain and above it on a bookshelves large folios with titles 'Strange reports' and 'Burn's justice'.
- Alternative Title:
- Avocat de la campagne avec ses clients
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Title in English and French., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "553" in lower left corner., No. 30 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):
- Barter, Country life, Law offices, and Lawyers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A country attorney and his clients Avocat de la campagne avec ses clients. [graphic] =
9.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 25 April 1791.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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-crowned hat and a long coat with many capes, he holds a riding-whip and a 'List of the Horses' printed in three columns and headed by a print of horses leaving the starting-post. The other wears a cocked hat, powdered hair or wig, and holds a 'Betting Book' and pencil-case in his right hand. Both wear spurred top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '607' in lower left corner., No. 44 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., and 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 25.2, on sheet 38.6 x 27.1 cm.
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A deep one and a knowing one [graphic].
10.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1793]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Artist identified as Dighton in the British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of number "404". Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "404" in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., No. 8 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 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Drinking vessels and Intoxication
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A drap of whiskey [graphic].
11.
- Published / Created:
- 14 Feb. 1791.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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 hanging from his vest holds four documents tied with string in his left hand. Two barristers are seen entering Westminster Hall in the distance (left). In the center of the design, lower edge, the title is represented by musical notations for sharps and flats -- a flat between two sharps
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Design attributed to Dighton., Verse below title: Law is like a fashion, folks are bewitched to get into it. It is also like bad weather, most people are very glad when they get out of it., Companion print to: A sharp between two flats., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered '605' in lower left corner., Later issue of No. 3763 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., No. 43 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 (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Westminster Hall (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Clocks & watches, Clothing & dress, Customer relations, and Lawyers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A flat between two sharps [graphic].
12.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 9 Novr. 1781.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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 a large bone. There are ten prisoners in all. The background is part of the façade of Newgate prison."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '465' in lower left corner., No. 21 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. Mounted to 38.6 x 27.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, no. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Newgate (Prison : London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Jews, Prisoners, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A fleet of transports under convoy [graphic].
13.
- 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 the wall are two shelves of books above which hangs a bird in a birdcage. To her left, the curtains around the canopy bed are also torn. A small cat (foreground) looks up at the parson. On the floor beside the parson's chair lies a sheaf of papers with the title "Charity sermon".
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Numbered "481" in lower left corner., No. 24 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):
- 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].
14.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 9 Novr. 1795.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man in profile, looking left, within an oval, wearing a hat and with a riding crop under his arm
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., After Dighton; see British Museum catalogue., Numbered "357" in lower left of plate., No. 10 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., Sheet trimmed with loss of number "357" and imprint., and 1 print; mezzotint on wove paper; sheet 14.8 x 11.2 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Men
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A knowing one [graphic].
15.
- Published / Created:
- 9 Novr. 1785.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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 in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '563' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original issue without imprint date; dated in the Catalogue ca. 1760., No. 34 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., and 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 37.2 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Architectural follies, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Clergy, Dogs, Gates, Parks, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A master parson returned from duty [graphic].
16.
- 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 looking man (left), looks down at his half of the shell, mouth agap. On the wall behind them are rolls of documents and a shelf of books; other papers are tacked on the wall above the desk. On the desk (right) is an ink well with feather pens. The center of the design at the lower edge is decorated with the musical symbols for sharps and flats
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Numbered "604" in lower left corner., Companion print: A flat between two sharps., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 42 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
- 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]
17.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, 2 Jany. 1792.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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; he wears a cocked hat with tricolour cockade, laced waistcoat, and large boots. His hair is in a long queue. The young English postilion, wearing neat riding-dress with well-fitting boots, and fashionable double-breasted waistcoat, points at him, turning with a smile to a stable-hand (right) who leans grinning against the door-post. Both postilions have short whips with thick plaited lashes, but the lash of the Frenchman is much the longer. On the wall is a bill headed 'Dover \ Post Coach'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- A wet on the road and English and French postillions
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Tentatively attributed to Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Numbered "615" in lower left corner., No. 46 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
- Subject (Topic):
- French, Eating & drinking, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Ethnic stereotypes, Hairstyles, Posting signs & notices, Stables, and Whips
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A whet on the road, or, English and French postillions [graphic].
18.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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. Beside him are a decanter and glass and a book: 'British Peera[ge]'. On the wall is an oval miniature of the King and a framed diagram: 'British Constitution' (see British Museum Satire No. 8287, &c.); the three points of an equilateral triangle are 'King Lords Commons'; in the centre and connected with each angle is 'Public Good'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statement of responsibility and plate number. Missing text and numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "423"., No. 13 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 Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
- Subject (Topic):
- Smoking and Social classes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An aristocrat [graphic]
19.
- Creator:
- 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 looking at her companion. In front of her stands a large pot or a bowl filled with soup. Next to the bowls stands a large ceramic jug. The woman is dressed in the 17th-century Dutch manner. On the wall behind her hangs a fish
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Publication date reworked state in the British Museum online catalogue. See Museum number 2010,7081.1674., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., No. 50 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 15.2 x 11.3 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples and Eating & drinking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Brandy is the liquor of life [graphic]
20.
- Published / Created:
- [1790?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue, Sheet trimmed with loss of number "363"., No. 7 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
- Subject (Topic):
- Distress and Gambling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Brought to trouble & woe by cards, dice, and E.O [graphic].
