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1.
Brandy is the liquor of life [graphic]

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]

2.
Lady Fenoulhet [graphic]

Creator:
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 catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., No. 1 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 Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at [the] Golden Buck in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Fenoulhet, Anne Day, Lady,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lady Fenoulhet [graphic]

3.
The five all's [graphic]

Creator:
Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1788]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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'. Next an advocate in his gown, his right hand raised: 'I plead for all'. Next a corpulent well-dressed man, holding up a sickle in his right hand: 'I maintain all'. Next is a still more corpulent military officer with a drawn sword: 'I fight for all'. Next is the Devil (no wings in this early state), prancing among flames, his talons extended: 'I take all'.
Description:
Title etched below image., The characters are: Dr. Andrew Hunter of the Tron Church, with John Campbell (unrecognizable), the precentor, see BMSat 5894, below him; Henry Erskine, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates 1785-96; James Rocheid of Inverleith, a distinguished agriculturist and absurdly self-important laird; Quartermaster Taylor, one of the defenders of Gibraltar., No. 56 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
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817, Hunter, Andrew, 1743-1809, and Rocheid, James
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Devil, Farmers, and Soldiers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The five all's [graphic]

4.
[The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak] [graphic].

Creator:
Goldar, John, 1729-1795, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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-Puritan dress, is assailed by two women. On the right an old woman touches his arm and points to the church with a volume, unlabeled in this working proof but later lettering "Whitefield's Hymns". On the left, a pretty, young woman lures him toward the public house. He eyes the young woman as he holds up his one hand deprecatingly toward the older woman
Description:
Title and date from British Museum catalogue., Finished print lettered with title and inscriptions: "J. Collet pinxt. / J. Goldar sculpt. / London, Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street & Jno. Smith No. 35, Cheapside, as the Act directs Jan. 1. 1773.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 52 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:
Robt. Sayer & Jno. Smith
Subject (Name):
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Temptation, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak] [graphic].

5.
"Here's a health to the Dutchess of York", "wherever she goes" Coldstream Guards. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1791]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Compare: "Here's a health to the Duke of York", "wherever he goes". Cf. No. 8417 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., No. 19 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):
Military uniforms and Drinking vessels
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "Here's a health to the Dutchess of York", "wherever she goes" Coldstream Guards. [graphic]

6.
500£ a year will do, for me and for you [graphic].

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].

7.
A bagnio scene with a white-leggd chicken coaxking [sic] an old dotard. [graphic]

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]

8.
A bailiff and an attorney. A match for the devil [graphic].

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].

9.
A bird so large and firce it made this pair of bully freeks afraid [graphic].

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].

10.
A collection of drolleries [graphic].

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].