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.
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
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 little cocked hat
Description:
Title from caption below image., Companion print to: Heyday! is this my daughter Anne., Sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of imprint., Possibly after a drawing by Grimm. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.4, no. 4536 for a similar print with the same title., No. 5 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 (Topic):
Dandies, British, Farmers, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs
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)
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.
"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
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 the left a black page boy holds the girl's lap-dog. In the distance on the left is a house with two gable windows
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "From an original drawing by Grimm." See Stephens., Companion print of: Welladay! is this my son Tom!, Cf. "Be not amaz'd dear mother. It is indeed your daughter Anne" no. 4537 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / F.G. Stephens, v. 4. Published by Carington Bowles in 1770., No. 6 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 (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Daughters, Dogs, Hairstyles, Servants, and Mothers
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 young woman's shoulder as they look at the man counting out the coins. On the right is an open doorway in the background. On the wall above the procuresses head is a sconce with two candles, the right one higher than the one on the left
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint from impression in the British Museum online catalogue. See Museum registration number 2010,7081.1441., Verse in two columns below title begins: "The sordid wretch will purchase make with five where maidenheads at stake ...", Sheet trimmed to plate mark, resulting in loss of imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. For similar, Cf. museum registration number 2010,7081.1441 in British Museum online catalogue., No. 51 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, Map & Printsellers, No. 53, Fleet Street
"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 brimmed hat to which a leek has been strapped."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Welch-man and his goat and Welshman and his goat
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of imprint., Purchased from British Museum in 2010. Cf. British Museum number 2010,7081.2185., No. 16 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 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
