Title from item., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered '48' in lower right corner., Song in six stanzas, printed below title. The first stanza printed with music, the following five without music in three columns below., and Temporary local subject terms: Skulls -- Taxidermy -- Hour-glasses -- Puns.
Publisher:
Published 4th October 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Musical notation, Pregnancy, Shoemakers, Shoemaking, Stores & shops, and Wigs
Title from letterpress text below image., Questionable attribution to R. Newton from unverified data in local card catalog record., Imprint etched on plate, within image: [...?] W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St., Novbr. 20th, 1798., Publisher's advertisement below letterpress imprint: Of whom may be had Jacky Lloyd and Anna Davis., Seventeen stanzas of verse in letterpress below image: A doctor so prim, and a sempstress so tight, hob-a-nobb'd in some right marosquin ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Physicians -- Wedding feasts -- Lighting: Candles -- Dining rooms -- Tankards -- Literature: 'Alonzo the brave and the fair Imogine,' by Matthew Gregory Lewis -- Furniture: China -- Pictures -- Medicine: Bottles -- Animals: Cats., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Publisher:
Published by William Holland, No. 50, Oxford-Street
Illustration to verses printed in two columns. An elderly parson, holding his pipe, his back to the fire, makes gestures of rage towards his servant (right) who hurries terrified from the room as he drops a jug. His wife (left) holds his coat to restrain him, dropping a book from her lap as she sits in a chair with a slipcover. The verses in letterpress below the image relate that after a sermon on the misfortunes of Job, the parson told his wife that his 'patience and strength of mind' were equal to Job's, though she (like other women) was incapable of such restraint. His servant enters to tell him that the contents of a cask of ale had been spilt. His wife reproaches him for his violent abuse: "Job was not half so vext ..."; he says: "Answer me this, I say- Did Job e'er lose a barrel of such ale?" On the wall behing is a picture of Job suffering by the road as described in the Bible. See British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bad job
Description:
Titie from letterpress printed below the image. On this impression part of the title is printed below plate., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Text of the tale in letterpress printed in two columns below title: Twas at some country place, a parson preaching, The virtue of long sufferance was teaching ..., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., and Watermark: E & P 1796.
Publisher:
Published 20th November 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Job (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Biblical events, Chairs, Clergy, Fireplaces, Interiors, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Religious dwellings, Servants, and Spouses
Title printed below plate., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Text of the tale printed in three columns below title: Hazard, a careless fellow, known at every gambling house in town was oft in want of money, yet could never bear to run in debt ..., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Dining room -- Glass: decanter -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Ancestral knights -- Genealogy -- Young women -- Domestic service: footmen -- Reference to marriage contract., and Watermark: 1796.
Publisher:
Published 12th October 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London