"The freeholder, a ragged Irish peasant, stands full-face, between a bloated priest (left) and a fashionably dressed young man; both tug at his coat-collar. The obese priest, who wears robes, with a large cross from neck to knee, holds up a print of the Devil smoking a pipe, in the bowl of which sits a tortured man; he says: Vote for your Priest or see this picture of your Soul in the next world. The other points behind him to an eviction scene, saying, Vote for your Landlord or see the real consequence in this World. In the background is a cluster of mud huts placarded Wanted Protestant Tenants for these Cabins. Men chase away a ragged family in one direction, and a pig in the other. Freeholder: Sure I'm bother'd [cf. BM Satires No. 8141] hadent I better be after voten for both your honors id would make the thing asier aney how. In one hand is his shillelagh, in the other his hat with a tobacco-pipe thrust in it."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Forty shilling freeholders only expedient for the salvation of body and soul
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political & other caricatuers are daily published., Questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 193.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland.
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Peasants, Pipes (Smoking), Poverty, Priests, and Staffs (Sticks)
Manuscript, in Jephson's hand, of a parody of Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Using florid language throughout, the author explains his satiety with Dublin and determines to explore the countryside. Traveling with Dean Marlay, Mrs Greville and Mrs Jephson, he complains about the unsightly mendicants who mar the scenery; sings, along with his companions, the Beggar's Opera to pass the time; and runs over "pigs and children who were lying together in the middle of the highway." At Celbridge, he praises the landscape, estate, and the appearance of its owner, Colonel Marlay. The essay concludes with a description of the narrator's fall into the Liffey, and his rescue by catching hold of a passing cow and Horace Walpole has filled in Johnson's name and added "By Richard Jephson, Esqre" underneath the title
Description:
Robert Jephson (1736-1803), playwright and parodist, was born in Dublin. His first play, Braganza, was performed in 1775, with an epilogue by Horace Walpole. His most commercially successful play, performed 37 times between 1781 and 1798, was The Count of Narbonne, based on Walpole's Castle of Otranto as well as Walpole's play, Mysterious Mother. In addition to other plays, Jephson also wrote numerous parodic pieces, including a series in the government newspaper The Mercury under the title "The Bachelor." He parodied the style of the printer George Faulkner and criticized Charles Townshend's enemies in An Epistle to Gorges Edmund Howard (1771); wrote Extempore Ludicrous Miltonic Verses(1788); and wrote a prose piece titled Confessions of James Baptiste Couteau (1794), a satirical parody of revolutionary politics., In English., Title from first page., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland., Celbridge (Ireland), and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784., Marlay, Richard, d. 1802., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Parodies, English, Poverty, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
"A clumsy and ramshackle two-wheeled chaise numbered '63', with a folding hood (raised) and a broken wheel, is driven (left to right) along the sea-shore. The driver sits on the hind-quarters of the horse, flourishing his whip; the reins are of rope. A stout woman fills the interior. In the distance (right) a similar chaise is driven right to left, the driver seated on the front of the vehicle. In the distance (left) is a jetty with a lighthouse; beside it is a ship, probably the English packet. Behind are low mountains."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Lord Clare (1749-1802) walks in profile to the left on a pavement. He is erect and alert, inclining slightly forward, holding a slim cane erect. He wears round hat, short unpowdered wig, dark coat, gloves, and spurred top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Companion print to: "Corporeal stamina.", Figure identification pencilled in contemporary hand below plate. Numbered above: 509., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. April 13th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"Lord Clare (1749-1802) walks in profile to the left on a pavement. He is erect and alert, inclining slightly forward, holding a slim cane erect. He wears round hat, short unpowdered wig, dark coat, gloves, and spurred top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Companion print to: "Corporeal stamina.", 1 print : etching with aquatint and stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.9 x 20.3 cm., and Trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publishd. April 13th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"Portrait of Owen Farrel; full length, walking to left in a field, glancing towards right, with hat in his left hand and staff (with a carved face) in the right, wearing rags; a man and four children waving and shouting at him from behind beside an inn."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly a plate from: Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum; or, Magazine of remarkable characters. London : R.S. Kirby, 1803-20., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on a board with another print and pamphlet about Owen Farrel.
Publisher:
Published April 4th, 1815, by R.S. Kirby, 11 London House Yard, St. Paul's
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland.
Subject (Name):
Farrell, Owen, 1716-approximately 1742,
Subject (Topic):
Strong men, Dwarfs, Taverns (Inns), and Staffs (Sticks)
publish'd May [the] 27th 1742, according to act of Parliament.
Call Number:
742.05.27.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Owen Farrel in Covent Garden, full length, walking to right, glancing towards front, with hat in his right hand and staff in the left; behind him two children gesture towards him and a dog yaps between his feet at another; a woman with a wheelbarrow, another man and a boy on the right, turning and exclaiming to their left; St Paul's Church behind them."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Description of life and person of Owen Farrel below image: He was born in the county of Caven & in [the] year 1716 was footman to a colonel at Dublin ..., Dedicated by the printmaker to Cromwell Mortimer, M.D., "Price 1 s.", and Mounted to 41 x 26 cm.
Caption title., Probably issued with the print: Owen Farrel, the Irish dwarf : 3 feet, 9 inches high : from an original painting in the possession of the publisher. [London] : Published April 4th, 1815, by R.S. Kirby, 11 London House Yard, St. Paul's., and Mounted on a board with two prints of Owen Farrell.
Portrait of Owen Farrel; full length, walking to the right, looking forward, with hat in his right hand and staff in his right, wearing rags
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on the year that George Smeeton was located at 3 Old Bailey., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on a board with another print and pamphlet about Owen Farrel.
"A scene on a curving road leading to a bridge over a stream in flood; a post is inscribed 'To Ring's End'. A man in back view is clumsily seated on a rough-looking horse which has just lost a shoe, carrying on his head a trunk labelled 'Sr Dennis Doyl with Speed'; he kicks his apparently stationary mount. In the stream is a thatched hovel (left) with the sign: 'Good dry lodgings'; a man walks from it through the water carrying a child and a young pig. His wife stands on the bank wringing out her petticoat, while a large pig struggles to land. A cow looks from the window, two cats are on the roof. A board on the bridge is inscribed 'Dangerous when you See the 2 Small Posts in the Water become Invisable - if you cant Read Inquire at Davy Drench's whole tell you all about it.' A sailing-boat has collided with the bridge, and large stones fall on the heads of its two occupants. On the right is a large tree; a man sits astride a branch which he chops off, while a man who holds a rope attached to it is looking quizzically over his shoulder at the rider carrying the trunk. Man and branch are about to fall on a barrow laden with crockery. On the tree-trunk is a board on which timber-workers are depicted with the inscription: 'My honest Frinnds as you pass by Were hard at work and very dry.' In the foreground (right) a man amusedly points out the pending accident to a woman holding a child who stands beside him. At their feet sits a child eating out of the same dish as a lean pig. Cf. BMSat 8747."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Irish bulls
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures in Europe, admite. 1 s. Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Mounted on modern secondary support., and Watermark.
