Title from item., Date and place of publication derived from other versions of work., A poor copy after Dighton., Text on compass: Fear God., Text encircling central image: Keep within compass and you shall be sure to avoid many troubles which others endure., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Morality.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, Ethics, Money, Compasses (Drawing instruments), Dogs, Farms, Punishment & torture, Vice, Eating & drinking, Prisoners, and Prisons
"Above, Mrs. Clarke stands on a round dais, under a canopy, receiving her clients. These are headed by six military officers; the foremost makes a sweeping bow, cocked hat in hand. Next is a fat parson holding a money-bag inscribed 800; behind is an obese doctor, with three other elderly men. She says to them: Ye Captains and ye Colonels-ye parsons wanting place, Advice I'll give ye gratis and think upon your case, If there is possibility, for you I'll raise the dust, But then you must excuse me-if I serve myself the first. Below, Mrs. Clarke, much décolletée, looks from an open ground-floor window of a London house, to see a fashionably dressed man, Taylor, walking towards her holding a sealed packet. He looks over his shoulder at a yokel with a cudgel, who asks: I say Measter Shoe-maker where be you going in such a woundy hurry? Taylor answers: Dont speak to me fellow you should never pry into State affairs. Mrs. Clarke says: Open the door John here comes the Ambassador Now for the dear delightful Answer. Behind the yokel, evidently John Bull, is his dog. On the right is a house with a door-plate inscribed Mrs Weston."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Clarkes levee
Description:
Title of top design from text above image; title of bottom design from text below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Mounted to 44 x 29 cm., and Watermark: E & P.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 20th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Courtesans, Mistresses, Military officers, British, Clergy, Bags, Money, Windows, Staffs (Sticks), and Dogs
Verse -- "You gallant beaus of pleasure,". -, In five columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first three; the imprint spans the bottom of the last two, below a series of long dashes; the columns are separated by columns of ornamental rules and type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118., Mounted on leaf 27. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Husband and wife, Money, Prostitution, Wealth, Swine, Dogs, Chickens, Roosters, and Birds
