Title and imprint information from an untrimmed impression in the Library of Congress., Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint., Manuscript title below image: Election dinner-quere. No bribery a tale., and Mounted to 24 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 30th, 1780, by Wm. Humphrey No. 227 Strand
Frontispiece to James Miller, 'The Humours of Oxford', 2nd edition (London, 1730); scene in a tavern; at centre Haughty, a Fellow of one of the Oxford colleges, sits drunkenly disputing with the Vice-Chancellor, who stands at right; on the other side of the table at left, standing, are Conundrum (another Fellow), also drinking, and a servant, behind Conundrum on the wall, a framed 'Oxford Alm[anac]'; in the doorway, holding a truncheon, the Vice-Chancellor's attendant
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Title and date from Paulson., Date based on other work by Van der Gucht., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Modern Impression., and On page 52 in volume 1.
Frontispiece to James Miller, 'The Humours of Oxford', 2nd edition (London, 1730); scene in a tavern; at centre Haughty, a Fellow of one of the Oxford colleges, sits drunkenly disputing with the Vice-Chancellor, who stands at right; on the other side of the table at left, standing, are Conundrum (another Fellow), also drinking, and a servant, behind Conundrum on the wall, a framed 'Oxford Alm[anac]'; in the doorway, holding a truncheon, the Vice-Chancellor's attendant
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Title and date from Paulson., Date based on other work by Van der Gucht., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Humours of Oxford / Old Impression / 169., and On page 52 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed: 17.8 x 11.1 cm.
"The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr. Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a young chimney sweep, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink. In the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve depicted), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to the right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title, imprint, artist, printmaker and state from Paulson., Sheet trimmed with plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: Aqua fortis proof. See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 299., and On page 149 in volume 2.