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Folder 46 - Folder 60
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Folder 46 Colored engraving featuring an interior scene. To the right are three men and a woman seated at a card table all looking towards an open doorway to the left where five men and a dog abruptly enter the scene. At the card table, two of the men are seated, one is standing and the woman is standing. The woman in a white dress states, “a set of Vulgar Wretches”; to her right a man with his hands folded says “O that I should live to die in a round house”; the other seated man looks anxiously at the five who have entered stating, “my good friends it is not half past eleven” and the man behind him with open mouth and wide eyes states, “Indeed Gentlemen we are only playing at four-penny wisk and swabs”. Meanwhile the five gentlemen entering have looks of anger on their faces, one has an mean-looking brown and white dog; two bear lanterns; one is in military uniform. At the front, a well-dressed man states, “Master and Mistress and Gentlefolks all I be sorry to disturb you – but it be past twelve o’clock, on Saturday night and here comes the Beadles and Watchmen to take you all to the round house.” |
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Folder 47 Colored engraving featuring an interior scene with ten caricatured odd fellows congregating around a table. To the left is the chairman at the table, sitting in a high-backed chair smoking a long pipe. He has a frothing mug in his other hand. There is an additional man to his left smoking a pipe and a man in front of the table with his nightcap off states “Most worthy Chairman Mr. Benjamin Block of Wapping Old, Stairs – attends to be made a member of this Ancient and honourable Society”; behind him are several men, some grimacing and other sneering. One man, immediately behind him in sailor’s clothing and frowning states, “Avast my Hearties, - before I’ve proceeded any further on the voyage let me know what course you are steering – if you mean to frighten a British sailor with your goggle eyes, and queer faces you are d-dly mistaken-besides it appears to me that you have got masks on which is like fighting under false colours, and that wont do for an English Jack Tar!” |
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Folder 48 Colored engraving featuring an interior scene. In the scene is a man lying down on a bed with white linens and a large headboard covered in green draperies. The man has a turban on his head, his face is flushed, eyes are closed and has a pointed nose. He states “What a charming soporific – I totally forget all Expeditions, Expenditures, and Loans; I forget all former protestations, changes, places, and pensions; I am afraid I shall also forget the glorious cause of Catholic Emancipation!!!” To his right, a man standing in tartan dress with a large hat on states to a third man, “Hand your tongue Mr. Bull – Twas I that administer’d the business, I tried it first on myself – bye an bye ye’ll find, he’ll forget every thing”; the third man is wearing a vest and blue coat with his hat tucked under his arm and states “Egoles its very well for he that he can forget every thing I be zure, I have pretty good reasons to remember every thing!” |
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Folder 49 Colored engraving featuring an interior domestic scene. In the scene are four people, two men and two women. An older man and the two women are seated, the man is wearing a nightcap, has his hands folded, is wearing a robe and has his swollen leg, possibly from gout, on a stool beside him. He states, “I am thinking Children what vast Experience you are to me – always wanting something or other but however according to your desire, I have sent John for the two parasols – and I very much wonder he is not returned.” The two well-dressed women seated at the table with wine glasses, a filled wine bottle and a plate in from of them state “Here he is Pappa” and “Why John what have you brought”; John, a butler or footman, wearing a trimmed green coat bends over with a plate of four fish. He states “Why please your Honors I tried half over the town, and could not get even one pair of soles, for the life of me at last I thought of Peter Perriwinkle the Fishmonger at the two mile stone and he let me have two pair of soles in a jiffey and says he’ll warrant them sweet and good.” |
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Folder 50 Colored engraving which features a standing man staring at the head of a mug. Coming out of the top of the mug is literally another head of a very small man wearing a red coat and white hair. He states, “Only a halfpenny a pot more Jack!”; The man holding the mug has a look of surprise on his face. He is wearing a soldier’s uniform, black hat and carrying a staff. He states, “D_m me but I think there is a new Head to a pot of porter every year – How much am I to pay for you, Cockery?” |
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Folder 51 Colored engraving featuring an outdoor scene with a couple in a graveyard. To the far right is the exterior of a church building. The couple stand looking at a large tombstone which reads, “Here lies John Highley whose Father & Mother were Drown’d in their passage to America. Had they both lived they would have been Buried Here.” Also reading the headstone is a small brown and white dog lifting its leg to urinate. The old woman leaning on a cane with her finger pointed states, “Poor Dear Craters – so you see Pat if they had lived till they died they intended to come and be buried amongst us.” A stout man in front of her wearing a large hat, gold vest and hands in his pockets says frowning, “Very true Honest _ it is certainly very moving _ but his Honor Death d’ ye see don’t care a potato for man, Woman Child or Brute Beast.” Note on AAS copy: part of the headstone has been annotated. |
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Folder 52 Colored engraving featuring an interior domestic scene of a couple seated at a kitchen table. To the left is a woman wearing an empire dress with white stripes. She is saying “Bless me Mr. Clump what a pretty Dog you have got”; next to her is a rather large man wearing a blue coat, his hat in his hands. He is looking at the woman with narrowed eyes stating “No Miss it beant a Dog it be one of your own […]” The brown and white dog is eyeing the woman’s hands suspiciously; to the left is a love bird in a cage. |
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Folder 53 Colored engraving which illustrates an interior scene; in the image are two men. One man, a sailor stands to the left with his index finger raised; he has on a sailor’s uniform, a bandage over his forehead and eye and is holding in his hand a paper labeled “List of Cures” he is stating, “You must know Doctor I have got a bit of a Confusion on my larboard [sic?] cheek from a chance shot, and as I don’t think it of consequence enough for our Ship’s surgeon, I bore down to you, after overhauling a long list of your cures – but I suppose from the messmate in the Cabin there, you don’t always make a return of the Killed and Wounded?”; to his right is the Quack Doctor, well-dressed wearing a thick coat and floral fest; his hand is in his pocket states, “Sir, my rule of practices is this, there is pen, ink, and paper, - sign a certificate of your cure, and I’ll take you in hand immediately on paying down two Guineas!” He is pointing at a table between them which has an inkwell and quill and several pieces of paper on top. To the left is a skeleton in a closet. |
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Folder 54 Colored engraving featuring an interior scene with three figures. The figures are a man and a woman seated at a table looking at a second standing man. The standing man is in a green military uniform, hat in hand and palm on forehead. He is stating “Why please your Honor I never yet lived in a praying Family – but how some ever as it will be additional trouble I hope your Honor will consider it in my wages”; the seated man is stout and wearing a wig and orange jacket. He states “Well my Friend I believe you will suit me but there is one thing I forgot to mention you must attend the rest of the family every evening at Prayers”; the seated woman is wearing a yellow dress, glasses, a kerchief and has her hands folded in her lap. |
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Folder 55 Colored engraving featuring an interior scene. In the image are four men. Seated to the left is a Magistrate in wig with legs crossed seated in a chair. Next to him is a small table with quills, ink well, paper and a text labeled “Burns Justice”; the Magistrate is saying “I really wonder you are not ashamed of yourself a man of your athletic make to beat a poor fellow – so much inferior to you in point of size what have you say for yourself.” To the right are three standing men. One is badly wounded and has a bandage around his forehead and eye. He is standing with his hands in his pockets. Next to him is a sailor in uniform with a clenched fist and hat and hand. He states “Please your Magistrates worship and Glory he run foul of my Larboard [sic?] Side as I was steering through Wapping – so I hove him a gentle topper & knocked him down but I meant no harm for as I hop to see salt water again I had nothing at all in my hand but my fist”; next to him is a small growling dog and to the far right a surprised looking footman with a large staff. |
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Folder 56 Colored engraving featuring an interior scene. To the left is a seated man wrapped in a camel-colored bulky night shirt and wearing a red night cap. He is seated in a high back chair and states “Why do you cry good Woman! I don’t recollect I ever did say good to you or any part of your Family.” In front of him is a frowning chambermaid in a pink dress with apron, kerchief and shawl; she is wiping her face with a handkerchief. She states, “Oh no it is not for that but they say if a bad one goes, a worse comes in his stead – and if we have a worse Steward than your Honor it must be Old Nick himself!!” |
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Folder 57 Colored engraving which features an interior, domestic scene. To the right is a chambermaid in kerchief, dress and apron bearing a lit candle; behind her is a dressing table with a mirror, wig, drapes, glass-eye and other items. Seated in front of the maid is a frail, thin, bald, flat-cheated old woman pointing her index finger. She states “Molly mind what I say to you – lay my wig on the top of the drawers – take care of my bosom and don’t rumple it. Lay my eye in the dressing box, and the row of teeth by the side of it and call in again for my eye-brows – lay every thing in such a manner that I may easily find them in the morning as I wish to be made up by twelve precisely – in order to meet my Lord Ban-dash.” |
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Folder 58 Colored engraving with a ballad beneath. The subtitle is “Sung by Mr. Grimaldi, in Harlequin and the Water Kelpe, at Sadler’s Wells.” The image features an interior scene with a man and a woman; to the left a well-dressed man is kneeling and yawning, his arm around the waist of a woman dressed in a white empire dress with red cape. The woman is pushing the man away. She is wearing a bonnet tied with a blue ribbon. To the left is a mirror and a throw-aside hat and to the right is a window with a church in the distance and pink drapes with gold trimming. The ballad is divided into three stanzas and the first one starts: “How I love to laugh!” |
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Folder 59 Colored engraving bordered in gold. Image features an interior scene where a lecturer is leaning on a table to the left. He is holding a rolled piece of paper in his hand on a table with several pieces of optical equipment such as a magic lantern, a telescope and two lit candles. He is eagerly looking towards his audience stating “Ladies & Gentlemen – I have the honor for the first time in this country of Kent to deliver a Lecture on Optics”. To the right are six seated figures, two of them well-dressed women in empire dresses, one with a muff and two men grinning wildly. One stout man is standing, leaning forward holding his tri-corn hat, staff, and stating, “I humbly ax pardon Sir – but before you get on furder [sic], I rises with all due difference to inform you as how in this country we do not call them Hop sticks but Hop-poles.” A piece of paper protruding from his pocket reads “Treatise on Hops”; a small dog in the front wears a collar reading, “Hop Mer.” |
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Folder 60 Colored engraving which features verses beneath. The byline for the text is “The Words Written by Peter Pindar Esqr”; the image features an exterior scene with two men standing outside two buildings. To the left is an angry looking man wearing red boots, gold pants, a white shirt and has a white cape/apron tied around his front which is covered in blood. The man has his mouth wide open and he is handing over razors to a man to the right. This second man is wearing a blue coat, has a pocket full of razors, has his hand back and is carrying a black bag over his shoulder. The first line of text reads: “A country Bumpkin the great offer heard/Being well lather’d from a dish or tub…” |
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