- Museum number
- 1878,0511.1401
- Title
- Object: Advertizements Illustrated!
- Description
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The centre portion of a strip design, see BMSat 8549. The text of an advertisement is engraved beneath the figures, the words spoken above their heads (not transcribed in full).
[1] 'Domestic Hack. Wanted a Young Man of light weight as a Postilion to drive and look after a pair of Horses, he must be perfectly sober, chaste in behaviour, and attentive to both his Religious and Moral Duties - read Prayers and sing Psalms every Sunday Evening to the Family, clean Boots, Shoes, and Knives. . . . The applicant, fat, clumsy, and tipsy, is rated by the sour-looking advertiser, Mr John Bunyan.'
[2] 'Patty Rosey. Patty Rosey, from the name of its Ingenious Inventor, is the most delicate, elegant, & efficacious Lozenge ever yet offered to the Public, they subdue that teazing Irritation in the Throat, heals the Fluxions from the Brain, & makes the most offensive Breath, as sweet as Violets, by taking three or four occasionly, as they Melodize the Voice, in a most astonishing manner, those who belong to the Pulpit, Bar or Stage shou'd never be without them.'
A woman singer stands full-face, bending forward, her hands resting on a low ornamental balustrade, holding a music score. She says, in spite of "Lady Dale's Decoction of Honey and the Pattey Rosey - I am still Hoarse, I cannot Sing without pain to myself, or to my Hearers, therefore, hope for your usual indulgence." She resembles caricatures of Mme Mara, see BMSat 7067.
[3] 'Scotch Dancing. Mr Jemmy MacJigg, lately arrived in this Town from Inverness, teaches the Scotch Steps, Reels, Strathspeys &c. in their true native Purity, with that Grace & Dignity, none but himself ever attempted before;' ... A short, stout, plainly dressed man (left) capers clumsily, his hands held up, snapping his fingers. The dancing-master, playing the bagpipes and taking a similar but less clumsy step, looks down; he wears English dress except for tartan stockings. The pupil says: "Zounds Mr Jigg, I shall never hold out, flagging work, to keep Arms, Legs, Head, & Fingers, in Motion at the same Instant." The answer: "Dinna fear - vary weel me Lord, ye are queete a Cheel of Parfact - ion."
[4] 'Washing Machine. Mr Savesoap's Washing Machine, saves Coals, Candles, Soap, & Labour, a Child of 2 Years old, will wash more Linen, in an hour, than ten thorough bred washingwomen cou'd do in a Week, it is now become a genteel amusement, & so perfectly safe from wearing out the Linen, that you may throw in a Bank Note, which after being so washed, comes out without even a letter being defaced: Sold only by the Patentees,
Water Lane.'
An old crone in profile to the right holds up a tattered garment, inspecting it nearsightedly. She addresses a buxom young woman who walks off (right), looking over her shoulder at the shirt: "Why you have Washed this Shift into a thousand holes, if it had been shot at by a City Train Bondman, it cou'd not have been more abused." 7 June 1794
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1794
- Dimensions
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Height: 255 millimetres
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Width: 639 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1878,0511.1401
