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The man in a fancy waistcoat on the right says, "It's a knack I got Mr O'Tool when I'm a little groggy of abusing the Irish.", to which the man on the left (Mr O'Toole) replies "Is that all? Well honey now, when I'm groggy I take to horsewhiping any one that abuses the Irish, and that's a knack I've got." On the back wall, notices advertising "Irish whiskey" and "Soups", and a framed painting of a fox hunting meet

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 20.5 x 17.2 cm

Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

The print contains five pieces of dialogue

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 24.5 x 34.8 cm

A veterinary surgeon and a blacksmith attacking dandies on velocipedes, in an attempt to preserve the use of horses as a means of transport, and therefore securing their own trades. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1819.

The lettering on this print identifies the preacher with the eccentric John Henley, born in Melton Mowbray in 1692, where, as a school teacher, he introduced liberal educational methods. In London he held charity sermons to the poor at Oratory Chapel, which he founded at Clare Market, London (on the site around the present London School of Economics buildings in Houghton Street). He founded a news-sheet called the Hyp Doctor. However, the preacher in the painting by Hogarth on which this print is based is also identified with Cornelius Ford, cousin of Dr Samuel Johnson: this identification is based on information given by Hester Thrale to J. Ireland (Paulson, loc. cit.)

1 print : mezzotint, printed in blue ; image 29 x 39.8 cm

A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.

Macaronies, characters, caricatures

1 print : etching ; platemark 17.6 x 12.5 cm.

A foppish fumigator holding a print of a birthing chair (?). Etching, 1772.

A fashionable man and woman accompanied by a maid-servant and a boy servant; the woman, who wears an elaborately decorated pyramid wig, carries a dog under her right arm and looks admiringly at her male companion. Engraving, c. 1772.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.8 x 24.6 cm

Six fashionable young men after a drinking session, all with girls in their arms. Engraving, c. 1796.

Three drunken men carousing round a kitchen table. Etching, c. 1836, after H. K. Browne [Phiz].

Episode in: G. Colman and D. Garrick, The clandestine marriage, Act II, scene I. In the background is a sculpture of the three Graces clothed in robes. In the centre sits Lord Ogleby, having just got out of bed: he is suffering from rheumatism. Canton on the left is Lord Ogleby's Swiss servant, who is bringing his master the morning's newspapers, while on the right, Brush, Ogleby's valet-de-chambre, prepares a restorative for him

1 print : stipple and line engraving ; platemark 30.5 x 26.1 cm

Lord Ogleby with Canton (a valet) and Brush in Colman and Garrick's The clandestine marriage. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1821, after G. Clint.

The elegantly attired Babu holds a rose in one hand and uses a walking stick in the other indicating that he is off to see a courtesan. The exaggerated black moth or bat indicates that his liaison is shady. The rodents on their curtained stage have gone haywire in his absence. The Babu's clothing suggest a flashy dandy, but his house since its neglect is only fit for rodents

1 drawing : pencil, with watercolour and silver

Illustration to a proverb: the philandering Babu and the musk rat at a party. Watercolour drawing, c. 1870.

1 print : drypoint ; platemark 10 x 13.4 cm

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Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

A veterinary surgeon and a blacksmith attacking dandies on velocipedes, in an attempt to preserve the use of horses as a means of transport, and therefore securing their own trades. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1819.

A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.

A foppish fumigator holding a print of a birthing chair (?). Etching, 1772.

A fashionable man and woman accompanied by a maid-servant and a boy servant; the woman, who wears an elaborately decorated pyramid wig, carries a dog under her right arm and looks admiringly at her male companion. Engraving, c. 1772.

Six fashionable young men after a drinking session, all with girls in their arms. Engraving, c. 1796.

Three drunken men carousing round a kitchen table. Etching, c. 1836, after H. K. Browne [Phiz].

Lord Ogleby with Canton (a valet) and Brush in Colman and Garrick's The clandestine marriage. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1821, after G. Clint.

Illustration to a proverb: the philandering Babu and the musk rat at a party. Watercolour drawing, c. 1870.

An elaborately dressed travelling tooth-drawer extracting a tooth in a carriage from a patient. Drypoint.

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Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

A veterinary surgeon and a blacksmith attacking dandies on velocipedes, in an attempt to preserve the use of horses as a means of transport, and therefore securing their own trades. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1819.

A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.

A foppish fumigator holding a print of a birthing chair (?). Etching, 1772.

A fashionable man and woman accompanied by a maid-servant and a boy servant; the woman, who wears an elaborately decorated pyramid wig, carries a dog under her right arm and looks admiringly at her male companion. Engraving, c. 1772.

Six fashionable young men after a drinking session, all with girls in their arms. Engraving, c. 1796.

Three drunken men carousing round a kitchen table. Etching, c. 1836, after H. K. Browne [Phiz].

Lord Ogleby with Canton (a valet) and Brush in Colman and Garrick's The clandestine marriage. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1821, after G. Clint.

Illustration to a proverb: the philandering Babu and the musk rat at a party. Watercolour drawing, c. 1870.

An elaborately dressed travelling tooth-drawer extracting a tooth in a carriage from a patient. Drypoint.

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