Toby Fillpot [graphic].
- Published/Created:
- London :
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard,
published as the act directs 3 April 1786. - Physical Description:
- 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 35.2 x 25.1 cm.
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
After Dighton. See George.
For a description of a later state with variant imprint, see no. 7118 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
The eighteen-line ballad "The brown jug" by Francis Fawkes is etched in three columns below image. - Abstract:
- "A jovial and enormously stout man sits on a chair holding a large frothing jug in his right hand, a pipe in his left. Behind him are trees. His contour resembles that of a Toby jug. Beneath the design are verses beginning: 'Dear Tom this brown Jug that now foams with mild Ale (In which I will drink to sweet Nan of the Vale) was once Toby Fillpot, a thirsty old Soul ...' The verse describes how a potter formed the jug out of the clay of Toby when he had long been buried."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Topics:
- Gardens.
Obesity.
Pitchers.
Tobacco pipes.
Toby jugs. - Topics:
- Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Ballads--England--1786.
Mezzotints--England--London--1786.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1786. - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- Folio
75
C697
770
Folio 75 C697 770 - Orbis Record:
- 7697575
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr05952
- OID:
- 16192345
- PID:
- digcoll:4046224
