Promenaders in Hyde Park illustrate these titles. [1] A dandy walks, right to left, jauntily rakish, holding a lorgnette and glove in a gloved hand. He wears a large bell-shaped top-hat, beneath which projects a great tuft of curled hair. Under his arm is a rolled umbrella. [2] A Quaker, in a shallow broad-brimmed hat, walks primly (right to left) with a young (twin) daughter on each arm. He holds a large gamp umbrella, fastened and point downwards. [3] A thin man wearing a long greatcoat and seedy top-hat, walks (left to right) with an expression of acute melancholy. He trails behind him an unfastened umbrella. He faces heavy wind and slanting rain. Beside him is a small dead tree. Near each is an appropriate dog. 1 May 1822 Hand-coloured etching
Scene in the interior of a meeting room with a raised platform on the left and a window in the centre; the room is filled with Quakers of both sexes, the most prominent being a woman with a pointed hat standing on a stool at the left centre gesturing with her left arm towards the window. Mezzotint
Plate 8, two registers only. Figures arranged in pairs or in groups of three, with one single figure, a muffin-seller who bawls "Lillywhite Muffins Charming white Crumpets Buy my nice Yorkshire Cakes". The unpopularity of the war is reflected: A quaker says to a drover driving a calf with a large red and blue cockade: "Friend where driveth thou that Calf - & why put a Cockade on his horn." Answer: "He is a young Recruit & lam driving him to the slaughter house". See BMSat 8328, &c. 6 February 1801 Hand-coloured etching
Heading to engraved verses: 'Sung by Mr Liston, in Mr T. Dibdins popular Comedy, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.' Liston as Flourish, a Quaker, stands primly, thumbs together, beside Ruth, a Quakeress, who points alluringly to a distant grove, behind him is a signpost with three arms, one inscribed '5. Miles'. He relates his discomfiture by another suitor. The song ends: 'And kick'd me Ruthlessly behind With his Toe Turn Ti.' 20 September 1806 Hand-coloured etching
A plainly dressed man with lank hair falling on his shoulders, bends over a dog, placing his left hand on the head of the trustful animal. With a large brush he applies a smoking liquid to its side saying, "Come here poor Dog! Thee shalt not say I called thee names, or beat thee, for that would be cruel!! but I will anoint thee with Oil, and moisten thy sides with my pure Linnement." The scene is in a yard with a high paling, outside an open door leading to the dispensing-room of the Quaker, evidently an apothecary. Just within the room is a large smoking jar of 'Oil of Vitriol'; on the door-step is a dish of smoking vitriol. Above are the neatly ranged jars, bottles, and drawers of an apothecary, with a pestle and mortar. A woman in an upper window of an adjacent house looks down into the yard; she shouts: "Ah Obadiah, that decietfull whining Cant, to allure the poor Animal, in order to inflict the most Diabolical unheard of Cruelty on him, shall not go unpunished." Below the title: 'Dedicated to the Society of Quakers - NB. the side of the Poor Animal was entirely burned through the next Day and his Bowels actuall [sic] fell out on the Ground - ' 1 September 1806 Hand-coloured etching
Satire on a corrupt banker, William Belchier, showing creditors assembled in the ante-room to his banking house: three sailors complaining that there is no "Progg" (i.e. booty) to be had from their privateering; a middle-aged man wringing his hands while bewailing the loss of his "whole Fortune" while another man consoles him with the hope that money will be paid "by & by"; an elegant young man handing a paper to a clerk and demanding to be "paid instantly"; the clerk with a pen behind his ear responding that he cannot pay cash until the banking partners agree; his gloomy colleague writing in a ledger; a Quaker remarking that Belchier had "bought some Estates lately" to which a bearded Jew replies, "I suspect a Humm"; a cook with a knife in his belt pointing to the partners and stating that he "shall cook no Turtle for them if they quarrell". In the inner room Belchier sits at a table, one hand protecting a pile of coins while he fends of his angry partner; a third man stands behind attempting to placate the pair. Etching and engraving
A young woman walking in a field, carrying a small basket of flowers in both hands, smiling towards the viewer, preceded by a leaping dog; trees behind and a stile to right; proof before letters. Mezzotint with some etching
George III, plainly dressed and wearing a broad-brimmed hat, stands in profile to the right, addressing a pretty young woman seated on a stile. They are under a large tree on whose trunk is fixed a sign pointing 'To Cheltenham Spa'. A path from the stile leads to the village of Cheltenham in the background. Behind the tree Queen Charlotte watches the conversation. On a hill (left) is a pavilion on wheels. Beneath the design is etched: 'Did you know the Lad that Courts you He not long need sue in Vain Prince of Songs of Dance of Sports: You Scarce will meet his like again. Midas' 2 October 1788 Hand-coloured etching
Mrs. Birkbeck, in Quaker dress, holds a ribbon inscribed Union loosely round the neck of a lion with the head and hat of William Allen. Both turn their heads in profile towards two asses (right) with human profiles above ass's muzzles and broad-brimmed Quaker hats. One faces the lion, braying Ick Augh! Ick Augh! ha! ha! ha! The other, who wears four top-boots, kicks at the lion, turning his head to scoff: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Mrs. Birkbeck, her left arm extended, says: Bray on! we heed thee not! neither can me call thee Friends! Allen says: Well! Jeer on! and be Asses still! Below the title: Two Asses were so hardy once, as to fall a mobbing and braying at a Lion: the Lion began at first to shew his teeth and stomach the affront; but upon second thoughts; Well (says he) jeer on and be Asses still I can but treat you with the contempt you deserve—vide Esops Fables—Moral—It is below the dignity of a great mind to entertain contests with people that have neither quality nor courage, besides the folly of contending with a miserable wretch where the very competition is a scandall— Sir Robt L'Estrange—. 1827 Hand-coloured etching
A Quaker meeting in a domestic interior with a woman standing on a barrel and speaking; the verses draw attention to a couple in the background who covertly fondle one another; a dog in the foreground urinates on a woman's skirt. Etching
A man dressed as a Quaker stands in profile to the right, on pavement, holding a sheet of paper. He wears broad-brimmed hat, plain coat, breeches, and gaiters to the knee. March 17 1823 Hand-coloured etching
Portrait; three-quarters length standing slightly to left, head turned to right and glancing towards the viewer, hands crossed in front of her at waist level, holding her gloves, wearing an open-front gown with a white handkerchief tucked under bands of ribbon, her hair dressed in a white cap worn under a dark hood. Mezzotint
Portrait of Joseph Gurney; three-quarters length standing to left, looking towards the viewer, holding his gloves in one hand and a staff with the other, wearing a plain frock coat, plain cravat and broad-brimmed hat over a shoulder-length wig. Mezzotint
Heading to a printed broadside. A Quaker wearing an enormous broad-brimmed hat, stands at the bar (left), facing the judge, who sleeps in his raised chair behind which is a figure of Justice holding her scales askew. Between them is the well of the court filled by a large round table, at which ten barristers sit or stand. One rises to ask: "Pray? Obadiah why do you wish for a New Trial?" The Quaker: "Because friend. Justice did not hear the Trial Nay she was asleep all the while in an Old-Man's field!" The song, fifteen lines ('Tune—"Ti Tum Ti"'), begins: All men are mud, I do affirm; Hush! hush! hush! And I am but a sleepy worm. Hush! hush! hush! The spirit mov'd—the feet too stept— And to an old man's field I crept, Where justice very soundly slept. Hush! hush! hush! [1811]. Hand-coloured etching
Two strips arranged horizontally, intended to be cut and arranged as a border; a succession of little scenes, with the words of the speakers etched above, several of the figures grotesque, with large heads. The subjects are the pains of love, Irish men on a journey, an amorous quaker, a kitchenmaid armed with utensils as 'the Female Qixote', a game of chess, a sailor repaying a debt. c. 1800, printed c. 1809 Etching with stipple
A bedroom scene. A lank-haired quaker, wearing a hat, stands with thumbs and forefingers together, trembling between a courtesan seated on the bed, and an irate old bawd (right); he looks apprehensively towards a spruce dandified bank clerk, who enters, his hat under his arm, holding out a cheque. Below the title: Obadiah Pure haveing taken too much wine, was deluded by an impure damsel into Elbow Lane where he passed the Night in clover—but lo! when the morning came his money was all gone; and the expences, being vociferously demanded, he had no alternative, except giveing a Check on his Banker for £3. Old Mother—keeping him in pledge till the money arrived—The Banker hesitated on account of the smallness of the sum. & sent his Clerk to ascertain the validity of the Check . . . [&c.]. (Not a quotation from The Times, where the incident is related.) 19 October 1825 Hand-coloured etching
A Quaker (left), standing on his toes, faces four stout and elderly Commissioners seated at a small table, who register surprise and disapproval. Three of them say: "What an impertinent fellow to keep on his hat before such a dignified Assembly!"; "None of your theese and thous here Sir—come to the point—we know you have evaded certain duties," and, "Pray Sir do you know what we sit here for?" The Quaker, his hands folded, answers: "Verily I do—some sit here for £500 others for a £1000—and more over I have heard it reported that some sit here for two—thousand pounds per annum." ? 1813 Hand-coloured etching
A thin man and fat lady fall over outside a house, while a cobbler leers looking up her skirt, a couple in the doorway laugh and a Quaker makes a joke. c.1820 Hand-coloured etching
Scene in a Friends' Meeting House. On the left William Allen holds the hands of a stout Quaker lady, Grizell Birkbeck, in bonnet and cloak. She asks: Is there no hope for me Dear William? He answers: Yes sweet Grizzle I have felt deeply for thee, & thou wilt find abundant consolation in the 21st Chapter of Genesis [on Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac]. Against the wall is a pew in which are three women (left) and three men (right), all in Quaker dress, and all elderly; they watch Allen and Mrs. Birkbeck disapprovingly, and say respectively (left to right): The spirit's willing but the flesh is weak; I wish Friend William would avoid vain Sports; I must feel for the situation of the five young women; In the provident care of our friend I hope he will not neglect to secure ample means for a numerous progeny; Indeed I fear our friend has turned his attention too much to analysing Gold; O! yes! On the right is a throng of young Quaker women who crowd from a door inscribed Nunnery to watch one of their number who faints in a chair, attended by two who try to revive her, one with a tubular bottle of William's dops [sic], the other with water which she sprinkles from a bowl. The fainting girl exclaims: Ah! cruel man I would never have thought he would have served me so—pray support me. Oh! Oh! I shall faint Oh! O!!! [added in pencil:] 'the flesh is weak'. The other two say: O! dear what can the matter be and Send to Plough Court for hartshorne [altered to] 'Sal . . .'. Another young woman has fallen to her hands and knees on a book inscribed Piety Promoted. She says: Oh! dear this book has thrown me down and hurt my knee. A girl behind cries O! dear! O dear! Allen wears a very wide-brimmed hat and half-boots. He is surrounded by big coloured jars as displayed in chemists' shops, and by books: Lectures on Drugs; Lecture on Chymistry; and papers : Trip to St Petersburg; Lectures; Experiments on the Philosophers Stone. Between Mrs. Birkbeck and the women on the right, leaning against the pew is a huge open book, the centre of the design, inscribed with 20 lines of verse which begin and end: No hopes! quoth Grizell—as her spouse Looked on her face divine No hopes quoth he I'm fifty five And thour't but Sixty Nine* When little Isaac first saw light— (Translators can't have blunder'd) His own Mama was Ninety years And his Papa one hundred. Cupid perhaps thour't growing old . . . She doats upon the very Man He doats upon her Gold. * Aged 72 Through the window behind Allen is seen the roof of a house in Paradise Row on which two cats are caterwauling: Mew! Mew! Row! Mow! wow! On the wall behind the pew are two pictures: [1] Emancipation of Slavery [the last two words altered in pencil to 'a farce']: In a snug parlour a Quaker lady resembling Mrs. Birkbeck is embraced by a black man in Quaker costume; a kettle boils over; on a table are lighted candles, decanter, and glasses. [2] The fall of Man. The temptation of Adam is watched by animals, while a cock crows Cock! a doodle doo!! The nude figures are partly hidden by green watercolour. February 1827 Hand-coloured etching
A religious satire; A quaker meeting house; On raised platform behind a rail, a clergyman is speaking, with three other men beside him, to a crowd of twenty or so men and women, two of the women hold their fans up before their faces; in the background through the window a couple, locked in a close embrace, can just be made out; followed by two lines of text; Etching and engraving
Portrait of Joseph Gurney; three-quarters length standing to left, looking towards the viewer, holding his gloves in one hand and a staff with the other, wearing a plain frock coat, plain cravat and broad-brimmed hat over a shoulder-length wig. 1748 etching and engraving
Satire; a kicking horse upsetting a chaise and turning out its occupant, the angered purchaser of the horse saying, 'Give me my 50£ again did not you warrant him to draw?'; a Quaker replying, 'No friend I said thou would'st be delighted to see him draw!! and so should I. for then I had not sold him.'. 2 January 1827 Hand-coloured etching
Mrs. Clarke, in profile to the right, runs with extended arms towards a Quaker, saying, "Stop my Darling and go along with me". She is a siren, not resembling Mrs. Clarke (see No. 11216, &c). The Quaker walks stiffly from her, clasping his gloves to his breast; he says: "Woman avaunt, I am not to be tempted, and be it known also I am a married man, therefore what little business I do in thy way it is not worth dividing". Plate numbered 83. 24 May 1809. Hand-coloured etching
A Quaker sitting in chair to front, with hands clasped at front, eyes closed, an angle appearing at top left; illustration to an unidentified publication. Etching and engraving
See BMSat 10652. A Quaker stands stiffly on a doorstep, with turned-in toes; a footman in livery stands in the doorway, hands on hips, bending with a grin towards the visitor. On the door is a plate inscribed 'Mr. Owen'. A dog, the collar engraved 'Owen', barks at the Quaker. Two passers-by, a man and a woman, tripping oddly, watch the encounter. Below the design: 'Aminadab with phiz demure Knock'd at a Mr. Owen's door; With drawling tone & lengthned chin He ask'd "is Friend O, - N within?" When John, who dearly lov'd a Joke, In tone like that the Quaker spoke, With Bow most reverently low, As drawlingly replied N, - O." 2 January 1806 Hand-coloured etching
Portrait of Rachael, Quaker, of Covent Garden | British Museum
Portrait of Rachael, Quaker, of Covent Garden; whole length, standing to front, upper body and head turned to look to right, hands clasped, shawl over her left arm; wearing headscarf, plain apron and dress, broad collar, shoes tied with ribbons. Soft-ground etching
