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Genuine orthography, or, Candidates for public favour
Title
Genuine orthography, or, Candidates for public favour [graphic] / Woodward delt.
Publication
[London] : Pub. May 29, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, [29 May 1798]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 43.5 x 32.3 cm, on sheet 47 x 34 cm
Medium
laid paper
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Grammar -- Orthography -- Schoolmaster -- Sextons -- Quacks -- Singers -- Quills -- Graves -- Tombstones -- Spades -- Scalpels.
Notes
Title from item.
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Summary
Four images on one plate. Each represents a different trade or profession that is advertised in highly accented English by its representative, beginnig on top left with a schoolmaster, entitled, Iddicatshun: I Luke Lojick larns younge gintlemen to rade, rite and spale ackhording to the moste haproved greymares ... To the right is an image of a grave-digger, entitled, Hackhommydashun: Plese to tak notise I Paule Dismall, saxton and grieve-dagger, hundertaks to birry people ... Below on the left is an image of an aged quack, entitled, Fleabottomi: I the reale Doctor Bolus from Kork, aving studid fleabottomi, undertaks to opan vanes with hease and safty ... In the fourth image, entitled, Consort and bawl, an actor and singer advertises a benefit performance: For the binnifitt of Mister Milody, at the Toune All, will be given a consort and bawl, among hother hairs, duhets, trihos and koruses ...
Variant and related titles
Candidates for public favour
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 28, 2008
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1798.
Etchings - England - London - 1798.
Watermarks (Paper) - J Whatman.
Booksellers' stamps (Provenance) - S. W. Fores.
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