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Hooly and Fairly   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Published by: Carington Bowles

After: Robert Dighton
Title
Hooly and Fairly
Description
English: Illustration to a song in Scots engraved beneath the title with the refrain



'O! gin my Wife wad drink Hooly and Fairly'.

An elderly Scots bonnet laird or farmer stands repeating the song, which is a complaint of the extravagance and misconduct of his wife. He wears a round Scots bonnet and a tartan plaid over his coat, long stockings, and shoes tied with strings, tattered gloves from which his fingers protrude; a cane is suspended from his left wrist. He holds in his left hand a small tankard with an open lid indicating in London 'a dram', or gin. In the background is a small house, partly visible on the left, outside which stands the wife, drunk and flourishing a similar tankard; a wine-bottle lies at her feet, a man leans from the window. On the right is a farm building with a horse, two cows, and a broken fence. In the foreground (right) is a large thistle. c.1787


Hand-coloured mezzotint with etching
Date circa 1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 348 millimetres (trimmed?)
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
2010,7081.1143
Notes

Dighton's original watercolour for this print from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose was sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 10. See also the reduced version: 2010,7081.1862

States (i) Lettered below the image with the title, song and 'Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, // No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London.'

(ii) republished; publication line altered to 'Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London'; number 581 in lower left. [1935,0522.1.42]
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2010-7081-1143
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