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Engraved by Robert Pollard from a drawing by Robert Dodd. Undated. From the fourth volume of Jackson’s New and Complete Newgate Calendar (1795), where this illustration faces p. 107.

(i) Agrees to give Philips forty guineas for his poem Cyder, together with a certain number of copies of the book, and agrees terms for subsequent editions.

(ii) Acknowledges the receipt of ten guineas ‘in full of this note and all demands’.

Endorsed ‘Mr Tonson’s Promissory Note’.

Published on 1 Aug. 1780 by Fielding and Walker, Pater Noster Row.

‘Non secreta tui cordis sciat omnis amicus | Hic tibi forsan erit capitalis cras inimicus. | Psal. 39. Ach wie gar nichts sindt doch alle Menschen! [Hebrew letters] | Darumb | Psal. 37. Befihl dem herren deine Wage Undt | hoffe auff Ihn, Er wirdts wol machen.’ Dated at Lützelstein. Addressed to Elias Mertel.

Beside the sketch are four stanzas of verses, as follows:

‘oh weep by the lane & weep by the garden
Poor Bobby has left his house ’neath the hill
His voice it no longer reechoes the yard in
The music that fell from his golded tipped bill

No longer is head his sweet dropping footfall
as he hastes to received the proffered repast
alas! for responding his mistress’ call
His tail with emotion has wriggled its last

And each passing stranger his melody misses
As Bobby’s loud greetings reechoed around
With a screech & gaggle & 3 or 4 hisses
and a flap of the wings to help on [th]e sound

For a martyr to science doth poor Bobby die
The forceps & knife have mangled him sore
His brains they have gone to form a supply
For a Doctor who had none before.’

(The day of the month is indistinct. Signed ‘Cleora’. Mary is addressed as ‘Belinda’. Marked ‘No 33’.)

The six sketches are captioned more or less separately, as follows: ‘Robert shakes himself on getting up &’, ‘proceeds to his light & early breakfast’, ‘After a few hours spent in this attitude’, ‘he will continue his entomological researches’, ‘The fleas are again troublesome’, ‘but being at last revenged resteth himself & meditates on oatcake’.

Made (fecit) by (Jacobus?) Harrewijn. The print is closely trimmed.

‘Dominus providebit!’ Dated at Frankfurt am Main.

Drawn and engraved by C. Hall. Published on 18 May 1781 by Hall, 2 Grafton Street, Soho, London. The print features various devices, including the motto ‘Patiens, passus, honorably acquited’ and the date 6 Feb. 1781.

(Signed ‘Cleora’. The salutation is ‘My Dearest Belinda’. Marked ‘No. 36’.)

The inscription on the plinth is ‘Sacred to The Memory of a departed Party. EHEU ob: Sept.: 1863 AD RYDAL’. Each animal holds a book inscribed ‘ARISTOTLE hys ETHICS’ and in the background is a tombstone inscribed ‘Sacred to BOBBY a martyr to science & Dr Davy’.

This is the only inscription on the page. It was probably written before the sheet, the paper of which differs from most of the other leaves, was bound into the book.

‘Αφοβως | και | Μετὰ Φοβου.’ References are added to 1 Peter, i. 17 and Luke, i. 74. Dated at Halle.

(Signed ‘Cleora’. Mary is addressed as ‘Bileda’ (Belinda). Dated ‘oct. I dont know what 1752’. Docketed ‘Oct. 5. | 1752’ and marked ‘No. 31’.)

Captioned ‘Lord George Gordon.’ Head and body, within an oval frame, on a plinth.

(Engraved by Page from a drawing by Richter. Engraving published 1 Feb. 1791.)

The sketch is captioned ‘“Weary of life, the unfortunate man was driven from all its disappointments changes & anxieties to seek the soul of the immortal Plato in a retired but well known retreat by the banks of the murmuring Rotha [i.e. the Rothay]" Extract from a sentimental novel’.

Captioned ‘The Right Honourable Lord George Gordon, President of the Protestant Association’. Head and shoulders, within in an oval frame. Engraved by C. Knight, from a likeness taken by Mr Tassie. Published on 12 Aug. 1783 by T. Mowat, 11 Princes Street.