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The sketch is captioned ‘Cæruleōsis. or a fit of the “Blues”.’ The man is saying, ‘Boooo! Boooo! They’re all gone[.] I’ve nobody left to play with’.

Undated. The copy in the British Museum is subscribed, below the caption, ‘Published 1st July 1780 by Fielding & Walker, Pater-Noster Row.’ This line was probably cut away from the present print when it was cropped.

(Receipt for £2 4s. for half a year’s interest (‘Enisets’) due to her at Lady Day last.)

The sketch is captioned ‘Fielding (?) on Windermere cricket ground.’

(Engraved by John Kinnerley from a drawing by Satchwell. Engraving published 26 Oct. 1809. The illustration is captioned, ‘Contemplating the effects of a Storm’.)

‘Αγωνίζεσθε.’ (Cf. Luke, xiii, 24.) Dated at Halle. Numbered 327.

Captioned ‘Lord George Gordon, President of the Protestant Association.’ From a drawing from the life by R. Bran. Published by E. Evans, 1 Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

Two inscriptions, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Vive Deo, qui est Autor vitæ tuæ. | Vive Conscientiæ, quæ est vita vitæ tuæ. Vive Famæ, quæ est vita post vitam tuam.’ Probably written at Weimar. The writer’s title is ‘Secretarius Saxo-Vinar.’ (ii) ‘Longe facilius ignota scrutari, quam nota repetere.’ Dated at Arnstadt. Numbered 399 on the recto.

(No date or salutation. Headed ‘Sp’, perhaps a transposition of ‘PS’.)

The sketch is captioned ‘Singular cure of stomach ache narrated by the Standard.’ It relates to an article in the Evening Standard on 18 August 1863, headed ‘Baron Munchausen in Sweden’, relating various attempts made to assist a man who believed he had swallowed a snake.

The sketch is captioned ‘Rari nantes in gurgite vasto’ and, below, ‘Subaqueous Fishing.’

(Misdated ‘Dec[embe]r [th]e 10 173’.)

(Engraved by Charles Grignion from a drawing by Thomas Stothard. Engraving published 18 Mar. 1783.)

The sketch is captioned ‘Stream strong. Stones loose. Flies in millions. Fish in units | line caught in weeds.’ and, below, ‘Pleasant effects of having a plaister of soap & sugar on your cheek whilst fishing.’

‘Non humani sed divini Judicii regula metiuntur Christiani fines suos.’ Dated at Jena. Numbered 141.

Has granted to Elizabeth Swinglington [?] of Cambridge 'to enjoy and receave the benefit' of the room of Margaret Mayres [?] of the hospital at Harbledown, recently deceased, even in her absence.

The sketch is captioned ‘Midges may’nt look like this perhaps but they feel twice as big’.

‘Unusquisque nostrum de seipso rationem reddet Deo.’ Dated at Giessen.

(Engraved by Charles Grignion from a drawing by Thomas Stothard. Engraving published 19 Dec. 1782.)

Concerning a missing letter.