"Frontispiece for 'A Catalogue of News and Useful Maps Curious and Entertaining Prints, Books of Architecture, Great Variety of Drawing Books in all the Branches of Penmanship And the best of each Kind'; title on scroll, surrounded by prints and maps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: D,3.524., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Spilsbury, Jonathan, approximately 1737-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 17, 1766.
Call Number:
Topos N878 no. 2++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
A view of Dilston Hall with its grounds, gardens, and river in foreground. On the far end of the bridge over the river on the right sits a woman with her back to the viewer; a man with a cane walks past her. Other figures in the foreground include a fisherman with a dog addressing a man with a raised cane and a dog at his heels; a woman with a hat appears to have a kerchief to her eye as she views the two men. In the right foreground a woman sits on the grass with child standing in front of her. In the left foreground another two men with walking sticks converse, one has a dog. A poem engraved in three columns below the image laments the death of the Earl
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate signed below image., and Verses below image begin: How mournful feeble nature's tone, when Dilston-Hall appears ...
Publisher:
Drawn on the spot by Thos. Oliver of Hexham in Northumberland, & published according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
England, Northumberland., and England.
Subject (Name):
Derwentwater, James Radcliffe, Earl of, 1689-1716 and Dilston Castle (Dilston, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Castles & palaces, Jacobites, and Estates
William Pitt,created the Earl of Chatham on 29 July 1766, stands on the prostrate body of Envy alongside the Lord Chancellor Pratt, as they are presented by the figure of Justice to Britannia who receives the peers with pleasure. Minerva overhead holds two laurel wreaths over the heads of the statesmen. In the upper left Fame proclaims the event on her trumpet. On the right, in the background, the half-naked figure of the "scribler" (i.e. political opponent of the peers) is tied to the back of a cart and whipped by a hangman
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Below the image is "The Explanation" over three columns of text., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Williams at No. 36, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778. and Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Minerva (Roman deity), Envy, Justice, Fame, and Seven deadly sins
Engraving of William Hogarth’s 1748 painting ‘O the Roast Beef of Old England’ (London, Tate Britain), which he had himself published as a print. The scene is set at the Gate of Calais (after the painting in the Tate Gallery) with a fat monk prodding a large sirloin of beef carried by a cook, on either side are two French soldiers, one of whom spills his bowl of thin soup as he gazes in amazement at the beef; on the left, three market women with crosses hanging from their necks admire a skate in a basket of fish; on the right, two ragged men carry a large pot of soup while another drinks from a bowl, and a Scottish soldier cowers beneath an archway; in the middle distance, to left, Hogarth himself is seen sketching at the moment when a soldier’s hand takes him by the shoulder; beyond, through the gate, is a religious procession
Alternative Title:
Gate of Calais
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on publisher's street address; Sayer's premises in Fleet Street were not numbered until ca. 1766. See British Museum online catalogue., Text of Theodosius Forrest’s cantata 'The Roast Beef of Old England' printed in letterpress beneath image in two columns., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 180., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign public opinion, French, Artists, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, and Religious processions
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1766]
Call Number:
Drawer 769.00.00.82
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Saint Martin dividing his cloak
Description:
Title, printmaker, and publication information from lettered state in the British Museum., After a painting by Anthony van Dyck. Artist statement on lettered state makes a false attribution to Rubens; see British Museum online cat., registration number: 1870,0625.597., Plate no. 26 from: A collection of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in England. London: [J. Boydell, 1769], v. 1., and Watermark.
"A broadside satirising a quack in London; with an engraving showing a street scene, a varied crowd of people surrounding "Waltho Van Claturbank, High German Doctor", on horseback, offering packages of remedies; behind him is his zany or fool, also on horseback; among the crowd are a number of children, including boy with a monkey, and two women selling fruit, one from a wheelbarrow the other from a basket on her head; with ... text in three columns; late impression of a print first published in 1713."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker from statement of responsibility "T. Slater sculp." on original issue of the print, which also bore the title "Pharmacopola circumforaneus, or, The horse doctor's harangue to [the] credulous mob" that is not present of this reissue; cf. Wellcome Collection online catalogue, reference: 575019i., "The plate would have been published by T Harrison in 1713 (information from Malcolm Jones based on impressions in the Wellcome Institute and Library of Congress) and later acquired by John Bowles who was in business from 1729; this impression was published after his son Carington Bowles went into business in St Pauls Church Yard c. 1766."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.13211., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Three columns of engraved text beneath image, printed from a separate plate: Gentlemen, I Waltho Van Claturbank, High German doctor, chymist & dentifricator ...
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Claturbank, Waltho van, pseud.,
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Quacks, Fools & jesters, Medicines, Crowds, Peddlers, Wheelbarrows, Baskets, Fruit, and Monkeys
