A tracing of William Hogarth's print: A porter carrying a large number of chamber pockets towards a house on the right, walking ahead of a sedan chair, with guards on the steps and others holding back crowds and several figures climbing over a high brick wall running alongside the road to the house
Alternative Title:
Peter Necessary with choice of chamber pots
Description:
Title traced below image., "Jack in office is undoubtedly Hogarth, though the subejct of it is unknown. I have seen but one copy of it. See Nichols's Book, 3rd edit. p. 438"--Written in pencil above image., "Copy by G. Steevens"--Written in pencil below image., "Price 6d."--As traced from print., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 213., and On page 25 in volume 1.
Subject (Topic):
Chamber pots, Courtyards, Crowds, Sedan chairs, and Soldiers
A large John Bull sporting an eye patch sits in an elegant theatre box, a broadside hanging over the edge: "The Pilot! Long Tom Coffin by Mr. T.P. Cook ... Black Eyed Susan."
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Opposite page 88. Memoires du comte de Grammont ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of the rope dancer Jacob Hall; long half-length, standing to the left; wearing floppy cap, billowing white shirt with bow tie; a comb on table to the left, his right hand raised towards chest; after Jacob van Oost
Description:
Title written below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., After a painting by Jakob (Jacques) van Oost the Younger., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted opposite page 88 in Richard Bull's extra-illustrated, interleaved copy of: Hamilton, A. Memoires du comte de Grammont ... Strawberry Hill, 1772.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Below title: A goose attached to her Majesty's regiment of Coldstream guards enlisted at Canada and promoted to the post of superintending the sentinels on duty., and Temporary local subject terms: Goose -- Coldstream Guards -- Sentinels -- Canada.
Silvester, Richard William, 1769 or 1770-1842, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800?]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Title from item., Place and publisher conjectured by content., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 163 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.