Page 150. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
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1
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still image
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In a large room of an employment agency, prospective employers interview their potential hires. At the extreme right is a desk with the manager of the agency sitting behind it . On the desk is large open volume entitled "Order from Covent Garden for tid-bits". Next to it lies a note, "To Mr. Double Face, Statute Hall." In the foreground, next to the desk, a young man and woman sit on a bench waiting their turn. Numerous pairs around the room conduct interviews, including an older woman examining the face of a young manservant; a macaroni feeling the bosom of a maidservant; an old woman in spectacles poking the chest of a large coachman with a whip in his hand; a bishop leering at a young woman holding a box under her arm; and a pair in the background on the left holding a paper "Hell Fire Jack at the Bedford". In the background on the far right two young women stand against the wall, under an advertisement: "Two ladies want places with single gentlemen willing to do any thing." Other advertisements hang on the back wall
Alternative Title:
Modern Register Office
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a variant state bearing the imprint of Robert Sayer, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1860,0623.23., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Folded to 24.5 x 24.3 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 150 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Publish'd by the inventor M. Darly accordg. to act of Parliament, April 10, 1769, at No. 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Employment agencies, Interiors, Interviews, Desks, Benches, Servants, Dandies, British, Women domestics, and Coach drivers
"A family in a wealthy interior; an elderly man at centre, seated at a table, a glass in his left hand, holding out his right to receive coins from a younger man standing to left with his right hand on a book and a quill in his mouth; on the table, another glass, writing materials, coins and notes; to right, a woman ..., supporting, and holding up a bunch of grapes for, a young child standing on a chair; looking on from behind the chair, a boy and, at right, a black servant holding a bowl of fruit, his left hand on the chair; in front of the table, a young girl lying on the carpet with a spaniel; a shipping wharf seen through an open window to left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Fruits of early industry & oeconomy, Fruits of early industry and oeconomy, and Fruits of early industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: Lo here, what ease, what elegance you see, the just reward of youthfull industry ..., and Companion print to: The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness.
"A family in a wealthy interior; an elderly man at centre, seated at a table, a glass in his left hand, holding out his right to receive coins from a younger man standing to left with his right hand on a book and a quill in his mouth; on the table, another glass, writing materials, coins and notes; to right, a woman ..., supporting, and holding up a bunch of grapes for, a young child standing on a chair; looking on from behind the chair, a boy and, at right, a black servant holding a bowl of fruit, his left hand on the chair; in front of the table, a young girl lying on the carpet with a spaniel; a shipping wharf seen through an open window to left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Fruits of early industry & oeconomy, Fruits of early industry and oeconomy, and Fruits of early industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: Lo here, what ease, what elegance you see, the just reward of youthfull industry ..., Companion print to: The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching ; sheet 67.3 x 54 cm., and Printed on wove paper, trimmed within plate mark.
"A family in a wealthy interior; an elderly man at centre, seated at a table, a glass in his left hand, holding out his right to receive coins from a younger man standing to left with his right hand on a book and a quill in his mouth; on the table, another glass, writing materials, coins and notes; to right, a woman wearing a large feathered hat, supporting, and holding up a bunch of grapes for, a young child standing on a chair; looking on from behind the chair, a boy and, at right, a black servant holding a bowl of fruit, his left hand on the chair; in front of the table, a young girl lying on the carpet with a spaniel; a shipping wharf seen through an open window to left"--British Museum online catalogue and A large painting on the back wall shows a large country estate which amplifies the subject of the print
Alternative Title:
Fruits of early industry and oeconomy and Fruits of early industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: Lo here, what ease, what elegance, you see, the just reward of youthfull industry ..., and Companion print to: The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1, 1789, by T. Simpson, St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Interiors, Families, Writing materials, Wealth, Servants, Dogs, and Piers & wharves
Plate 7. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
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1
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still image
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A dilapidated room with Moll Hackabout's friends, mostly prostitutes, gathered around her open coffin, several of them weeping; one young woman stands with her back to the scene as she gazes at herself in the mirror. On the left, a clergyman spills his brandy as he surreptitiously gropes beneath a woman's skirt; Moll's serving woman, standing at the coffin with a wine bottle and glass in hand scowls at the pair. Under the window and to the right, the undertaker flirts with a pretty young prostitute who picks a handkerchief from his pocket. In the foreground Moll's small son playing with a spinning top. Sprigs of yew (rosemary?) decorate her coffin; a plate of yew rests on the floor at the parson's feet, another spring at her son's feet
Description:
Title, date, publisher, and state from Paulson., With addition of black Latin cross added (from state 2) in the center below design, and many additions to design. See Paulson., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 31.7 x 38.7 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 7 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Clergy, Coffins, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Interiors, Prostitutes, Seduction, Servants, Syphilis, Undertakers, and Wake services
Plate 10. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 10. Album of William Hogarth prints.
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1
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still image
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A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, another spits a stream of gin across the table to the amusement of a young black woman standing in the background; one woman drinks from the punchbowl; another is removing her clothes in order to perform "postures"; to the right, a harpist and a door through which enters a man holding a large dish and a candle, and a pregnant ballad singer holding a sheet lettered "Black Joke"; on the walls hang a map of the world to which a young woman holds a candle and framed prints of Roman emperors, all (except that of Nero) damaged. The portrait on the wall which in the 2nd state was a faceless Julius Caesar is now a portrait of Pontac
Alternative Title:
O vanity of youthfull blood, so by misuse to poinson good!
Description:
Title, imprint, and state from Paulson., Added title from first lines of verse below image., "Plate 3"--Lower right corner., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image; separate caption and imprint mount below., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 40.9 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 10 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Plate 8. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 8. Album of William Hogarth prints.
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1
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still image
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The Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden as seen in 2nd state, but now removed) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out
Alternative Title:
O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever froward ...
Description:
Title, imprint, and state from Paulson., Added title from first lines of caption. Cf. Paulson, Description based on imperfect impression;, 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 35.6 x 40.8 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 8 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Plate 8. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 8. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden as seen in 2nd state, but now removed) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out
Alternative Title:
O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever froward ...
Description:
Title, imprint, and state from Paulson., Added title from first lines of caption. Cf. Paulson, Description based on imperfect impression;, 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 35.6 x 40.8 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 8 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Plate 9. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 9. Album of William Hogarth prints.
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1
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A fashionable interior (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician at a harpsichord (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, Farinelli), a fencing master, a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master, a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey. In the background on the left in an antechamber, a man holds a letter entitled "Epistle to Rake ..."
Alternative Title:
Prosperity, (with Horlot's [sic] smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ..., Prosperity, (with Horlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ..., and Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Fourth state with 'Horlot' corrected to 'Harlot'; scrolls over the harpsichodist's shoulder are hatched, but the floor and the dancing master's coat are not yet hatched., Caption below image in four columns begins: "Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles), how soon, sweet foe, can all they train of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain ...", 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 40.7 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 9 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults