"Portrait after a drawing by Hogarth; head and shoulders of a man with a prominent forehead and hooked chin, to left looking down, wearing a wide-brimmed hat set at a tilt and cravat; with another head in profile to left wearing a plumed cocked hat, behind; before plate reduced and inscription curtailed and re-engraved."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later states., "S.I. fecit aqua fort" scored through with hashes., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For another state published by W. Dickinson see: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3099., On page 208 in volume 3., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Solsull, the maker of punches for engravers., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit., p. 407.
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark (plate mark 18.7 x 23.8 cm.) on top and sides., Imprint etched below image: London, Pubd. July 7, 1791 by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St., Letterpress caption title "To Mr. Holland" printed below the plate., Song purported to have been written by the boys of Westminster school upon the death of Anna Davis., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: ... of whom may be had, lately published, ... [list of print titles]., Variant of no. 8002 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Furniture: beds -- Chairs -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Furnishings: chamber pots -- Women: old maids -- Schoolboys -- Birds: cockrels -- Spectacles -- Books -- Female costume: stays., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Anonymous MS., Musical commonplace book: MS in two or three hands, Includes exercises, melodies without words, and unidentified songs, as well as two songs by Henry Purcell (1659-1695), an air by George Friedric Handel (1685-1759), and a song by W. Senhouse., and Several binder's blanks unscanned.
Subject (Name):
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 and Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, English -- Great Britain, Music--Instruction and study--England--Early works to 1800, Oratorios -- Excerpts, and Songs, English -- Great Britain
Collection includes songs, with simple piano accompaniments, by Samuel Arnold (1740-1802); William Reeve (1757-1815); Thomas Simpson Cooke (1782-1848); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791); Thomas Moore (1779-1852); Samuel Chapple (1775-1853); John Davy (1763-1824); John Andrew Stevenson (1761-1833); John Braham (1774-1856); John Percy (1749-1797); Joseph Mazhinghi (1765-1844); Michael Kelly (1762-1826); William Thomas Parke (1762-1847); William Shield (1748-1829); James Hook (1746-1827); Georg Joseph Vogler (1749-1814); and Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)., Holograph., and With index.
Subject (Name):
Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802, Braham, John, 1774-1856, Chapple, Samuel, 1775-1833, Cooke, T. (Thomas), 1782-1848, Davy, John, 1763-1824, Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Hook, Mr. (James), 1746-1827, Kelly, Michael, 1762-1826, Mazzinghi, Joseph, 1765-1844, Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Parke, William Thomas, 1762-1847, Percy, John, 1749-1797, Reeve, William, 1757-1815, Shield, William, 1748-1829, Stevenson, John, 1761-1833, and Vogler, Georg Joseph, 1749-1814
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 17 original songs, many of them love songs, written in an interleaved copy of Rider's British Merlin, 1698. Titles include "The Deceitful Lover," "The scolding wife," and "Beauty's advocate or the Charms of beauty." The manuscript also includes numerous memoranda and accounts of receipts, primarily relating to copying legal papers. A memorandum dated May 8 1721 mentions the Mayor having "given consent to the players to have the Moothall for playing in."
Description:
In English., Several pages throughout are written in a different hand, some in pencil, which include crude drawings of owls, a strawberry, and a pot of flowers, a list of names including "Isabela Larmouth" whose name also appears on the flyleaf, and a partially obliterated short narrative about "a naughty boy who cryed.", Inscription on flyleaf: "George Cuthbertson. Sept. 13, 1717" and "Isbla Larmouth Lerneth.", Inscription on p. 4: "George Archibauld James.", Marbled endpapers., and Binding: full calf; blind-tooled decoration; remains of metal clasps.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Cuthbertson, George.
Subject (Topic):
Account books, English literature, English poetry, Love songs, Memorandums, and Songs, English
Sixteen men are seated at an oval table in Windsor arm-chairs smoking long-stemmed tobacco pipes, drinking from glasses and tankards, and engaging in conversation. The figures include Lord George Gordon, William Holland, William Lloyd, Thomas Townley Macan, James Ridgway, Henry Delahay, Charles Pigott, Daniel Holt, Daniel Isaac Eaton, William Williams, Doctor Watson, and Joseph Gerald. On the far right a female servant brings in fresh tobacco pipes and a bottle and the walls include various prints and pictures including landscapes, 'three witches addressing Macbeth', and satires
Description:
Title and date based on Newton's aquatint print after this image. and Later published aquatint described in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8339.
Subject (Name):
Gordon, George, 1741-1779, Holland, William, active 1782-1817, Macan, T. T. (Thomas Townley), Ridgway, James, Symonds, H. D. (Henry Delahoy), Pigott, Charles, -1794, Holt, Daniel, and Eaton, Daniel Isaac, -1814