- Creator:
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd March 1798.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., Sheet trimmed on right and left edges., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Copy., and On page 101 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to, plate visible at bottom: 9.7 x 13.2 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Foundling Hospital (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Death, and Orphanages
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The foundlings [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd March 1798.
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 798.03.00.02 Impression 1 Box 135
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., and Sheet trimmed on right and left edges.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Foundling Hospital (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Death, and Orphanages
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The foundlings [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd March 1798.
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 798.03.00.02 Impression 2 Box 135
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., and Sheet trimmed on right and left edges.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Foundling Hospital (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Death, and Orphanages
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The foundlings [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd March 1798.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A pregnant young woman standing to the right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Text following title: Vide Picart's Religious ceremonies, Vol. VI, p. 81., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., See reference to related print published by Joseph Sympson: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), p. 107., and On page 11 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Couples, Courtrooms, Dogs, and Pregnant women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Woman swearing a child [graphic]