Plate 58. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The scene is the courtyard of the "Old Angel In", a stop for coaches on the road to London; in foreground a large woman enters a coach, the man to her left helps her in with a hand on her round backside, a man with a protruding belly stands waiting, behind him a boy holds out a hat for tips; to the left a refreshment seller yells out advertising her goods, two drunken guests lean out from a window above with a pipe and a horn, and two figures embrace in the doorway below, the watchdog lies asleep in his kennel on the right; a crowd of election campaigners at the far end of the inn"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Country inn yard
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Date from Paulson: 26 June 1747., Lower left corner, below image: "Price one shilling"., 1 print : engraving and etching on laid paper ; plate mark 21.5 x 30.6 cm, on sheet 26 x 36.3 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 58 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Crowds, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
Plate 72. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A companion to Plate I, the firefighters have become gardeners and the water flows onto the trees in pots that surround the statue of George III, royal steams of benevolence. Lord Bute is the head gardener
Alternative Title:
Times. Plate 2
Description:
Title etched below image., Third state as described by Paulson, with publication line and inscription engraved., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 25.5 x 31.9 cm, on sheet 28.7 x 37.1 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., Plate 72 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works., and Formerly identified as Paulson state 2.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 29, 1790 by J & J Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Cities & towns, and Gardens
A young woman presumably a prostitute, bare breasted and with a dejected look on her face, is being led up the steps of a building by a beadle or constable, her head bowed in shame. Her infant has been left in the arms of an older woman, stands at the base of the stairs ont he right. Another, older child, seated on a lower step in the foreground, looks up at the scene. The building has barred windows
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Signed by the artist in lower right: T. Rowlandson., and Date supplied by cataloger.
A portrait of Thomas Kirgate, half-length, looking to the right
Description:
Title written in black ink below plate line, in an unidentified hand., Statements of responsibility written in black ink below title, in an unidentified hand: Painted & etched by E. Edwards, 1784; finished by J. Hall., and Mounted on page 18 in Horace Walpole's Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 March 1780]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 29. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"'Three French girls before a castle gate', standing in the line with books under their arms, the girl at left with her hands under her apron, looking at the ground, the central figure with a half-open fan and a posy of flowers tucked into her dress and the third with flowers on her bonnet, at right a figure on horseback enters the gate, a guard beside; circular design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three girls before Medieval gate
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 29 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 29.2 x 28.7 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Publish'd 4th March 1780 by Js. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 March 1780]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 29. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"'Three French girls before a castle gate', standing in the line with books under their arms, the girl at left with her hands under her apron, looking at the ground, the central figure with a half-open fan and a posy of flowers tucked into her dress and the third with flowers on her bonnet, at right a figure on horseback enters the gate, a guard beside; circular design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three girls before Medieval gate
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 29 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.9 x 28.6 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Publish'd 4th March 1780 by Js. Bretherton, New Bond Street
"Ticket to the Pantheon; a family concert outside a thatched cottage with a boy blowing a trumpet accompanying his sister who sings from a sheet, while the parents look on; in frame wrapped in garlands, ... cartouche at top."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., With embossed wafer seal in red ink of the "Society of Musicians" in lower left corner, and the concert details "Pantheon, Friday, May 16th, 1788" added in ink within blank cartouche at top of image., Imperfect; sheet torn in lower right corner resulting in loss of printmaker's signature. Trimmed to plate mark on left edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: C,2.1476-1483., Watermarked paper: LV., and With contemporary ink signatures of "Arnold" (for Samuel Arnold) and "Sandwich" (for the Earl of Sandwich, as Society committee members) to blank lower margin; verso with contemporary ink note "No. 158. Richard Sulivan Esq. Subscriber." For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Charity, Musical instruments, Families, and Dwellings
Plate 70. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Subscription ticket for "Sigismonda" with a figure of Time as an old winged man sitting on a broken statue, blowing pipe-smoke at a dark landscape painting on the easel in front of him and which he has pierced with his scythe; at the top of the frame of the painting is a Greek quote, preceded by the word "Crates' and ending with its identification: "See Spectator Vol. II: Page 83." On the floor to the left is a large jar labeled "Varnish".
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Lettered within image in this state, the name "Crates" added to the top left of the picture frame. Lower right of image inscribed with quote: "-As statues moulder into Worth. P.W." Below a couplet, "To Nature and your Self appeal, Nor learn of others, what to feel. Anon:"., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of subscription receipt., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 24.3 x 18.8 cm., Sheet trimmmed within plate mark on bottom edge; mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 70 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.