Four topographical plates (2 colored), stitched as issued in original pale yellow printed wrappers
Description:
Cover title., Date from dealer's description., Series number added in pencil., Rear wrapper lists 16 parts to the series, with no. 7 listed as "Buildings - Carlton Palace &c.", "Two pence.", Lewis Walpole Library copy: The number '7' in the title is supplied in pencil., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
10, Cloth Fair, West Smithfield
Subject (Geographic):
Malmesbury (England), England, London., England., and Malmesbury.
Subject (Name):
Carlton House (London, England) and Eltham Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Abbeys, Castles & palaces, and Market crosses
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Print from the Borders for rooms series by Woodward and Rowlandson., Publication date and publisher inferred from other prints in this series., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Allusion to William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, I.1.119-133 -- Literature: Allusion to Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote -- Kitchen utensils: kettle as a helmet -- Kitchen utensils: lid as a shield -- Kitchen utensils: skewer as a lance -- Allusion to nobodies -- Hoddy-doddies -- Borders -- Games: chess -- Money: pound note -- Female costume: Don Quixote -- Quakers -- Jokes -- Fans -- Walkers., and Numbered '23' in contemporary hand, above image.
Two horizontal strips in between borders. On top left: a man and three women ride on donkeys. The donkey of the woman on the extreme left trips and she is about to fall saying, Harse it, I did not think my ass was capable of such tricks
Description:
Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Publication date and attributions to Woodward and Rowlandson based on other "Borders" prints., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title etched above image., Plate from: A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1758 and 1759., Text below image: Touch it not, voüce, small, still., Plate numbered '85' in upper left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Dutchmen.
Portrait of William Hogarth; half length, to the right, head turned towads the viewer; with short curly hair; part of a curtain in background
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date based on known dates of activity for W. Read. See British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Portrait after a self-portrait; half-length in an oval frame, directed to right, looking towards the viewer, arms at his sides, wearing a plain coat buttoned at the waist, a white cravat and tricorn over a shoulder-length wig
Description:
Title etched below image., State without price below image, lower right., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 209 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d edit., p. 409.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, June 1781, and sold by C. Townley, Arlington Street, Piccadilly
Title etched below image., Earlier state before imprint added?: Publish'd March 1st, 1786, by W. Dickenson, No. 158, New Bond St.., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 266., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: ibid. 441., and On page 187 in volume 2. Plate mark 10.1 x 8.2 cm, on sheet 11.3 x 9.4 cm.
Title from item., Caption below image: From an original sketch of Hogarth's in the collection of Mr. Morrison., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit, p. 414., and On page 219 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 23rd 1782, by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarth's Leicester Fields