Hodges, C. H. (Charles Howard), 1764-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1788]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The naked body of Christ laid on a stone slab covered with a cloth, supported by Mary Magdalen; the Virgin fainting and a crowd of mourners; the crown of thorns and the nails on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, on either side of etched Walpole arms bearing the motto "Fari quae sentiat.", Plate from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the Empress of Russia ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., Text below title: Print the size of the picture., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 203 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., and Note in brown ink in Horace Walpole's hand on mounting page: See page 68 preceding.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1st, 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, London
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title page vignette to The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, ... Part I, 1796., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
Publisher:
Published May 1st 1796 by T. Heptinstall, Fleet Street
Title from item., Publication place inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1768)?, Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: tables., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway, 1749-1808,
"Scene in an auction room, a sale in progress; paintings hang from walls and are displayed from an easel, a crowd gathers in room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 6., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 32.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1, 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Christie, Manson & Woods.
Subject (Topic):
Audiences, Crowds, Events, Interiors, and Art auctions
Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1843?]
Call Number:
843.00.00.50+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Numbered above title: No. 93., Temporary local subject terms: Holiday greetings -- Christmas., and Window mounted to 50 x 36 cm.
"A party of revellers gathered in a cosy room by a fireplace, under the jolly gaze of the slightly grotesque hosts who sit grinning at centre, looking out to the viewer; the forfeit has just been announced that a young countryman ('Ralph Jones') should kiss the candlestick; a young woman stands holding a candle at left, impersonating the said object, while Ralph fervently kisses the actual candlestick at right, watched by a laughing young woman, a thin man wearing glasses and a young boy, who are standing around a table with glasses and punch-bowl; behind at left, the 'long-nosed clergyman' is locked in an embrace with the 'snub-nosed old maid'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist questionably identified as either G.M. Woodward or Samuel Collings in the British Museum online catalogue., Listed without description with other prints from The wit's magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6885., Temporary local subject terms: Games: "Kiss the candlestick"., and 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 22 x 24 cm
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Holidays, Kissing, Mirrors, and Tables
"A party of revellers gathered in a cosy room by a fireplace, under the jolly gaze of the slightly grotesque hosts who sit grinning at centre, looking out to the viewer; the forfeit has just been announced that a young countryman ('Ralph Jones') should kiss the candlestick; a young woman stands holding a candle at left, impersonating the said object, while Ralph fervently kisses the actual candlestick at right, watched by a laughing young woman, a thin man wearing glasses and a young boy, who are standing around a table with glasses and punch-bowl; behind at left, the 'long-nosed clergyman' is locked in an embrace with the 'snub-nosed old maid'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist questionably identified as either G.M. Woodward or Samuel Collings in the British Museum online catalogue., Listed without description with other prints from The wit's magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6885., Temporary local subject terms: Games: "Kiss the candlestick"., and Mounted to 21 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Holidays, Kissing, Mirrors, and Tables
Title from text above images., Four designs on one plate, each individually titled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Christmas.