Having been released from Bridewell Prison, the harlot is shown in a squalid bed-chamber, wrapped in a long sheet and seated in a chair by the fire, her head resting against a pillow in a swoon. Her dismayed attendant turns for help from the two doctors who are quarreling about the benefit of their nostrums, the one standing in anger, in the process turning over a table and chair. A second attendant is rummaging through the harlot's trunk on the right. Sitting on the floor near the harlot's chair is a young boy, scratching his head as he roasts meat on a stick, heedless of the dramas in the room
Alternative Title:
In a high salivation and at the point of death
Description:
Title from caption above image., Printer's statement from Plate I of the series., Engraved below image, three columns, six lines each, beginning: From Bridewell fredd she quickly gains, The French disease and all its pains ..., No. 5 of a series of 6 pirated copies of Hogarth's engravings of "A harlot's progress". Imprint varies from the Bowles copy described as no. 2036, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Written in contemporary hand below text: Margery. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Iohn Bowles at Mercer's Hall in Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Bedrooms, Physicians, Prostitutes, Servants, and Sick persons
"Portrait seen almost half-length to right, head in three-quarter profile to right, wearing wig and partially open coat; after Reynolds (Mannings 73); lettered state after quotation re-arranged on two lines."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.2113., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two lines of verse below title: The suffrage of the wise, the praise that's worth ambition, is attain'd by sense alone, & dignity of mind., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 37 (leaf numbered '65' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and With small ink ownership stamp ("T.L" within a double-lined oval) in lower left beneath painter's name. Also with ink annotations on verso, in a contemporary or slightly later hand: "N16693" and "private plate" written in lower left, and "5 s." written in lower right.
"Satire on Mary Toft, the "rabbit breeder" and those who were duped by her fraud. The interior of a large room, presumably intended as Lacy's bagnio in Leicester Fields, in the centre of which Toft reclines on a chair attended by a doctor, John Howard, while a gentleman identified by Stephens as Nathaniel St André, wearing a hat, has laid down a walking stick and kneels to lift a rabbit that is emerging from below her skirts. On the left, three men enter through an open door, the foremost, evidently John Maubray, holding up a specimen bottle and grasping by the shoulder another doctor, who points towards Toft; another holding a staff aplpears to be a constable. Other men (one perhaps intended as her husband) gather behind Toft's chair; Samuel Molyneux, wearing a hat and holding a walking stick turns away in disgust as a midwife holds up a "new-born" rabbit. On a table in the background lie a hat, ink stand and specimens of Toft's rabbits; the walls are hung with five paintings and a large map of Surrey."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, between two columns of verse., Artist and printmaker from later state: Geo. Vertue del. Jas. Vertue sculp., Date based on advertisement in the Daily journal, 23 December 1726., "Pr. 6d."--Price following imprint., Two columns of verse on either side of title: The Surrey Rabbet-Breeder here behold, Imposture greater than appear'd of old, ... Tis hop'd will bring forth pillory and ears., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 42 in volume 1., and Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: The plate is said to have given offence to Frederick Prince of Wales who is here represented. His note below the print: Vertue was employed as the engraver.
Publisher:
Sold by Jon. Clark, engraver & printsellr. in Grays-Inn
Portrait of Thomas Pellett; half length, to the left, looking to front; wearing cloak with tassles decorating bands across sleeves, wig, and neck scarf; in oval; after Dahl
Alternative Title:
Thomas Pellet, M.D., Thomas Pellett, M.D., and [Title in scratched letters, proof].
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 208 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above row of three impressions of this portrait: Dr. Pellet. See Nichols's Book, 3d. edit., p. 407.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st. 1781 by I. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Portrait of Thomas Pellett; half length, to the left, looking to front; wearing cloak with tassles decorating bands across sleeves, wig, and neck scarf; in oval; after Dahl
Alternative Title:
Thomas Pellett, M.D.
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 208 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above row of three impressions of this portrait: Dr. Pellet. See Nichols's Book, 3d. edit., p. 407.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st. 1781 by I. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
On the left a thin man stands stiffly in profile to the right his head thrown back, chapeau-bras, and holding a muff. A very stout man on the rights stands full-face, his hands behind his back, looking up quizzically
Description:
Title from manuscript note., Variant state with title provide only in manuscript in a contemporary hand; no engraved title., Plate for: Rules for drawing caricaturas / by F. Grose. London : Printed by A. Grant, 1788., and Variant state. Cf. No. 7467 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Portrait of Thomas Pellett; half length, to the left, looking to front; wearing cloak with tassles decorating bands across sleeves, wig, and neck scarf; in oval; after Dahl
Description:
Title from later, lettered states., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 208 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Proof. In pencil in Steeven's hand above row of three impressions of this portrait: Dr. Pellet. See Nichols's Book, 3d. edit., p. 407.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st. 1781 by I. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market