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145. [Lord Derby following Miss Farren] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, printmaker, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [20 July 1781]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 781.07.20.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A short man riding (right to left) after a coach, the back of which only appears in the print, with a footman standing behind it. The rider's head is turned to his right concealing his profile. His legs are thrust forward on each side of the horse's neck. On a building (right) is a placard, "Angel Fetter Lane Derby Diligence continues flying daily as usual. Inside [the poster is torn at this point] Outsides & Children on the Lap half price, perform'd (if God permit by Bull & Co." Beneath the design is etched: "When I follow'd a lass that was froward & shy Oh I stuck to her stuff but she would not comply"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- When I followd. a lass that was froward & shy ..., When I followed a lass that was froward & shy ..., and Derby Diligence
- Description:
- Title and artist from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker identified as J.R. Smith in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.4766., Watermark, mostly trimmed., and Figure identified by ms. note in a contemporary hand below plate: Lord Derby.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. July 20th, 1781, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street, nearly oposite [sic] the Pantheon
- Subject (Name):
- Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834 and Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829.
- Subject (Topic):
- Carriages & coaches, Horseback riding, Servants, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Lord Derby following Miss Farren] [graphic].
146. [Masquerades and operas ("The bad taste of the town")] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1724]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Copy of William Hogarth's satire on the "bad taste of the town", with different verses engraved below. The image is of a composite street scene with a theatre on either side and an "Academy of Arts" (Lord Burlington's recently remodelled house in Piccadilly) beyond; on the left, a fool and a devil are leading a crowd of masqueraders into the Opera House in the Haymarket from which hang a banner advertising an opera (based on British Museum satire no. 1768 with the singers Cuzzoni, Senesino and Berenstadt) and a sign for "Dr. Faux's [Isaac Fawkes] Dexterity of Hand", the impressario John James Heidegger leans from an upper window; on the right, a crowd is flocking to see the pantomime "Dr Faustus"; in the centre, a woman pushes a wheelbarrow of waste paper including volumes of Congreve, Dryden, Ottway, Shakespeare, Addison, and Ben John[son]; the gate of the Academy beyond is topped with statues of Michelangelo, Raphael and William Kent, admired by three gentlemen."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Bad taste of the town
- Description:
- Titles, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., Text and image on one plate., Two columns of four lines of verse engraved below image: Long has the stage productive been, Of offsprings it could brag on, But never 'till this age was seen, A wind-mill and a dragon. O Congreve, lay they pen aside, Shakespear, thy works disown, Since monsters grim, * nought beside. Can please this senseless town., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. No. 1742 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Copy of Hogarth print. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 44., On page 26 in volume 1., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Copy., and Lengthy ms. note in Steevens's hand to the right of print describing how the print was pirated very soon after its publication.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748, Senesino, -1759?, Kent, William, 1685-1748, Cuzzoni, Francesco, approximately 1680-1759, Fawkes, Isaac, -1731, Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694-1753, and Hercules (Roman mythological character),
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), City & town life, Clergy, Costumes, Dogs, and Masquerades
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Masquerades and operas ("The bad taste of the town")] [graphic].
147. [Portrait of Bubb Doddington, Lord Melcombe-Regis] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [April 1757]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A full-length image of a stout man in profile, walkinig left, with a long wig and coat decorated with fleur-de-lis, pointing with right hand, holding his hat in the other, saying 'Im against Hanover that's flat'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title, artist, and date from British Museum catalogue., Copy in reverse from a figure in "The recruiting serjeant.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 208 in volume 3., Ms. note in pencil in unidentified hand on mount below print: Ld. Melcomb., and Ms. note in pencil in same hand lower right beneath print: Hogarth.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of Bubb Doddington, Lord Melcombe-Regis] [graphic].
148. [The times]. [Plate II] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1762 or 1763]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- 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 Henry VIII, royal steams of benevolence. Lord Bute is the head gardener
- Alternative Title:
- Pl. 2
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date, publisher, and state as described by Paulson., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Plate II. Ms. note beneath image: Times, Plate 2; proof taken during the life-time of Hogarth., Ms. note in ink on square of paper mounted below in Steevens's hand: This second part of The times (for and impression of which the late Lord Exeter paid Mrs. Hogarth ten guineas, the money to be returned if she published the plate) is every way inferior to the first. Since the death of Mrs. Hogarth, it is become the property of the Boydells., and On page 193 in volume 2.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Name):
- Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Cities & towns, and Gardens
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The times]. [Plate II] [graphic]
149. [Viscount Beauchamp] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 July 1784]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 7. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Francis Seymour Conway (1743-1822), M.P. for Oxford, eldest son of the Earl of Hertford, stands looking slightly over his left shoulder, his head in profile to the left, holding a document in his right hand, his left hand on his hip."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 11 with three other prints.
- Publisher:
- Published 14th July 1784 by Jas. Bretherton
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822,
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Viscount Beauchamp] [graphic]
150. [Viscount Beauchamp] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 July 1784]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 7. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Francis Seymour Conway (1743-1822), M.P. for Oxford, eldest son of the Earl of Hertford, stands looking slightly over his left shoulder, his head in profile to the left, holding a document in his right hand, his left hand on his hip."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.5 x 13 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 7 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Lord Beauchamp.
- Publisher:
- Published 14th July 1784 by Jas. Bretherton
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822,
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Viscount Beauchamp] [graphic]
151. [Viscount Beauchamp] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 July 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.07.14.08
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 7. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Francis Seymour Conway (1743-1822), M.P. for Oxford, eldest son of the Earl of Hertford, stands looking slightly over his left shoulder, his head in profile to the left, holding a document in his right hand, his left hand on his hip."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Numbered '30' in contemporary hand in the upper right corner.
- Publisher:
- Published 14th July 1784 by Jas. Bretherton
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822,
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Viscount Beauchamp] [graphic]