Attributed to Horace Walpole in the British Museum catalogue. Now known not to have been created by Walpole or printed at Strawberry Hill. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of Horace Walpole, page 173 and his Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, pages 145-148., A set of cards with moral maxims printed on fronts and backs in black and red ink: e.g., "Poverty is the fruit of idleness, Small griefs are loud, great ones still ...", All engraved with decorative border., and Imperfect set: one card lacking and printed leaf of Explanation. For further information, consult library staff.
On a raised platform, the Devil sits on top of 3 casks, one labelled "small beer". He straddles a huge key, from which are suspended, as on a gallows, 2 gentlemen, the one on the right bearing some resemblance to George III. On the left 2 maids or washerwomen wave mop and broom at the hanged man (possibly Pitt?), saying "You tax maid servants no more". On the right Samuel House, standing before his tavern, offers a tankard to Jeffrey Dunstan, who is voicing his support of Charles James Fox. The Devil is uttering the words of the title
Alternative Title:
Key of the back stairs and the small beer etc
Description:
Title derived from text in image. and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797. and House, Samuel, -1785.
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Keys (Hardware), Taverns (Inns), Women domestics, Hangings, and Clothing & dress
Title and date of publication supplied by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on leaf 72. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Pipes (Smoking), Smoking, Drinking vessels, and Cats
Charles Churchill in the form of a huge bear (right, as in Hogarth's print The Bruiser) and wearing clerical neckbands, looks down, mouth agap, at a little dog (left) who snarls back. The dog personifies Hogarth as in his own print "Trump"; his paws rest on a artist's palette inscribed "Line of beauty". The bear's paw rests on a sheet inscribed "Epistle to Wm. Hogarth," the poem which Churchill published in response to Hogarth's sketch of Wilkes described as "John Wilkes, Esqr."
Alternative Title:
Satire on Hogarth and the Rev. C. Churchill
Description:
Title from later state, engraved for the engd. for the Hiberia magazine. and Alternative title from British Museum catalogue: Satire on Hogarth and the Rev. C. Churchill.
A young woman, viewed in profile, sits on a stool reading a book as Cupid, with his bow in hand, reaches to touch her with his arrow turning to smile at the viewer as he does so. In front of the woman is a table with more books, paper, and a feather pen in an ink well as well as an oil lamp. To the left on the ground is a large urn
Description:
Title and publication date assigned by curator.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Books, Cupids, Lamps, Reading, Women, Vases, and Writing materials
Title from later state., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., State before title. Cf. Later state in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c., p. 79., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the later state appears., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of a print after Bunbury published in 1773. See no. 5213 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Fortifications -- Jack-boots -- Newspapers: London gazette -- Sentry boxes -- Uniforms: Grenadiers hats .
Title assigned by cataloger., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Temporary local subject terms: Tropical islands -- Savages -- Doctors: witch doctor -- Black giants -- Illustrative material -- Scrolls.
A portrait of Thomas Gray standing, nearly three-quarter length, facing the viewer. He holds a letter in his right hand, which rests on his left wrist, the whole framed in masonry, arched at the top
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., After the painting by J.G. Eccardt in the National Portrait Gallery, London., Artist from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits, which also states: "This plate was engraved for the Poems 1753 but destroyed by Gray's desire.", and Lewis Walpole Library Quarto 532 C753 Copy 4: Bound in as the frontispiece opposite the title page: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, MDCCLIII [1753]. Impression formerly owned by Horace Walpole with his ms. notes. Trimmed to plate mark.
A portrait of Thomas Gray standing, nearly three-quarter length, facing the viewer. He holds a letter in his right hand, which rests on his left wrist, the whole framed in masonry, arched at the top
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker from statement of responsibility on variant state: J.S. Müller sculpt., After a painting by J.G. Eccardt in the National Portrait Gallery, London. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved. According to the Catalogue of engraved British portraits, "This plate was engraved for the Poems, 1753, but destroyed by Gray's desire.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., For a variant state bearing printmaker's signature, see: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 376., Mounted on page 66 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 Sitter's name "Mr. Thomas Gray" written in brown ink at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand.
"Portrait of the artist's father, Thomas Lawrence Senior, after a drawing by Lawrence (Garlick 1964, p.232); almost whole-length seated slightly to left, looking to front, his arms resting on the arms of the chair, wearing short wig and coat open over a waistcoat. 1830."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, artist, and imprint from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1848,0708.228.