"Eldon as a street-beggar kneels on both knees on straw placed on paving-stones, wearing a cap resembling those worn by butchers and the rags of a Chancellor's gown over tattered breeches. He supports himself by a staff, and holds out his short powdered wig. Beside him (left) lies an empty and dilapidated bag inscribed The Old Bagg [cf. British Museum Satires No. 12883]. He looks down with a gloomy scowl, and from his closed lips rise the words: Pity the sorrows of a poor old man [cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 13991, 16236]--vide beggars petition, Tricked out of Work by a Soldier. Round his neck is tied a placard reaching below the waist, and inscribed: Pity a poor Old Man out of Place, at the age of 78 [76], and though extremely anxious, for employment, disappointed in, all his expectations of procuring the Same. His pension is only 4.000 P A [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10714] and not a Dinner has been dressed in his house within the memory of man! He has a wife to support, and a Son to provide for, who holds only Eight Appointments! Beside him an emaciated dog stands on its hindlegs holding a begging-dish, with a piteous expression."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
To a benevolent public
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two young women standing at the corner of a customs' house with a sign lettered 'Qui si paga la gabella', one carrying a basket, in profile on the right, reaching out one arm to the other, who has a staff on the crook of her arm and her hands joined under her apron, both wearing hats slanted over their foreheads, gowns with laced bodices and fichus, with a dog in the right foreground and view of mountains behind to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 45 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.9 x 18.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 3d Feby. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
The third print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set at Sadler's Wells. "A dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River; the wife holds a fan with a design of Aphrodite and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds; behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman; to the right is a tavern with the sign of Sir Hugh Middleton's Head, two women and a man are in the tavern garden, other figures are visible through the window, and a grape vine is climbing up towards the roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 148., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published December the 1st, 1797, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, London
Plate 24. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 24. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The third print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set at Sadler's Wells. "A dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River; the wife holds a fan with a design of Aphrodite and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds; behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman; to the right is a tavern with the sign of Sir Hugh Middleton's Head, two women and a man are in the tavern garden, other figures are visible through the window, and a grape vine is climbing up towards the roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., "Price 5 shillings"--Following printmaker's name., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 48.8 x 40.3 cm, on sheet 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 24 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 75. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 50. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the streets of the slum Ruins of St. Giles, Westminster, the only business are S. Gripe pawnbroker (left), Kilman Distiller (right) and the undertaker (background right). It is a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners -- charity children, mothers and babies, trades people, cripples, etc. -- shown dead or dying, fighting, or stupefied with drink. Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin". His dog looks down at the empty glass. On the right in a crumbling building a barber is shown hanging by his neck; below a crowd is being pushed back towards Kilman Distiller. Mid-ground a woman is being placed in a coffin, her child weeping on the ground beside the coffin. Another child is impaled on a spit and carried along by a cook with a bellows on his head. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so that the face is wizened and the eyes sunken
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., Verse below image: Gin cursed fiend with fury fraught, makes human race a prey; it enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away ..., Companion print: Beer Street., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.8 x 32.1 cm, on sheet 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 75 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Building deterioration, Children, Crowds, Death, Dogs, Fighting, Gin, Intoxication, Occupations, Pawnshops, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Slums, Starvation, Suicides, Street vendors, and Undertakers
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 75. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 50. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the streets of the slum Ruins of St. Giles, Westminster, the only business are S. Gripe pawnbroker (left), Kilman Distiller (right) and the undertaker (background right). It is a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners -- charity children, mothers and babies, trades people, cripples, etc. -- shown dead or dying, fighting, or stupefied with drink. Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin". His dog looks down at the empty glass. On the right in a crumbling building a barber is shown hanging by his neck; below a crowd is being pushed back towards Kilman Distiller. Mid-ground a woman is being placed in a coffin, her child weeping on the ground beside the coffin. Another child is impaled on a spit and carried along by a cook with a bellows on his head. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so that the face is wizened and the eyes sunken
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., Verse below image: Gin cursed fiend with fury fraught, makes human race a prey; it enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away ..., Companion print: Beer Street., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.8 x 32.1 cm, on sheet 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 75 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Building deterioration, Children, Crowds, Death, Dogs, Fighting, Gin, Intoxication, Occupations, Pawnshops, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Slums, Starvation, Suicides, Street vendors, and Undertakers
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 77. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 53. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the street outside the Thavies Inn, Holborn, the coach driver Tom Nero beats the horse that has collapsed under the weight of the overturned coach, having been overloaded with four lawyers who try to scramble out the door. To the right in the foreground, another man beats to death a sheep. Behind him in the mid-distance a sleeping drayman runs over a small boy with his cart loaded with barrels. To the left a driver uses a pitchfork to prod a donkey burdened with two men, a barrel, and a large trunk on its back. In the distance, a crowd of men follow a bull being baited by a dog. On the side of the building on the left, broadsides advertise a cock-fight and a boxing bout between James Field and George Taylor at Broughton's Amphitheatre
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., Second plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., "Price 1d"--Below design, lower right edge., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.6 x 31.9 cm, on sheet 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 77 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
publish'd according to act of Parliament Sepbr. 30 1747.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 49. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The apprentice Francis Goodchild leans out the window to pay the leader of a band of drummers; with the band are two butchers playing 'rough music' with bones and cleavers. His bride, his former master's daughter can be seen in the room behind him sipping tea. The sign with a lion rampant announces the elevation of Goodchild from apprentice to partner: West and Goodchild. A poor mother with a child on her back kneels on the step at the front door as a footman dumps the remains of the wedding breakfast into her outstreched aprom. On the left in the street a legless beggar in a tub holds out a ballad sheet with the title "Jesse or the Happy Pair"; a dog sits at his side. In the background the foot of the Monument contains an anti-Roman Catholic inscription: "In rememberance ... of Burning [the] Protestant City by the treachery of the Papist Faction In ... year ... [o]f our ... Lo[r]d 1666." The right of the frame is decorated with a scourge, manacles and a hangman's rope; on the left frame hang the mace of the City of London, the alderman's gold chain and a sword of state
Alternative Title:
Industrious apprentice out of his time & married to his master's daughter and Industrious apprentice out of his time and married to his master's daughter
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., "Plate 6"--Below frame., Sixth plate in the series of twelve: "Industry and idleness"., Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: "Proverbs Chap:XII. Ver: 4. The virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.", 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 26.5 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 28.7 x 43.6 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 49 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Apprentices, Beggars, Butchers, Charity, Dogs, Drums (Musical instruments), Marriage, Monuments & memorials, Musical instruments, People with disabilities, Rake's progress, Servants, Signs (Notices), and Street musicians
publish'd according to act of Parliament Sepbr. 30 1747.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 747
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The apprentice Francis Goodchild leans out the window to pay the leader of a band of drummers; with the band are two butchers playing 'rough music' with bones and cleavers. His bride, his former master's daughter can be seen in the room behind him sipping tea. The sign with a lion rampant announces the elevation of Goodchild from apprentice to partner: West and Goodchild. A poor mother with a child on her back kneels on the step at the front door as a footman dumps the remains of the wedding breakfast into her outstreched aprom. On the left in the street a legless beggar in a tub holds out a ballad sheet with the title "Jesse or the Happy Pair"; a dog sits at his side. In the background the foot of the Monument contains an anti-Roman Catholic inscription: "In rememberance ... of Burning [the] Protestant City by the treachery of the Papist Faction In ... year ... [o]f our ... Lo[r]d 1666." The right of the frame is decorated with a scourge, manacles and a hangman's rope; on the left frame hang the mace of the City of London, the alderman's gold chain and a sword of state
Alternative Title:
Industrious apprentice out of his time & married to his master's daughter and Industrious apprentice out of his time and married to his master's daughter
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., "Plate 6"--Below frame., Sixth plate in the series of twelve: Industry and idleness., Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: Proverbs Chap:XII. Ver: 4. The virtuous woman is a crown to her husband., and Sewn into contemporary blue paper wrappers with the eleven other plates in the series, all on wove paper; inscribed "H. Man. 1798" on front wrapper. With a further brown paper dust wrapper and brown paper envelope, inscribed "Hogarth Industrious and Idle Apprentice. H.S. Man 1796, a gift from his father". For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Apprentices, Beggars, Butchers, Charity, Dogs, Drums (Musical instruments), Marriage, Monuments & memorials, Musical instruments, People with disabilities, Servants, Signs (Notices), Street musicians, and Rake's progress
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1 March 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 53. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on bookmaking: a portly man grins as he makes a note in a small book as another scowls miserably, hands in pockets; on the left, three dogs bark at the pair, above them the wall has been chalked "45" and "[Wil]kes" (alluding to John Wilkes, see 1868,0808.4315) and a sign reads, "No Thouroughfare Here"; behind the men is the wall of a house, from an upper window of which appears a man's leg clad in a dark stocking (a "blackleg" or swindling bookmaker (OED)), below the window a gallows with a hanged man has been crudely drawn on the wall, a notice reads "Whoso Lays ... will be prose[cuted]" (presumably alluding to infringement of gambling regulations); from another window, above which is the sign "Catchpenny Alley", hangs the head of a goose, a small dog jumps up trying to reach it; another dog is seated at right; a pair to British Museum Satires No. 4719."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Catchpenny Alley
Description:
Title from later state., Early state, with artist and printmaker signatures only. For a later state with title, publication line, and drypoint shading of the image added, see no. 4717 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Date inferred from publication line on later state: Publish'd 1st March 1777., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Campanion print to: Newmarket : a shot at a pigeon., Temporary local subject terms: Newmarket., and Mounted on page 53 of: Bunbury album.