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46. The committee [graphic].
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1726]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A large group of men sit in chairs around a table in panelled room, among them Hudibras. In the center of the table is a piece of paper titled "The League & Covenant" along with quill pens and an ink well. Their hats hang on pegs on the walls behind them. Several of the men look to the right with startled expressions as a messenger rushes in through a door to the right, accompanied by a black man in a cloak and turban
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Caption on either side of title begins: And now the saints began their reign for wch. th' had yearn'd so long in vain ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; "carried on in the next print" mostly erased from this impression., One of twelve large illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, 1725/6., and On page 37 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 27 x 34.7 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by P. Overton near St. Dunston's Ch. in Fleet Street & J. Cooper in James Street, Convent Garden
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
- Subject (Topic):
- Puritans, History, Blacks, Interiors, and Legislative bodies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The committee [graphic].
47. The committee [graphic].
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1726]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 62K(a) Box 220
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A large group of men sit in chairs around a table in panelled room, among them Hudibras. In the center of the table is a piece of paper titled "The League & Covenant" along with quill pens and an ink well. Their hats hang on pegs on the walls behind them. Several of the men look to the right with startled expressions as a messenger rushes in through a door to the right, accompanied by a black man in a cloak and turban
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Caption on either side of title begins: And now the saints began their reign for wch. th' had yearn'd so long in vain ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; "carried on in the next print" mostly erased from this impression., and One of twelve large illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, 1725/6.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by P. Overton near St. Dunston's Ch. in Fleet Street & J. Cooper in James Street, Convent Garden
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
- Subject (Topic):
- Puritans, History, Blacks, Interiors, and Legislative bodies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The committee [graphic].
48. [The South Sea scheme] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1721]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title and state from Paulson. imprint from 3rd state., Verses below image: See here [the] causes why in London, so many men are made, & undone .... Guess at the rest you find out more., "Price 1 shilling."--Lower right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss to text at bottom margin., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: South-Sea. In pencil below: See Nichol's book, 3d edit. p. 122., and On page 8 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- Mrs. Chilcot and R. Caldwell?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Financial crises and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The South Sea scheme] [graphic]
49. [The South Sea scheme] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1721]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title and state from Paulson. imprint from 3rd state., Verses below image: See here [the] causes why in London, so many men are made, & undone .... Guess at the rest you find out more., Price erased in state 6 and new publication line added in state 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 8 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- Financial crises and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The South Sea scheme] [graphic]