"The adventure of Mambrino's helmet; Quixote on horseback, charging at the barber with his lance, the barber already having dismounted from his donkey and making an escape to right, the basin (mistaken for Mambrino's helmet) lying on the ground; Sancho on the back of his donkey, hailing Quixote from the top of a hill beyond; proposed illustration to 'Don Quixote' (unpublished)"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Adventure of Mambrino's helmet
Description:
Title from original Hogarth print. Added titles from Paulson., "Page 315. Don Quixote. Pl. 5."--Above image., An illustration for Chapter 6 (not Chapter 5) depicts the scene at the end of Marcella's speech., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 96., and On page 88 in volume 1.
"The adventure of Mambrino's helmet; Quixote on horseback, charging at the barber with his lance, the barber already having dismounted from his donkey and making an escape to right, the basin (mistaken for Mambrino's helmet) lying on the ground; Sancho on the back of his donkey, hailing Quixote from the top of a hill beyond; proposed illustration to 'Don Quixote' (unpublished)"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Adventure of Mambrino's helmet
Description:
Title from later state., Title from Paulson: The adventure of Mambrino's helmet., State and publisher from Paulson., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,1.238., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Vol. I. p. 155"--Lower left, below image. Should be p. 115., and Trimmed within platemark and with large brown stain lower right. Contemporary ms. note on verso in brown ink, with loss to text: 3 prints from Don Quixot [sic] by Hoga[rth].
Opposite page 50. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Tobias Smollett's Edition of Cervantes 'Don Quixote' (volume I, page 111); at night, Don Quixote with his foot on the chest of the unhorsed barber, threatens to kill him with a spear; Sancho watching at left with a bird in his hand, a carriage and figures fleeing behind at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Illustration from Don Quixote
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Cervantes S. The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote : translated from the Spanish ... by T. Smollett ... London : Printed for A. Millar [etc.], 1755., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of text from end of printmaker's signature., "Vol. 1, pag. 111"--Upper left corner., Folded to 23.3 x 18.5 cm., and Bound in opposite page 50 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Edwards, E. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England. London : Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby [etc.], 1808.
Publisher:
A. Millar etc.
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616., Quixote, Don (Fictitious character),, and Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character),
Men, with one or two women. stand against the rails in the foreground. On the opposite side of the course is a palatial stand or club-house, its balconies and roof crowded with spectators; in front of it are carriages and spectators. Portraits seem to include the Duke of York in a frogged blue coat and white trousers and Lord Petersham on horseback. There are also fruit-sellers, and a gaming-board. British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Doncaster, Great St. Leger race, and characters on the turf
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15224 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 2, Page 313.
Publisher:
Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Clubhouses, Crowds, Food vendors, Gameboards, Grandstands, Racetracks, and Sports spectators
Men, with one or two women. stand against the rails in the foreground. On the opposite side of the course is a palatial stand or club-house, its balconies and roof crowded with spectators; in front of it are carriages and spectators. Portraits seem to include the Duke of York in a frogged blue coat and white trousers and Lord Petersham on horseback. There are also fruit-sellers, and a gaming-board. British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Doncaster, Great St. Leger race, and characters on the turf
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15224 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 2, Page 313 (with "ground")., and Cropped within plate lines.
Publisher:
Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Clubhouses, Crowds, Food vendors, Gameboards, Grandstands, Racetracks, and Sports spectators
A view of a bridge over a river with falls, a rugged terrain with a fallen tree lower left. A man rides his donkey over the bridge
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on leaf 2 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Watercolor depicting an English packet ship sailing within sight of the coast. Two warmly dressed passengers standing near a large mast stare off into the distance. In the rear of the scene obscured lettering hints at the purpose and destination of the ship: [Dor]king Packet [Pa]rkga[te].
Description:
Title from partially obscured letters in image; signed and dated by artist within the image.
Portrait of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland; half-length to the right, in an oval frame with ornaments
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Engraved after a painting by Van Dyck; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Waller, E. The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose. London : Printed for I. Tonson ..., 1729., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature from bottom right. Missing text supplied from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D30565., Mounted on page 54 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.