A confrontation in a bedchamber between a black woman in a nightgown in bed by four men. One man holds a candle. The woman is slapping the one man to her right on the cheek while another pulls him away. A fourth man is pointing towards her shoulder
Alternative Title:
Discovery
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker, publisher and date from Paulson., See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal, v. 3, no. 2600., 'Hogarth' written in ink below title., and Mounted to 24.7 x 36.5 cm.
"Satire on John Rich and his new theatre in Covent Garden with a procession moving from left to right across the east end of the market square and entering the colonnade leading to the theatre. John Gay is carried on a porter's back preceded by a crowd, one of whom cries "Gay for ever". He is followed by Rich, as Harlequin, driving an open carriage drawn by six satyrs, with Columbine and a spotted dog (a disguise adopted by Rich as Harlequin in "Perseus and Andromeda", 1730). Two authors bow obsequiously to Rich, another wheels a barrow of plays towards the theatre, bootblacks also bow, but in the lower right-hand corner, Alexander Pope defecates on sheets from the Beggar's Opera (the great triumph of Rich and Gay). Actors in costume, some identified in the verses below, follow the carriage, and a cart containing properties including "A Box of Thunder and Lightening", brings up the rear. Beyond the main procession is a large crowd of admirers and a closed carriage; St Paul's church in the background is clearly identifiable."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
His triumphant entry into Covent-Garden
Description:
Title etched above image., Signed twice: once in the shadowing lower left of design (illegible) and again above first stanza., Formerly attributed to Hogarth. See Paulson., First recorded as having been published in 1811 by Robert Wilkinson. See British Museum online catalogue., "Price 6d."--Lower right., Three columns of ten lines each etched below image: Not with more glory through the streets of Rome ... For such a day he sees not ev'ry year., In Steevens's hand in pencil above the print: A pretended Hogarth which nevertheless has sold for £4.4.0. See Nicholss book, 3d edit. p. 161., and On page 54 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Covent Garden (London, England)
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Church (Covent Garden, London, England),, Gay, John, 1685-1732,, Hall, John, active 1734,, Quin, James, 1693-1766,, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,, Rich, John, 1692-1761,, Ryan, Lacy, 1694?-1760,, and Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,
"The parable of the two sons (Matthew, 21:28-32); a bearded man stands at left, commanding his son to attend to an extensive vineyard below a mountain, another boy sleeping with his elbow on a rock at foreground right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to Horneck's Happy ascetick and Master of the vineyard
Description:
Title from text below image, Above title: St. Matthew Ch. 21. Verse 28., Frontispiece to Anthony Horneck's The Happy Ascetick, or, the Best Exercise ... 6th ed. (London : Printed for Samuel Chapman, 1724)., Alternative title suggested in Paulson: The master of the vineyard., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above image: Original., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below image: Master of the Vineyarde. Frontispiece to Horneck's Happy Ascetic, Ms. note below image: See Nichol's Book, 3d Edit, p. 444/ Sold for £2.2.0., and On page 6 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Samuel Chapman
Subject (Name):
Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural equipment, Fathers, Grapes, Parables, and Sons
"Bidder's ticket for an auction of paintings by Hogarth with ranks of copies of old master paintings stacked outside Cock's auction house attacking paintings by Hogarth as they emerge from his studio: a weeping Magdalene spears the third scene of A Harlot's Progress, a procession of Bacchus encounters Midnight Modern Conversation, and so on."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bearer hereof is entitled (if he thinks proper,) to be a bidder for Mr. Hogarth's pictures ...
Description:
Title from text in image., State and publisher from Paulson., Title from caption above image: The bearer hereof is entitled (if he thinks proper,) to be a bidder for Mr. Hogarth's pictures ..., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: ibidem., and On page 122 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: .
"Bidder's ticket for an auction of paintings by Hogarth with ranks of copies of old master paintings stacked outside Cock's auction house attacking paintings by Hogarth as they emerge from his studio: a weeping Magdalene spears the third scene of A Harlot's Progress, a procession of Bacchus encounters Midnight Modern Conversation, and so on."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bearer hereof is entitled (if he thinks proper,) to be a bidder for Mr. Hogarth's pictures ...
Description:
Title from text in image., State and publisher from Paulson., Title from caption above image: The bearer hereof is entitled (if he thinks proper,) to be a bidder for Mr. Hogarth's pictures ..., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark: sheet 197 x 210 mm.
"Bidder's ticket for an auction of paintings by Hogarth with ranks of copies of old master paintings stacked outside Cock's auction house attacking paintings by Hogarth as they emerge from his studio: a weeping Magdalene spears the third scene of A Harlot's Progress, a procession of Bacchus encounters Midnight Modern Conversation, and so on."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bearer hereof is entitled (if he thinks proper,) to be a bidder for Mr. Hogarth's pictures ...
Description:
Title from text in image., State and publisher from Paulson., and Title from caption above image: The bearer hereof is entitled (if he thinks proper,) to be a bidder for Mr. Hogarth's pictures ...
"Satire on Gay's "Beggar's Opera". In the foreground a group of animal-headed singers portraying the principal characters are shown on an outdoor stage beneath which Apollo and a muse are lying, a lyre and guitar beside them. In front of the stage a group of musicians play simple instruments: bagpipes, a salt box, a jew's harp, a dulcimer, a bladder and string.To the left, a group of noblemen raise their arms admiring the performance; a crowd of women stand on the right, and in front of them a fat butcher and another man are seen in shadow. Behind the stage, to left, theatre boxes are crowded with an audience chiefly of ladies, and below is a wall hung with ballads against which two men urinate and defecate. In the centre background, is a street (perhaps intended as a backcloth) with an inn sign and gallows. To the right, is a conventional stage on which the Italian opera is evidently being performed and men appear to be pressing money on a woman singer. An angel carrying a ribbon lettered "Harmony" flies off at top right, and above is a ribbon lettered "et cantare pares et respndere parate". Four lines of verse beneath."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Lettered within image, above with title, below with verses beginning, "Brittons attend - view this harmonious Stage ..."; a roughened area at lower right could be a sign of the publication line (from the fifth or sixth state) having been removed., Tentatively attributed to Hogarth by Paulson (2nd ed.) and later (3rd ed., page 34) dismissed., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 49 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Sold at [the] Print Shop in [the] Strand near Catherine Street
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Musicians, and Opera singers
"Satire on Gay's "Beggar's Opera". In the foreground a group of animal-headed singers portraying the principal characters are shown on an outdoor stage beneath which Apollo and a muse are lying, a lyre and guitar beside them. In front of the stage a group of musicians play simple instruments: bagpipes, a salt box, a jew's harp, a dulcimer, a bladder and string.To the left, a group of noblemen raise their arms admiring the performance; a crowd of women stand on the right, and in front of them a fat butcher and another man are seen in shadow. Behind the stage, to left, theatre boxes are crowded with an audience chiefly of ladies, and below is a wall hung with ballads against which two men urinate and defecate. In the centre background, is a street (perhaps intended as a backcloth) with an inn sign and gallows. To the right, is a conventional stage on which the Italian opera is evidently being performed and men appear to be pressing money on a woman singer. An angel carrying a ribbon lettered "Harmony" flies off at top right, and above is a ribbon lettered "et cantare pares et respndere parate". Four lines of verse beneath."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Lettered within image, above with title, below with verses beginning, "Brittons attend - view this harmonious Stage ..."., Tentatively attributed to Hogarth by Paulson (2nd ed.) and later (3rd ed., page 34) dismissed., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand to right: See Nichols's Biographical anecdotes, 3d edit. p. 164., and On page 49 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Musicians, and Opera singers
publish'd according to act of Parliament, August 1, 1763.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A re-working of Hogarth's self-portrait of 1749 (Paulson 181); the artist has been replaced by a bear representing Charles Churchill wearing preaching bands and holding a tankard of beer in one paw and a knotty club in the other; the knots in the club are labelled 'Lye 1, Lye 2, Lye 3 ... Lye 16". The oval canvas rests on two books, on top is 'Great George Street : a list of the subscribers to the North Britons' and below 'A new way to pay old debts, a comedy by Massenger.' The dog Trump is urinating on a copy of Churchill's "Epistle to Hogarth". The palette on the right in this state is blank
Description:
Title engraved beneath image., "Price 1s."--Following Hogarth's name., Quote following title: But he had a club this dragon to drub, or he had ne'er don't I warrant ye., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. note price has been changed in ink to : Price 1s 6d; in pencil in Steevens's hand along inner side of page: See Mr. Nicholl's book, 3d edit. p. 387 & seg., Formerly on page 197 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator., and Sheet trimmed to: 37.2 x 27.2 cm.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, August 1, 1763.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 77K(b) Box 220
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A re-working of Hogarth's self-portrait of 1749 (Paulson 181); the artist has been replaced by a bear representing Charles Churchill wearing preaching bands and holding a tankard of beer in one paw and a knotty club in the other; the knots in the club are labelled 'Lye 1, Lye 2, Lye 3 ... Lye 16". The oval canvas rests on two books, on top is 'Great George Street : a list of the subscribers to the North Britons' and below 'A new way to pay old debts, a comedy by Massenger.' The dog Trump is urinating on a copy of Churchill's "Epistle to Hogarth". The palette on the right in this state is blank
Description:
Title engraved beneath image., "Price 1s."--Following Hogarth's name., Quote following title: But he had a club this dragon to drub, or he had ne'er don't I warrant ye., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.