Volume 2, page 19. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man standing in profile to left, whole-length, with a hat, sack over shoulder, axe in hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Printmaker identified as Edward Haistwell in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1931,0413.205., Identification of printmaker is confirmed by a letter, pasted above print in album, from Richard Bull to Horace Walpole. In sending the print to Walpole, Bull mentions that it was "engrav'd by Mr. Haistwell, formerly a fellow commoner of C.C.C. College Cambridge [sic]"., Print signed with "CCCC", which probably stands for "Corpus Christi College, Cambridge", where Edward Haistwell was a fellow commoner., and Mounted on page 19 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
First leaf following title page. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Landscape; view of Strawberry Hill, a neo-gothic house in parkland, seen from a pool in the foreground, with a water-wheel on the left, a horseman on the far bank, sailing-boat on the right and cattle grazing in the field before the house."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
East front of Strawberry Hill, from the river
Description:
Title from note in brown ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Alternative title from Gascoigne., Printmaker's monogrammatic initials etched below image in lower left; date etched below image in lower right., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on first leaf following title page in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 11.3 x 15.7 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and With manuscript title "View of Strawberry Hill" added in brown ink below image. Also added are the letters "ollaston f." to the etched monogrammatic initials "CW" in lower left, completing the statement of responsibility "CWollaston f."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Plate 38. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Nine actresses and four child actors dressed as classical deities preparing for a performance; among props and costumes are kittens playing with an orb and lyre, a monkey urinating in a helmet and a baby being fed by a child dressed as an eagle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 45.1 x 56.8 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 38 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Plate 38. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Nine actresses and four child actors dressed as classical deities preparing for a performance; among props and costumes are kittens playing with an orb and lyre, a monkey urinating in a helmet and a baby being fed by a child dressed as an eagle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 45.1 x 56.8 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 38 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
publish'd according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 68. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A monkey dressed as a connoisseur waters with a watering can three withered and sapless trees in pots. A banner under the pots is labelled 'EXOTICKS'. In his right hand he holds a magnifying glass to his eye. The trees are labelled 'OBIT 1502', 'OBIT 1600' and '[O]BIT [1]604'
Alternative Title:
Tailpiece to The catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 14.4 x 14 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 68 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
publish'd according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
49 3885.2 v.1
Collection Title:
Opposite page 20. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A monkey dressed as a connoisseur waters with a watering can three withered and sapless trees in pots. A banner under the pots is labelled 'EXOTICKS'. In his right hand he holds a magnifying glass to his eye. The trees are labelled 'OBIT 1502', 'OBIT 1600' and 'OBIT 1606' (third pot has been changed in this state). Watering can is not cross-hatched in this state. Publication line however has not been changed on this state as in the finished second version
Alternative Title:
Esse quid hoc dicam? vivis quod fama negatur! Mart
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Latin motto inscribed below image: Esse quid hoc dicam? vivis quod fama negatur! Mart., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 15.5 x 15.7 cm, on sheet 23.5 x 17.5 cm., and Bound in opposite page 20 of: A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Society of Artists of Great-Britain at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Cross, May the 9th, 1761 ... (no. 3 in Horace Walpole's bound collection of catalogues).
publish'd according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 68. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A monkey dressed as a connoisseur waters with a watering can three withered and sapless trees in pots. A banner under the pots is labelled 'EXOTICKS'. In his right hand he holds a magnifying glass to his eye. The trees are labelled 'OBIT 1502', 'OBIT 1600' and '[O]BIT [1]604'
Alternative Title:
Tailpiece to The catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 14.4 x 14 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 68 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., March 3d, 1764.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 84. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The figure of Time reclines against a broken column surrounded by symbols of destruction: a collapsing church tower, dead trees, a bankrupcy notice served on Nature, a tombstone, a clock without hands, Phaeton falling from his chariot, a will, a shop-sign for "The World's End", a gallows, a burning impression of Hogarth's print "The Times" and broken objects, including an artist's palette, hour-glass, crown, rifle, bell, bottle, and broom. Two medallions on either side of the caption and their surrounding text concern the Line of Beauty. Three more columns of text between the medallions include quotes in Latin from Tactius and Maximus of Tyre, with an English translation
Alternative Title:
Bathos, or, Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures and Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures
Description:
Title, state, and publisher from Paulson., Title engraved above image: Tail piece. The Bathos., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 31.8 x 33.6 cm, on sheet 42 x 58 cm., and Plate 84 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Aesthetics, Death, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), Signs (Notices), Time, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 January 1785]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Pages 139, 141, 143. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text on reissued state, published by J. Harris on 1 March 1799; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 799.03.01.01., For a slightly later state, with the date following printmaker's name changed from "Jany." to "March", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 785.03.25.01., A single design on three plates., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on pages 139, 141, and 143 of: Bunbury album., and Individual plates of the design are mounted on separate pages, instead of being joined at their ends to create a single image.