- Creator:
- Steevens, George, 1736-1800, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1800]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A tracing of a 1731 print after Hogarth: Satire on Orator Henley and his followers. A view of his Oratory in Clare Market with Henley preaching from an open-air platform in front of the building, one cloven hoof protruding from beneath his robe. A monkey wearing clerical bands holds a rope which is attached to Henley's right hand; a small chest of pills, a medicine bottle and a pamphlet lettered "The Hyp Doctor" lie at his feet. In the foreground is a procession of men, lettered, "Ha!", "Ha!", "Te Hee", "He!" and "Silly Cur"; the latter wearing a laurel wreath is identified by Hawkins as Colley Cibber, and the others, two of whom wear ruffs, may be intended as actors or clowns; a puritan at their head, is urged by Henley's "Scout" towards the door of the Oratory, outside which stands a butcher acting as doorman; inside a man pays a clergyman at "The Treasury". On the extreme left, a man squats defecating on Henley's publications. Behind him a coach bears Folly, holding her bauble, towards an inn with the sign of the dunce's cap; a gallows labelled "Merit" stands beside it and an angel holding a ribbon labelled "Modesty" flies off
- Description:
- Title from text in image., Attributed in lower left, below image: W. Hogarth sc., Drawing attributed to Steevens by curator., Tracing of a 1731 print., Detailed description of the scene in a Steevens's hand, mounted to the right of this drawing., and On page 12 in volume 1.
- Subject (Name):
- Henley, John, 1692-1756 and Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
- Subject (Topic):
- Angels, Audiences, Butchers, Carriages & coaches, Clergy, Clowns, Defecation, Monkeys, Preachers, and Preaching
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The oratory inveniam viam aut faciam. [art original]
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