Interior of a surgery: a surgeon sits on a barrel and operates on the lower left leg of a peasant man who is writhing in pain. An old woman stands behind them with her arm in a sling. Shelves are on the walls in the background; a stuffed animal hangs from the ceiling
Description:
Title devised by curator., Possibly after a painting by Brouwer, first owned by Sir Robert Walpole and subsequently by Horace Walpole, that was kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. See: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842], page 132., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 156 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Interior of a surgery: a surgeon sits on a barrel and operates on the lower left leg of a peasant man who is writhing in pain. An old woman stands behind them with her arm in a sling. Shelves are on the walls in the background; a stuffed animal hangs from the ceiling
Description:
Title devised by curator., Possibly after a painting by Brouwer, first owned by Sir Robert Walpole and subsequently by Horace Walpole, that was kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. See: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842], page 132., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 201 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., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 30.7 x 26.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., and For further information, consult library staff.
Wash drawing of the bronze vase, urn-shaped with a base and stem and handles, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. On the side of the vase is a scene in bas-relief, taken from an antique by Fiammingo, of five naked boys surrounding a long-haired calf(?). The vase was formerly part of the Harleian collection
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 195 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.
Mother and father depicted with three small children under a tree. The mother sews as the father plays with a small child. The older girl plays with a bucket in her lap, and the other small child slumbers in the foreground
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Signed on accompanied mat: DB., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., and For further information, consult library staff.
A caricature conversation depicting fourteen men gathered in a large room with a tessellated marble floor. At the left an Abbé, possibly Anton Maria Bisconi, is seated on a pile of folio volumes of the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca. He holds a copy of Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno, a burlesque poem by various authors much in fashion at the time. Horace Mann is seated in a large ceremonial chair ornamented with the English Crown supported by the Lion and Unicorn. At the center of the composition, Lord Cowper sits with his back to the table of men gathered around Mann. Cowper converses with a man who may be the Earl of Moray. Six caricature portraits hang on the left and back walls of the room. The largest is a portrait of the artist Patch as a satyr. According to Watson, the chair and the servant’s livery suggest that the scene may be Mann’s house
Alternative Title:
Gathering at Sir Horace Mann's house
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Some identifications based on drawings published by Watson: F.J.B. Watson, “Thomas Patch (1725-1782): Notes on his Life Together with a Catalogue of his Known Works,“ Walpole Society, 1939-1940. XXVII, pp. 15-50.
A caricature conversation group portrait depicting a gathering in the studio of the amateur artist Henry William Bunbury. Bunbury is seated at a round table in the center. The man presenting arms to him is Captain Walcott. At the right, wearing a tricorne hat is Captain Elliott. Patch is seated at his easel in the background and is painting the commmedia dell-arte character Puchinello. On the left, a servant holding back a curtain for an arriving guest has been identified as Valentino, Servitore di Piazza. Two paintings hang on the back wall. One to the left is a view of King’s College Cambridge. The other a figure and a horse
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Inscribed on verso: Henry Wm. Bunbury Rome 1770, aetat suae 20"., and Identifications are based on drawings published by W.B. Watson, “Thomas Patch, Some new light on his work” Apollo (May 1967), 348-353.
Plate lettered in the top center 'G': Reverse copies of details of five men and one woman conversing and drinking, after characters in the upper left corner of Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other plates in this series in the British Museum catalogue., Plates from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)