"A front elevation of a theatre-box crammed with delighted children fills the design. In the front row are a lady and four little girls. In the middle sits the father, one small boy on his knee, an arm round another child. Eight more children fill the box. Behind them a lady chooses fruit from an old woman's basket. Two men stand behind. Over the front of the box hangs a playbill: During the Xmas Holidays--Pantomime of Harliquin--Clown by Mr G [Grimaldi]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 26th, 1826, by S. Knights, Sweetings [A]lley, Royal Exchange
Plate 37. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a young chimney sweep, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink. In the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve depicted), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to the right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
March to Finchley
Description:
Title engraved below image., Dedication etched below image: "To His Majesty the King of Prussia, an encourager of the arts and sciences! This plate is most humbly dedicated.", 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 43.2 x 55.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted on leaf 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 37 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
"The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr. Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a young chimney sweep, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink. In the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve depicted), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to the right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
March to Finchley
Description:
Title from caption below image., Added title and state from Paulson., State with date in 'Tottenham Court Nursery" sign changed from 1746 to 1745., Dedication etched below image: To His Maiesty the King of Prusia [sic], an encourager of the arts and sciences! This plate is most humbly dedicated., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 43 x 55.4 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 37 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Plate 39. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A dining room in a tavern is filled with drunken and rowdy men seated around a rectangular and a circular table that have been pushed together. More men and women are pushing through the doorway on the right. In the back of the room, a band of musicians play their instruments. Through the window demonstrators care signs with political messages: "Liberty and property" and "Marry and multiply in spite of the devil and the ..." State with hatching lines throughout strengthened. The space where "the whole" was is in the inscription is now crossed out with lines. Dark areas on the surface of the overturned table are removed
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., The first plate of four of an election., Dedication engraved below design: To the Right Honourable Henry Fox, &c,&c,&c. This plate is humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient humble servt. Wm. Hogarth., Statement of responsibilty with heavily scored through word between "Painted and" and "engraved by Wm. Hogarth.", 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 43.3 x 55.8 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 39 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Children, Demonstrations, Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Musicians, Political elections, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Plate 39. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A dining room in a tavern is filled with drunken and rowdy men seated around a rectangular and a circular table that have been pushed together. More men and women are pushing through the doorway on the right. In the back of the room, a band of musicians play their instruments. Through the window demonstrators care signs with political messages: "Liberty and property" and "Marry and multiply in spite of the devil and the ..." State with hatching lines throughout strengthened. The space where "the whole" was is in the inscription is now crossed out with lines. Dark areas on the surface of the overturned table are removed
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., The first plate of four of an election., Dedication engraved below design: To the Right Honourable Henry Fox, &c,&c,&c. This plate is humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient humble servt. Wm. Hogarth., Statement of responsibilty with heavily scored through word between "Painted and" and "engraved by Wm. Hogarth.", 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 43.3 x 55.8 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 39 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Children, Demonstrations, Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Musicians, Political elections, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
"One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty": a ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border around the main image are 41 compartments with diagrams relating to the text; the image is numbered throughout"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., and Bound in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty along with State 3 of Plate 1. Also with the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p.
publish'd February 5, 1752 according to act of Parliament.
Call Number:
Folio Greenberg 75 H67 753
Collection Title:
Leaf 36. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The child Moses is being delivered up by his mother Jochebed (who has been acting as wet nurse) to Thermuthis, the daughter of Pharaoh (Exodus, ii.10; after the painting in the Foundling Museum); to right, the mother/nurse is handed coins by a steward as her son clings to her and looks at his adoptive mother warily; to the left, two female attendants, one a Nubian enslaved woman whispers the secret of Moses identity to her colleague. The scene is identified as being in Egypt by a small crocodile and an Egyptian figure with a snake wrapped around its torso beneath the throne; in the left corner an incense burner. In the background are pyramids and a sphinx
Alternative Title:
Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter
Description:
Title from caption below image., Added title and state from Paulson., After Hogarth's 1746 painting: Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter. One of a set of four paintings for the Council Room of the Foundling Hospital., Second state with caption. See Paulson., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 42.2 x 52.2 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 36 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt
Subject (Name):
Moses (Biblical leader), and Thermuthis (Biblical figure),
Three West Indian washer women sit or stand in or near a stream. The one on land balances a basket of clean wash on her head and has a baby strapped to her back
Alternative Title:
West India washer-woman
Description:
Title from caption below image, in French and English., "This plate is dedicated to Sir John Frederick, Bart. by his most obliged and devoted servt. A. Brunias."--Dedication following title., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge, resulting in loss of imprint statement., and Printed on laid paper; hand-colored.
Publisher:
Chez Depeuille, rue St. Denis, la boutique attenant St. Jacques l'Hopital, No. 416 et au Palais Royal, au Pavillon près le bassin
Volume 2, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 5. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman seated in profile to right, holding a handkerchief on her laps with both hands; a little girl standing next to her, almost in profile to left, putting both hands on the woman's lap and looking up towards her; to right, an older girl seated, holding a book open on her lap with both hands, looking up to the sky; to left, a boy seated, in profile to left, blowing a trumpet; in a roundel; after H Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., State with dedication added above imprint statement. For an earlier state lacking this text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.953., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of text below title: The shade of my mother hovers round me, when in a still evening I sit in the midst of her children, I wish that she could look down upon us, and see that I fulfil the promise I made her to be a mother to them. Sorrows of Werter, Dedication etched above imprint statement: To the Honble. Miss Grenville, this print after an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated by her most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson., Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther., Mounted on page 5 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; circular image 30.0 cm, on sheet 40.1 x 36.0 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street