Plate 1. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A self-portrait of Hogarth painting Thalia, the Comic Muse holding a satyr's mask in her left hand and a book in her right hand. On the pillar to her left is engraved the words "Comedy 1764." Hogarth is seated in a chair leaning forward toward the easel, looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat; he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife, a pot of oil on the floor beside the chair. A volume of prints and a burin can be seen in a niche in the wall behind the easel. Leaning against the leg of the easel is a copy of "Analysis of Beauty", the accompanying print protruding from its pages
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth 1764
Description:
Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., After the painting in the National Portrait Gallery, London., and Plate mark 40.3 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 41.2 x 35.8 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
Subject (Topic):
Painting, Muses (Greek deities) in art, Artists, and British
Title from published state., Printmaker and artist from statement of responsibility on published state: Engraved by Dean, from a miniature in enamel painted by Zincke & preserved in the collection at Strawberry Hill., Proof before letters of a plate from: Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann ... London: R. Bentley, 1833., and Publisher and date from imprint on published state: London, Published 1833 by Richard Bentley, 8 New Burlington Street.
Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, after Reynolds; standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table with books, quill and print showing his Roman eagle, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; in an oval, with Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill below and Walpole coat of arms
Description:
Title, printmaker, and artist from later state in the British Museum. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,1109.129. and Approximate date from imprint on a later proof state with lettering: Published June [...]th, 1796, by J. Barlow, No. 5 St. George's Place, Black-friars Road, Surry. See Lewis Walpole Library: Portraits W218 no. 6.
Publisher:
I. Barlow
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,
A tall very thin Hugo Arnot is depicted handing a coin to a beggar who stands near the corner of a building
Description:
Title from item., Place and date of imprint from that of book., Probably from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838., and Printmaker and title from: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6692.
A tall, very thin Hugo Arnot handis a coin to a beggar who stands near the corner of a building
Description:
Title and printmaker from: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6692., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of the book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed.)., and Numbered '8' in lower right of plate.
Jacob Hall (fl. 1662-1681), rope dancer and acrobat. See Granger, J. Biographical history of England (1st ed.), v. 2, p. 461
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, and date from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The Lewis Walpole Library: Ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand mounted below the print: "This is the only impression known of this print of Jacob Hall. It was in the collection of Mr. Ames, is mentioned in his printed Catalogue of English Heads, which were sold by him to Mr. Nichols, then to Dr. Fothergill after whose death this was purchased by Mr. H. Walpole." See The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 1, p. 182, 195., and After a painting by Jakob (Jacques) van Oost the Younger.
Proof with Gibbs's head before shading and lettering; a half-length portrait of the architect James Gibbs, looking to the right, in an oval, decorated frame
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, state and date from later states and Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 143 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 26.6 x 18.5 cm.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1762]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1808); half-length in profile to left, wearing star and sash with short wig; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: J. Reynolds pinxt. ; J. McArdell fecit., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Proof before letters., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 140 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave, James Waldegrave, Earl, 1715-1763, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title supplied by cataloger., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text., and Framed in paper: 328 x 249 mm.