"Portrait in profile of a young man who lacks hands and legs beyond the knee; full-length, sitting on a cushion before a lectern on the right, drawing a tree with a pen held against his mouth using his left elbow."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Etched below the image: These deficiencies were occasioned, (as his mother supposes) by a fright she suffer'd whilst pregnant with him. Notwithstanding these disadvantages he has by industry acquired the arts of writing, and drawing, holding and guiding the pen and pencil with the muscles of his cheek and arm., and Mounted to: 27.7 x 21 cm
Publisher:
Publish'd for T. Inglefield
Subject (Name):
Inglefield, Thomas, 1769-,
Subject (Topic):
Abnormalities, Human, Phocomelus, Artists, British, and People with disabilities
"Portrait group of the Society of Artists; men gathered around a table in a fine interior, some seated, attended by servants; with portraits of Grinling Gibbons, William Kent, John Michael Rysbrack, Gawen Hamilton, Marcellus Laroon, Michael Dahl, John Vanderbanck, and Charles Bridgman; a landscape painting on wall in background, a curtain to the right, after Hogarth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Society of Artists
Description:
Title etched below image. and Dobson. Hogarth, 1902, p. 233.
Publisher:
Published May 1, 1829 by W.B. Tiffin, 3, Hay Market
Head-and-shoulders self-portrait of English painter Thomas Gainsborough, facing right and "Portrait of Thomas Gainsborough, after his self-portrait; half length, to the right, head turned to the front, his hair lightly curled over ears, wearing jacket fastened at waist and cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted after page 686 (leaf numbered '129' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Nov. 27, 1810, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, and Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.
Copy of Hogarth's self-portrait; he is painting Thalia, the Comic Muse who holds a satyr's mask in her left hand and a book in her right hand. After the state without "Comedy 1764" on the pillar. 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; the pot of oil on the floor in front of 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 volume with a print protruding from its pages and no title (in the original it is identified as "Analysis of Beauty").
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Date from other prints by Dent in the British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
Subject (Topic):
Painting, Muses (Greek deities) in art, Artists, and British
Self-portrait of William Hogarth in a fur cap, looking right; a bust in an oval canvas resting on volumes of Shakespeare's works; with his dog Trump on the right. In the lower right, an artist's palette engraved with the words: "The line of beauty and grace. WH 1745". Stack of books labeled: Shakspeare, Swift Works, Milton Paradise Lost
Description:
Title from caption below image., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 181., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand in margin at top of print: See p. 1 & Mr. Nichols's book, 3d, edit. p. 295., and On page 147 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 39.6 x 29.9 cm.
Publisher:
Published June 4, 1795 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Self-portrait of William Hogarth in a fur cap, looking right; a bust in an oval canvas resting on volumes of Shakespeare's works; with his dog Trump on the right. In the lower right, an artist's palette engraved with the words: "The line of beauty and grace. WH 1745". Stack of books labeled: Shakspeare, Swift Works, Milton Paradise Lost
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 181.
Publisher:
Published June 4, 1795 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
"Double portrait of the ladies Yorke after Reynolds (Mannings 1956); as children, whole-length to front, in garden beside sphinx on pedestal; Lady Annabel Grey standing at left with dove perched on her right hand, Lady Mary Jemima running towards her holding another dove, dog at her heels."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies Yorke and Two daughters of Philip Yorke Viscount Royston and the Marchioness of Grey, 1761
Description:
Title and publisher from British Museum description., Title, imprint, and date from Smith: Ladies Yorke., Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in probable loss of imprint. Bottom corners trimmed at an angle., and With title added in Horace Walpole's hand below image: "The two daughters of Philip Yorke Viscount Royston and the Marchioness of Grey, 1761." Also added in his hand are the names of the two girls below each portrait: "Lady Annabella married Lord Polwarth" and Lady Mary married Lord Grantham."
Publisher:
Publish'd accordg. to act of Parliament by Ed. Fisher in Great Newport Street, Leicester Square
Subject (Name):
Grantham, Mary Jemima Robinson, Lady, 1757-1730, and De Grey, Amabel Hume-Campbell, Countess, 1751-1733,
"Portrait of George Morland; half length, to the left, holding drawing of woman, head turned to look at viewer; after Muller; illustration to Cunningham's 'Lives of the Painters' (London: 1830)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of published state
Description:
Title from published state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on published state: Robt. Muller ; W.C. Edwards., Proof before letters. For the published state with the imprint "London, Published by John Murray, Albemarle St., 1830," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.30.58., Proof state of a plate from: Cunningham, A. The lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects. London : J. Murray, 1830-39 (v. 2, opposite page 222)., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 687 (leaf numbered '130' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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 On page 184 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 40 x 34.8 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
Subject (Topic):
Painting, Muses (Greek deities) in art, Artists, and British
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. and After the painting in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
Subject (Topic):
Painting, Muses (Greek deities) in art, Artists, and British