A fashionable interior (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician at a harpsichord (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, Farinelli), a fencing master, a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master, a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey. In the background on the left in an antechamber, a man holds a letter entitled "Epistle to Rake ..."
Alternative Title:
Prosperity, (with Horlot's [sic] smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ..., Prosperity, (with Horlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ..., and Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first line of text., and Caption below image in four columns begins: "Prosperity, (with Horlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles), how soon, sweet foe, can all they train of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain ..."
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
A fashionable interior (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician at a harpsichord (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, Farinelli), a fencing master, a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master, a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey. In the background on the left in an antechamber, a man holds a letter entitled "Epistle to Rake ..."
Alternative Title:
Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ... and Surrounded by artists and professors
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Fifth state; the floor under the dancing master's feet has been darkened, his coat under his violin has added hatching, and the fold of Rakewell's dressing gown behind the violin is now crosshatched., Restrike of the fifth state of the plate, which was issued in The original works of William Hogarth (London : Sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790). It was later reissued, with some lines strengthened by the engraver James Heath, in The works of William Hogarth (London : Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ..., 1822); another edition was published by Baldwin & Cradock in 1835. See Paulson., Caption below image in four columns begins: "Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles), how soon, sweet foe, can all they train of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain ...", and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Patients, Psychiatric -- Insanity.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1786]
Call Number:
Bunbury 786.03.03.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group in a garden room listening to a girl read, seated in the centre with the book in her lap, two woman sitting on either side of her, one patting a dog at right, the other with solemn expression, which has been noticed by a man standing against the wall at right, gesturing towards her, another standing directly behind her looks on with concern, a child sitting on the floor beside a large sleeping dog, his eyes raised up; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of lettered state
Description:
Title, printmaker, artist, and publication information from lettered state., Proof before letters. For a later state published 3 March 1786, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1940,1109.105., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
James Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Children, Clothing & dress, Courtship, Dogs, and Reading
Page 174. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., and Mounted on page 174 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
A scene in Paris on the Boulevard des Italiens outside a coffee house (or French café) in which fashionable ladies (several wearing large hoop earrings) and gentlemen sit in ladderback chairs or stand about in conversation. One man looks through his quizzing glass at the scene. One woman sits with her two children and a dog. On the left a coachman looks done from his box
Description:
Title and date from contemporary manuscript annotations on a separate piece of paper pasted below the image., Sheet trimmed within plate., Watermark., and Mounted to 33 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Carriages & coaches, Children, Clothing & dress, Dogs, and Quizzing glasses
Full length portrait of Gascoyne wearing a hat and buttoned coat, his hands in the pockets
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 11.4 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.3 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 3 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Mr. Bamber Gascoigne.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1793?]
Call Number:
Quarto 27 19 793B Copy 2
Collection Title:
Volume 2, opposite page 305. Memoirs of Count Grammont.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Henry Sidney, Earl of Romney; full-length, facing the viewer with his gaze directed downward and to the right; his boyish face topped with a black hat and framed by long, curly brown hair; wearing a tan coat with gold trim, red stockings, and a white cravat; a sword hangs from his left hip and a muff covers his hands
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image, on mounting page., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Bound in opposite page 305 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Hamilton, A. Memoirs of Count Grammont. London : S. and E. Harding, [1793?].