publish'd according to act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 82. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior of the Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and forty male spectators ranging from a sow-gelder, a butcher, a black footman, coachmen and a sweep to the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (in the centre); on the wall to right, a framed picture of a stout woman, lettered "Nan Rawlings", seated with a cock on her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pit ticket
Description:
Title from Paulson., Title engraved below image, on either side of an image of a rooster wtih the words 'Royal' and 'Sport' etched on either side: Pit ticket., Ms. note: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 367., and On page 186 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 31.5 x 38.3 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bertie, Albemarle, Sir, ca. 1720-1765 and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Social life and customs, Blacks, Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Gambling, Nobility, Sports spectators, and Servants
publish'd according to act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 56K(b) Box 215
Collection Title:
Plate 82. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior of the Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and forty male spectators ranging from a sow-gelder, a butcher, a black footman, coachmen and a sweep to the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (in the centre); on the wall to right, a framed picture of a stout woman, lettered "Nan Rawlings", seated with a cock on her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pit ticket
Description:
Title from Paulson., Title engraved below image, on either side of an image of a rooster wtih the words 'Royal' and 'Sport' etched on either side: Pit ticket., and Sheet trimmed to 319 x 387 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bertie, Albemarle, Sir, ca. 1720-1765 and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Social life and customs, Blacks, Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Gambling, Nobility, Sports spectators, and Servants
publish'd according to act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Call Number:
Sotheby 75+ Box 200
Collection Title:
Plate 82. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior of the Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and forty male spectators ranging from a sow-gelder, a butcher, a black footman, coachmen and a sweep to the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (in the centre); on the wall to right, a framed picture of a stout woman, lettered "Nan Rawlings", seated with a cock on her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pit ticket
Description:
Title from Paulson. and Title engraved below image, on either side of an image of a rooster wtih the words 'Royal' and 'Sport' etched on either side: Pit ticket.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bertie, Albemarle, Sir, ca. 1720-1765 and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Social life and customs, Blacks, Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Gambling, Nobility, Sports spectators, and Servants
publish'd according to act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 82. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior of the Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and forty male spectators ranging from a sow-gelder, a butcher, a black footman, coachmen and a sweep to the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (in the centre); on the wall to right, a framed picture of a stout woman, lettered "Nan Rawlings", seated with a cock on her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pit ticket
Description:
Title from Paulson., Title engraved below image, on either side of an image of a rooster wtih the words 'Royal' and 'Sport' etched on either side: Pit ticket., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 31.6 x 38.2 cm, on sheet 42 x 57 cm., and Plate 82 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bertie, Albemarle, Sir, ca. 1720-1765 and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Social life and customs, Blacks, Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Gambling, Nobility, Sports spectators, and Servants
"Satire on the "bad taste of the town" (as described by Hogarth, Daily Courant, 24.ii.1724); a composite street scene with a theatre on either side and an "Academy of Arts" (Lord Burlington's recently remodelled house in Piccadilly) beyond; on the left, a fool and a devil are leading a crowd of masqueraders into the Opera House in the Haymarket from which hang a banner advertising an opera (based on British Museum satire no. 1768 with the singers Cuzzoni, Senesino and Berenstadt) and a sign for "Dr. Faux's [Isaac Fawkes] Dexterity of Hand", the impressario John James Heidegger leans from an upper window; on the right, a crowd is flocking to see the pantomime "Dr Faustus"; in the centre, a woman pushes a wheelbarrow of waste paper including volumes of Congreve, Dryden, Ottway, Shakespeare, Addison, and Pasquin No. XCV"; the gate of the Academy beyond is topped with statues of Michelangelo, Raphael and William Kent, admired by three gentlemen."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bad taste of the town
Description:
Titles, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., Text and image from two plates., "Price 1 shilling"--Before date, centered on lower edge., Two columns of four lines of verse engraved below image: Could new dumb Faustus, to reform the age, Conjure up Shakespear's or Ben Johnson's ghost, they'd blush for shame, to see the English stage Debauch'd by fool'ries, at so great a cost. What would their Manes say? should they behold Monsters and masquerades, where usefull plays Adorn'd the fruitfull theatre of old, And rival wits contended for the bays., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 26 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748, Senesino, -1759?, Kent, William, 1685-1748, Cuzzoni, Francesco, approximately 1680-1759, Fawkes, Isaac, -1731, Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694-1753, and Hercules (Roman mythological character),
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), City & town life, Clergy, Costumes, Dogs, and Masquerades
"Satire on the "bad taste of the town" (as described by Hogarth, Daily Courant, 24.ii.1724); a composite street scene with a theatre on either side and an "Academy of Arts" (Lord Burlington's recently remodelled house in Piccadilly) beyond; on the left, a fool and a devil are leading a crowd of masqueraders into the Opera House in the Haymarket from which hang a banner advertising an opera (based on British Museum satire no. 1768 with the singers Cuzzoni, Senesino and Berenstadt) and a sign for "Dr. Faux's [Isaac Fawkes] Dexterity of Hand", the impressario John James Heidegger leans from an upper window; on the right, a crowd is flocking to see the pantomime "Dr Faustus"; in the centre, a woman pushes a wheelbarrow of waste paper including volumes of Congreve, Dryden, Ottway, Shakespeare, Addison, and Ben John[son]; the gate of the Academy beyond is topped with statues of Michelangelo, Raphael and William Kent, admired by three gentlemen."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bad taste of the town
Description:
Titles, state, and date from Paulson., "Price 1 shilling"--Before date, centered on lower edge., Two columns of four lines of verse engraved below image: Could new dumb Faustus, to reform the age, Conjure up Shakespear's or Ben Johnson's ghost, they'd blush for shame, to see the English stage Debauch'd by fool'ries, at so great a cost. What would their Manes say? should they behold Monsters and masquerades, where usefull plays Adorn'd the fruitfull theatre of old, And rival wits contended for the bays., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 26 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748., Senesino, -1759?,, Kent, William, 1685-1748, Cuzzoni, Francesco, approximately 1680-1759, Fawkes, Isaac, -1731, Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694-1753, and Hercules (Roman mythological character),
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), City & town life, Clergy, Costumes, Dogs, and Masquerades
"Satire on the "bad taste of the town" (as described by Hogarth, Daily Courant, 24.ii.1724); a composite street scene with a theatre on either side and an "Academy of Arts" (Lord Burlington's recently remodelled house in Piccadilly) beyond; on the left, a fool and a devil are leading a crowd of masqueraders into the Opera House in the Haymarket from which hang a banner advertising an opera (based on British Museum satire no. 1768 with the singers Cuzzoni, Senesino and Berenstadt) and a sign for "Dr. Faux's [Isaac Fawkes] Dexterity of Hand", the impressario John James Heidegger leans from an upper window; on the right, a crowd is flocking to see the pantomime "Dr Faustus"; in the centre, a woman pushes a wheelbarrow of waste paper including volumes of Congreve, Dryden, Ottway, Shakespeare, Addison, and Ben John[son]; the gate of the Academy beyond is topped with statues of Michelangelo, Raphael and William Kent, admired by three gentlemen."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bad taste of the town
Description:
Titles, state, and date from Paulson., "Price 1 shilling"--Before date, centered on lower edge., Two columns of four lines of verse engraved below image: Could new dumb Faustus, to reform the age, Conjure up Shakespear's or Ben Johnson's ghost, they'd blush for shame, to see the English stage Debauch'd by fool'ries, at so great a cost. What would their Manes say? should they behold Monsters and masquerades, where usefull plays Adorn'd the fruitfull theatre of old, And rival wits contended for the bays., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Plate with text lacking; top plate with image only. Sheet 13.4 x 18.2 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748., Senesino, -1759?,, Kent, William, 1685-1748, Cuzzoni, Francesco, approximately 1680-1759, Fawkes, Isaac, -1731, Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694-1753, and Hercules (Roman mythological character),
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), City & town life, Clergy, Costumes, Dogs, and Masquerades
Copy of William Hogarth's satire on the "bad taste of the town", with different verses engraved below. The image is of a composite street scene with a theatre on either side and an "Academy of Arts" (Lord Burlington's recently remodelled house in Piccadilly) beyond; on the left, a fool and a devil are leading a crowd of masqueraders into the Opera House in the Haymarket from which hang a banner advertising an opera (based on British Museum satire no. 1768 with the singers Cuzzoni, Senesino and Berenstadt) and a sign for "Dr. Faux's [Isaac Fawkes] Dexterity of Hand", the impressario John James Heidegger leans from an upper window; on the right, a crowd is flocking to see the pantomime "Dr Faustus"; in the centre, a woman pushes a wheelbarrow of waste paper including volumes of Congreve, Dryden, Ottway, Shakespeare, Addison, and Ben John[son]; the gate of the Academy beyond is topped with statues of Michelangelo, Raphael and William Kent, admired by three gentlemen."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bad taste of the town
Description:
Titles, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., Text and image on one plate., Two columns of four lines of verse engraved below image: Long has the stage productive been, Of offsprings it could brag on, But never 'till this age was seen, A wind-mill and a dragon. O Congreve, lay they pen aside, Shakespear, thy works disown, Since monsters grim, * nought beside. Can please this senseless town., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. No. 1742 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Copy of Hogarth print. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 44., On page 26 in volume 1., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Copy., and Lengthy ms. note in Steevens's hand to the right of print describing how the print was pirated very soon after its publication.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748, Senesino, -1759?, Kent, William, 1685-1748, Cuzzoni, Francesco, approximately 1680-1759, Fawkes, Isaac, -1731, Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694-1753, and Hercules (Roman mythological character),
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), City & town life, Clergy, Costumes, Dogs, and Masquerades
Lord North, with an expression of anxious anticipation, applies white paint to Charles Fox's left cheek while Fox, his face inscrutable, descends the last step to the floor of the House of Commons taking North's left hand. A dog looks up at North. The inscription below the design reads, "--Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro, Translated for the Country Gentlemen, "I have found him a warm Friend a fair though formidable Adversary."
Alternative Title:
Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title etched below image., Printmaker identified as James Sayers in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 23 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1783 by Edwd. Hedges, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government