Three elephant folio volumes containing 705 prints and tracings: 469 prints by Hogarth; 236 additional satires after Hogarth's prints by contemporary artists George Bickham, Samuel Ireland, and Paul Sandby. Also included are rare trade cards and coats of arms; Hogarth's shop-card as well as those of his sister, Ellis Gamble, and Edward Vaughan; Harrison's Tobacco Paper; Arms of Sir Gregory Page, Kendal and other coats-of-arms; theatre tickets including tickets for the Theatre Royal. The contents include examples from Hogarth complete oeuvre including: The Harlot's progress, first and later states; The Rake's progress, first and later states, including two unfinished proofs; The four times of day, including an unfinished proof; Strolling players, first and second states; Hogarth's Tour by R. Livesay after Samuel Scott, a set of nine colored, with An Account, five leaves; Some of the Principal inhabitants of the moon, etc. Also with a printed list annotated in Hogarth's hand
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Title assigned by cataloger., Bound in brown calf, rebacked., Date surmised based on Steevens earliest date on interest in Hogarth and Steevens's death date., With the armorial bookplate of William Windham; also with the bookplate of Charles William Dyson Perrins., Items removed from volume 2 stored separately in two solander boxes., and For further information consult library staff.
Title from caption below image., Text following title: Canada is represented in the figure of an Indian paying homage to her royal conqueror ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left and at top., and Written in contemporary hand in the upper right corner: "76"
Copy of the print after a self-portrait after the painting in the Tate Gallery (London); the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin and palette. Lettered, on the palette 'The Line of Beauty', and below image, Gulielmus Hogarth
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Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print on secondary mount: An Irish copy of the first print in the first volume of this [col?]lection., and On page 234 in volume 3.
"Portrait of Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, with long curly hair, bust to right, looking towards the viewer, wearing broad lace collar and sash over doublet; in an oval, within rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
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Title etched below image., After a picture by Theodore Russel that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper, à la poupée and some hand-coloring ; sheet 11.3 x 9.6 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement., With wash-line mount of laid paper with "J. Whatman" watermark. Also on verso another wash-line mount with missing drawing or print., and Titled in ink in a contemporary hand on mount below image: Henry Carey Earl of Monmouth : from an original at Strawberry Hill.
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Publish'd 22 Sepr. 1798 by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, & P. Brown, Crown St., Soho
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Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, with long curly hair, bust to right, looking towards the viewer, wearing broad lace collar and sash over doublet; in an oval, within rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
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Title etched below image., After a picture by Theodore Russel that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 62 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; sheet 13.6 x 10.4 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement.
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Publish'd 22 Sepr. 1798 by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, & P. Brown, Crown St., Soho
Subject (Name):
Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Portrait, half-length facing front, looking to left, wearing a robe trimmed with lace and ropes of pearls tied at the shoulders with bows, strings of pearls around her neck, a cruciform jewel at her throat and another jeweled crucifix pendant at her bosom, hair dressed up with a lace veil and a tiara; lettered state before publisher altered to Boydell
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Title from caption below image. and Name of publisher from the Engraved British portraits and based on Hatton Garden address on print.
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Published according to act of Parliament May 24th 1762, and sold at the Golden Head in Hatton Garden
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Great Britain.
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Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818,
"Portrait of King George III after William Beechey; nearly half-length turned to front, the head to left, wearing cocked hat and uniform"--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image. and Ms. note below imprint: A[...] D'H.1839].
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Published Octr. 25th 1810 by W. Skelton, 1 Stafford Place, Pimlico
"Nearly half-length, directed to the front, facing and looking to the right, wearing richly embroidered coat and chain of office, right hand tucked inside his coat"--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image. and Written in contemporary hand in upper right corner: "72." Printed on gilt-edged paper.
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Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Novr. 1st 1762 & sold by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, and H. Parker and E. Bakewell in Cornhill