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1. A Christmas box [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 December 1826]
- Call Number:
- 826.12.26.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A front elevation of a theatre-box crammed with delighted children fills the design. In the front row are a lady and four little girls. In the middle sits the father, one small boy on his knee, an arm round another child. Eight more children fill the box. Behind them a lady chooses fruit from an old woman's basket. Two men stand behind. Over the front of the box hangs a playbill: During the Xmas Holidays--Pantomime of Harliquin--Clown by Mr G [Grimaldi]."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 26th, 1826, by S. Knights, Sweetings [A]lley, Royal Exchange
- Subject (Topic):
- Theater audiences, Children, and Families
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Christmas box [graphic]
2. A representation of the march of the guards towards Scotland, in the year 1745 [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sullivan, Luke, 1705-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [31 December 1750] and [12 June 1761]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Plate 37. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a young chimney sweep, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink. In the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve depicted), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to the right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- March to Finchley
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Dedication etched below image: "To His Majesty the King of Prussia, an encourager of the arts and sciences! This plate is most humbly dedicated.", 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 43.2 x 55.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted on leaf 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 37 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Boxing, Brothels, Carts & wagons, Children, Crowds, Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Marching, Prostitutes, Soldiers, Street vendors, and Urination
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A representation of the march of the guards towards Scotland, in the year 1745 [graphic]
3. An election entertainment. [graphic] / Plate I
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published 24th Febry. 1755, as the act directs.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Plate 39. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A dining room in a tavern is filled with drunken and rowdy men seated around a rectangular and a circular table that have been pushed together. More men and women are pushing through the doorway on the right. In the back of the room, a band of musicians play their instruments. Through the window demonstrators care signs with political messages: "Liberty and property" and "Marry and multiply in spite of the devil and the ..." State with hatching lines throughout strengthened. The space where "the whole" was is in the inscription is now crossed out with lines. Dark areas on the surface of the overturned table are removed
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., The first plate of four of an election., Dedication engraved below design: To the Right Honourable Henry Fox, &c,&c,&c. This plate is humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient humble servt. Wm. Hogarth., Statement of responsibilty with heavily scored through word between "Painted and" and "engraved by Wm. Hogarth.", 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 43.3 x 55.8 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 39 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Children, Demonstrations, Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Musicians, Political elections, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An election entertainment. [graphic] / Plate I
4. An election entertainment. [graphic] / Plate I
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published 24th Febry. 1755, as the act directs.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Plate 39. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A dining room in a tavern is filled with drunken and rowdy men seated around a rectangular and a circular table that have been pushed together. More men and women are pushing through the doorway on the right. In the back of the room, a band of musicians play their instruments. Through the window demonstrators care signs with political messages: "Liberty and property" and "Marry and multiply in spite of the devil and the ..." State with hatching lines throughout strengthened. The space where "the whole" was is in the inscription is now crossed out with lines. Dark areas on the surface of the overturned table are removed
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., The first plate of four of an election., Dedication engraved below design: To the Right Honourable Henry Fox, &c,&c,&c. This plate is humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient humble servt. Wm. Hogarth., Statement of responsibilty with heavily scored through word between "Painted and" and "engraved by Wm. Hogarth.", 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 43.3 x 55.8 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 39 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Children, Demonstrations, Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Musicians, Political elections, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An election entertainment. [graphic] / Plate I
5. Analysis of beauty. [graphic] / Plate II
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [5 March 1753]
- Call Number:
- 49 3880
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty": a ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border around the main image are 41 compartments with diagrams relating to the text; the image is numbered throughout"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., and Bound in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty along with State 3 of Plate 1. Also with the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Art, Ballrooms, Children, Couples, Dancers, Dogs, Figure drawings, Hats, Portrait paintings, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Analysis of beauty. [graphic] / Plate II
6. Blanchisseuse des Indes Occidentales The West India washer-woman / [graphic] =
- Creator:
- Ruotte, Louis Charles, 1754-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1770?]
- Call Number:
- 770.00.00.190.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Three West Indian washer women sit or stand in or near a stream. The one on land balances a basket of clean wash on her head and has a baby strapped to her back
- Alternative Title:
- West India washer-woman
- Description:
- Title from caption below image, in French and English., "This plate is dedicated to Sir John Frederick, Bart. by his most obliged and devoted servt. A. Brunias."--Dedication following title., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge, resulting in loss of imprint statement., and Printed on laid paper; hand-colored.
- Publisher:
- Chez Depeuille, rue St. Denis, la boutique attenant St. Jacques l'Hopital, No. 416 et au Palais Royal, au Pavillon près le bassin
- Subject (Geographic):
- West Indies.
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Laundresses, and Mothers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Blanchisseuse des Indes Occidentales The West India washer-woman / [graphic] =
7. Charlotte [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 August 1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 5. Bunbury
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A woman seated in profile to right, holding a handkerchief on her laps with both hands; a little girl standing next to her, almost in profile to left, putting both hands on the woman's lap and looking up towards her; to right, an older girl seated, holding a book open on her lap with both hands, looking up to the sky; to left, a boy seated, in profile to left, blowing a trumpet; in a roundel; after H Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title from text below image., State with dedication added above imprint statement. For an earlier state lacking this text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.953., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of text below title: The shade of my mother hovers round me, when in a still evening I sit in the midst of her children, I wish that she could look down upon us, and see that I fulfil the promise I made her to be a mother to them. Sorrows of Werter, Dedication etched above imprint statement: To the Honble. Miss Grenville, this print after an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated by her most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson., Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther., Mounted on page 5 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; circular image 30.0 cm, on sheet 40.1 x 36.0 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd August 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Trumpets, and Books
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Charlotte [graphic]
8. Confined in the Fleet Prison [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliament, July 1735.
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 735.07.00.01+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Copy of a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table, to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Rake's progress. Plate 7
- Description:
- Title from text engraved above image., Verses, attributed to John Hoadly, below image in three columns, four lines each: His hours of joy are fled with rapid speed, And scenes of anguish in a jail succeed ... Can his person from restraint enlarge., The seventh of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., and "Plate 7."--Lower right below design.
- Publisher:
- Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell
- Subject (Name):
- Fleet Prison (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Children, Debt, Dramatists, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, Telescopes, and Unmarried mothers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Confined in the Fleet Prison [graphic].
9. Contadina della Savoja [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 April 1772]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 43. Bunbury
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young woman standing on a mountain-top, looking away to left, her hands tucked under her apron, wearing a gown with a laced bodice, fichu and a soft hat, with a shaggy dog beside her to right and a little boy chasing a butterfly in front of her, with a church at the foot of mountains in the background to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 43 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.4 x 17.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs April 30th, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy.
- Subject (Topic):
- Peasants, Clothing & dress, Children, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Contadina della Savoja [graphic]