"Three strips arranged horizontally as in BMSat 9488. The subjects (with inscriptions) are a 'round-about' or primitive merry-go-round, a couple in a 'Tax'd Cart', a newsboy crying 'The Second Edition', street musicians with hurdy-gurdy, tambourine, and triangle, a Punch and Judy show, parson and clerk, a couple on a horse, a man selling garters, 'Long, and strong Scarlet Garters a penny a pair', a man with a performing bear and dancing dogs, a town crier, a pugilistic encounter."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., "No. 8."--Upper left corner., Three horizontal strips between borders., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of plate number. Missing text from impression in the British Museum., and Watermark: Iping.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 20th, 1799, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bears, Carts & wagons, Clergy, Clerks, Dogs, Fighting, Musical instruments, Newspaper carriers, Organ grinders, Puppet shows, Puppets, Street musicians, Town criers, Street vendors, and Trained animals
Title assigned based on other prints from the series in the collection., Publication information from the bottom strip. Evidence of text in the border area of the top strip., Three horizontal borders from an unnumbered plate from the series of Borders For Rooms, designed by Woodward, etched by Rowlandson and published by Ackermann in 1799-1800. See British Museum Catalogue, nos. 9488-9492., Uncut plate described in Woodward Collection of Prints and Drawings, Derbyshire Record Office and Derbyshire Diocesan Record Office, record no. D5459/2/23/9, as published on July 20, 1799. Rearranged here as follows: row 1 pasted as bottom strip, row 2 as top strip and row 3 as center strip., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Jews -- Dancers -- Aldermen -- Games: cricket -- Lilliputians -- Clergy -- Circus: tumblers -- London cries: "Buy my sand, oh, my lily, lily, lily white sand, oh.", and Mounted together to 33 x 47 cm.
Volume 2, page 158a. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four designs showing partial decorative borders, probably those of the 16th-century illuminated psalter of Don Giulio Clovio, owned by Horace Walpole and sold in lot 90 on the fifteenth day of the 1842 Strawberry Hill Sale
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., Upper right design has the note "ground all blue" written vertically in blue watercolor., and Bound in as page 158a in volume 2 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Three horizontal strips in between borders. First image on top left: two men greet each other bowing excessively. The one on the left says: Sir, I am proud to see you. The other replies: Sir, you do me honor
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; captions etched above each image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of publication information., Publication date and attributionsd to Rowlandson and Woodward from mss. notes on verso of print., Possibly a restrike from one of 24 plates of Borders for rooms drawn by Woodward, etched by Rowlandson, and published by Ackermann in 1799-1800. See British Museum Catalogue, nos. 9488-9492., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1821.
On the left the ghost of Samuel Johnson, in a great swirl of billowing clouds, appears before a startled James Boswell, right hand raised in alarm, who is seated at a table strewn with papers and remnants. In his hand he holds a cushion labeled "Hebrides." Behind him on the wall are two shelves of books, many of which are identified by author and title, or numbered, perhaps a reference to his journals that were the basis of his Life of Samuel Johnson. Below the shelves is a framed portrait of Boswell. A quotation from William Congreve's The Way of the World, Act iv, Scene 9 is engraved below the image
Description:
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of verse from "Congreve's Way of the world, Act IV, Scene 9", below title, beginning: Thou art a retailer of phrases ..., and A later copy of No. 8281 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
A drinking and smoking scene with men and women around a table, musicians playing instruments and maps and painted portraits hung on the wall behind. Design based on William Hogarth's third plate in the series Rake's Progress
Description:
Title etched below image. and On page 69 in volume 1. Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above: A Tobacco Paper.
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: Cavr. Luti pinxit ; Picot sculpsit., Proof before letters; for a lettered state with the imprint "Published Mar. 25th, 1780, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London," see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4., Engraved after a painting formerly in the collection of Robert Walpole at Houghton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 101 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
John Boydell
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Houghton Hall (England)
Title from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 18 x 28 cm.
"Subscription ticket for "Moses brought to Pharaoh's Daughter"and "St Paul before Felix" with three naked boys, one painting, one engraving and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Lettered below the image with subscription receipt: Receiv'd [blank] of [blank] 5 Shillings being the first Payment for two large Prints one representing Moses brought to Pharoah's Daughter, The other St. Paul before Felix. wch. I Promise to Deliver when finish'd, on Receiving 5 Shillings more./N.B. They will be Seven and Six Pence each Print, after the time of subscribing., Originally etched 1731, reworked 1751., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 57 in volume 1. With a pencilled note in Steeven's hand above print: Very scarce. Plate trimmed to: plate mark 151 x 125 mm, sheet 16.5 x 14 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Art, Painting, and Putti