Wash drawing depicting a plainly dressed woman holding the hand of her small child while buying goods from a street vendor. The vendor is scooping goods from a large portage basket strapped to his horse and weighing the purchase in a two pan beam balance scale
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Drawing dated from Bruce Robertson's The art of Paul Sandby,1985, fig. 121.
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Children, Mothers, Scales, and Street vendors
A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen, after Hogarth; a pregnant young woman standing to right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book labelled 'Law of Bastadry [sic]' in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs
Alternative Title:
Denunciation
Description:
Title from Paulson and British Museum catalogue. Alternative title from Paulson: The denunciation., Twelve lines of verse describing the scene etched below image: 'Here Justice triumphs in his Elbow Chair, And makes his Market of the trading Fair; His Office Shelves with Parsh Laws are grac'd, But Spelling Books and Guides between 'em plac'd. Here pregnant Madam screens the real Sire, And Sally swears her Bastard Child for Hire Upon a Rich old Letcher, who denies The Fact, and vows the naughty Hussif [sic] lies; His Wife enrag'd, exclaims against her Spouse, And Swears she'l be reveng'd upon his Brows; The Jade, the Justice and Church Ward'ns agree, And force him to provide Security'., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See reference in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 309., and On page 11 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed to: 29.5 x 33.7 cm
Publisher:
Sold by J. Sympson engraver and print-seller at the Dove in Russell Court, Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Courtrooms, Dogs, and Pregnant women
A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen, after Hogarth; a pregnant young woman standing to right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book labelled 'Law of Bastadry [sic]' in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs
Alternative Title:
Denunciation
Description:
Title from Paulson and British Museum catalogue. Alternative title from Paulson: The denunciation., Twelve lines of verse describing the scene etched below image: 'Here Justice triumphs in his Elbow Chair, And makes his Market of the trading Fair; His Office Shelves with Parsh Laws are grac'd, But Spelling Books and Guides between 'em plac'd. Here pregnant Madam screens the real Sire, And Sally swears her Bastard Child for Hire Upon a Rich old Letcher, who denies The Fact, and vows the naughty Hussif [sic] lies; His Wife enrag'd, exclaims against her Spouse, And Swears she'l be reveng'd upon his Brows; The Jade, the Justice and Church Ward'ns agree, And force him to provide Security'., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and See reference in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 309.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Sympson engraver and print-seller at the Dove in Russell Court, Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Courtrooms, Dogs, and Pregnant women
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 11 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pregnant woman holds a bible in one hand and rests her other hand on her protruding stomach while 'swearing a child' before a shocked looking magistrate. The alleged father(?) is kneeling beside the woman with clasped hands and his hat removed and resting on the floor. Completing the scene a clerk apperas to be loudly advising the magistrate and a solemn looking constable stands off to the side
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Paternity, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Judges, Law & legal affairs, and Bibles
"Title-page with a woman, three children and a spirit; in the centre, a spirit with butterfly wings, standing in profile to left, decorating a statue with flowers; on the right, a woman seated on a chair, in profile to left; on the left, three naked children: one drawing and the other two winged; in an oval; after Cipriani; title-page to 'A dissertation on oriental gardening' by William Chambers (London: Griffin, 1772); published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Calabi and de Vesme., Sheet trimmed to plate mark, resulting in loss of lettering., and On page numbered 39 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
A woodcutter dressed in tattered clothing is seated on the right in a wooded meadow landscape with hills in the distance. A clay pipe is stuck in a buttonhole of his coat. The woodcutter holds the handle of a shovel resting between legs. A scythe and pickax lie at his feet. A young boy dressed in green sits to the left on the foundation of a rudimentary structure and a rock wall. A curly-haired dog lies at his feet. Behind him a large ax leans against the post of a thatched structure. The two appear to be sharing a meal. The woodcutter balances a mug on his knee. A small wooden barrel with bread is visible in the right foreground. A basket of fruit sits on the ground between them while the boy holds a hat filled with apples on his lap
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Signed by the artist in lower left: Gill pinx/Bath.
Title from annotation on verso., Probably a proof state., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in pencil on verso: Abbè de Marolly.
Hôc juvenem egregium praestanti munere donat. Virg
Description:
Title from later state., Engraved after a miniature by Zincke which was done after a painting by Peter Lely., Early state, before title added above image. For later state with title, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Contents H175 no. 1., Date supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 135 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Volume 2, opposite page 52. Anecdotes of painting in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait, head and shoulders, of an old man with loose, curling hair to his shoulders, and a plain white collar, three quarter to right, looking down to centre; after Dobson
Alternative Title:
Abraham Van der Doort
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Unsigned; artist unidentified., After a painting by William Dobson that was part of Sir Robert Walpole's collection at Houghton., Date of production supplied by curator., With sitter's name "Vanderdort" written in pencil on mount., and Bound in opposite page 52 in volume 2 of Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England. Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-1771 [i.e. 1780].