An etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
Alternative Title:
M-n-st-l Monster address'd to the friends of Old England' by Sybilla Prophecy and Ministrial monster address'd to the friends of Old England' by Sybilla Prophecy
Description:
Title from text etched at top of second plate. and On page 295 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint: 18.8 x 25.2 cm.
An etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
Alternative Title:
M-n-st-l Monster address'd to the friends of Old England' by Sybilla Prophecy and Ministrial monster address'd to the friends of Old England' by Sybilla Prophecy
"Judges, lawyers, and others rush headlong from Westminster Hall. Three women are among the crowd, one of whom has fallen on her back. In the background is a Gothic doorway, on each side of which are two windows; through the upper left window appears a maidservant with a mop. Beneath the title is printed: 'Or, Courts of Law without a Covering, and Lawyers' Fears without Foundation; 'Causes without an Issue, and an Issue without a Cause'. This is followed by two quotations from Virgil, below which are verses printed in five columns"--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Caption title from letterpress printed below image., Title followed by two quotations from Virgil., Plate mark cannot be determined., Plate is early state, before alterations., Five columns of verse below the title: God prosper long our noble King ... However strange, 'tis strictly true, That thus a simple Wench, Did - (what no other Power could do) - Drive Mansfield from the Bench!'., Publication statement etched in plate below image: Published as the act directs, 28th Aprl. 1785, by Woodman & Mutlow, No. 30 Russel Court, Covent Garden., and Temporary local subject terms: Westminster Hall: exterior court of the King's Bench -- Courts -- Panic -- Maidservants -- Literature: quotations from Virgil, 70-19 BC. -- Incidents: panic at the King's Bench, April 22, 1785 -- Legal costume -- Allusion to Charles Hughes, fl. 1785 -- Allusion to Philip Astley, 1742-1814.
Publisher:
Printed for Woodman & Mutlow, engravers and print-sellers, Russel Court, Covent-Garden, and A. Wells, Warwick-Place, Bedford Row
Young cub attended by the clerks of the Admiralty at Arthurs
Description:
Title from text below image., Publication place and date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to a letter describing Charles James Fox's gambling proclivities while in the post of the Lord of the Admiralty., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 28., and Temporary local subject terms: Clubs: Arthur's -- Domestic service: scullion boy -- Reference to the Lord of Admiralty -- Admiralty clerks -- Reference to Hoyle.
Leaf 98. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lawyer (Theodosius Forrest), shown whole length in profile looking right, carries a lawyer's bag in which there is a scroll labeled "of Damocles"; in his pocket is another scroll labeled "Ge. ho. Dobbin." A dog at his side sniffs the bag. The door is labeled 'Good Entertainment gratis' and is probably a bagnio
Alternative Title:
Theodosius Homunculus Esq., attorney general to the Royal Academy
Description:
Title etched above image., Artist and printmaker's names are unidentified pseudonyms., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Theodosius Homunculus Esq. is a representation of Theodosius Forrest., Below image is etched: In opinion a Poet, a Painter, a Critic Dear The: take my word instead of some Physic, A Poet in Bawdy, a Painter in Daubing, A Coxcomb the Critics your Friends are allowing., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "13" in upper right corner., First of three plates on leaf 98., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.3 x 12.3 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Leaf 98. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lawyer (Theodosius Forrest), shown whole length in profile looking right, carries a lawyer's bag in which there is a scroll labeled "of Damocles"; in his pocket is another scroll labeled "Ge. ho. Dobbin." A dog at his side sniffs the bag. The door is labeled 'Good Entertainment gratis' and is probably a bagnio
Alternative Title:
Theodosius Homunculus Esq., attorney general to the Royal Academy
Description:
Title etched above image., Artist and printmaker's names are unidentified pseudonyms., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Theodosius Homunculus Esq. is a representation of Theodosius Forrest., Below image is etched: In opinion a Poet, a Painter, a Critic Dear The: take my word instead of some Physic, A Poet in Bawdy, a Painter in Daubing, A Coxcomb the Critics your Friends are allowing., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., and Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "13" in upper right corner.
Caricatured portrait of William Hogarth. An ugly boy wearinga fool's cap and bells and dressed in a girl's clothes is seated in a chair painting Hogarth's portrait of John Wilkes. He is seated before an easel in mid-stroke painting the image of John Wilkes holding the Cap of Liberty; he holds a paint brush and palette in his hands as he turns to talk to a gentleman leaning against the artist's chair (right foreground). Under the chair is Hogarth's dog Trump. In the background is a caricature of Hogarth's "Sigismunda" being a grotesque skiethc of Mrs. Hogarth and with an indecent suggestion
Alternative Title:
Wm. Hogarth Esqr and William Hogarth Esquire
Description:
Title engraved above image., Note below image: Drawn from the life & etch'd in aqua-fortis., Original drawing has been ascribed to Paul Sandby., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 294 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed image with all text except title: 30.9 x 22.5 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Pridden in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Hogarth, Jane Thornhill, 1709?-1789
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Dogs, Painters (Artists), Liberty cap, and Legislators
Caricatured portrait of William Hogarth. An ugly boy wearinga fool's cap and bells and dressed in a girl's clothes is seated in a chair painting Hogarth's portrait of John Wilkes. He is seated before an easel in mid-stroke painting the image of John Wilkes holding the Cap of Liberty; he holds a paint brush and palette in his hands as he turns to talk to a gentleman leaning against the artist's chair (right foreground). Under the chair is Hogarth's dog Trump. In the background is a caricature of Hogarth's "Sigismunda" being a grotesque skiethc of Mrs. Hogarth and with an indecent suggestion
Alternative Title:
Wm. Hogarth Esqr and William Hogarth Esquire
Description:
Title engraved above image., Note below image: Drawn from the life & etch'd in aqua-fortis., Original drawing has been ascribed to Paul Sandby., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Pridden in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Hogarth, Jane Thornhill, 1709?-1789
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Dogs, Painters (Artists), Liberty cap, and Legislators
"A young man in profile to the right, with a knotted bludgeon under his arm, holds a fierce mastiff by the collar. This collar, being inscribed 'Hamil[ton]', shows that the duke is Douglas, 8th Duke (1756-95), Duke of Brandon in the English peerage. He has cropped hair and wears the dress of the young blood of 1791, with the star of the Thistle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tiger and his master
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text above image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine., Printmaker from earlier state with title, 'The Ruffian Duke', and lettered ''Attic Miscellany.' and 'Annabal Scratch fecit' issue in 1791., Caricatures published under the pseudonym Annibal Scratch have been attributed to Samuel Collings., and Cf. No. 7958 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd accg to act. Feby. 17, 1780 by D. Long
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806