Sketch of Lord Mayor's Day and Peep at a city feast
Description:
One plate printed on two sheets pasted together, each of the sheets with its own title., Artist from the original issue of this print., Publication dates from Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum: June 1, 1794 and January 1, 1795., Above left half of the joined image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine., Plate from the Carlton House magazine, v. iii, p. 100 and 465., Reissue as two separate prints and under different titles, of left and right halves of No. 7757 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.6., and Temporary local subject terms: Lord Mayor's Day -- Banquets -- Buildings: Guildhall -- Interiors: banquetting hall, Guildhall -- Furniture: tables -- Benches -- Pets: dogs -- Dishes: dinner plates -- Silverware -- Food: pudding -- Cooks -- Lighting: chandeliers -- Glass: wine bottles.
A celebration in a sporting club. In the center of the room before a large table, a man in a hat (with a black eye?) raises a gavel in an attempt to bring order as two members begin a fist-fight and others converse and laugh. One member restrains a woman as she attempts to hit a man on the head with a tankard; the man appears already unconscious and injured. Boxing gloves, tankards and glasses, hats, and a stick are scattered on the floor in the foreground. The room is lighted by the candles in a candelier. On the walls are a clock, two pictures of fighers -- one of Humphrys and the other of Mendoza; a broadside "Rules" (damaged); a broadside entitled "Last dying speech & confession of W[...]st the Boxer" with a picture of a gallows at the head; and, a picture of two men boxing (the pictures amplifying the subject). On the table are several tankards, wine glasses and punch bowl, smoking pipes, a broadsheet torn in two (World Diary), and a book "Rules for boxing"., Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., The left portion of the plate was later published as 'Frontispiece' (no date) in Carlton House magazine with the title: The ending of the old year., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title, printmaker's signature, and partial loss of imprint., Plate from: The Attic miscellany, v. 1, p. 81., Title added in a contemporary hand on the mount below the image: Odd-Fellows-Lodge., and Mounted to 24 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by Bentley & Co.
Subject (Name):
Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Mendoza, Daniel, 1764-1836, and Humphries, Richard, d. 1827
Title from item., Printmaker and artist from the original issue, of which this reissue of the left half only. See The Attic miscellany, v. ii, p. 195, published by Bentley & Co., 1 March 1791, under title, Overthrow of the arts!, Above image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine., Plate from: The Carlton House magazine, Oct. 1794., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the Somerset House -- Military: French soldiers -- Guns: bayoneted muskets.
Title from item., One plate printed on two sheets, each of the sheets with its own title etched below image., Printmaker and artist from first state published print 1 Jan. 1790 by Bentley & Co. as: Magentic dispensary., Date surmised from publication date of Magazine., Above left half of the joined image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine., Reissue, with altered title, of no. 7748 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Machines for magnetic cures -- Bag-wig -- Male costume, 1790 -- Female costume, 1790 -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Animal magnetism -- Dr. Yeldell.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
De Mainauduc, John Boniot, -1797 and Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812
Title from item., Artist and printmaker from the original edition in the Attic miscellany, v. 1, p. 16 published under the title "Samsonic Lodge." Cf. British Museum catalogue., Probably from the Carlton House magazine., Restrike of the left side only of No. 7749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Societies: Samsonic Society -- Emblems: beehive as the Samsonic Society's emblem -- Interiors: Pied Horse, Chiswell Street -- Smoking: pipes -- Pets: dogs -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Samsonic chairs -- Wooden legs -- Sir Brook Watson, 1st bart., 1735-1807.
"Satire on William Kent's altarpiece at St Clement Danes; a group of five angels playing musical instruments; the dove of the Holy Ghost above, surrounded by seven heads of putti. Keyed A-K in image with text below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Copy of Kent's altarpiece and This print is exactly engraved after the celebrated altar-piece
Description:
Title from text above image., Caption below image: "This Print is exactly engraved after the celebrated Altar-piece in St. Clements Church which has been taken down by Order of the Lord Bishop of London (as 'tis thought) to prevent disputes, & laying of wagers, among the Parishioners about the Artists meaning in it ... 2 Smaller Angels as appears by the wings.", Numbered at the top right: Page 18., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 63., On page 23 in volume 1., and Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Copy: From John Ireland's Hogarth Illustrated.
Title from item., Plate from the Carlton House magazine, volume iv, p. 3., Publication date based on that of the Magazine., Printmaker and artist from earlier state of the right half, published by Bentley & Co., Sept. 1, 1790, for The Attic Miscellany, v. i, p. 441, under title: Landing at Margate., Above image: Frontispiece., and Temporary local subject terms: Emigration: emigration from Holland -- Margate -- Costume: Dutch costume -- Dutch shoes -- Boats: sailboat -- Scissors -- Medical: crutches -- Chairs: invalid's chair carried on poles.
Title etched below image., "Page 255."--Etched above image, upper right., Print prepared for A Supplement to Hogarth Illustrated by J. Ireland., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., A copy of Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), no. 266., and On page 43 in volume 1. Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Copy.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Verse below title: 'Twas doing nothing was his curse, Is there a vice can plague us worse? Florio, page 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Quotation from Hannah More -- Wallpaper -- Bracket shlef -- Pictures that amplify subject.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, March 12th, 1786 by H. Humphrey No. 51 New Bond Street