Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 46 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A dour woman wearing a feathered headdress stands before a preacher and his clerk as they exclaim respectively, "O Lord, save this lady, thy servant" followed by "Who putteth her ladyship's trust in thee."
Alternative Title:
Churching a lady
Description:
Title inscribed in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Great Britain, Preaching, Religious services, and Churches
In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, an obese clergyman with his equally large, bespectacled wife sit at a dining table with their three children; on the back wall hangs a portrait of the clergyman. He raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
Description:
Title from pencil inscription on verso., Date of production based on date of published mezzotint after this design., The daughter's face has been redrawn on a small piece of paper that has been pasted over the original sheet., and For a mezzotint engraving of this design, see no. 3753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Five men, heads and shoulders only. Three of the men face each other. The man on the top left wears a nightcap and pince-nez on the tip of his long, hooked nose. The man on the top right looks down and wears the garb of a clergyman with a bishop's mitre on his head. The man on the bottom left wears a wig, a high stock and jabot and has a long nose. The man in the bottom center looks cross-eyed at the other men. The man on the bottom right has a very bulbous nose and face
Alternative Title:
Good morning to your nightcap
Description:
Two heads on left were copied for a print: Good Morning to your Nightcap. See Lewis Walpole Library impression (786.07.07.01)., Inscription in graphite pencil on verso: Original drawing for 'Good Morning to Your Nightcap' Pubd by S.W. Fores July 7, 1786., and Henry Kingsbury, British painter and engraver, fl. 1775-1804 (see Brisith Museum online catalogue).
Title devised by cataloger., Satire after Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to design with loss in upper and lower right corners., and Publication date conjectured from costume.
Volume 2, page 398.3. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of two seals, one above the other. The top seal shows Henry VIII on a throne holding the globus cruciger in his left hand and a dagger in his right hand; he is flanked by two armorial shields surmounted by crowns, and Latin text runs along the circular border of the seal. The bottom a seal of the Archbishop of York with Saint Peter holding a key and Saint Paul with a sword under the arches of a building and with Cardinal Thomas Wosley's coat of arms (in reverse) below identified by text in Latin encircling the border
Alternative Title:
Ego et rex meus
Description:
Title devised by curator; alternative title written in ink., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted on page 398.3 in volume 2 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
Subject (Topic):
Seals (Insignia), Coats of arms, Kings, and Clergy
A thin emaciated Parson holds a 'tithe' in the form of a pig in a basket while a second Parson, obese with a huge puanch, raises a stick in the air and opens his mouth wide as if beginning an admonishment
Description:
Title, date, and artist attribution suggested by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
Satirical drawing on the professions of medicine, law and the church. Three practitioners stand in a well furnished interior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document, the clergyman a book, and the physician a phial. Pictures on the wall show men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tithes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside
Description:
Title from that of the print likely engraved after this drawing., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Date of production based on that assigned to the print with the same image in reverse by Louis Philippe Boitard. See online record for no. 1775 in the British Museum online catalogue., Formerly laid in at page 207 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Interiors, Lawyers, Pictures, Physicians, and Quarreling
Satirical drawing on the professions of medicine, law and the church. Three practitioners stand in a well furnished interior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document, the clergyman a book, and the physician a phial. Pictures on the wall show men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tithes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside
Description:
Title from that of the print likely engraved after this drawing., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Date of production based on that assigned to the print with the same image in reverse by Louis Philippe Boitard. See online record for no. 1775 in the British Museum online catalogue., Formerly laid in at page 207 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Interiors, Lawyers, Pictures, Physicians, and Quarreling