A subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty", based on Leonardo's Last Supper, depicts Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. A dog peeps over the edge of the table in the foreground; the cutlery is pushed off to one side
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Title, publisher, and state from Paulson., Text engraved below image: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] five shillings being the first payment for a short tract in quarto call'd the Analysis of Beauty; wherein forms are consider'd in a new light, to which will be added two explanatory prints serious and comical, engraved on large copper plates fit to frame for furniture." N.B. The price will be rais'd after the subscription is over.", A subscription ticket for Analysis of beauty., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand centered at top of page: Columbus., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand between this print and another to the right: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 324., With Hogarth's signature in ink and wax seal. Also dated October 1, 1752 to Arlander Dobson Esqr., and On page 163 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to plate at top: 22.3 x 19.6 cm.
A subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty", based on Leonardo's Last Supper, depicts Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. A dog peeps over the edge of the table in the foreground; the cutlery is pushed off to one side
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Title, publisher, and state from Paulson., Text engraved below image: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] five shillings being the first payment for a short tract in quarto call'd the Analysis of Beauty; wherein forms are consider'd in a new light, to which will be added two explanatory prints serious and comical, engraved on large copper plates fit to frame for furniture." N.B. The price will be rais'd after the subscription is over.", and A subscription ticket for Analysis of beauty.
The third print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set at Sadler's Wells. "A dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River; the wife holds a fan with a design of Aphrodite and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds; behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman; to the right is a tavern with the sign of Sir Hugh Middleton's Head, two women and a man are in the tavern garden, other figures are visible through the window, and a grape vine is climbing up towards the roof."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title, printmaker, state, imprint, and series from Paulson and finished states. Third print in a series: Four times a day and Strolling actresses dressing in a barn., "Price 5 shillings"--Following printmaker's name., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print: See Mr Nichols's book, 3d edit p. 250. This 3rd Plate of the set, was engraved by Baron, the figure of the girl excepted, which being an afterthought, was added by Hogarth's coarser burin., and On page 93 in volume 1. Sheet 498 x 373 mm.
In a room in an Oxford tavern, one of the fellows drunkenly holds up a glass of wine while addressing the Vice-Chancellor who rebukes him for his conduct. A man with a bludgeon resting on his shoulder stands in the doorway. On the wall, an almanck (Oxford alm[...]. A dog lies asleep on the floor
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Title from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: The humours of Oxford. 2nd ed. London : J. Watts, 1730., and Pencilled note on verso in W.S. Lewis's hand: Removed from Lady Ossory's copy of Fugitive pieces.
In a room in an Oxford tavern, one of the fellows drunkenly holds up a glass of wine while addressing the Vice-Chancellor who rebukes him for his conduct. A man with a bludgeon resting on his shoulder stands in the doorway. On the wall, an almanck (Oxford alm[...]. A dog lies asleep on the floor
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Title from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: The humours of Oxford. 2nd ed. London : J. Watts, 1730., and Mounted to sheet 255 x 190 mm with red ink ruled border and ms. title in red ink: Oxford in the days of Hogarth.
Hogarth shows Sganarelle coming up behind his wife, who is admiring a miniature portrati of a young man which she had innocently discovered on the ground. Sganarelle is making the cuckold's sign with his right hand over his head
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Title, state, and date from Paulson., Third state: Scene number has been removed but traces remain., Sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of last two character's in printmaker's name., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Cocu Imaginaire / 171., and On page 52 in volume 1.
Frontispiece to James Miller, 'The Humours of Oxford', 2nd edition (London, 1730); scene in a tavern; at centre Haughty, a Fellow of one of the Oxford colleges, sits drunkenly disputing with the Vice-Chancellor, who stands at right; on the other side of the table at left, standing, are Conundrum (another Fellow), also drinking, and a servant, behind Conundrum on the wall, a framed 'Oxford Alm[anac]'; in the doorway, holding a truncheon, the Vice-Chancellor's attendant
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Title and date from Paulson., Date based on other work by Van der Gucht., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Modern Impression., and On page 52 in volume 1.
Frontispiece to James Miller, 'The Humours of Oxford', 2nd edition (London, 1730); scene in a tavern; at centre Haughty, a Fellow of one of the Oxford colleges, sits drunkenly disputing with the Vice-Chancellor, who stands at right; on the other side of the table at left, standing, are Conundrum (another Fellow), also drinking, and a servant, behind Conundrum on the wall, a framed 'Oxford Alm[anac]'; in the doorway, holding a truncheon, the Vice-Chancellor's attendant
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Title and date from Paulson., Date based on other work by Van der Gucht., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Humours of Oxford / Old Impression / 169., and On page 52 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed: 17.8 x 11.1 cm.
Copy of William Hogarth's satire on the "bad taste of the town", with different verses engraved below. The image is of a composite street scene with a theatre on either side and an "Academy of Arts" (Lord Burlington's recently remodelled house in Piccadilly) beyond; on the left, a fool and a devil are leading a crowd of masqueraders into the Opera House in the Haymarket from which hang a banner advertising an opera (based on British Museum satire no. 1768 with the singers Cuzzoni, Senesino and Berenstadt) and a sign for "Dr. Faux's [Isaac Fawkes] Dexterity of Hand", the impressario John James Heidegger leans from an upper window; on the right, a crowd is flocking to see the pantomime "Dr Faustus"; in the centre, a woman pushes a wheelbarrow of waste paper including volumes of Congreve, Dryden, Ottway, Shakespeare, Addison, and Ben John[son]; the gate of the Academy beyond is topped with statues of Michelangelo, Raphael and William Kent, admired by three gentlemen."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bad taste of the town
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Titles, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., Text and image on one plate., Two columns of four lines of verse engraved below image: Long has the stage productive been, Of offsprings it could brag on, But never 'till this age was seen, A wind-mill and a dragon. O Congreve, lay they pen aside, Shakespear, thy works disown, Since monsters grim, * nought beside. Can please this senseless town., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. No. 1742 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Copy of Hogarth print. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 44., On page 26 in volume 1., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Copy., and Lengthy ms. note in Steevens's hand to the right of print describing how the print was pirated very soon after its publication.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748, Senesino, -1759?, Kent, William, 1685-1748, Cuzzoni, Francesco, approximately 1680-1759, Fawkes, Isaac, -1731, Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694-1753, and Hercules (Roman mythological character),
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Britannia (Symbolic character), City & town life, Clergy, Costumes, Dogs, and Masquerades