Title supplied by curator., Artist's name and date etched on plate at upper left., Chicago Society of Etchers stamp on verso., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Illustration of Canto IV, II, 121 ff.: Sir Plume dispatched by Belinda demands her stolen lock of hair from the Baron
Description:
Title etched below image and above eight lines of verse., Date based on Samuel Ireland's copies., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 244., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Saml. Ireland's copy., and On page 7 in volume 1.
Illustration of Canto IV, II, 121 ff.: Sir Plume dispatched by Belinda demands her stolen lock of hair from the Baron
Description:
Title from Paulson., Attribution to Hogarth deemed "questionable" by Paulson., Ms. note above in Steevens's hand: Original., Ms. note in pencil top of sheet: See Nichol's Book, 3d edit, p. 493., Ms. note in pencil at bottom: Sold at Gulston's auction for £33.0.0., and On page 7 in volume 1.
A young woman, viewed in profile, sits on a stool reading a book as Cupid, with his bow in hand, reaches to touch her with his arrow turning to smile at the viewer as he does so. In front of the woman is a table with more books, paper, and a feather pen in an ink well as well as an oil lamp. To the left on the ground is a large urn
Description:
Title and publication date assigned by curator.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Books, Cupids, Lamps, Reading, Women, Vases, and Writing materials
"A young woman lying on her front on the ground, in loose drapery with an ointment jar beside her, reading from a large volume, propped up on right elbow, her hand to her forehead, twined in long golden curls, hanging loose over her shoulder, in a leafy leandscape."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Possibly a proof state before Bible verse added below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1837,0408.139., Publication information from imprint on British Museum impression: London, Published Jany. 1, 1792, by A.C. de Poggi, St. George's Row, Hyde Park., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text from bottom edge., and Mounted on page 167 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
"In the upper part of the design the Recording Angel (or Truth) draws or engraves on an oval shield which she rests on a pedestal. On it are depicted French soldiers bayoneting defenceless Turks (apparently adapted from BMSat 10062). In the background are the head of a Sphinx, and clouds. Against the pedestal on which Truth stands rests a picture, filling the lower part of the design. Napoleon kneels on a rock, extending imploring arms towards Nilus, a nude and muscular figure seated on rock from which water gushes. Nilus veils and averts his head. In the background are pyramids and palm-trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece, Britannicus to Buonaparte : an heroic epistle
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; varying form of title from British Museum catalogue. and Frontispiece to the second edition of Britannicus to Buonaparte, an heroic epistle, with notes / by Henry Tresham.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1803, for the author by I. Hatchard, No. 199 Piccadilly, London
"In the upper part of the design the Recording Angel (or Truth) draws or engraves on an oval shield which she rests on a pedestal. On it are depicted French soldiers bayoneting defenceless Turks (apparently adapted from BMSat 10062). In the background are the head of a Sphinx, and clouds. Against the pedestal on which Truth stands rests a picture, filling the lower part of the design. Napoleon kneels on a rock, extending imploring arms towards Nilus, a nude and muscular figure seated on rock from which water gushes. Nilus veils and averts his head. In the background are pyramids and palm-trees."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece, Britannicus to Buonaparte : an heroic epistle
Description:
Frontispiece to the second edition of Britannicus to Buonaparte, an heroic epistle, with notes / by Henry Tresham. and Title devised by cataloger; varying form of title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
J. Hatchard, No. 190 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Hatchard, John, 1768-1849 publisher., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons., and Tresham, Henry, 1749?-1814 artist.
Volume 2, page 62. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young man in a cap sitting on a basket, smoking a pipe, a tankard in his hand, resting on his crossed legs, his right arm draped over the back of a chair at left, his hat fallen on the ground beside; circular design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state., Early state, before addition of title and before alterations to publication year and publisher's street address in imprint. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.440., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 62 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Title written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: The repose.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 7th, 1787, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Baskets, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
A man stands at a shop door leaning on a cask while looking at another man sitting on the pavement who is pointing towards the man. Canisters of tea are displayed in the shop window
Description:
Title from published print based on this original drawing: The Retort Courteous., See British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, vol. 7, no. 9114., Inscription in pencil lower left, below the image: Original., Inscription in ink on verso: The Country and proud London Stone. Finnucane., Inscription in pencil on verso: Original drawing by Finucane for "The Retort Courteous" BM 9114 published 1 August 1797 by Laurie and Whittle., and For further information, consult library staff.
Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "Gentn: Harry" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dogs feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., State, publisher, and series title from Paulson., Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dissection -- Anatomical Theatres -- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -- Company of Surgeons -- Surgeon's Hall -- Freke, John (1688-1756)., 1 print : woodcut ; sheet 458 x 383 mm., and Printed on wove paper. Perhaps an impression published by Boydell after Mrs. Hogarth's death in 1789; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,2.171.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Criminals, Dogs, Dissections, Medical education, Rake's progress, Physicians, and Skeletons
