Copy: an expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Copy of: No. 2563 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: Copy., and On page 105 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., Sheet trimmed on right and left edges., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Copy., and On page 101 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to, plate visible at bottom: 9.7 x 13.2 cm.
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., and Sheet trimmed on right and left edges.
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., and Sheet trimmed on right and left edges.
A politician sits center in a chair before a table with a single candlestick on top. He holds the candle itself in his hand as he closely examines a sheet of paper, oblivious to the fact that the candle is burning a hole in the brim of his hat. A copy after Hogarth without the two wall maps
Description:
Title etched below image., "Page 274".--Upper right corner., On page 206 in volume 3., and Text visible from verso.
Title etched below image., "Page 147."--Upper right corner., Plate from the first edition of: Ireland, J. Hogarth illustrated, vol. iii, p. 147., Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand above print: The Vase. Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand below print: See Mr. John Ireland's Hogarth illustrated, p. 147., and On page 231 in volume 3.
Title etched above image., Vignette from titlepage of John Ireland's Hogarth illustrated, vol. iii., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand above print: Serpentine or Dolphin Candlestick. See the title-page to Mr. John Irelandss Hogarth illustrated., and On page 231 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Published March 1798, for John Ireland, Poets Corner, Palace Yard, Westminster