- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 6th, 1788.
- Call Number:
- 788.03.06.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item. and Temporary local subject terms: East India Company: Board of Control -- Declaratory Bill -- Scots pills -- Chartered rights -- Leaden Hall as an Indian lady -- Secret influence -- Patronage -- Allusion to 7th system -- Military: soldiers -- Emblems -- Asses.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. for the proprietor by Mr. Moore, No. 48 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, East India Company., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Soldiers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The viper, a proof [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 December 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.12.29.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Possibly by Dent. See British Museum catalogue., Nine lines of text below title: Who wonderfully outdoes all the wonderous fire eaters, stone eaters, toad eaters, & c. & c. that ever exhibited, engaging to crack, scronch, swallow and digest as many of the largest and hardest words in the English language ..., Sheet trimmed to edge of plate mark on one side., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Demosthenes, B.C. 384?-322 -- Allusion to John Dunning Ashburton, 1st Baron, 1731-1783 -- Allusion to Ashburton: Influence of the crown, April 6, 1780 -- Parodies: Advertisements of the "Stone eater" -- Regency crisis -- Trampled Bills of Rights -- Trampled Magna Charta -- India., and Mounted to 37 x 22 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub by W. Dent Decr 29 1788, sold by W. Moore No. 308 Oxford Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The wonderful word eater, lately arrived from abroad [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 22d, 1788.
- Call Number:
- 788.04.22.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Wind shifted from the North to the East
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from unverified card catalog., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation: Shakespeare -- Warts., Owner's mark: Lugt., no. 2832., Mounted to 33 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the act directs for the proprietor by W. Moore, No. 48 New Bond Street & W. Dickie, opposite Exeter change
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, America., and India.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Francis, Philip, 1740-1818
- Subject (Topic):
- Impeachment, Obesity, Colonies, Weather vanes, and Gambling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Thunder, lightning and smoke, or, The wind shifted from the North to the East [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Aug. 30, 1787.
- Call Number:
- 787.08.30.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Turtle and venison in high perfection
- Description:
- Title from item., Verse below title: Divide me like a bribe-buck, each a haunch, Shakespeare., Sheet trimmed to thread margins of plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation: Shakespeare -- Obese man -- Warts., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. for the proprietor by W. Moore, No. 48 New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Turtle & venison in high perfection [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Jany. 19th, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.01.19.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Lord Thurlow depicted as a schoolmaster is seated on the left. He wears an enormous wig, and holds in his left hand the book "A new guide to India" and in his right a birch rod. Facing him stands Pitt dressed as a young girl, with a key (to the Treasury) hanging from her belt. On the wall behind them hangs a portait of the King labelled "a great Whig", a bust of Fox labelled "a true Whig" on top of a bookcase containing Newbery's Works, and a map with the face of Shelburne titled "a false Whig." The "h" in the first word of the title is inserted above the "i".
- Alternative Title:
- Master Billy learning his task and Wiggism, or, Master Billy learning his task
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Pubd for S.W. as the act directs, by J. Cattermoul, No. 376 Oxford Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government and Bookcases
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Whiggism, or, Master Billy learning his task [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1793]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 790.00.00.03 Box 115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Copy of Hogarth's self-portrait; he is painting Thalia, the Comic Muse who holds a satyr's mask in her left hand and a book in her right hand. After the state without "Comedy 1764" on the pillar. Hogarth is seated in a chair leaning forward toward the easel, looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat; he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife; the pot of oil on the floor in front of the chair. A volume of prints and a burin can be seen in a niche in the wall behind the easel. Leaning against the leg of the easel is a volume with a print protruding from its pages and no title (in the original it is identified as "Analysis of Beauty").
- Description:
- Title engraved below image. and Date from other prints by Dent in the British Museum online catalogue.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
- Subject (Topic):
- Painting, Muses (Greek deities) in art, Artists, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > William Hogarth [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an attic, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes. He is seated on a chair; behind him his bed is folded up in his sparsely furnished garret. Beside him is a ink well and a candle in a bottle. He rests his left elbow on a pile of books on the table
- Alternative Title:
- Distressed poet
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., After Hogarth's Distressed poet. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 145., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 79 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Poverty
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Copy of Hogarth's The distresst poet] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1783 and 1793?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in London, possibly near St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, shows a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street; a pregnant ballad-seller chants while her baby cries and a parrot above her head on the lamp post squawks; a milkmaid and other street-traders cry their wares; one small boy plays a drum while another urinates under the startled gaze of a small girl who holds a rattle and stands by a house made of toy blocks; an itinerant oboist plays; a dustman carries his basket and a bell; a knife-grinder sharpens a cleaver, a dog barking at his feet; on the roof at the right two cats fight (both shown with arched backs) just beyond the chimney from which a chimney sweep emerges
- Description:
- Title based on published original., Date based on Dent's years of activity., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 152, Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Specimen of Trusler's book., and On page 103 in volume 2.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Blocks (Toys), Cats, Children, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Musical instruments, Musicians, Noises, Occupations, Parrots, Street vendors, and Urination
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The enraged musician] [graphic]