"A half length portrait of Lord Sefton (1772-1838) seated on a high box-seat, driving; he leans slightly forward, his head in profile to the left, a bunch of reins in the left hand, a long whip in the right."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 18 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Ld. Sefton" in pencil below plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1801 by Dighton, Charg. Cross
Subject (Name):
Sefton, William Philip Molyneux, Earl of, 1772-1838
A copy of the fourth print in William Hogarth's series "Four Times of the Day", set at the intersection of Rummer Court and Charing Cross. Le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I can be seen in the background. It is the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II (29 May, known as "Oak Apple Day"). In the foreground a drunken freemason (probably the corrupt magistrate Sir Thomas De Veil) is supported by a serving man. Behind them a man pours gin into a keg. To the left a barber is seen at work through a window; each pane of the shop window contains a lit candle. From a window above the barber shop, a chamber pot is being emptied onto the top of a wooden shelter under which a man and woman sleep. Beside them, a link boy crouches as he blows on the flame of his torch. Behind and to the right of the freemason, the Salisbury Flying Coach has crashed and overturned while trying to avoid a bonfire in the middle of the street; the passengers reach out the window of the coach, alarmed looks on their faces.Two men look on, one of whom appears to be a butcher. Shop and tavern signs include the barber's which is decorated with oak leaves and advertises "Shaving Bleeding & Teeth Drawn wth. a Touch Ecce Signum"; the Rummer Tavern; the Earl of Cardigan; and, the Bagnio and the New Bagnio
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 149., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published February the 1.st 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson Pater-noster Row London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England.
Subject (Name):
De Veil, Thomas, Sir, 1684-1746
Subject (Topic):
Liquor laws, Freemasons, Jacobites, Accidents, Barbering, Butchers, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Children, Fires, Intoxication, Liquor, Prostitution, Sleeping, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
Plate 25. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 25. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The fourth print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set at the intersection of Rummer Court and Charing Cross. Le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I can be seen in the background. It is the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II (29 May, known as "Oak Apple Day"). In the foreground a drunken freemason (probably the corrupt magistrate Sir Thomas De Veil) is supported by a serving man. Behind them a man pours gin into a keg. To the left a barber is seen at work through a window; each pane of the shop window contains a lit candle. From a window above the barber shop, a chamber pot is being emptied onto the top of a wooden shelter under which a man and woman sleep. Beside them, a link boy crouches as he blows on the flame of his torch. Behind and to the right of the freemason, the Salisbury Flying Coach has crashed and overturned while trying to avoid a bonfire in the middle of the street; the passengers reach out the window of the coach, alarmed looks on their faces.Two men look on, one of whom appears to be a butcher. Shop and tavern signs include the barber's which is decorated with oak leaves and advertises "Shaving Bleeding & Teeth Drawn wth. a Touch Ecce Signum"; the Rummer Tavern; the Earl of Cardigan; and, the Bagnio and the New Bagnio
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 49 x 40.3 cm, on sheet 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 25 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England.
Subject (Name):
De Veil, Thomas, Sir, 1684-1746
Subject (Topic):
Liquor laws, Freemasons, Jacobites, Accidents, Barbering, Butchers, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Children, Fires, Intoxication, Liquor, Prostitution, Sleeping, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
"Two pretty women leave a shop (left) to enter a coach whose back is towards the spectator. The foremost (? Duchess of Rutland), raising her petticoats high, puts a foot on the step. She is followed by (?) Lady Jersey, who crosses a step laid across a barred area or cellar, also raising her petticoats. A little girl (left) stands in the doorway. The legs of the ladies are eagerly inspected by male loungers. One man crouches at the back of the coach to peep through a quizzing-glass. The roadway on the right of the coach is crowded. Men with telescopes are indicated in the windows of the houses (right). Other spectators stand in the cellar or area looking upwards through the bars. The cover of a coal-hole in the pavement is pushed aside to show a profile. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cause of the lounge!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker Isaac Cruikshank's initials are incorporated into the design, etched within the escutcheon on the back of the coach., Date in imprint transcribed as "April 1st, 1793" in the British Museum catalogue; etched lines resembling a "7" are found beneath the superscript "st" but may not actually represent a digit., and Imprint continues: ... who has just fitted up his Exhibition in an entire novel stile, admitance [sic] 1 shg. N. folios of caracatures lent out.
Publisher:
Pub. April 17st [sic], 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Name):
Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners, Duchess of, 1756-1831 and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
Subject (Topic):
Stores & shops, Carriages & coaches, Streets, Hand lenses, Telescopes, and Voyeurism
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 77. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 53. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the street outside the Thavies Inn, Holborn, the coach driver Tom Nero beats the horse that has collapsed under the weight of the overturned coach, having been overloaded with four lawyers who try to scramble out the door. To the right in the foreground, another man beats to death a sheep. Behind him in the mid-distance a sleeping drayman runs over a small boy with his cart loaded with barrels. To the left a driver uses a pitchfork to prod a donkey burdened with two men, a barrel, and a large trunk on its back. In the distance, a crowd of men follow a bull being baited by a dog. On the side of the building on the left, broadsides advertise a cock-fight and a boxing bout between James Field and George Taylor at Broughton's Amphitheatre
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., Second plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., "Price 1d"--Below design, lower right edge., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.6 x 31.9 cm, on sheet 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 77 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Leaf 10. Poems, explaining the seven cartons painted by Raphael Urbin.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Gilpin is about to mount his horse in Cheapside. Behind is the door of his linen-draper's shop inscribed 'John Gilpin'; on each side the window displays patterned fabrics. Next it (right) is a silversmith's shop with a classical urn over the door. Three ladies, his customers, stand outside Gilpin's door. A fruit-seller (right) sits in the street by her wares. The corner of 'Wood Street' is shown leading out of 'Cheapside'."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
For saddle-tree scarce reach'd had he, his journey to begin ...
Description:
Title etched above image., Four lines of verse below image: For saddle-tree scarce reach'd had he, his journey to begin, when turning round his face he saw three customers come in., First plate in a series of six, each with a plate number in the upper right and verses at bottom. All plates have the same publication line and date; plates 2 through 6 are simply titled "John Gilpin". See British Museum catalgoue., Plate numbered "1" in upper right corner., "Book 110"--Upper left corner., and Bound in as leaf 10 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Fowler, J. Poems, explaining the seven cartons painted by Raphael Urbin. [London?], [1707?].
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Storefronts, Show windows, Fabric shops, Carriages & coaches, Horses, Consumers, and Produce stands
"A coach without passengers or driver proceeds (right to left) with the wheels sunk in sand (resembling water). Beside it trudge the driver (left), the guard with his blunderbuss, and two men passengers. On a bank above the road, two ladies and two men run in the same direction. On the roof of the coach are band-boxes and a turtle; on the door a swan with two necks (sign of the famous coaching-inn in Lad Lane)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and right sides., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country in different parts of England & South Wales. London : Published by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row, 1796., "Plate 45" etched in upper left; "Page 109" etched in upper right., Printed on paper watermarked "1813". Window mounted to 44 x 28 cm., and Mounted opposite page 18 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Page 83. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Temple Bar du côté du couchant
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Beeverell, J. Les délices de la Grande Bretagne, & de l'Irlande. A Leide : Chez Pierre Vander Aa, MDCCVII [1707], v. 4, opposite page 834., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., Mounted on page 83 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?]., and Note in ink below image, on mounting page: Temple, Ludgate Hill, and St. Pauls, 1730.
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker
Published / Created:
[April? 1829]
Call Number:
829.04.00.19+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Apparently an imitation (better drawn) of British Museum Satires No. 15716. Wellington drives (left to right) four galloping horses, each with a human head. The leaders are Lyndhurst (piebald) and Scarlett (black), both wearing legal wigs; the wheelers Brougham, also in his wig, and Burdett. He flicks his lash over the leaders, saying, 'Kim up Motley--keep together odd Rat [Lyndhurst] ye--or I'll lay it into ye!!' The King's (pleased) face is seen through the coach window; he says: 'I say Arthur, you are the Man Wot can make'm go, if you like!!' The guard is Lady Conyngham: she stands up, blowing her horn. She wears a guard's greatcoat and satchel over her dress and holds a blunderbuss. The coach is the 'Windsor Castle'; 'Wellington & Co.'; 'G R 1829'. It has just passed and overturned a two-wheeled ass-cart, the ass falling on its head, the driver, Eldon, sprawling on the ground. In the cart, which is inscribed 'John Eldon Rubbish Carter' [see British Museum Satires No. 15700, &c], are big bundles of 'Anti-Catholic Petetions' [see British Museum Satires No. 15661, &c.]. Standing behind and below the guard's dickey is Peel as 'cad', or conductor; he thumbs his nose at Eldon, saying, 'There's a Guard for the Sovereign eh!!!' Windsor Castle is on the extreme left; on the extreme right is a signpost pointing (left) to 'Windsor' and (right) 'To London'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Needs must when well - drives
Description:
Title etched below image; the words "safety-coach" are etched above the line, inserted with a caret. and Month of publication suggested in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1829 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Scarlett, James, Sir, 1769-1844, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
"View in Cheapside, looking down the wide street with the church on the right, the old shop signs over-hanging the pavements on either side."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print of identical composition
Alternative Title:
Eglise de St. Marie le Bow dans Cheapside, London
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date of publication based on Robert Sayer's earliest year of activity. The address "near Sergeants Inn, Fleet Street" only appears on his very early prints; see British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of the city of London and public buildings therein, accurately engraved from the originals taken on the spot", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 86, no. 8., Plate numbered "10" in upper right corner., Watermark: Curteis & Son 1806., and Leaf 41 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Cheapside (London, England),, England, and London.