Satire with three-quarters length portraits of Wilkes (left), Bute (middle), and Hogarth (right) in oval cartouches; below each portrait is an acrostic of the name of the sitter above. Wilkes holds a book marked "North Briton, No. 17" which was published 25 September 1762. In front of the portrait at the base of the oval is a book marked "North Briton No. 45". Wilkes's frame is decorated with a cap, staff, and wreath of "Liberty"; on a ribbon is "Magna Carta". Bute looks out at the viewer, a book inscribed "Cyder and Perry &c. &c" at the base of the oval frame; a scourge and manacles are place on either side of the frame, alluding to the prosecution undertaken by the ministry of Lord Bute. Hogarth is shown in profile sketching Wilkes and looking across the portrait of Bute. The book at the base of the frame is "Line of Beauty". The heads of Folly and Envy decorate the frame; above is Hogarth's dog Trump
Alternative Title:
Champions of liberty
Description:
Title engraved in banner above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 295 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 23.7 x 31.5 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Artists, Dogs, National emblems, Scottish, Newspapers, and Politicians
Satire with three-quarters length portraits of Wilkes (left), Bute (middle), and Hogarth (right) in oval cartouches; below each portrait is an acrostic of the name of the sitter above. Wilkes holds a book marked "North Briton, No. 17" which was published 25 September 1762. In front of the portrait at the base of the oval is a book marked "North Briton No. 45". Wilkes's frame is decorated with a cap, staff, and wreath of "Liberty"; on a ribbon is "Magna Carta". Bute looks out at the viewer, a book inscribed "Cyder and Perry &c. &c" at the base of the oval frame; a scourge and manacles are place on either side of the frame, alluding to the prosecution undertaken by the ministry of Lord Bute. Hogarth is shown in profile sketching Wilkes and looking across the portrait of Bute. The book at the base of the frame is "Line of Beauty". The heads of Folly and Envy decorate the frame; above is Hogarth's dog Trump
Alternative Title:
Champions of liberty
Description:
Title engraved in banner above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Numbered in ms. on verso: N14290.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Artists, Dogs, National emblems, Scottish, Newspapers, and Politicians
A pen and ink tracing of a published print, in reverse. Night scene, a couple interrupted in flagrante by the night watch, she lying on the ground at left with dishevelled clothing, he held back on the right, with his breeches undone; a censorious old woman on the right; a watchman on the left holding up a lantern, illuminating the pillory behind
Description:
Title, statement of responsibility, and publication traced from print: Mr. Hogarth invt. T. Fielding sculp. Augst. 17, 1746 publish'd according to act of Parlmet. Price 6d., Questionable attribution to Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 245., and On page 180 in volume 2.
Title devised by former owner., Date supplied by curator., Formerly attributed to Hogarth., Ms. note in pencil below: Arms of Cox., and On page 6 in volume 1.
A drinking and smoking scene with men and women around a table, musicians playing instruments and maps and painted portraits hung on the wall behind. Design based on William Hogarth's third plate in the series Rake's Progress
Description:
Title etched below image. and On page 69 in volume 1. Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above: A Tobacco Paper.
Copy of a design for the letterhead use for 1726 an invitation to a dinner for former pupils of William Rayner at Blundell's School, Tiverton. The vignette shows, on the left, small boys reading and, on the right, in front of a bookcase, Minerva pointing a boy towards the school while another boy assists Mercury as he waters a tree growing a pot. The frame around the vignette is topped by a fountain referring to the motto: In patriam populumque fluxit. In a ribbon below the image is another motto: Utrique unus et ex uno stemmate surgis honos. Without the text of the invitation engraved below
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Anna Marie Ireland's signature "A.M.I. fet." burnished forom lower right?, A copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 104., Ms. note in Steevens's hand: Ticket for the School at Tiverton, Devonshire. Ms. note in pencil: Sold for £10.0.0., and On page 5 in volume 1.
A three-quarters length portrait of a man in a hat, sleeping
Description:
Title from ms. not in Steevens's hand on an impression in the Lewis Walpole Library., Note in Paulson's Hogarth's graphic works (1962): not by Hogarth., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print mark: one of Hogarth's club., and On page 235 in volume 3.
Full-length caricuatured image of the Earl of Winchelsea seen from the back taken from British Museum satires no. 3581, "The recruiting serjeant". On the blade of his rudder, here reversed towards our right, is the inscription, "I'll wast you over to Germany." Compare to satires no. 3586 "Portrait of Bubb Doddington."
Description:
Title and date from British Museum catalogue., On page 208 in volume 3., Ms. note in pencil in unidentified hand on mount below print: Lord Winchelsea., and Ms. note in pencil in same hand lower right beneath print: Hogarth.