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
Attributed by Horace Walpole, a bookplate possibly after a Hogarth design, and perhaps commissioned after his death by his wife Jane Hogarth
Alternative Title:
Hogarth's cypher and William Hogarth bookplate
Description:
Title from text below image., Publisher, date, and added title from Paulson., Ms. note in Steevens hand below image: "A plate he used for his books." Ms. note in pencil below: "See Nichol's book, 3d edit, p. 417.", and On page 6 in volume 1. Plate mark 105 x 74 mm.
Self-portrait of William Hogarth in a fur cap, looking right; a bust in an oval canvas resting on volumes of Shakespeare's works; with his dog Trump on the right. In the lower right, an artist's palette engraved with the words: "The line of beauty and grace. WH 1745". Stack of books labeled: Shakspeare, Swift Works, Milton Paradise Lost
Description:
Title from caption below image., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 181., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand in margin at top of print: See p. 1 & Mr. Nichols's book, 3d, edit. p. 295., and On page 147 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 39.6 x 29.9 cm.
Publisher:
Published June 4, 1795 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Self-portrait of William Hogarth in a fur cap, looking right; a bust in an oval canvas resting on volumes of Shakespeare's works; with his dog Trump on the right. In the lower right, an artist's palette engraved with the words: "The line of beauty and grace. WH 1745". Stack of books labeled: Shakspeare, Swift Works, Milton Paradise Lost
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 181.
Publisher:
Published June 4, 1795 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Morrison, Bewley Wynne, active 1750-1775, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1757]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Title from item., Title continues: Sells all sorts of silks & stuffs, black velvets, norwich crapes & bombazeens, wholesale & retail. NB Buys & sells for ready money only., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and On leaf 92 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Noble, George, active 18th century-19th century, printmaker
Published / Created:
Decr. 1, 1797.
Call Number:
Folio 724 812 B68
Collection Title:
Plate [26] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England' (1805-6); William the Conqueror, standing at left with soldiers waving banners behind him, is presented the crown by Edgar Atheling, kneeling in the centre of the crowd; a prelate, probably Strigand, the Archbishop of Canterbury, stands at right with arms open; a gothic building in background at right; after Benjamin West (Staley 50)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
William the First receiving the crown of England
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [26] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Title from text in image., Place of publication from publishers' known place of activity., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and In paper frame: 317 x 254 mm.
Publisher:
Published August 21, 1790, by T. Cadell, and R. Baldwin