- Published / Created:
- [not before 1766]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 766.00.00.03+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Engraving of William Hogarth’s 1748 painting ‘O the Roast Beef of Old England’ (London, Tate Britain), which he had himself published as a print. The scene is set at the Gate of Calais (after the painting in the Tate Gallery) with a fat monk prodding a large sirloin of beef carried by a cook, on either side are two French soldiers, one of whom spills his bowl of thin soup as he gazes in amazement at the beef; on the left, three market women with crosses hanging from their necks admire a skate in a basket of fish; on the right, two ragged men carry a large pot of soup while another drinks from a bowl, and a Scottish soldier cowers beneath an archway; in the middle distance, to left, Hogarth himself is seen sketching at the moment when a soldier’s hand takes him by the shoulder; beyond, through the gate, is a religious procession
- Alternative Title:
- Gate of Calais
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on publisher's street address; Sayer's premises in Fleet Street were not numbered until ca. 1766. See British Museum online catalogue., Text of Theodosius Forrest’s cantata 'The Roast Beef of Old England' printed in letterpress beneath image in two columns., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 180., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Subject (Topic):
- Foreign public opinion, French, Artists, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, and Religious processions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > O' the roast beef of old England &c. [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 November 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.11.20.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Illustration to verses printed in two columns. An elderly parson, holding his pipe, his back to the fire, makes gestures of rage towards his servant (right) who hurries terrified from the room as he drops a jug. His wife (left) holds his coat to restrain him, dropping a book from her lap as she sits in a chair with a slipcover. The verses in letterpress below the image relate that after a sermon on the misfortunes of Job, the parson told his wife that his 'patience and strength of mind' were equal to Job's, though she (like other women) was incapable of such restraint. His servant enters to tell him that the contents of a cask of ale had been spilt. His wife reproaches him for his violent abuse: "Job was not half so vext ..."; he says: "Answer me this, I say- Did Job e'er lose a barrel of such ale?" On the wall behing is a picture of Job suffering by the road as described in the Bible. See British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Bad job
- Description:
- Titie from letterpress printed below the image. On this impression part of the title is printed below plate., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Text of the tale in letterpress printed in two columns below title: Twas at some country place, a parson preaching, The virtue of long sufferance was teaching ..., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., and Watermark: E & P 1796.
- Publisher:
- Published 20th November 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Job (Biblical figure)
- Subject (Topic):
- Biblical events, Chairs, Clergy, Fireplaces, Interiors, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Religious dwellings, Servants, and Spouses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Patience, or, A bad job an original tale / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, George, active 1824-1831, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1826?]
- Call Number:
- 826.00.00.83+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text engraved above image., Imprint continues: ... where his other comic songs may be had., Design in four compartments surmounted by a headpiece, on a broadside., A song, sung to the tune of "The Dashing White Serjeant" and written by T. Hudson, in letterpress below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published by Geo. Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, and T. Hudson, 98, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street ...
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy and Clerks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The parsons clerk [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.12.06.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Samuel Martin's duel with Wilkes. On the left, two Scotsmen support Lord Sandwich who is holding up a copy of Wilkes's Essay on Woman saying, "This will do for him I warrant ye". In front of them the diminutive figure of Samuel Martin fires a shot at a mouse representing Wilkes. In the centre, behind Martin, a group of four men express their horror at the Essay: Kidgell proclaiming, "I'll publish a Narrative about it", Bishop Warburton holding up a copy and condemning it as blasphemy, and Lord Lyttleton crying, "O 'tis so shocking I can't bear it." In the centre, a Scot (Bute?) wearing a bonnet with a feather draws his sword at the mouse. To the right, Britannia, naked to the waist, swoons as a rat representing Bute attacks her heart; she is attended by Newcastle, Temple, Pitt and Cumberland. Engraved inscriptions and speech-balloons, letterpress title and verses in two columns, and one vertical and one horizontal segment of type ornament."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Great ***** in an uproar and Great house in an uproar
- Description:
- Caption title in letterpress below image plate mark (17.5 x 23.5 cm)., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two columns of verse in letterpress below title, separated vertically with an ornamental border. When a certain great ***** was alarm'd at a mouse, they vow'd that they'd quickly ***** him ..., and Publisher's advertisement below verses, following imprint: ... where may be had, The British antidote to Caledonian poison, 2 vols. Price 5s.
- Publisher:
- Sold by E. Sumpter, three doors from Shoe-Lane, Fleet-Street
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Martin, Samuel, -1788., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, and Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The political mouse-trap, or, A great ***** in an uproar : addressed to the rat-killer of St. James's. A new song, to the tune of, There was an old woman at Grimstone