IIn an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Poverty, a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and her kittens are curled up on the man's coat. Under the sleeve of the coat on the floor is an issue of "Grubstreet Journall." She looks to the door on the left where she is confronted by a milkmaid who holds a lengthy tally; the daisies in her bonnet suggest Michaelmas day when bills are due; she also is shown with a yoke across her back. Just inside the doorway a dog snatches the single pork chop from a plate on a chair; the cupboard above the door stands open to show empty shelves. Behind the poet's head is a satirical print showing Alexander Pope thrashing the book-seller Edmund Curll who had published pirated editions of his letters."
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Title and state from Paulson., "Price 3 shillings"--Following imprint., Verse etched below image: Studious he sate, with all his books around, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound! Plung'd for his sense, but found no bottom there; Then writ, and flounder'd on, in more despair. Dunciad Book I, line III., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A scene in Donna Theresa's bedchamber: Fantasio transformed by witchcraft into a lap-dog is being petted in the arms of Donna Theresa, who sits on her canpoied bed. The Provincial stands to her right as he addresses her
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Title and imprint from Paulson., Paulson notes that Hogarth omits "invt." from his signature suggesting perhaps that this print too is a copy., "V: II : P: 1"--Lower left, below image., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 14.3 x 7.8 cm., and Date given in Steevens's hand: 1724. With other notes by Steevens that apply to the group of seven other illustrations mounted on same sheet.
Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "Gentn: Harry" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dogs feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians
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Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., State, publisher, and series title from Paulson., Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dissection -- Anatomical Theatres -- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -- Company of Surgeons -- Surgeon's Hall -- Freke, John (1688-1756).
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Criminals, Dogs, Dissections, Medical education, Rake's progress, Physicians, and Skeletons
Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "Gentn: Harry" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dogs feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians
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Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., State, publisher, and series title from Paulson., Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dissection -- Anatomical Theatres -- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -- Company of Surgeons -- Surgeon's Hall -- Freke, John (1688-1756)., 1 print : woodcut ; sheet 458 x 383 mm., and Printed on wove paper. Perhaps an impression published by Boydell after Mrs. Hogarth's death in 1789; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,2.171.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Criminals, Dogs, Dissections, Medical education, Rake's progress, Physicians, and Skeletons