Plate 70. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Subscription ticket for "Sigismonda" with a figure of Time as an old winged man sitting on a broken statue, blowing pipe-smoke at a dark landscape painting on the easel in front of him and which he has pierced with his scythe; at the top of the frame of the painting is a Greek quote, preceded by the word "Crates' and ending with its identification: "See Spectator Vol. II: Page 83." On the floor to the left is a large jar labeled "Varnish".
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Lettered within image in this state, the name "Crates" added to the top left of the picture frame. Lower right of image inscribed with quote: "-As statues moulder into Worth. P.W." Below a couplet, "To Nature and your Self appeal, Nor learn of others, what to feel. Anon:"., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of subscription receipt., and Sheet trimmed to: 228 x 178 mm.
Plate 70. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Subscription ticket for "Sigismonda" with a figure of Time as an old winged man sitting on a broken statue, blowing pipe-smoke at a dark landscape painting on the easel in front of him and which he has pierced with his scythe; at the top of the frame of the painting is a Greek quote, preceded by the word "Crates' and ending with its identification: "See Spectator Vol. II: Page 83." On the floor to the left is a large jar labeled "Varnish".
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Lettered within image in this state, the name "Crates" added to the top left of the picture frame. Lower right of image inscribed with quote: "-As statues moulder into Worth. P.W." Below a couplet, "To Nature and your Self appeal, Nor learn of others, what to feel. Anon:"., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of subscription receipt., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 24.3 x 18.8 cm., Sheet trimmmed within plate mark on bottom edge; mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 70 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
"The banished Alcibiades standing in armour on the left at the edge of a cave, having come to ask Timon's help to take revenge on Athens, watching as Timon, holding a spade in one hand, angrily throws the gold, which he found buried, at Phrynia and Tymandra who hold out a cloth to catch it; after Westall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, and imprint from British Museum online catalogue. and Sheet trimmed at top and bottom edges.
Publisher:
J. & J. Boydell
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Title devised by curator., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 81 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 9.4 x 14.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title page for the publication "24 caricatures by several ladies gentlemen artists &c".
Alternative Title:
24 caricatures by several ladies gentlemen artists &c. and Twenty four caricatures by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.
Description:
Title from text within image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Title page from: Darly's comic-prints, v. 1 (1771)., Partial watermark., and Front cover and front flyleaf of volume in same folder.
