Copy of a print by J. Sympson, Junr., after W. Hogarth's design. A benefit ticket illustrated with a stage scene from John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera': a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; print after a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth'. and "Benefit ticket: a stage scene with five performers in Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'; a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; print after a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath; illustration to Samuel Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from ribbon at top of image; below "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / Pitt"., Signed within image: W. Hogarth invt. / J. Sympson Junr. sculp., After one of the suppositious 'Sympson' prints; see Paulson 1965/60 Appendix I, pages 313-4 for more information., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, page 58., and Polly portrayed by Lavinia Fenton.
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
Title etched within image., Page from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. i, p. 13., and Copy after Hogarth's design. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 18a.
Theatre ticket: stage scene with Gregory, the mock doctor, preparing to treat Charlotte, while her father points to his mouth to show that she is dumb; print after a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a performance of Fielding's The Mock Doctor, on April 20th 1792; above on the same sheet from different plate, a sketch portrait of Henry Fielding; bust, in profile to the left, wearing long wig, hand raised towards mouth
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed in image: W. Hogarth ft., and Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 104.
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Name):
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754, and Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Theatre ticket: stage scene with Gregory, the mock doctor, preparing to treat Charlotte, while her father points to his mouth to show that she is dumb; print after a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a performance of Fielding's The Mock Doctor, on April 20th 1792; above on the same sheet from different plate, a sketch portrait of Henry Fielding; bust, in profile to the left, wearing long wig, hand raised towards mouth
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed in image: W. Hogarth ft., and Cf. Earlier state with printmaker's initials only: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 104.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 and Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
A shop card with an image of a ship being loaded with goods in Florence. Mercury turns to a woman (emblem of Florence) with a sampling of the goods of the region at her feet. On the right, workers carry loads of goods onto a ship as the merchant looks on. In the distance a view of Rome. The four corners of the frame are images of Naples, Venice, Genoa, and Leghorne
Alternative Title:
Shop card for Mrs. Holt's, Italian Warehouse
Description:
Title from text below image. and Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, v. 1, page 17.
A design for a shop card with an image of a ship being loaded with goods in Florence. Mercury turns to a woman (emblem of Florence) with a sampling of the goods of the region at her feet. On the right, workers carry loads of goods onto a ship as the merchant looks on. In the distance a view of Rome. The four corners of the frame are images of Naples, Venice, Genoa, and Leghorne
Alternative Title:
Shop card for Mrs. Holt's, Italian Warehouse
Description:
Title from text below image. and Reissue of a plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, opposite page 17.
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. and A copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 105.
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., Cf. Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. i, p. 18., and A copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 104.
Title from later impression with title and Hogarth's name added., After the design engraved on the tankard belonging to the Clare Market Artists Club which included William Hogarth., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 77., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), no. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Title added in pencil below: Silver tankard.
Title engraved below image., An impression of the design engraved on the tankard belonging to the Clare Market artists club which included William Hogarth., Later state of plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 77., After Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 6., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
