"Boswell and his wife in the kitchen prepare a dinner for Johnson, who is seen in back view through an open street-door on the extreme left. They face each other smiling across a small, ramshackle table; Boswell is cutting off the neck of a grouse (which resembles a duck or goose). He wears the Scots cap and the pen behind the ear of BMSat 7031, &c., with an apron. From his pocket project 'Ogden' (see BMSat 7031) and the 'Journal'. Mrs. Boswell holds a rolling-pin. Behind (right) is a slatternly maidservant in back view looking to the left with a smile. On the ground are two piles of large birds intended for grouse, and an enormous lobster. Behind is a primitive kitchen fireplace; two large pots are suspended over the fire. The spit rests horizontally above the fireplace."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Three lines of verse below title: "We gave him as good a dinner as we could. Our Scotch muir-fowl, or growse, were then abundant ..." Vide Journal p. 123., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Scots cap -- Grouse -- Ogden -- Lobster -- Fireplace with hanging pots -- Servants., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 24.3 x 27.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; part of imprint statement erased from sheet., and Mounted on leaf 58 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 15 May 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14, Mary-bone Street. Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, -1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"A canvassing scene in a poor and disreputable district of Westminster, indicated by 'Peter Street' on the corner of the house. The Duchess of Devonshire canvasses a cobbler; she sits supported on Fox's knee, putting one foot on a cobbler's stall that he may do some imaginary repairs, for which she lavishly pays the man's wife, who leans forward, both hands held together to receive coins. The cobbler and his wife are behind a stall protected by a pent-house roof. On this is a notice, 'Shoes made and mended by Bob. Stichitt Cobler to her Grace the Tramping Dutchess NB Dogs Wormd Cats Gelded'. From an open casement window above it a man leans out waving a fox's brush; he holds a tankard and a long clay pipe in his left hand. Beside him a woman holds her head to vomit from the window, her elbows supported on the sill. A dog lies under the cobbler's stall. Fox, his right knee on his hat on the ground, the other supporting the duchess, turns round to give his right hand to a ragged man to whose mouth Sam House holds a tankard, his other hand pressed on the elector's head, who is shown by his long shovel to be a scavenger. Behind, a chimneysweeper with his brushes and his boy with brush and shovel are amused spectators. These figures fill the space to the left of Fox and the duchess. Behind are the irregular gabled roofs and casement windows of old Westminster."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cobling voters and abject canvassers
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate reissued for The history of the Westminster election. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: London: Peter Street -- Old Westminster -- Gabled roofs -- Casement windows -- Coblers' stalls -- Dishes: Tankards -- Clay pipes -- Shovels., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.4 x 35.2 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 66 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
"Prince William Henry seated in a hammock tenderly embraces a pretty African or mulatto girl; they gaze into each other's eyes. He is in profile to the right, and wears naval uniform with striped trousers, a star on his coat. The hammock is slung above a chest inscribed 'Pe Wm Hy.'; a coil of rope, a cask of 'Jamaica Rum', and a cannon indicate the Prince's ship."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Six lines of text below image, three on either side of title: Far be the noise of kings & crowns from us, whose gentle souls our kinder fates have steerd. another way. Free as the forest birds we'll pair together without remembering who our fathers were, and in soft murmurs interchange our souls., and Mounted on leaf 46 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 23d, 1788, by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
Postcard depicting cat posed as judge, bewigged. Behind the cat is a doll, missing its wig
Alternative Title:
Postcard depicting cat posed as judge, bewigged and Legally themed postcard depicting cat posed as judge
Description:
"STATICS. Your Honour. Statics London, Printed in England. PC 254"--Printed text on back of postcard., Statics (London) Limited was founded 1983., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1213241, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2020. LM Z Postcards v.1 no.5 tall., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Digitization in progress. Online content available soon.
In a shabby room in Drury Lane; Moll Hackabout is shown having risen late (the watch shows 11:45), attended by a serving-woman who has lost part of her nose to syphilis; in the background, the magistrate, John Gonson, enters quietly with officers to arrest her; pinned to the window frame are prints of Captain Mackheath (the hero of "The Beggar's Opera") and Dr Sacheverell (the High Anglican clergyman impeached in 1710), the wig-box of James Dalton, highwayman, sits above the bed, and one of several beer tankards on the floor carries the name of a Drury Lane tavern. A kitten plays at Moll's feet. A copy of Bishop Gibson's "Pastoral Letter to ..." serves as a butter dish. Above the window on the left is a print after a Titian painting depicting the angel staying the hand of Abraham as he is about to slay Isaac. Medicine bottles on the window sill suggest that Molly is already ill with the disease that will later kill her
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson., State before black Latin cross added. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate 3"--Lower left corner., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 32 x 38.8 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 4 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Churchill (right) in the form of a huge bear, wearing clerical neck-bands, as in Hogarth's "The Bruiser", turns a snarling fiercely at a small dog (Hogarth) like his Trump. The bear has one raised paw and the other rests on a piece of paper entitled "Epistle to Wm. Hogarth", beside a pen and ink well. The dog barks back at the bear, his front paws rest on an artist's palette with the words "Line of beauty" written across it. Etching in the left background, are the words "Pannel Painting."
Alternative Title:
Poet and the painter
Description:
Title and date from British Museum catalogue., Additional title from local card catalog., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 291 in volume 3.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764 and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Following the seduction, the young man pulls up his breeches while the young woman clings to his arm with an adoring, pleading look on her face. On the wall are two pictures one entitled "Before" and the other "After"; in the first Cupid is lighting a firework, in the second he is pointing to a spent firework. The dresser is turned over, the mirror and chamber pot broken; the curtain rod around the bed has been pulled down. The dog is curled asleep under the chair on which her corset sits. The woman's head is framed by the shell on the head
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., "Pursuant to an act of parliament. Price two shillings & 6 pence.", Companion print to Hogarth's Before, published on the same date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The man is said to have been modeled on Sir John Willes. See Paulson., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 41 x 32.8 cm, on sheet 56 x 45 cm., and Leaf 27 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761
Subject (Topic):
Boudoirs, Canopy beds, Chamber pots, Couples, Cupids, Dogs, Fireworks, Seduction, Sex, and Women
Plate 26. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In her bedroom, a young woman seems to resist the advances of an eager-looking young man sitting on her canopied bed. He pulls her towards him as she pulls away. On the wall to the left is a picture which shows Cupid lighting a firework; it is titled "Before." As she pulls away she upsets the dresser with a mirror; her powders and cosmetics have tumbled to the floor. In the drawer can be seen letters, a novel, and "The Practice of Piety", but on top is a copy of Rochester's Poems. The lady's dog jumps toward the couple. Her willingness to be seduced is suggested by the fact that she is not wearing her corset which can be seen on a chair to the right; her bonnet hangs on the curtains around her bed
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Companion print to Hogarth's After, published on the same date., The man is said to have been modeled on Sir John Willes. See Paulson., "Price two shillings & 6 pence"--Below design, on the right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 42.5 x 32.6 cm, on sheet 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 26 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761
Subject (Topic):
Boudoirs, Canopy beds, Chamber pots, Couples, Cupids, Dogs, Fireworks, Seduction, Sex, and Women
In her bedroom, a young woman seems to resist the advances of an eager-looking young man sitting on her canopied bed. He pulls her towards him as she pulls away. On the wall to the left is a picture which shows Cupid lighting a firework; it is titled "Before." As she pulls away she upsets the dresser with a mirror; her powders and cosmetics have tumbled to the floor. In the drawer can be seen letters, a novel, and "The Practice of Piety", but on top is a copy of Rochester's Poems. The lady's dog jumps toward the couple. Her willingness to be seduced is suggested by the fact that she is not wearing her corset which can be seen on a chair to the right; her bonnet hangs on the curtains around her bed
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to Hogarth's After, published on the same date., "Price two Shillings & 6 pence"--Below design, on the right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 42.4 x 32.7 cm, on sheet 56 x 45 cm., and Leaf 26 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761
Subject (Topic):
Boudoirs, Canopy beds, Chamber pots, Couples, Cupids, Dogs, Fireworks, Seduction, Sex, and Women
Title from published version., Date of publication based on questionable date assigned to published version. See British Museum catalogue., Copy in reverse of a print made by James Gillray and published by William Humphrey. Cf. No. 5608 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Manuscript note in ink in a contemporary hand identifies the figure on the left side of design as Sir Robert Hamilton; additional manuscript note at bottom of plate: The only impression from the plate. I destroy'd the plate., and Mounted on leaf 8 of volume 1 of 12.
