Concert Room, Kings Theatre, Haymarket, May 179, St. Margaret's Church Wesminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792, and Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration number C,3.95., and On page numbered 16 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Three elephant folio volumes containing 705 prints and tracings: 469 prints by Hogarth; 236 additional satires after Hogarth's prints by contemporary artists George Bickham, Samuel Ireland, and Paul Sandby. Also included are rare trade cards and coats of arms; Hogarth's shop-card as well as those of his sister, Ellis Gamble, and Edward Vaughan; Harrison's Tobacco Paper; Arms of Sir Gregory Page, Kendal and other coats-of-arms; theatre tickets including tickets for the Theatre Royal. The contents include examples from Hogarth complete oeuvre including: The Harlot's progress, first and later states; The Rake's progress, first and later states, including two unfinished proofs; The four times of day, including an unfinished proof; Strolling players, first and second states; Hogarth's Tour by R. Livesay after Samuel Scott, a set of nine colored, with An Account, five leaves; Some of the Principal inhabitants of the moon, etc. Also with a printed list annotated in Hogarth's hand
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger., Bound in brown calf, rebacked., Date surmised based on Steevens earliest date on interest in Hogarth and Steevens's death date., With the armorial bookplate of William Windham; also with the bookplate of Charles William Dyson Perrins., Items removed from volume 2 stored separately in two solander boxes., and For further information consult library staff.
Three elephant folio volumes containing 705 prints and tracings: 469 prints by Hogarth; 236 additional satires after Hogarth's prints by contemporary artists George Bickham, Samuel Ireland, and Paul Sandby. Also included are rare trade cards and coats of arms; Hogarth's shop-card as well as those of his sister, Ellis Gamble, and Edward Vaughan; Harrison's Tobacco Paper; Arms of Sir Gregory Page, Kendal and other coats-of-arms; theatre tickets including tickets for the Theatre Royal. The contents include examples from Hogarth complete oeuvre including: The Harlot's progress, first and later states; The Rake's progress, first and later states, including two unfinished proofs; The four times of day, including an unfinished proof; Strolling players, first and second states; Hogarth's Tour by R. Livesay after Samuel Scott, a set of nine colored, with An Account, five leaves; Some of the Principal inhabitants of the moon, etc. Also with a printed list annotated in Hogarth's hand
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger., Bound in brown calf, rebacked., Date surmised based on Steevens earliest date on interest in Hogarth and Steevens's death date., With the armorial bookplate of William Windham; also with the bookplate of Charles William Dyson Perrins., Items removed from volume 2 stored separately in two solander boxes., and For further information consult library staff.
Three elephant folio volumes containing 705 prints and tracings: 469 prints by Hogarth; 236 additional satires after Hogarth's prints by contemporary artists George Bickham, Samuel Ireland, and Paul Sandby. Also included are rare trade cards and coats of arms; Hogarth's shop-card as well as those of his sister, Ellis Gamble, and Edward Vaughan; Harrison's Tobacco Paper; Arms of Sir Gregory Page, Kendal and other coats-of-arms; theatre tickets including tickets for the Theatre Royal. The contents include examples from Hogarth complete oeuvre including: The Harlot's progress, first and later states; The Rake's progress, first and later states, including two unfinished proofs; The four times of day, including an unfinished proof; Strolling players, first and second states; Hogarth's Tour by R. Livesay after Samuel Scott, a set of nine colored, with An Account, five leaves; Some of the Principal inhabitants of the moon, etc. Also with a printed list annotated in Hogarth's hand
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger., Bound in brown calf, rebacked., Date surmised based on Steevens earliest date on interest in Hogarth and Steevens's death date., With the armorial bookplate of William Windham; also with the bookplate of Charles William Dyson Perrins., Items removed from volume 2 stored separately in two solander boxes., and For further information consult library staff.
"Orpheus and Eurydice walking in the underworld; on the right, three dogs; on the left, a putto holding a torch and a banner; in an oval frame with palm leaves; copy after bill-head by Bartolozzi who etched after Cipriani in 1767."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, museum registration number 1897,1231.265., For earlier impression without title, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: no. 7 in Folio 75 B28 799., Sheet trimmed to design., and On page numbered 8 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Ticket to a concert at Concert Room, King's Theatre, Haymarket, May 179[blank], with the day and year annotated in manuscript. On the right, St Cecilia seated, playing the organ; on the left, two winged figures standing; in an oval; below, a block of low-relief which depicts Charity and three children; a lion and a unicorn on sides of the relief; after Robert Smirke; title for 1792 concert printed in a separate printmark at top."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from engraved text above image; image and text on separate plates., For proof before letters, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: on page numbered 16 in Folio 75 B28 804., The plate with the image was used multiple times for concerts including ones held at at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792 and one at Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797. See impressions in the British Museum online catalogue., "Arnold" annotated below image in brown ink., and Formerly mounted on page numbered 17 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Copy of a benefit ticket whose design was formerly attributed to Hogarth: a stage scene with four performers in Congreve's 'The Old Bachelor', showing the scene in Act III where Noll receives a kicking from Sharper; print after a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Joe Miller for his performance as Sir Joseph Wittol
Alternative Title:
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
Description:
Title from banner at top of image., Signed in design: W. Hogarth f., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, vol. i, p. 128., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: £8..8..0; at top of print: 7., and On page 233 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Faulder and Egerton
Subject (Name):
Congreve, William, 1670-1729. and Miller, Joe, 1684-1738.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Fund raising, Theatrical productions, and Theaters
Copy of a benefit ticket whose design was formerly attributed to Hogarth: a stage scene with four performers in Congreve's 'The Old Bachelor', showing the scene in Act III where Noll receives a kicking from Sharper; print after a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Joe Miller for his performance as Sir Joseph Wittol
Alternative Title:
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
Description:
Title from banner at top of image., Signed in design: W. Hogarth f., and Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, vol. i, p. 128.
Publisher:
Faulder and Egerton
Subject (Name):
Congreve, William, 1670-1729. and Miller, Joe, 1684-1738.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Fund raising, Theatrical productions, and Theaters
"Apollo; standing, facing front, holding a lyre in his left hand, raising his right hand; a banner above him, another beneath; in an oval; copy after bill-head by Bartolozzi who etched after Cipriani in 1780."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Year from modern handwritten note in lower right corner., For earlier impression without title, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: no. 2 in Folio 75 B28 804., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 3 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].