On the left a thin man stands stiffly in profile to the right his head thrown back, chapeau-bras, and holding a muff. A very stout man on the rights stands full-face, his hands behind his back, looking up quizzically
Description:
Title from manuscript note., Variant state with title provide only in manuscript in a contemporary hand; no engraved title., Plate for: Rules for drawing caricaturas / by F. Grose. London : Printed by A. Grant, 1788., and Variant state. Cf. No. 7467 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
"Poetry sitting on a cloud, looking up, quill pen in her right hand towards her cheek, papers in her left on the lap, Cupid sitting on the right, facing front, music instruments, ornaments and foliages below; state before publication line."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within design., and On page numbered 38 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
A full-length image of a stout man in profile, walkinig left, with a long wig and coat decorated with fleur-de-lis, pointing with right hand, holding his hat in the other, saying 'Im against Hanover that's flat'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, and date from British Museum catalogue., Copy in reverse from a figure in "The recruiting serjeant.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 208 in volume 3., Ms. note in pencil in unidentified hand on mount below print: Ld. Melcomb., and Ms. note in pencil in same hand lower right beneath print: Hogarth.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762
Title from ms. note in ink below image: "Bulstrode Whitlock by Winceslaus Hollar.", Mounted to 320 x 261 mm; French mount with gilt, black ink, and gray wash borders., and With a note in Thomas Kirgate's hand: "A portrait of Bulstrode Whitlock Esqr. by Winceslaus Hollar. Born at Prague in Bohemia about 1600. An unfinished proof print wash'd & hightned by [...]"
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 1676 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A double portrait depicting the daughters of John Crewe, Esq., M.P. for Cheshire. The identity of each sitter is uncertain, but it has been suggested that Elizabeth is on the right and Emma is on the left
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., State from British mezzotinto portraits., After Joshua Reynolds's painting, ca. 1766., and Numbered in manuscript upper left: 75. Printed on gilt-edged paper.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 30th, 1782, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Title devised by curator., With: [Ticket for Fielding's The mock doctor] / W. Hogarth ft. ; A.M.I. fecit., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: £5-5-0. Note above image: 2., and On page 233 in volume 3.
Full-length caricuatured image of the Earl of Winchelsea seen from the back taken from British Museum satires no. 3581, "The recruiting serjeant". On the blade of his rudder, here reversed towards our right, is the inscription, "I'll wast you over to Germany." Compare to satires no. 3586 "Portrait of Bubb Doddington."
Description:
Title and date from British Museum catalogue., On page 208 in volume 3., Ms. note in pencil in unidentified hand on mount below print: Lord Winchelsea., and Ms. note in pencil in same hand lower right beneath print: Hogarth.
"An exterior scene set among ruins; to left the naked buttocks of Gulliver to whom an enema is being administered by a crowd of Lilliputians; to right their prime minister, carried in a thimble, supervises operations while beyond a rat carries off a child."--British Museum online catalogue
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Alternative form of title
Description:
Title, state, and publisher from Paulson., Caption below image: The punishment inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver by applying a Lilypucian fire engine to his posteriors for his urinal profanation of the Royal Palace at Mildendo which was intended as a frontispiece to his first volume but omitted., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 331., and On page 163 in volume 2.
"Portrait of Richard Tompson, half-length in an oval, long hair, wearing neckcloth and robe."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Richard Tompson
Description:
Title from later state., First state of the plate, before sitter's name added below image. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,6.175., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 152 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., and Sitter's name and occupation written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: Thompson, printseller.