Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image., Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Frontispiece to: Ode on the death of a favourite cat., and Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753.
Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image., Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Frontispiece to: Ode on the death of a favourite cat., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 83 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 26.8 x 20.9 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title from item., Publication date from Gentleman's Magazine, October 1753, p. 495., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., 'Price 6d.', Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Why, friends, it's here in print, the year, too, see ..., One line of quotation below verses: Numbs. Chap. XXXII. Let this land be given unto thy servants for the possession., Temporary local subject terms: Bills: reference to the Jews Naturalization Bill, June 1753 -- Devil -- Views: London -- Aldermen., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below., and Mounted to 35 x 28 cm., matted to 49 x 37 cm.
publisch'd [sic] according to act of Parliament, 1753.
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 24+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Vüe de la Douane de Londres et d'une partie de la Tour prise de la Thamise
Description:
Title from caption below image; French title also etched in reverse above image., Possibly a copy of a print with a similar title published in 1753 with the publication line "London, Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles and Son in Cornhill, Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, and Heny. Overton without Newgate." See British Museum online catalogue., "No. 22."--Upper right corner., and "50" written in ink in contemporary hand above plate mark on recto; "16 Serie Mo 4 [?]" written on verso.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, January 1753.
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 27+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and Later state, with added image elements. For an earlier state published in 1750 by R. Sayer, see
Abstract:
"View looking towards the hospital; a later state of the plate with the addition of the gates at the end of a wide driveway, lawned areas on either side with colonnades at the far ends; the countryside beyond the hospital now further built up with more roads and houses; the figures in the foreground the same as the earlier state"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe d'Hospital des Enfans Trouvès
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate numbered "10" in upper right corner., and Sheet numbered "58" in ink in upper right corner within plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, Map & Printseller facing Fetter Lane, Fleetstreet
Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image., Printmaker from signature on lettered state: J.S. Müller sc., Variant state, probably a proof before letters, of a plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Publication information from book in which the lettered state of this plate was published., Frontispiece to: Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Mounted on page 84 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.
Title engraved above image., "One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty". A sculptor's yard (said to be that of John Cheere at Hyde Park Corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the Farnese Hercules, the Antinous, the Laocoon and the Medici Venus; in the foreground, a sheet with three studies of an écorché leg and a man holding a book on proportion; forming a border around the main image are 49 compartments with diagrams relating to the text. The image is numbered throughout in black ink"--See British Museum online catalogue., and Bound in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty along with State 1 of Plate 2. Also with the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Art education, Artists, Figure drawings, and Sculpture
Title engraved above image., "One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty". A sculptor's yard (said to be that of John Cheere at Hyde Park Corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the Farnese Hercules, the Antinous, the Laocoon and the Medici Venus; in the foreground, a sheet with three studies of an écorché leg and a man holding a book on proportion; forming a border around the main image are 49 compartments with diagrams relating to the text. The image is numbered throughout in black ink"--See British Museum online catalogue., and On page 167 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 38.5 x 50.1 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Art education, Artists, Figure drawings, and Sculpture
Title engraved above image., "One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty". A sculptor's yard (said to be that of John Cheere at Hyde Park Corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the Farnese Hercules, the Antinous, the Laocoon and the Medici Venus; in the foreground, a sheet with three studies of an écorché leg and a man holding a book on proportion; forming a border around the main image are 49 compartments with diagrams relating to the text. The image is numbered throughout in black ink"--See British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark: 38 x 50 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Art education, Artists, Figure drawings, and Sculpture
Title engraved above image. and "One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty". A sculptor's yard (said to be that of John Cheere at Hyde Park Corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the Farnese Hercules, the Antinous, the Laocoon and the Medici Venus; in the foreground, a sheet with three studies of an écorché leg and a man holding a book on proportion; forming a border around the main image are 49 compartments with diagrams relating to the text. The image is numbered throughout in black ink"--See British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Art education, Artists, Figure drawings, and Sculpture