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1. William Hogarth Esqr [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1749?]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 749.00.00.25 Box 105
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A portrait of Hogarth in profile, looking left, with a pencil in his right hand poised above an open book in his left hand. He wears a cocked hat on his head. Adapted from his self-portrait in "The Gate of Calais."
- Description:
- Title from engraved text above image., Date based on similar print published by R. Sayer. See no. 3066 in the Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Verses engraved below image begin: "In solemn scenes great Kneller's pencil wrought, and kings and heroes fill'd his lab'ring thought. Hogarth more humble, yet as justly draws the lines of nature, and pursues her laws ..."
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Portrait prints
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > William Hogarth Esqr [graphic].
2. To His Most Sacred Majesty King George the IId. this perspective view of the magnificent Gothick Hall at Hampton Court, ... from a design of Mr. Kent, ... is with all humility dedicated by His Majesty's most faithful and devoted subject and servant, John Vardy [graphic]
- Creator:
- Vardy, John, 1718-1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliamt., 1749.
- Call Number:
- Topos M627 no. 22++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Interior; a great hall with figures in Elizabethan dress, the women in balconies around the side, men standing below, a procession approaching from the right towards Henry VIII who sits enthroned at the far end, below a coffered ceiling with pendants"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from dedication etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Middlesex.
- Subject (Name):
- Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
- Subject (Topic):
- Castles & palaces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > To His Most Sacred Majesty King George the IId. this perspective view of the magnificent Gothick Hall at Hampton Court, ... from a design of Mr. Kent, ... is with all humility dedicated by His Majesty's most faithful and devoted subject and servant, John Vardy [graphic]
3. The scene of the tragedy of Coriolanus [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1749]
- Call Number:
- 749.02.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Plate from: The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure ... London : Printed by and for M. Brown, v. 4 (1749), p. 82., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616.
- Publisher:
- Design'd & engrav'd for the Universal Magazine 1749 for J. Hinton, at the King's Arms in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The scene of the tragedy of Coriolanus [graphic]
4. The contrast 1749 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1749]
- Call Number:
- 749.04.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publisher identified from address., Caption below image: No money, with fireworks. Money, with commerce., Temporary local subject terms: Wars: War of the Austrian Succession -- Treaties: Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748 -- London: St. James's Park -- Fairs: British Jubilee, 1749 -- Fireworks: exhibition of fireworks -- Ships -- Money -- Lighting: Sun -- Swords -- Walking staves -- Male dress: Dutch, 1749 -- Personifications: empty-pocketed England -- Personifications: full-pocketed Holland., and Watermark: countermark IV.
- Publisher:
- Accordg. to act in May's Buildings [that is, Bickham, George]
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The contrast 1749 [graphic].
5. The conduct of the two b*****rs [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1749]
- Call Number:
- 749.01.18.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Conduct of the two brothers
- Description:
- Title from item., The 'u' in 'conduct' etched backwards., Publisher tentatively attributed to Bickham in an unverified card catalog record., Publication place and date inferred from British Museum catalogue., Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: O England, how revolving is thy state! How few thy blessings! How severe thy fate ..., Temporary local subject terms: Britannia (Symbolic character) as St. Erasmus -- Martyrdom of St. Erasmus -- Dissections -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover -- Baron Ilton., and Watermark: countermark IV.
- Publisher:
- G. Bickham?
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The conduct of the two b*****rs [graphic].
6. The arrest at the Compter a song. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1749?]
- Call Number:
- 749.00.00.27+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man with his hands clasped in supplication, is seized on one side by a burly turnkey and on the other by a man wearing in a Kevenhuller hat and armed with a cudgel. A third man tries to hit the prisoner on the head with a long cudgel. A fourth man, standing near the turnkey, threatens a boy and a woman who both kneel facing the prisoner whie a little girl in front of the woman stretches her arms towards her. On the far left, a well dressed man points to the scene with his left hand, his right hand resting on his hip. To his right is an entrance to a building with a lamp in the shape of an acorn hanging above the door. On the opposite side is another building with old-fashioned casement windows with diamond panes, or possibly bars, on upper floors and modern square paned windows on the ground floor. Over the door, in lieu of a lantern, hangs a bunch of grapes. The two buildings are connected in the background by a wall with a gate with heavy grill through which two men are peeking into the courtyard. On the wall above the grill are the Royal Arms, flanked by the arms of London and Westminster
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image: Welcome, welcome, brother debtor, As an old and hearty song ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Prisons: The Compter -- Turnkeys -- Hats: Kevenhuller -- Weapons: cudgel -- Arms: royal arms -- Arms: City of London -- Arms: City of Westminster -- Emblems: grapes hanging over the dooor -- Lighting: outdoor hanging lantern., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The arrest at the Compter a song. [graphic]
7. Taste a-la-mode as in the year 1735 being the contrast to the year 1745 / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Davis, Evan, -1773, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 January 1749]
- Call Number:
- 749.01.03.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., 'Price 6d.', Temporary local subject terms: London: St. James's Park and mall -- Crowds: pedestrians -- Domestic service: footmen -- Hats: laced cocked hat -- Laced waistcoat -- Male dress: black cravat -- Sticks: footmen's stick with carved knob -- Architectural details: cupola with clock and vane -- Courtesans -- Shawl tied at waist -- Female dress: fingerless gloves -- Walking staves -- Buildings: Buckingham House -- Snuff boxes -- Tail wigs -- Wigs: bag wigs -- Entertainment: parks., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Jany. [the] 3, 1749, by Robt. Sayer, map & printseller facing Fetter lane, Fleet Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Taste a-la-mode as in the year 1735 being the contrast to the year 1745 / [graphic]
8. O the roast beef of old England [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 6th, 1749.
- Call Number:
- Folio Greenberg 75 H67 753
- Collection Title:
- Plate 33. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 33. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- At the Gate of Calais, a fat monk is shown poking a very large side of beef carried by a thin cook; the label indicates that the beef is intended "For Madm Grandsire at Calais." On either side are two French soldiers, one of whom spills his bowl of thin soup as he gazes in amazement at the beef. In the foreground on the left, three market women with crosses hanging from their necks admire a skate in a basket of fish; on the right, two ragged men carry a large pot of soup while another drinks from a bowl, and a Scottish soldier cowers beneath an archway; in the middle distance, to left, Hogarth himself is seen sketching at the moment when a soldier's hand takes him by the shoulder; beyond, through the gate, is a religious procession
- Alternative Title:
- Gate of Calais, or, The roast beef of old England and Roast beef of old England
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., After Hogarth's painting Gate of Calais, now at the Tate Gallery, London., Title from Paulson: The gate of Calais, or, The roast beef of old England., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.3 x 45.7 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 33 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, and Religious processions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > O the roast beef of old England [graphic]
9. O the roast beef of old England [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 6th, 1749.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Plate 33. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 33. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- At the Gate of Calais, a fat monk is shown poking a very large side of beef carried by a thin cook; the label indicates that the beef is intended "For Madm Grandsire at Calais." On either side are two French soldiers, one of whom spills his bowl of thin soup as he gazes in amazement at the beef. In the foreground on the left, three market women with crosses hanging from their necks admire a skate in a basket of fish; on the right, two ragged men carry a large pot of soup while another drinks from a bowl, and a Scottish soldier cowers beneath an archway; in the middle distance, to left, Hogarth himself is seen sketching at the moment when a soldier's hand takes him by the shoulder; beyond, through the gate, is a religious procession
- Alternative Title:
- Gate of Calais, or, The roast beef of old England and Roast beef of old England
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., After Hogarth's painting Gate of Calais, now at the Tate Gallery, London., Title from Paulson: The gate of Calais, or, The roast beef of old England., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.2 x 45.7 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 33 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, and Religious processions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > O the roast beef of old England [graphic]
