"A companion print to BMSat 6790. Fox in the foreground (right) leans back disconsolately in a low chair; in his right hand is an empty purse, in the left 'Pitts Speech'. Beside him in his upturned hat are a dice-box and dice. On the left Burke, strip...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Apl. 25th, 1785, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
"A companion print to BMSat 6790. Fox in the foreground (right) leans back disconsolately in a low chair; in his right hand is an empty purse, in the left 'Pitts Speech'. Beside him in his upturned hat are a dice-box and dice. On the left Burke, strip...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Apl. 25th, 1785, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
"An eloping couple drive headlong in a coach and four (right to left) pursued by an angry father on a galloping horse who shakes his whip at them. He is followed by three grooms on horseback. The man leans from the off window of the coach, the lady fr...
"An eloping couple drive headlong in a coach and four (right to left) pursued by an angry father on a galloping horse who shakes his whip at them. He is followed by three grooms on horseback. The man leans from the off window of the coach, the lady fr...
"Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, half-length, wearing a George on a ribbon, with ruff and slashed doublet; after a drawing by van Dyck in the Willett collection"--British Museum online catalogue
"A young man, his arm around the waist of a coy young woman, whispers in her ear and gestures towards the cover of a wood at left, at the edge of which they stand; in the mid-distance at right, another man rides away from the wood, leading a riderless...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 30th, 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
"[Top image] A lady (left) and a yeomanry officer (right), both three-quarter length, sit side by side. She has an open music-book on her lap, and gazes at him. He wears a high feather-trimmed cap, short tunic, and sabre, and is playing a flute. [Bott...
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
Pubd. 12th Augt. 1785 by T. Smith, No. 6 Wardour Street, Soho
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Military officers, Flutes, Hugging, and Kissing
Copy in reverse of the first state of Plate 5 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 136): Tom and a wealthy old woman are being married in the dilapidated church of St. Marylebone. The bride has only one eye and growths on her forehead; the IHS ...
Alternative Title:
[Rake's progress]. Plate 5 and Youth to reimburse his squander'd Gold, ...
Description:
Title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
"Design in an oval. half length portrait of Pitt in the House of Commons, standing at the table on which are books and two documents inscribed 'Parliamentary Reform' and 'Commutation Act'. Three shadowy seated figures watch him: Fox (left) says, "Oh t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 18, 1785, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"The interior of an artist's studio. A young man is seated in an armchair at his easel, with palette and brushes. On the canvas is a classical scene: a goddess surrounded by naked infants. His nude model (right) reclines sleepily on a sofa (right), ho...
"The interior of an artist's studio. A young man is seated in an armchair at his easel, with palette and brushes. On the canvas is a classical scene: a goddess surrounded by naked infants. His nude model (right) reclines sleepily on a sofa (right), ho...
"Copy in reverse of the first state of Plate 4 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 135): In this scene two baliffs, one with an arrest notice in his hand, have stopped Tom Rakewell's sedan chair in St. James's Street; Tom is presumably on his ...
Alternative Title:
[Rake's progress]. Plate 4 and Tho' prest with Debts, [the] Beau maintain's his state, ...
Description:
Title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Bailiffs, Dogs, Children, Lamps, Lust, Seduction, Sedan chairs, Seamstresses, Street vendors, Young adults, Ethics, Rake's progress, and Traffic congestion
Leaf 12. Poems, explaining the seven cartons painted by Raphael Urbin.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Gilpin gallops (right to left) past the 'Bell' at Edmonton. His wife and family watch from the balcony; an inn-servant from the door. Dogs bark and spectators are amused."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
'Stop, stop, John Gilpin! here's the house!' they all at once did cry ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Taverns (Inns), Servants, Family members, Balconies, Spectators, and Dogs
Leaf 13. Poems, explaining the seven cartons painted by Raphael Urbin.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Gilpin outside the callender's house in Ware. The callender stands by the horse holding a hat, while Gilpin puts on the over-large wig. He wears a dressing-gown. On the steps of his house, inside a wall and railing, is a figure of Britannia. Two donk...
Alternative Title:
Whence straight he came with hat and wig, a wig that droop'd behind ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Wigs, Dwellings, and Donkeys
Leaf 14. Poems, explaining the seven cartons painted by Raphael Urbin.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Mrs. Gilpin (left) holds out a coin to the driver (right) of her chaise who stands bowing deferentially beside his horse. Her sister and two children stand behind her. In the background is the inn and the chaise."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
And thus unto the youth she said that drove them to the Bell ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Bowing, Coins, Taverns (Inns), and Family members
Leaf 15. Poems, explaining the seven cartons painted by Raphael Urbin.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Gilpin gallops (right to left), the Youth on a horse with blinkers has passed him and is about to seize his rein. Behind gallop five other pursuers. In the background are two detached houses."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
The youth did ride, and soon they met; he tried to stop John's horse ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
