Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: S. Collings delt. ; etch'd by T. Rowlandson., An unlettered state of a print published ca. 1786 by E. Jackson. Cf. Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 810884., Companion print to the early, oval version of: The chamber of genius., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Collectors, Collectibles, Sarcophagi, Skeletons, Mice, Balloons (Aircraft), and Hats
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on similar print published by W. Dickenson 1 April 1786., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted with Kinnaird 87K(d): Head of Diana
Lying-In Hospital for Married Women (London, England)
Published / Created:
[1786]
Call Number:
File 66 786 L984
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
An invitation to a dinner with the president, vice president, and governors of the Lying-in Charity at the Pauls Head Tavern, Cateaton Street. Includes a list of 12 stewards and announces the date of the sermon to be preached by the Right Revd. Samuel Lord Bishop of Gloucester at St. Martin's in the Fields
Alternative Title:
Sir, your company is desired to dine with the president & governors of the Lying-in Charity for married women and Increase of children a nations strength
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., First line of text: Sir, your company is desired to dine with the president & governors of the Lying-in Charity for married women at their own habitations on Tuesday the 25th of April., Motto in banner at top of design: Increase of children a nations strength., Dated "10th March 1786"., All engraved. Plate mark 164 x 200 mm., and Numbered in mss. in upper left corner '839'. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Lying-In Hospital for Married Women (London, England)
Title etched below image., Proof state before title and imprint added?: Hogarth's cottage : from the original design in the possession of Saml. Ireland / Hogarth del. ; S.I. fecit. Publish'd March 1st, 1786, by W. Dickenson, No. 158, New Bond St., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 266., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: ibid. 441., and On page 187 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: .
Plate depicting a statue of Ceres at center (labeled "Fig. 1"), with several medals depicted below (labeled "Fig. 2" and "Fig. 3"). Ceres is represented seated, holding a cup in her left hand and various fruits in her right hand; a bull, the emblem of the power of the Creator, is in her lap. This ancient bronze statue was kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate from: Knight, R.P. An account of the remains of the worship of Priapus ... at Isernia ... in two letters ... London : Printed by T. Spilsbury, 1786., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate VIII"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 151 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and crayon manner on wove paper ; sheet 22.5 x 18.5 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T. Spilsbury
Subject (Name):
Ceres (Roman deity) and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Plate depicting a statue of Ceres at center (labeled "Fig. 1"), with several medals depicted below (labeled "Fig. 2" and "Fig. 3"). Ceres is represented seated, holding a cup in her left hand and various fruits in her right hand; a bull, the emblem of the power of the Creator, is in her lap. This ancient bronze statue was kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate from: Knight, R.P. An account of the remains of the worship of Priapus ... at Isernia ... in two letters ... London : Printed by T. Spilsbury, 1786., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate VIII"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 119 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.
Publisher:
T. Spilsbury
Subject (Name):
Ceres (Roman deity) and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Plate 1: Copy of an elderly man with dishevelled hair and a dog at his heels, bending forward to seize a mug from the waiter, said to be Daniel Button, who turns his head away; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth (BM, 1861,0413.506)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From the original drawing by Hogarth in the collection of Sam. Ireland, Satire on the frequenters of Button's coffee house, Russell Street, Covent Garden, London. No. 2, and Doctor and patient
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., "A later state of the print was used as an illustration facing p. 25 of Samuel Ireland, Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth, I, 1794, where Ireland identifies the waiter as Daniel Button"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1875,0213.361.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1st, 1786, by W. Dickenson, No. 158, New Bond St.
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1786]
Call Number:
Bunbury 786.03.03.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group in a garden room listening to a girl read, seated in the centre with the book in her lap, two woman sitting on either side of her, one patting a dog at right, the other with solemn expression, which has been noticed by a man standing against the wall at right, gesturing towards her, another standing directly behind her looks on with concern, a child sitting on the floor beside a large sleeping dog, his eyes raised up; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of lettered state
Description:
Title, printmaker, artist, and publication information from lettered state., Proof before letters. For a later state published 3 March 1786, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1940,1109.105., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
James Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Children, Clothing & dress, Courtship, Dogs, and Reading
"A landscape, after a painting by Hogarth; a stream running through trees on the left and forming a pool on the right, with rocky banks which rise on the right, a town in the distance and two figures in the foreground, a woman who gestures at the water while looking back at a man sitting on the rocks"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and imprint from: Dobson, A. William Hogarth. London : William Heinemann, 1907, p. 269., Dedication etched below image: "To the Right Honble. Earl of Exeter. An admirer of Hogarth & encourager of the arts this etching is inscribed by his Lordship's most obliged & obedient servt. S. Ireland.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Nichols's book, 3d, edit, p. 415., and Laid in between pages 218 and 219 in volume 3. Sheet with thread margins: 23.1 x 32.2 cm.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1786 by W. Dickenson, No. 158 New Bond St.
"A landscape, after a painting by Hogarth; a stream running through trees on the left and forming a pool on the right, with rocky banks which rise on the right, a town in the distance and two figures in the foreground, a woman who gestures at the water while looking back at a man sitting on the rocks"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and imprint from: Dobson, A. William Hogarth. London : William Heinemann, 1907, p. 269., Dedication etched below image: "To the Right Honble. Earl of Exeter. An admirer of Hogarth & encourager of the arts this etching is inscribed by his Lordship's most obliged & obedient servt. S. Ireland.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1786 by W. Dickenson, No. 158 New Bond St.
