Detail of the right side of the first design for William Hogarth's A rake's progress; an older man sits at a table holding the hands of the two young people whose marriage he has just arranged. Only the forearms of the betrothed couple are shown
Shown full-length wearing a hat and boots, the innkeeper consults a large ledger, sword in his right hand. From Hogarth's Illustrations fro Don Quixote (ca. 1726).
The first sally in quest of adventure: Quixote mounted on a horse at left, arrives at an inn with the sign of a bunch of grapes. Sancho Panza, far left, holds his horse as Quixote turns back and gestures to two women standing at right. In the backgrou...
Alternative Title:
Freeing of the galley slaves
Description:
Title from Paulson, 2nd edition, no. 286: Copy of The first sally in quest of adventure. No longer attributed to Hogarth.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Horns (Communication devices), and Taverns (Inns)
Two fashionably dressed women flee a charging bull; one woman lies face down in the grass of Hyde Park as gentlemen and the bull's owner try to subdue the animal with sticks
Description:
Title and imprint supplied in a contemporary hand on mounting below image.
An illlustration for Book 3, Chapter 2 in which the old innkeeper's wife (wearing spectacles) attends to Quixote's wounds; the daugher stands to the left with medicines in her hand. The torch is being held by Maritornes. An owl sits on a rafter above ...
Description:
Title from Paulson.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Daughters, Eyeglasses, Mothers, Nursing, Owls, and Wounds & injuries
"The adventure of Mambrino's helmet; Quixote on horseback, charging at the barber with his lance, the barber already having dismounted from his donkey and making an escape to right, the basin (mistaken for Mambrino's helmet) lying on the ground; Sanch...
Alternative Title:
Adventure of Mambrino's helmet
Description:
Title from original Hogarth print. Added titles from Paulson.
The scene from Book 3, Chapter 8 in which Sancho is shown removing the fetters from Gines de Pasamonte's wrist. Quixote is on horseback, a lance braced under his arm as he confronts his opponent whose sword is posed to strike
Alternative Title:
Freeing of the galley slaves
Description:
Title from original print on which this copy is based. See Paulson.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Lancers, Rescues, Enslaved people, and Swords & daggers
Don Quixote and the knight of the rock; on a rocky mountain pass, Quixote graciously addresses the madman, Cardenio, who stands at left in ragged clothes and distrait posture; at right Sancho, standing beside the goatherd and a goat, looks on angrily
Alternative Title:
Freeing of the galley slaves
Description:
Title from Paulson.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Goats, Herders, Mentally ill persons, and Swords & daggers
"Three elderly hags are dressed as young girls, and leeringly imitate a girlish simper. One (perhaps the schoolmistress) sits on a chair under a tree (right) reading to the others, from 'Juvenel [sic] a Novel'. In her left hand is another book, 'An Od...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Boarding schools, Dogs, Girls, Jewelry, Older people, and Women
A pregnant young woman standing to the right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hand...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Courtrooms, Dogs, and Pregnant women
Page 223. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man leans from a rostrum (right), holding up his wig, addressing an audience of men and women, seated and standing, most of whom hold up their wigs, disclosing bald or cropped heads. In his left hand is a wig of luxuriant curls which he has taken f...
Alternative Title:
Debate on the baldness of the times
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 24th May 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Page 223. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man leans from a rostrum (right), holding up his wig, addressing an audience of men and women, seated and standing, most of whom hold up their wigs, disclosing bald or cropped heads. In his left hand is a wig of luxuriant curls which he has taken f...
Alternative Title:
Debate on the baldness of the times
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 24th May 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A street scene. An artisan staggers forward, dismayed at the disappearance of a woman who has fallen head first down a cellar whose flap has been left open. Her legs and petticoats issue from the small aperture. Behind is a window in which are bottle...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 5 [sic] Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Artisans, Brothels, Signs (Notices), and City & town life
"View from the street of the grand west front, the north front with portico not in view; elegantly dressed figures in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue
"A night scene with a waning moon. United Irishmen burn and plunder. On the left is the corner of a farm house with flames pouring from a casement window. A ruffian wearing a military coat, tricolour cockade and green branch in his hat, seizes the bur...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 12th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A night scene with a waning moon. United Irishmen burn and plunder. On the left is the corner of a farm house with flames pouring from a casement window. A ruffian wearing a military coat, tricolour cockade and green branch in his hat, seizes the bur...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 12th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Outside a country ale-house ruffians are practising their weapons at close range on the effigy of a British soldier which is spiked on a spear (left): helmet, coat stuffed with straw, top-boots. One man levels a spear, another fires a misshapen pisto...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 13, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Outside a country ale-house ruffians are practising their weapons at close range on the effigy of a British soldier which is spiked on a spear (left): helmet, coat stuffed with straw, top-boots. One man levels a spear, another fires a misshapen pisto...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 13, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Round a bare and decayed oak-tree is twined a serpent with the head of Fox; he has scaly arms with human hands and holds out a damaged apple inscribed 'Reform', saying, "nice Apple, Johnny! - nice Apple". John Bull (left) is a fat and squat yokel, we...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 23d, 1798, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
"Round a bare and decayed oak-tree is twined a serpent with the head of Fox; he has scaly arms with human hands and holds out a damaged apple inscribed 'Reform', saying, "nice Apple, Johnny! - nice Apple". John Bull (left) is a fat and squat yokel, we...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 23d, 1798, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
"The windlass (right) is turned by Bedford, in profile to the left, Fox, in back view but looking to the raft (left), Sheridan, in profile to the right, and Tierney, coming towards the spectator. From Bedford's pocket hangs a paper: '£1400 Fined, for ...
Alternative Title:
Republican flotilla in danger
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"The windlass (right) is turned by Bedford, in profile to the left, Fox, in back view but looking to the raft (left), Sheridan, in profile to the right, and Tierney, coming towards the spectator. From Bedford's pocket hangs a paper: '£1400 Fined, for ...
Alternative Title:
Republican flotilla in danger
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"Leaders of the Opposition (left) turn a windlass which drags towards the shore a fantastic and enormous raft laden with French troops. They push against horizontal levers which pass through the broad centre-post on which the rope is wound; on the top...
Alternative Title:
Republican crew disappointed
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, and Thelwall, John, 1764-1834
"Leaders of the Opposition (left) turn a windlass which drags towards the shore a fantastic and enormous raft laden with French troops. They push against horizontal levers which pass through the broad centre-post on which the rope is wound; on the top...
Alternative Title:
Republican crew disappointed
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, and Thelwall, John, 1764-1834
"Twelve men, realistically depicted, arranged in two rows, their words etched above their heads. Above are figures at a tavern dinner, all seated but the first and last. The chairman gives a toast: "Are you all charged Gentlemen". A guest orders: "A g...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. July 6, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sachvill [sic] St.
A politician sits center in a chair before a table with a single candlestick on top. He holds the candle itself in his hand as he closely examines a sheet of paper, oblivious to the fact that the candle is burning a hole in the brim of his hat. A cop...
"Queensberry (left) leans from the steps of his Piccadilly house, to leer through a double spy-glass (as in British Museum Satires No. 9082) at a buxom young woman who has just descended from a country wagon (right). She stands on the pavement next he...
Alternative Title:
Queenborough novelist
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Hand lenses, Farmers, Obesity, Carts & wagons, and Whips
"Queensberry (left) leans from the steps of his Piccadilly house, to leer through a double spy-glass (as in British Museum Satires No. 9082) at a buxom young woman who has just descended from a country wagon (right). She stands on the pavement next he...
Alternative Title:
Queenborough novelist
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Hand lenses, Farmers, Obesity, Carts & wagons, and Whips
Detail of the right side of the first design for William Hogarth's A rake's progress; an older man sits at a table holding the hands of the two young people whose marriage he has just arranged. Only the forearms of the betrothed couple are shown
Satire on the seditious toast given by the Duke of Norfolk at the birthday dinner in honor of Charles James Fox, January 24, 1798
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 3, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Chimney sweeps, Taverns (Inns), and Toasting
