"A fashionably-dressed young woman reclining to left on a garden bench, looking provocative; roses and a sign-post lettered 'Spring Guns set here' behind to right, and a tree behind to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish’d as the act directs
Engraving of William Hogarth’s 1748 painting ‘O the Roast Beef of Old England’ (London, Tate Britain), which he had himself published as a print. The scene is set at the Gate of Calais (after the painting in the Tate Gallery) with a fat monk prodding ...
Alternative Title:
Gate of Calais
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign public opinion, French, Artists, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, and Religious processions
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1766]
Call Number:
766.00.00.18+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Inside a large room, a bearded man dressed in a fur-lined short coat and a fur hat, in a Dutch-style, sits at the table assessing the contents of a bottle he is holding up in his right hand. With his left hand he holds open a book. Several other volum...
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782
"Satire on the Stamp Tax of 1765 showing Britannia presenting "Pandoras Box" (the tax) to America (represented by a native American) who appeals to Minerva; the goodess advises "Take it not" pointing to Liberty prostrate on the ground and attacked by ...
Alternative Title:
Sc---h government and Scotch government
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Mercury, and Minerva
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Monkeys, National emblems, British, and Scottish
Leaf 50. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in winter outside the walls of a palace, possibly in St. James's park (based on the sentry box). On the left a leafless tree hangs over a short, fat gentleman with a tall stick who faces right and appears to be talking to Lord Chatham in top b...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act, Decr. 8, 1766, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Saint James's Park (London, England), and England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Muffs, Staffs (Sticks), Guards, Guardhouses, and Walls
