An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center...
Alternative Title:
New Covent Garden Hall
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Courtship, Crowds, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Intoxication, and Parties
The palatial room, lit by a candle chandelier, is filled with members standing in conversation. Burdett, in breeches and boots, is recognizable. Four throw dice at a table in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Opposition members engaged upon hazardous points
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Name):
Brooks's (Club)
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Conversation, Eating & drinking, Gambling, Men, and Private clubs
Pen and ink drawing depicting a large gaming room decorated with a single chandelier, a large mantel holding vases and candles, and framed paintings on the walls. Guests are seated around two tables playing card games while other guests stand together...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Games, Card games, Chandeliers, Mantels, and Rooms & spaces
"The King's champion challenges anyone opposing the King's authority; the King standing underneath a large drapery in a room of his palace on the left; courtiers surround him; his champion standing in the centre; three knights on horseback approach fr...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
Adriaan Schoonebeek
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William III, King of England, 1650-1702, Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694, and Westminster Hall (London, England),
A dinner party given by the rich and vulgar 'cit'. Liston, seated full-face, is beset by three children, one of whom shows him a print of Paul Pry. The hostess, laughing, points out the impassive Liston to a little boy who stands beside her. A fat nur...
Alternative Title:
Citizen's dinner party
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Dinner parties, Chandeliers, Couples, Families, and Servants
"Graham, the well-known quack, stands above and behind a crowd of listeners, all men, some in profile, some in back view, some full-face, the heads and shoulders only being visible, except in the foreground where there is a row of half length figures ...
Alternative Title:
Dr. James Graham lecturing in Edinburgh
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Graham, James, 1745-1794
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Public speaking, Audiences, Chandeliers, and Sconces
An audience of spinsters (variously caricatured) is entertained by an orchestra and chorus of cats who play instruments but mostly sit before large volumes or scores singing. The stage is decorated with curtains decorated with tassels and supported by...
Description:
Title from text on banner in image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Audiences, Cats, Chandeliers, Concerts, Musical instruments, Single women, and Theater curtains
publish'd according to act of Parliament Sepbr 30th 1747.
Call Number:
Folio Greenberg 75 H67 753
Collection Title:
Leaf 40. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Francis Goodchild shares the hymn book of his master's daughter as they sing the psalm at a service in a large church (St. Martin's-in-the-Fields) filled with pews; to the left, an elderly woman, the pew-opener, sits on a pile of hassocks. The ministe...
Alternative Title:
Industrious apprentice performing the duty of a Christian
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Church : Westminster, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Couples, Courtship, Churches, Clergy, Rake's progress, Pews, Pulpits, Religious services, Singing, and Women
publish'd according to act of Parliament Sepbr. 30th 1747.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 747
Collection Title:
Plate 45. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Francis Goodchild shares the hymn book of his master's daughter as they sing the psalm at a service in a large church (St. Martin's-in-the-Fields) filled with pews; to the left, an elderly woman, the pew-opener, sits on a pile of hassocks. The ministe...
Alternative Title:
Industrious apprentice performing the duty of a Christian
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Church : Westminster, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Couples, Courtship, Churches, Clergy, Parables, Pews, Pulpits, Rake's progress, Religious services, Singing, and Women
