"View overlooking gardens, showing a band playing from the orchestra on the right; elegantly dressed figures strolling through gardens or seated at tables amongst trees; head-piece illustration to 'The Musical Entertainer', p. 21; with the score of a ...
Alternative Title:
Vaux-Hal Garden and Vauxhall Garden
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
G. Bickham
Subject (Geographic):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Songs with piano, Songs with harpsichord, and Songs, English
"Portrait, half length, directed slightly to right, looking and facing to front, curl on right shoulder, low dress, holding music book."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Signora Lisabetta Du Parc detta La Francesina
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Oct. 10, 1737.
Call Number:
737.10.10.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the jockeying for position of the European powers in the late 1730s, and in particular on the unwillingness of Walpole's government to go to war. A race-course on the sea-shore with a variety of animals and riders representing different cou...
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1737]
Call Number:
Quarto 646 821 B358
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of St Peter's Chapel in the Tower of London; a group of guards in right foreground and a couple in the center foreground. With a description of the chapel and its history etched below the image in the lower right
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Fleetstreet, London
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula (Tower of London), Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula (Tower of London),, and Tower of London (London, England),
A representation of contrasting feelings and emotions in two separate oval frames on one plate. In the left one, a dejected-looking middle-aged gentleman in fine clothes, bag wig, and a bow under his chin, is gazing ahead with unseeing eyes. His chin ...
"Satire on George II and Robert Walpole, based on a "Visio"n described in "Commonsense, or the Englishman's Journal", 19 March 1737. The king is represented as a satyr, seen from the rear, standing on an altar kicking his left leg and breaking wind; Q...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, Hoadly, Benjamin, 1676-1761, Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754, and Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Bribery, Corruption, Medical procedures & techniques, and Theaters
Portrait, seated to front and smoking pipe, almost whole-length, his arms resting on chair-backs, bottle, glass and paper on table at right. According to the British Museum catalogue, Benjamin Bradly [sic] was a tobacconist, and an opponent of Robert ...
A group of scholars at Oxford stare with vacant expressions at a lecturer holding an open book with title "Datum Vacuum" added by Hogarth in ink. He is identified by Paulson as William Fisher. All are wearing square trencher caps. See Paulson
