Title from item., A slip-song, earlier known as "Chloe monita" and also known as "Old Darby and Joan" and "Damon's advice to Chloe" - "Dear Chloe while thus beyond measure"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '24'., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional four stanzas below., Opening words: Dear Chloe, while thus beyond measure ..., Plate from: G. Bickham's, The Musical entertainer, v.1., and Plate number erased from this impression.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in partial loss of plate numbering., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate., For voice and keyboard instrument., Plate numbered '1[8]' in upper right corner., Opening words: What Cato advises, most certainly wise is ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: countermark E., and Plate number partially cut off.
A design within a decorative cartouche, suggestive of a proscenium arch: A well dressed young man stands in the center of a room in the prison in which are five other figures. On the left, a ragged unshaven man in a striped garment is sitting on a bale, a small woman stands beside him. Behind them is a table with a mug on it. On the floor near the man's foot lies a paper inscribed "Sceen [sic] 4. Nation's debts". On the young man's left, another prisoner is sitting on a bench. In front of him is another bench with a carafe of gin and a glass on it. He is the singer of the song. Behind him stands a little boy with a flagon of beer in his left hand. The turnkey in the background holds an open book and is pointing to a page marked "Garnish(?)".
Description:
Title from item., Probably based on Hogarth's Rake's progress, plate 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music for voice on two staves with interlinear words. Additional six stanzas below., Plate numbered '26' in upper right corner., Opening words: Welcome, welcome brother debtor ..., Plate from: Bickham, G. The musical entertainer, v.2., and Plate number erased from this impression.
Title etched within item., One of a series of etchings representing the months of the year; this one for the month of April. Only the image representing January has the series title: Lilliputian figures., Six lines of verse below title: Tis not in April showers alone, wrapt in his cloak, you'll see the Don ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Lilliputians., Month designation in series erased from this impression?, and Suggested restrike date in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
publish'd according to the act of Parliam[...] [not before 1738]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Portrait of Elizabeth Adams, three-quarter length, seated to left, holding a notebook titled "Repenting sins", shown with both hands on her lap, wearing bonnet and plain dress. Adams was a criminal who was hanged for robbery in 1738. Resemblance to a figure in William Hogarth's Harlot's Progress, plate 6; and tentatively attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of the end of the publication statement., and On page 63 in volume 1. Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath print: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit. p. 194.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament Feby. 26th 1740.
Call Number:
740.02.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
European race for a distance anno dom. 1740
Description:
Title from item., Two lines of quotation from Bible below title: Therefore behold! I will proceed to do marvelous works ... Isaiah 29, verse 14., and Watermark.
Copy of the third print in the Hogarth's series "Four Times of the Day. A dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River; the wife holds a fan with a design of Aphrodite and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds; behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman; to the right is a tavern with the sign of Sir Hugh Middleton's Head, two women and a man are in the tavern garden, other figures are visible through the window two of whom are smoking pipes; and a grape vine is climbing up towards the roof
Alternative Title:
Soireé and Soreé
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date from Paulson: "Publish'd 23d June 1740.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Matted to 379 x 279 mm.
Title etched below image., "Page 255."--Etched above image, upper right., Print prepared for A Supplement to Hogarth Illustrated by J. Ireland., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., A copy of Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), no. 266., and On page 43 in volume 1. Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Copy.
A medley print advertising the business of map and printseller George Pulley with portrait prints, caricatures, and satires overlaid on images of maps, some prints with identifiable titles (e.g. The contrast). According to the British Museum online catalogue (September 2019) trade cards of the same design were used by Michael Jackson and Peter and Elizabeth Griffin
Alternative Title:
George Pulley Esqr., map and printseller at Rembrandt's Head ...
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Portrait of George Graham, seated at a table, his hat on his lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1958,1006.2729., and Text below title: Done from the original picture in the possession of the Right Honble. George Earl of Macclesfield, &c.
"Portrait, half-length to left, looking to front; wearing ecclesiastical robes, bands and hat; in an oval frame decorated with Acanthus leaves on top, placed above a pedestal, with crest in front; two books and scroll with ground plan of a building on right; curtain above on left, and bishop's hat above frame on right"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Publisher and date from British Museum online catalogue., and Text below image: "In the Collection of the Honble. Lieutenant General Dormer at Rowsham."
Title etched above image., "Plate 323."--Upper right above image., This print is based on a drawing that was formerly attributed to Hogarth, hence its inclusion in Ireland's 'Hogarth Illustrated'. For the drawing by Goupy see Britism Museum catalogue number 1858,0417.618., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath image: Spurious. The head of Heidegger was impitched from Hist. in vol. 1, p. 43; in ink in Steevens's hand beneath print: Heidegger in a rage. See Mr. John Ireland's Hogarth illustrateed, p. 323., and On page 231 in volume 3.
"Satire on Robert Walpole showing him as a colossal figure at the entrance to St James's Palce bending forward with his naked backside exposed for an ambitious young man to kiss; another man holds a petition and bowls a hoop lettered, "Wealth", "Pride", "Vanity", "Folly", "Luxury", "Want", "Dependance", "Servility", "Venality", "Corruption" and "Prostitution", through Walpole's legs towards an arcade whose arches are labelled, "Saint [James's P]alace", "The Treasury", "The Exchequer" and "The Admiralty"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Way to preferment
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in minor loss of text., Four lines of text below image: And Henry the King made unto himself a great idol ... Chronicle of the Kings, page 51., Bowditch's ms. annotations at bottom of sheet., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
"Portrait of John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a neckerchief and brocaded jacket with star of the Order of the Garter; in an ornamental oval; an owl and books below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Duke of Lauderdale
Description:
Title from text in image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "In the collection of the Right Hon. the Earl of Dysart"--Below image., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., and Mounted on page 48 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:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton, Londini
Subject (Name):
Lauderdale, John Maitland, Duke of, 1616-1682 and Dysart, Lionel Tollemache, Earl of, 1708-1770.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1740 and 1753]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, half-length directed to left, looking away slightly to right, pointing with right hand held in front of him just above waist-level, wearing shoulder-length white wig, architectural interior behind him, the whole in an oval, resting on a pedestal against a brick ground, after Hogarth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Artist, printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3284., Imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark witih loss of artist and printmaker's names., and On page 143 in volume 2.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1740 and 1753]
Call Number:
Portraits G442 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text in the image: A plan of the Radcliffe Library., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3288., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and In paper frame: 39.8 x 29.9 cm.
"Portrait of James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing armour and a skull-cap; in an architectural oval on a pedestal; a cartouche below showing a battle scene"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image. and Text below image: "In the possession of his Grace the Duke of Montrose."
"Portrait of James Stuart, Duke of Richmond and fourth Duke of Lennox, half length in an oval frame, long hair, wearing broad lace collar, cloak, ribbon and medal."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Iames Stuart Duke of Richmond and Lenox
Description:
Title from text within image., Text below image: "In the collection of the Rt. Honble. Sr. Paul Methuen.", and Mounted to 491 x 616 mm.
"Portrait of James Stuart, Duke of Richmond and fourth Duke of Lennox, half length in an oval frame, long hair, wearing broad lace collar, cloak, ribbon and medal."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Iames Stuart Duke of Richmond and Lenox
Description:
Title from text within image. and Text below image: "In the collection of the Rt. Honble. Sr. Paul Methuen."
"Portrait, half-length, in profile to righ, left hand on low parapet next to him, the elbow turned out, gesturing up and to his side with right hand, looking towards the viewer, wearing a long wig, coat with large cuffs, and a heavy, decorated cloak thrown over right shoulder and brought round across the front to beneath his hand on the parapet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., With eight lines of verse in Latin beginning: Effigiem Taylor, tibi qui demissus ab alto est ... ..cui laudes saecula longa canant., On page 84 in volume 1., and Ms. pencil note in Steevens hand above print: Doctor Taylor.
