Design consists of 4 strips of figures engaged in various activities. Row 1: A dairy maid milking a cow; a mother and child beside a crib; a couple conversing; a musician with flute and drum; two women and a man around a tea table with a maid making t...
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Occupations, Trainged animals, and Stocks (Punishment).
A woman (Liberty?) stands on top the prostrate figures of a clergyman and a lion inside a large courtyard. A bird (a dove of peace?) looks on from the eaves of the building. The clergyman wears a wig and clerical bands. The woman, with a laurel crown ...
Hymen seated on a rock holds a lyre in his left hand and a flaming torch in his right. Cupid leans over, his back to the viewer, to pluck the strings of the lyre. In the distance on the right is Cliveden House
Hymen seated on a rock holds a lyre in his left hand and a flaming torch in his right. Cupid leans over, his back to the viewer, to pluck the strings of the lyre. In the distance on the right is Cliveden House
After William Hogarth's plate 6 from A rake's progress, depicts the interior of a gambling house (Leicester Fields) where groups of men play cards and roll dice, large piles of coins at their sides. The losers are shown in various stages of despair, ...
Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1740]
Call Number:
724 791K
Collection Title:
Volume 3, opposite page 466. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the sale of Charles Jervas' studio (1739/40); an allegorical female figure holding a palette and brushes standing on the right, who lays an oval bas-relief portrait of Jervas on a plinth attached to a pyramid, while a...
Description:
Title, artist, and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739,
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Columns, Pyramids, Sculpture, and Portraits
A bearded man in a hollow tree reaches out his hand toward a gentleman below. Another man enters the hollow tree at its base. An owl looks on from a branch above; around the base of the tree are lion, boar, cat, and donkey
