A portrait of Hogarth in profile, looking right, with a pencil in his right hand poised above an open book in his left hand. He wears a cocked hat on his head. Adapted from his self-portrait in "The Gate of Calais."
Description:
Title from engraved text above image. and Date based on similar print published by R. Sayer. See no. 3066 in the Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3.
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed.)., and Numbered '25' in lower right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799, and Hutton, James, 1726-1797,
Date of publication from English short title catalogue., Verse begins: "If Rosamond, that was so fair,"., In six columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 59. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Name):
Shore, Jane, d. 1527?
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Kings and rulers, Mythology, Religious aspects, and Portrait prints
A portrait of Hogarth in profile, looking left, with a pencil in his right hand poised above an open book in his left hand. He wears a cocked hat on his head. Adapted from his self-portrait in "The Gate of Calais."
Description:
Title from engraved text above image., Date based on similar print published by R. Sayer. See no. 3066 in the Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Verses engraved below image begin: "In solemn scenes great Kneller's pencil wrought, and kings and heroes fill'd his lab'ring thought. Hogarth more humble, yet as justly draws the lines of nature, and pursues her laws ..."
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard