Plate lettered in the top center 'L': Reverse copies of details of three men after characters around the table on the right in Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered; 1. A distraught looking man with his wig askew. 2, 3. A doctor wipes the forehead of a man seated before him, eyes closed, appparently ill from eating oysters (as seen in the Hogarth original).
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other prints in the series in the British Museum online catalogue., Plates from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Political elections, Wigs, and Taverns (Inns)
Plate lettered in the top center 'M': Reverse copies of details of the upper bodies of four figures in the first plate of Hogarth's Election Entertainment. Each figure is numbered: 1. The tailor's wife; 2. The tailor; 3. The man trying to bribe him; 4. The tailor's child, showing his toes poking through his shoes
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date from other prints in the series in the British Museum online catalogue., and Plates from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Children, Families, Political elections, Spouses, Tailors, and Taverns (Inns)
A scene in Bridewell Prison with the harlot and other prisoners shown beating hemp, the warder standing over her, prodding her. They stand under a sign that reads "Better to work than stand thus."
Alternative Title:
In the Bridewell beating hemp, with many others in the like circumstances
Description:
Printer's statement from Plate I of the series., Copy in reverse of Hogarth's print published in 1732; Bowles at the Mercer's Hall address 1725-1731., Engraved below image, three columns, six lines each, beginning: See Polly now in Bridewell stands, A gauling mallet in her hands ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., No. 4 of a series of 6 pirated copies of Hogarth's engravings of "A harlot's progress". Imprint varies from the Bowles copy described as no. 2036, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and In contemporary hand, below engraved text: Margery. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at Mercer's Hall in Cheapside
A loose plagiary (reversed) after Hogarth's eighth plate in the Rake's Progress series: A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress restrained by attendants; two women revive a fainting Sarah Young (right). Tom's old wife looks at herself in a hand mirror (left). The wall to the right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude
Alternative Title:
Soon hurried thro' a course of vice ...
Description:
Title from original as cited by Paulson. Added titel from first line of verse etched below image. Verses (in four columns six lines each) continue: " ... with sots & panders, whores & dice, his mind by jarring passions tost ... with superstitions fears sit quaking, or combat devils of their own making.", Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2257., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 139., and Mounted to: 353 x 435 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, Parables, and Rake's progress
Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley" with an arrangement of Scottish and English weapons (swords, musket, canon, halberd, pickaxe, scimitar, pistol, broad-sward, haversadk, Lochaber axe, etc.), musical instruments (trumpet, drum, kettledrum, fife and bagpipes), and flags; in the center a pair of scissors excises the Scottish lion from the royal coat-of-arms
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Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley"
Description:
Title, printmaker, publisher, and date from Paulson., Lettered with subscription receipt: "Recd. [blank] of [blank] 7s:6d: being the whole payment for a print pepresenting a March to Finchly [sic] in the year 1746 which I promise to deliver when finish'd on sight hereof. N.B. Each print will be half a guinea after the subscription is over.", Ms. note: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 284., Subscription ticket is filled in: April 10 1750 and illegible name. A scrap of paper attached at lower right with Hogarth's signature, 3 shillings, and Hogarth's wax seal., and On page 127 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 18.1 x 23 cm.
Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley" with an arrangement of Scottish and English weapons (swords, musket, canon, halberd, pickaxe, scimitar, pistol, broad-sward, haversadk, Lochaber axe, etc.), musical instruments (trumpet, drum, kettledrum, fife and bagpipes), and flags; in the center a pair of scissors excises the Scottish lion from the royal coat-of-arms
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Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley"
Description:
Title, printmaker, publisher, and date from Paulson., Lettered with subscription receipt: "Recd. [blank] of [blank] 7s:6d: being the whole payment for a print pepresenting a March to Finchly [sic] in the year 1746 which I promise to deliver when finish'd on sight hereof. N.B. Each print will be half a guinea after the subscription is over.", and Sheet trimmed to 193 x 231 mm and annotated in Hogarth's hand(?): Aprl 2 1750, Robt. Thomson Esqr., N534. Also signed: "Wm. H[ogarth]".
Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley" with an arrangement of Scottish and English weapons (swords, musket, canon, halberd, pickaxe, scimitar, pistol, broad-sward, haversadk, Lochaber axe, etc.), musical instruments (trumpet, drum, kettledrum, fife and bagpipes), and flags; in the center a pair of scissors excises the Scottish lion from the royal coat-of-arms
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Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley"
Description:
Title, printmaker, publisher, and date from Paulson., Lettered with subscription receipt: "Recd. [blank] of [blank] 7s:6d: being the whole payment for a print pepresenting a March to Finchly [sic] in the year 1746 which I promise to deliver when finish'd on sight hereof. N.B. Each print will be half a guinea after the subscription is over.", and Sheet 266 x 273 mm and annotated in Hogarth's hand(?): April 28 1750, Ja. Theoball Esqr., N1249. Also signed: "Wm. H[ogarth] 3 shilllings". With his wax seal.
Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley" with an arrangement of Scottish and English weapons (swords, musket, canon, halberd, pickaxe, scimitar, pistol, broad-sward, haversadk, Lochaber axe, etc.), musical instruments (trumpet, drum, kettledrum, fife and bagpipes), and flags; in the center a pair of scissors excises the Scottish lion from the royal coat-of-arms
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Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley"
Description:
Title, printmaker, publisher, and date from Paulson. and Lettered with subscription receipt: "Recd. [blank] of [blank] 7s:6d: being the whole payment for a print pepresenting a March to Finchly [sic] in the year 1746 which I promise to deliver when finish'd on sight hereof. N.B. Each print will be half a guinea after the subscription is over."
Subscription ticket for "A harlot's progress" with three naked putti, one painting, one engraving, and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus
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Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Verse in Latin from Horace's Ars poetica below image: " ... necesse est. Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, dabiturque Licentia sumpta pudenter. Hor.", Lettered below the verse with subscription receipt: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] a half a guinea being [the] first payment for two six prints of a Harlot's progress which I promise to deliver when finish'd, on one half guinea more.", Pencilled notes in Steevens' hand. Above a group of three: Boys Peeping at Nature, a Receipt for the Harlot's Progress. See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d Edit. p. 188. 319. On mount sheet, below print: Very scarce,, and On page 57 in volume 1. Plate cropped below design to: 103 x 125 mm, mounted to 139 x 140 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Art, Painting, and Putti
Subscription ticket for "A harlot's progress" with three naked putti, one painting, one engraving, and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Verse in Latin from Horace's Ars poetica below image: " ... necesse est. Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, dabiturque Licentia sumpta pudenter. Hor.", Lettered below the verse with subscription receipt: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] a half a guinea being [the] first payment for two six prints of a Harlot's progress which I promise to deliver when finish'd, on one half guinea more.", and With ms. annotations in William Hogarth's hand indicating the receipt of a half guinea from Ebenezer Forrest, with Hogarth's signature and seal. Mounted on a sheet with a fragment of a letter from Giles Hussey addressed to "Frs. [Francis] Webb Esqr. at Sir Isaac Heard's, College of Arms, London" and stamped with a redirect to Shaftsbury. The letter can be dated to the period 1786-1788, after Isaac Heard was knighted (in 1786) and before Hussey died (in 1788).
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Art, Painting, and Putti
