Title and publisher supplied by curator/translator., Date derived from clothing styles., In margin lower left: FPO-14-201., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction
Subject (Topic):
Rice in human nutrition, Rice, Milling, Health education, Eating & drinking, and Couples
Title and date from item., Text in lower margin: Publisher: Panorama Moscow 1990; Editor: N. Shubina; Art Editor: V. Schervan; Technical Editor: L. Nikitina: Printer: "Socialistichna Kharkivshchina"; 35,000; Cost 9 kopeks (sp.); Offset lithograph., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Panorama and Издательство "Панорама"
Subject (Topic):
AIDS (Disease), Sexually transmitted diseases, Harpies (Greek mythology), Supernatural beings, and Couples
Title and date from item., Text in lower margin: Editor: N. Bogomolova; Art Editor: V. Scherban; Technical Editor: E. Kurova; Publisher: Plakat, Moscow 1990; 38,000 copies; Printing is offset; Paper is offset; Printer: "Socialistichna Kharkivshchina"; 9 kopeks (sp.), and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Poster Publishing House and Издательство "Плакат" Москва
Subject (Topic):
AIDS (Disease), Sexually transmitted diseases, Litters, and Couples
A man holds a lady's hand as she descends a flight of stairs overlooking a pond. To the left in the distance are shown two figures in a row boat on the water
Description:
Inscription in pencil on verso: Cut mount to fit shape of inlay piece., Robert Dighton, English draughtsman, 1752-1814., For further information, consult library staff., and Watermark.
From left to right, Lieutenant Doyle, Mr. Sone and Captain Foster, all from the 24th Regiment, walking to the right with three ladies on the North Bridge
Description:
Title and printmaker from volume., Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Publisher:
Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Name):
Doyle, William, active 1784., Sone, Samuel., and Foster, William, active 1784.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Clothing & dress, Military uniforms, and British
A scene in the Abbey Cloisters. Westminster schoolboys in cap and gown terrify a poor woman and a watchman by turnip-headed ghosts, and by one of their number on stilts who is masked and smoking a flaming pipe. Another, seated on a lamp-bracket, discharges a squirt at the frightened woman who falls, clutching at the fleeing watchman. See British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15204 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Ms. note in pencil on front: Page 76, Vol. 2. Watermark 1825., and Watermarked: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Fear, Couples, School children, and Watchmen
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in pen at lower right., Date devised by cataloger based on drawing style., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Toasts, Alcoholic beverages, Toasting, Couples, and Kissing
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from date of original work., Place of publication based on Dürer's country of residence., Copy after Dürer., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex Behavior.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Sex, Interpersonal relations, May-December romances, Couples, Purses, and Horses
Frontispiece to Charles Gildon's The new metamorphosis (London : Sam. Briscoe, 1724) shows Apuleius on the left and Lucian on the right each with an ass with the modern adaptor in the middle. Below the figures of Apuleius and Lucien are two satyrs; between them is a scene in front of church with couples embracing and kissing; a man and a woman stand on either side of a boy chastising him (?).On the base is etched "Credo pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris", an allusion to the satire on women
Alternative Title:
Credo pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., "Vol. 1. p.1"--Lower left corner, below image., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The Golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 14.1 x 7.7 cm.
Publisher:
Sam. Briscoe
Subject (Name):
Apuleius.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Satyrs (Greek mythology), Authors, Children, and Couples
Frontispiece to Charles Gildon's The new metamorphosis (London : Sam. Briscoe, 1724) shows Apuleius on the left and Lucian on the right each with an ass with the modern adaptor in the middle. Below the figures of Apuleius and Lucien are two satyrs; between them is a scene in front of church with couples embracing and kissing; a man and a woman stand on either side of a boy chastising him (?).On the base is etched "Credo pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris", an allusion to the satire on women
Alternative Title:
Credo pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., "Vol. 1. p.1"--Lower left corner, below image., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The Golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Sam. Briscoe
Subject (Name):
Apuleius.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Satyrs (Greek mythology), Authors, Children, and Couples
A scene in St. James's Park: A fashionably dressed couple stroll past a women who sits in on a bench, her head resting on her hand and a dejected look on her face
Description:
Title, numbering, and artist's signature inscribed on verso in black ink in the artist's hand: The neglected fair, no. 267, I. Cruikshank Senr. delt., Drawing signed with artist's initials within image in lower right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Saint James's Park (London, England), England, and London.
Detail of the right side of the first design for William Hogarth's A rake's progress; an older man sits at a table holding the hands of the two young people whose marriage he has just arranged. Only the forearms of the betrothed couple are shown
Detail of the right side of the first design for William Hogarth's A rake's progress; an older man sits at a table holding the hands of the two young people whose marriage he has just arranged. Only the forearms of the betrothed couple are shown
Description:
Title devised by curator. and On page 209 in volume 3.
"The happy family engaged in the noblest work of humanity, that of relieving the indigent, and giving succour to the aged and infirm". See S. Ireland's Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, p. 128
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Series title from caption below image; plate number in upper right., Plate from: Graphic illustrations of Hogarth from pictures and drawings in the possession of Samuel Irland author of this work, v. 2, opposite page 128., and Prints trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint. Imprint from impressions as issued in bound volume: Lewis Walpole Library 75 H67 S794.
Romanet, Antoine Louis, 1742-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Print00936
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title derived from painting by Gerard ter Borch of ca. 1663., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from language of text., Trimmed within platemark., In margin upper right: 61., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Choiseul, Etienne-François, duc de, 1719-1785.
Subject (Topic):
Lovesickness, Flirting, Drugs, Couples, Dogs, Monkeys, and Beverages
The interior of a loft stacked with sacks, an angry countryman ferociously prods one with a pitchfork, while a handsome young woman stands in alarm behind him in the doorway. From the sack projects the terrified head and hands of the woman's lover; his queue indicates a military officer. A white owl flies under the rafters
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Attributed to Rowlandson., Compare to a print (in reverse) published 16 May 1807 by R. Ackermann: I smell a rat, or, A rogue in grain. See no. 10814 in v. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Hiding places, Adultery, Couples, Hiding, Bags, Pitchforks, and Surprise
Couples dance in a large room with a chandelier overhead; the moon shines through the bow window on the right
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Series title from caption below image; plate number in upper right., Plate from: Graphic illustrations of Hogarth from pictures and drawings in the possession of Samuel Irland author of this work, v. 2, opposite page 130., and Prints trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint. Imprint from impressions as issued in bound volume: Lewis Walpole Library 75 H67 S794.
Men of fashion waltz with elegant courtesans in a magnificent pilastered room. A large orchestra is on a platform (right). Harriette Wilson (right) takes Stockdale's arm. Many names are given in the text of the published state. See British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15201 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Ms. note in pencil on front: Page 48, Vol. 2. Watermark 1824., and Watermarked: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1824.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Wilson, Harriette, 1786-1846.
Subject (Topic):
Ballroom dancing, Balls (Parties), Courtesans, Couples, and Orchestras
Title, printmaker and publication information from lettered state., Proof before letters., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: headdress -- Male costume: night-cap-- Dishes: coffee service -- Coffee cups without handles, 1799., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 6 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Eyeglasses, Jewelry, Older people, and Young adults
In two rows of three, from top left: a young man, his right knee resting against a rock, pulls back his short cape to reveal a small bouquet of flowers; a young couple embrace and toasting with wine glasses; a young couple seated and in conversation; a young woman in a headdress with feathers and touches to her face a folded fan; a couple dance; an older, short woman stands in profile to the right, her head slightly turned towards the viewer
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: royal cipher with initials GR inside a cirle.
Studies of two couples and two men, most with caricatured faces. One of the couples is dancing (?); the other is shown with the woman sitting on the man's lap, he with a lewd grimace on his face
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Thomas Rowlandson., and For further information, consult library staff.
"At left, four rough-looking cart men working at an undifferentiated mass on the street outside some grand houses, one with a whip, two with brooms and the fourth shovelling into the back of a cart harnessed to two horses at right; an old man and a young couple watching from windows above."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Grego. and Publisher supplied by Nicholas J.S. Knowles.
Publisher:
Thomas Rowlandson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Carts & wagons, Laborers, Shovels, Brooms & brushes, Whips, Horses, and Couples
A small scale, full-length portrait in landscape format. Husband and wife gather around an ornate table in an architecturally setting with columns and empty niches that is open to the exterior grounds of the country estate. Sir Robert Walpole in ceremonial robes sits at left. The Chancellors seal and the busts of King George I and King George II signifiy Walpole’s role as first Minister to them. Lady Walpole stands at the opposite end of the table where flowers, shells, a palette and pencils mark her love of the arts. Their hounds in the left foreground are painted by the sporting artist John Wooton who may also have painted the view of Walpole’s Norfolk estate, Houghton, in the distance. The posthumous portraits are based on lifetime miniatures by Zincke
Alternative Title:
Double portrait of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1776-1745) and Lady Walpole (circa 1682-1737)
Description:
Title devised by curator., Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal: Double portrait of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1776-1745) and Lady Walpole (circa 1682-1737)., From the 1774 Description: ... over the chimneypiece ... In a frame of black and gold carved by Gibbons, Sir Robert Walpole and Catharine Shorter; small whole lengths; by Eckardt, after Zinck: the hounds and view of Houghton by Wootton. Sir Robert is sitting; by him, on a table, is the purse of chancellor of the exchequer, leaning against busts of George 1st. and 2d. to denote his being first minister to those kings: by lady Walpole are flowers, shells, a pallet and pencils, to mark her love of the arts. Formerly located in the Blue Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., In an ornate black and gold frame deeply carved with fruit and flowers by a follower of Grinling Gibbons. The family coat of arms set at center top. Walpole attributed the frame to Gibbons himself., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A very interesting and valuable picture, Portraits of Sir Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter, Lady Walpole, small whole lengths, the former in his robes sitting, on a table near him is the purse of the Chancellor of the Exchequer leaning against busts of George I. and II., to denote his being First Minister to those kings; near Lady Walpole are flowers, shells, a pallet and pencils to mark her love of the arts; their favourite hounds in the foreground and a view of Houghton in the distance. This painting is from the united efforts of Eckardt and Wootton, and is considered a masterpiece of art; the Portraits of Sir Robert and Lady Walpole are from the miniatures by Zincke, the hounds and view of Houghton by Wootton. The black and gold frame enclosing the picture, one of the finest specimens carving, is by Gibbons, displaying with wonderful effect the arms of the family, enriched with Cupid figures as supporters, birds, fruit, grapes and foliage, most beautifully designed and perfect as a work of art. Eckardt and Wootton., and For further information, see library staff.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Walpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 1682-1737,
A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits astride a cask of 'real Jamaica' supported on poles carried by sailors, who wave hat and tankard towards the crowded first-floor windows. Men and women dance along the street. There are many incidents. A Jew, talking to another Jew outside a shop placarded 'Moses Slop-Shop', has his hat twitched off by the cane of a sailor who leans from above the doorway. The sailors carry an Ensign flag and a flag inscribed 'Leander', and are making for the Point. See British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Coxswain's carousal
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15212 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 2, Page 218.
Three couples outside a country tavern along a river back. One pair dance while another sit together on a bench, and the third stand at the open gate, the man blow a pipe and striking a tambor (drum). The sign hanging outside the inn shows a crescent moon
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Companion print: [Pedlars talking]., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Engrav'd and pubd. according to act Augt. 5, 1780, by T. Gaugain, N. 4 Little Compton Street. Soho
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dancers, Musical instruments, and Signs (Notices)
A flirtatious young couple under a pear tree: The male suitor is half-climbing the tree with one hand supporting himself on a branch and the other dropping freshly picked pears into the upraised apron of his companion. The couple stare lovingly into each others eyes and a the man's walking stick and hat rest on the ground off to the side
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Artist and date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
A christening scene: A group of full length figures stands around a table covered in a cloth on which sits a bowl of water. Behind it stands a clergyman in bands, wig, gown, holding child; pretty young woman stands to the left, older woman sits in a chair to the right with a man standing over her. A small child in the foreground reaching for the bowl of water, upsets it, spilling the water over the front of the table. On the left, "Sr Foling" primps in front of a mirror
Description:
Title from Paulson., Fourteen lines of verse in three columns: " Behold Vilaria lately brought to Bed, Her cheeks now Strangers to their rosy Red, Lanquid her Eyes, yet lovely she appears; And oh! what fondness her Lord's Visage wears! The pamper'd Priest, in whose extended Arms, The female Infant lies with budding Charms, Seeming to ask the Name e'er he baptise, Casts at the handsom Gossops his wanton Eyes, While gay Sr. Fopling, an accomplish'd Ass, Is courting's won dear Image in the Glass: The Midwide busied too, with mighty Care, Adjusts the Cap shews Innocency fair, Behind her stands the Clerk, on whose grave Face Sleek Abigal cannont forbear to gaze, But Master, wihtout thought, poor harmless Child, Has on the Floor the Holy-Water spill'd, Thrown down the Hat; the Lap-Dog gnaws [the] Rose; And at the Fire the Nurse is warming Cloaths. One Guest enquires the Parson's Name; says Friendly, Why, don't you know Sir? 'tis Hyp- Doctor H-y., Paulson indicates that "Price [illeg.] follows imprint, but does not mention 'London". Different states?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., See reference in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 310-311., and On page 12 in volume 1. Ms. note in Steevens's hand: Given me by the Revd Dr. Lort.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Sympson at the Dove in Russell Court, Drury Lane, Lo[...]on
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756
Subject (Topic):
Baptisms, Children, Couples, Dandies, Dogs, Nannies (Children's nurses), and Preachers
An elderly woman in spectacles sleeps in a chair, a jug and glass on a table beside her. Under the table, sits a cat; a book lies open on the floor at her feet. A pair of scissors hangs from a chain on her lap. Behind the high backed chair, a man embraces a young woman who has her finger to her lips to quiet the spectator
Description:
Title provided in manuscript; artist name lacking. and Plate from: Rules for drawing caricaturas / by F. Grose. London : Printed by A. Grant, 1788.
Title and date supplied by curator., Publisher supplied by curator., Signed in pencil lower right margin: Marion Greenwood., Place of publication based on artist's place of residence., and Edition of 250.
Alexander Thomson, a grocer, and Miss Crawford depicted walking toward the right at full length, her face obscured by a huge hat
Alternative Title:
Mr. James Thomson grocer, following Miss Crawford
Description:
Title from unverified card catalog., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1837)., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
"A fat squat and ugly woman sits on a sofa next a tall dandified officer (right) who makes his address, his hand on his breast. She turns to him complacently, her feet awkwardly resting on a stool. Their two dogs face each other, each with shape and manner corresponding with its owner. Two appropriate pictures are on the wall: Bank of England (left) and Seige of Acre (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Had I heart for falshood fram'd, I ne'er could injure you and Had I heart for falsehood framed, I never could injure you
Description:
Title from later state., Four lines of quoted dialogue below image: "Had I heart for falshood [sic] fram'd, I ne'er could injure you - For tho' your tongue no promise claim'd, your charms would make me true! &c. &c. &c.", First state, before title added above image. For a later state with G. Humphrey's imprint and the title "Money hunting," see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 823.01.10.01. For a reissue with Thomas McLean's imprint, published in Cruikshankiana (London : Thomas M'Lean, [1835]), see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1853,0112.247., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 10, 1823 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Stt
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military officers, Dogs, Couples, and Courtship
Title devised by curator., Artist attribution from curator., Date based on Rowlandson's active years., and Mounted on leaf 1 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Title devised by curator., Artist attribution from curator., Date based on Rowlandson's active years., and Mounted on leaf 1 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
A dinner party given by the rich and vulgar 'cit'. Liston, seated full-face, is beset by three children, one of whom shows him a print of Paul Pry. The hostess, laughing, points out the impassive Liston to a little boy who stands beside her. A fat nurse holds up an infant in long clothes to see the celebrity, at whom all the company are staring. A laughing footman drops a glass from a salver. Over the laden table hangs an elaborate cut-glass chandelier with many gas-globes. Liston, incensed at being expected to amuse his host's 'uncultivated cubs', retires, ostensibily to arrange his dress for a performance, actually to depart. See British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Citizen's dinner party
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15202 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Page 66, Vol. 2.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Dinner parties, Chandeliers, Couples, Families, and Servants
King Henry VIII leads Anne Boleyn towards the throne. A melancholy Cardinal Wolsey leans his head in his hand as he glances sideways toward the couple. In the background Katherine of Aragon sitting in another throne, turns away from the couple to converse with Anne's former lover, Lord Percy. A young page carries the train of Anne's dress as she enters the palace
Alternative Title:
Here struts old pious Harry, once the great reformer of the English church and state ...
Description:
Title from Paulson: King Henry the Eighth and Anne Bullen., Added title from the first two lines from first of the seven couplets in three columns below image., Printmaker, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., Imperfect impresson; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text and image along right side., The subject alludes to the perceived threat to the political supremacy of Robert Walpole (here represented by Wolsey) at the accession of George II. The composition echoes the traditional iconography of the popular story of Fair Rosamond and Henry II. See O'Connell, S. The popular print in England, 1999, p. 20., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit p. 167., and On page 50 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed to: 49.3 x 37.3 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547., Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., and Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Cardinals, Castles & palaces, Ceremonial rooms, Children, Couples, Kings, Nobility, Queens, Reception rooms, and Thrones
King Henry VIII leads Anne Boleyn towards the throne. A melancholy Cardinal Wolsey leans his head in his hand as he glances sideways toward the couple. In the background Katherine of Aragon sitting in another throne, turns away from the couple to converse with Anne's former lover, Lord Percy. A young page carries the train of Anne's dress as she enters the palace
Alternative Title:
Here struts old pious Harry, once the great reformer of the English church and state ...
Description:
Title from Paulson: King Henry the Eighth and Anne Bullen., Added title from the first two lines from first of the seven couplets in three columns below image., Printmaker, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., Imperfect impresson; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text and image along right side., and The subject alludes to the perceived threat to the political supremacy of Robert Walpole (here represented by Wolsey) at the accession of George II. The composition echoes the traditional iconography of the popular story of Fair Rosamond and Henry II. See O'Connell, S. The popular print in England, 1999, p. 20.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547., Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., and Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Cardinals, Castles & palaces, Ceremonial rooms, Children, Couples, Kings, Nobility, Queens, Reception rooms, and Thrones
"Interior of a gothic vault, with a tomb on the left lit by a hanging lamp and decorated with a reclining man in tudor dress holding a baton; to right are a couple leaning against a pillar, and a man holding a torch gesturing towards the tomb ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Numbered "No. 18", centered below imprint statement., Imprint continues: ... where transparencies, medalions [sic] & other prints are published every week., and When held up to the light, the effect of the color is intensified.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 16, 1799, at R. Ackermanns, 101 Strand ...
Plate lettered in the top center 'E': Reverse copies of the upper bodies of six figures in the fifth plate of Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode. Each of the figures is numbered: 1. The dying earl; 2. The countess; 3. Silvertongue, escaping through the window; 4. and 5. The watchmen; 6. The head of Solomon, from the tapestry
Description:
Title and from British Museum catalogue., Illustrations to: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Numbered '5' in upper left corner above border.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Couples, Death, Escapes, Homicides, Singers, Marriage, and Watchmen
Plate lettered in the top center 'D': Reverse copies of the upper bodies of eight figures in the fourth plate of Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode. Each of the figures is numbered: 1. the countess; 2. Silvertongue; 3. the hairdresser; 4. the black servant; 5. and 6. the two men immediately to the right of the countess; 7. the man with his hair in paper; 8. the singer
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., "It is one of a series of illustrative fragments from Hogarth's works ... prepared for "Manuel contenatn diverses Connoissances curieuses et utile pour l'année 1786." See British Museum catalogue., Illustrations to: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Numbered '4' in upper right corner above border.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Couples, Eating & drinking, Hairdressing, Singers, and Marriage
Plate lettered in the top center 'C': Reverse copies of the upper bodies of four figures in the third plate of Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode. Each of the figures is numbered: 1. The viscount; 2. The quack; 3. The child-mistress; 4. The angry woman
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., "It is one of a series of illustrative fragments from Hogarth's works ... prepared for "Manuel contenatn diverses Connoissances curieuses et utile pour l'année 1786." See British Museum catalogue., Illustrations to: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Numbered '3' in upper right corner above border.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Anger, Girls, Couples, Quacks, and Marriage
Plate lettered in the top center 'C': Reverse copies of details from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism: a medley". Each item is numbered; 1, 2. The embracing couple; 5 [i.e. 3]. A thermometer measuring emotions resting on two books, including 'Westly's Sermons'; 4. An old woman yawns; 5. "The Poor's box."
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Plate lettered in the top center 'G': Reverse copies of details from figures from the lower left corner of Hogarth's "Beer Street". Numbered 1: A detail of man drinking from the lower right, above the hamper; 3. A paver with his ramer barely visible whispers in the ear of a servant-maid (2).
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Plate lettered in the top center 'F': Reverse copies of details of three men and one woman, after characters on the left edge under the flag in Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered; 1. A man smoking a pipe (upside-down) as he pushes the head of a large woman (3) toward her companion, a young gentleman (2); 4. The Quaker Abel Squat reads a sheet of paper on which is written, "April 1 1754 I promise to pay to Abel Squat the sum of fifty pounds six months after date value re[cei]ved Rich[ard] Slim
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other plates in this series in the British Museum 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):
Corruption, Couples, Kissing, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. She watches a servant holding a foppish, elderly naval officer by the collar as he flourishes a cudgel. At his feet lie a set of bellows. On the wall is a framed picture of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing., Signed "George Cruikshank" lower right. The British Museum catalogue attributes the design to George's father Isaac in its description of the print engraved after this drawing. Cohn similarly suggests that this design "was probably the work chiefly of Isaac"., A drawing for the illustrated songsheet "Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily", published by Laurie & Whittle in 1807, which tells the tale of a servant Darby Daly who discovers the young Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, forces her seducer to marry her., Backed with Japanese tissue; with the title "The outraged husband" printed on mount., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10938., and Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1144.
Subject (Topic):
Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Couples, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
Hogarth shows Sganarelle coming up behind his wife, who is admiring a miniature portrati of a young man which she had innocently discovered on the ground. Sganarelle is making the cuckold's sign with his right hand over his head
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson., Third state: Scene number has been removed but traces remain., Sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of last two character's in printmaker's name., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Cocu Imaginaire / 171., and On page 52 in volume 1.
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the characters Frederic and Hippolita shown full-length at center, the latter wearing a pink gown. Frederic, who wears a sword at his side and whose feathered cap has fallen to the floor, kneels in front of the standing Hippolita and looks up at her, holding her right hand; she looks down at him tenderly, her left hand at her breast. A statue on a pedestal stands besides the pair on the right; an arched window and a column are in the background on the left. A man, probably Manfred, lurks in the shadows; he carries a dagger(?) and peeks out from behind the column
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., Page reference written in ink below lower right corner of image: P. 222., and Bound in opposite page 222 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
The third drawing in a series of twelve on modern morals, a tradition established earlier in the 18th century by artists such as William Hogarth. In this series, twin brothers are bestowed an equal fortune. One brother, Edward, husbands his wealth and on his death, passes on his fortune; whilst the other brother, Charles, squanders his, leaving his family destitute and In this third drawing, Edward is shown at a tea table with another man and woman. The room is more simply decorated than his brother's. On the wall is a single mirror (Baroque style), on either side of which hang a man's hat and a woman's cloak and hat. A little dog stands with its paws on Edward's leg. Through the window on the right is slight view of a tree and field
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Text in faint pencil below image: Edward [illegible text]., Signed "Dodd" in lower left and numbered '3' in ink in the upper right., Date range based on artist's active dates., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Allegorical drawings, Couples, Dogs, Tea parties, Parables, and Parlors
A large crowd of theatregoers file out of a theater and onto the street in a pouring rainfall and high winds that turns umbrellas inside out. One man has fallen and broken his lantern as a woman falls back over him as her shoes are being changed. The audience is a mix of classes, couples, old women, young boys, some carrying laterns, one with a cane
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Drawer 802.11.01.05., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right., "The artist is said to have based the theatre in this image on the Orchard Street Theatre in Bath, opened in October 1750 near the South Gate, outside the medieval walls of Bath ... The theatre was the first country theatre to be granted a Royal patent and became known as the Theatre Royal, Bath. .... The theatre was closed in 1805."--Dealer's description., and With Joel Spitz's collector's label on verso of mount.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Lanterns, Rain, Theater audiences, Theaters, Umbrellas, Watchmen, and Winds
The second drawing in a series of twelve on modern morals, a tradition established earlier in the 18th century by artists such as William Hogarth. In this series, twin brothers are bestowed an equal fortune. One brother, Edward, husbands his wealth and on his death, passes on his fortune; whilst the other brother, Charles, squanders his, leaving his family destitute and In this second drawing, Charles stands in an elegant room as he is measured for new cloths by a tailor who kneels to his right with a tape measure raised to Charles's leg; on the floor at his feet is a bolt of fabric and a scissors. Behind them on the right, a servant holds up a large silver urn for Charles's approval; it is reflected in one of two large Venetian mirrors on the wall behind, the second being hung by two servants. On the left, a woman in a large hat sits in an chair beside a round tea table holding another bolt of fabric; she sits in front of a large window through which is seen a elegant square with an equestrian statue. A little dog jumps toward Charles
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Text in faint pencil below image: Charles [illegible text]., Signed "Dodd" in lower left and numbered '2' in ink in the upper right., Date range based on artist's active dates., and For further information, consult library staff.
