A group of gentlemen seated at an oval table, with glasses full of wine, laugh uproariously at a joke as they look down at the dog at the foot of the table
Two men sit facing each other as the one on the right pulls on a string which has been tied around a front tooth of the man on the left, his left foot bent up and braced in the patient's left hand. The doctor with a large hooked nose laughs as the oth...
A single plate with Laughing audience in the upper left, Rehearsal of the Oratorio of Judith in the upper right, and An emblematic print on the South Sea below
Alternative Title:
Rehearsal of the Oratorio of Judith and Emblematic print on the South Sea
Description:
Titles engraved below images.
Publisher:
Published by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England, Scotland., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797., South Sea Company., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Food vendors, Laughter, Orchestras, Snuff, Theater audiences, Theaters, Elections, 1722, Membership, Quarantine, Law and legislation, Inheritance and succession, Naturalization, Political corruption, Elections, Bribery, Children, Clergy, Devil, Mirrors, Screens, and Political elections
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1746 and 1766?]
Call Number:
Hogarth 765.00.00.19 Box 112
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A copy in the same direction as Hogarth's subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore th...
A copy in the same direction as Hogarth's subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore t...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Food vendors, Laughter, Orchestras, Snuff, Theater audiences, and Theaters
A copy in the same direction as Hogarth's subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore t...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Food vendors, Laughter, Orchestras, Snuff, Theater audiences, and Theaters
"A stout, ugly, and elderly woman holds in her left hand a barber's block, with a carved head in profile, on which is an elaborate pyramidal wig with ringlets. This she is covering with powder or flour from a dredger. Her hair is short and scanty; on ...
"The interior of a barber's shop. The barber, ranting and gesticulating wildly, holds up the open tragedy of Alexander the Great; in his right hand is a pair of tongs. His hair hangs loose and on his head is his barber's basin. He is fashionably dress...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
A watercolor depicting a group of five men in a pub or alehouse, four of whom are sitting at a table on high back benches; each has a tankard in front of him. They laugh in response to one of their number reading from a newspaper "County Chronicle."
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Newspapers, Laughter, Smiling, Taverns (Inns), and Drinking vessels
