IIn an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Poverty, a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and her kittens are curled up on the man's coat. Under the sleeve of the coat on the floor is an issue of "Grubstreet Journall." She looks to the door on the left where she is confronted by a milkmaid who holds a lengthy tally; the daisies in her bonnet suggest Michaelmas day when bills are due; she also is shown with a yoke across her back. Just inside the doorway a dog snatches the single pork chop from a plate on a chair; the cupboard above the door stands open to show empty shelves. Behind the poet's head is a satirical print showing Alexander Pope thrashing the book-seller Edmund Curll who had published pirated editions of his letters."
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., "Price 3 shillings"--Following imprint., Verse etched below image: Studious he sate, with all his books around, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound! Plung'd for his sense, but found no bottom there; Then writ, and flounder'd on, in more despair. Dunciad Book I, line III., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. pencil note in Steevens hand: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit, 235. Repaired losses to corners., and On page 79 in volume 1. Trimmed to: 350 x 397 mm.
IIn an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Poverty, a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and her kittens are curled up on the man's coat. Under the sleeve of the coat on the floor is an issue of "Grubstreet Journall." She looks to the door on the left where she is confronted by a milkmaid who holds a lengthy tally; the daisies in her bonnet suggest Michaelmas day when bills are due; she also is shown with a yoke across her back. Just inside the doorway a dog snatches the single pork chop from a plate on a chair; the cupboard above the door stands open to show empty shelves. Behind the poet's head is a satirical print showing Alexander Pope thrashing the book-seller Edmund Curll who had published pirated editions of his letters."
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., "Price 3 shillings"--Following imprint., Verse etched below image: Studious he sate, with all his books around, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound! Plung'd for his sense, but found no bottom there; Then writ, and flounder'd on, in more despair. Dunciad Book I, line III., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"An untidy garret with a man in a dressing-gown working on a poem entitled 'Poverty' while his wife is confronted by a milkmaid with a lengthy tally who demands payment; a baby in bed is crying; a dog eats meat from a plate on a chair; behind the poet's head is a satirical print showing Alexander Pope thrashing the book-seller Edmund Curll who had published pirate editions of his work."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Studious he sate, with all his books around
Description:
Title from Paulson., Two columns each with two lines of verse engraved below image: Studious he sate, with all his books around, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profund! Plung'd for his sense, but found no bottom there; Then writ, and flounder'd on, in more despair. Dunciad Book I, line III., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2309., and Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 145.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1st, 1797 by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from publisher's date of death., Place of publication derived from publisher's nationality., Trimmed within plate mark., From: La Parabole du mauvais riche et de Lazare., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
[le Blond rubbed out] excud avec Privilege du Roy
Subject (Topic):
Death, Mortality, Heaven, Deathbeds, Angels, Bedrooms, Crutches, Families, and Poverty
Title in pencil lower margin., Place of publication based on artist's place of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Old age; Amputees., and Below image in pencil: 64/100; E. Blampied.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Poverty, People with disabilities, Crutches, and Older people
Title supplied by curator., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., In pencil lower right margin: A Besnard., From La femme, a set of 12 etchings, 1886-1887., Printed on japan paper., and In pencil lower left margin: Tiré à 100.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Men, Night, Prostitutes, and Poverty
Title devised from British Museum catalogue., Tim Bobbin is John Collier's pseudonym., Plate from: Human passions delineated in above 120 figures ... by Timo. Bobbin. Manchester : John Heywood, 1773., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms Glass: wine bottles and wine glass -- Containers: tobacco -- Old women., and Mounted on verso is description in verse of the image: Plate 34. Thus plenty sits with pipe and liquor, in look and dress much like a vicar ...
Title devised from British Museum catalogue., Tim Bobbin is John Collier's pseudonym., Printmaker's name burnished from plate with only part of initial letters remaining., Plate from: Human passions delineated in above 120 figures ... by Timo. Bobbin. [Manchester] : John Heywood, 1773., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on verso is description in verse of the image: Plate 17. When Charles the second's jocund reign began, all thought strict justice must lead up to van ...
Title from item. Translated title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication from item., 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: Children & childcare.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification)., Poverty, Child care, Syphilis, Children, Vegetables, Cookery, Older people, Spinning apparatus, Hand tools, Families, Poor persons, and Fireplaces
Title and original date derived from pencil note below image., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., Original work created 1935., "LEA" on plate lower left., No. 11 in series Frauenleben [A Woman's Life]., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., In pencil at margin lower left: 8/60 Das Kranke Kind, In pencil at margin lower center: Frauenleben., and In pencil at margin lower right: Lea Grundig 1935.
