"Inscription in the upper right. corner: 'A Serio Comic Scene that befel the Grocers Wife at Norwich Or Mrs Figgs bottom exposed owing to the bottom of Mr Figgs Whiskey breaking through.' The two-wheeled gig has stopped at the door of an old-fashioned...
Alternative Title:
Bottom of Mr. Figg's old whiskey broke through
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Dogs, Grocers, Spectators, Spouses, Stores & shops, and Window displays
Anatomy, Comparative, Human dissection, Memento mori, Science museums, Medical tools & equipment, Surgical instruments, Dead persons, Skeletons, and Spectators
"The King's champion challenges anyone opposing the King's authority; the King standing underneath a large drapery in a room of his palace on the left; courtiers surround him; his champion standing in the centre; three knights on horseback approach fr...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
Adriaan Schoonebeek
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William III, King of England, 1650-1702, Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694, and Westminster Hall (London, England),
James Figg stands with his right hand on his back-sword and his left hand on his hip as he faces his a gentleman opponent in a boxing ring; specators crowd the stands on two levels; with ornaments above the frame
Published April 2d, 1743, according to Act of Parliament, by G. Foster, at the White Horse, on Ludgate-Hill, and G. Bickham in May's-Buildings, Cove[nt-Garden, London--lacking]
Subject (Name):
Rock, Richard, 1690?-1777.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Great Britain, Politics and government, Physicians, Spectators, Medicine shows, Selling, and Horses
publish'd according to act of Parliamt. Sep. 30 1747.
Call Number:
Sotheby 54 Box 100
Collection Title:
Plate 54. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the foreground a...
Alternative Title:
Idle apprentice executed at Tyburn
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Crowds, Executions, Executioners, Judges, Parables, Skeletons, Spectators, and Street vendors
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sep. 30, 1747.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 50K(a) Box 215
Collection Title:
Leaf 45. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the foreground a...
Alternative Title:
Idle apprentice executed at Tyburn
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Crowds, Executions, Executioners, Judges, Parables, Skeletons, Spectators, and Street vendors
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sep. 30, 1747.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 45. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the foreground a...
Alternative Title:
Idle apprentice executed at Tyburn
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Crowds, Executions, Executioners, Judges, Parables, Skeletons, Spectators, and Street vendors
publish'd according to act of Parliamt. Sep. 30 1747.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 54. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the foreground a...
Alternative Title:
Idle apprentice executed at Tyburn
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Crowds, Executions, Executioners, Judges, Parables, Skeletons, Spectators, and Street vendors
publish'd according to act of Parliamt. Sep. 30 1747.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 54. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the foreground a...
Alternative Title:
Idle apprentice executed at Tyburn
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Crowds, Executions, Executioners, Judges, Parables, Skeletons, Spectators, and Street vendors
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sep. 30, 1747.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 747
Collection Title:
Leaf 45. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the foreground a...
Alternative Title:
Idle apprentice executed at Tyburn
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Crowds, Executions, Executioners, Judges, Parables, Skeletons, Spectators, and Street vendors
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sep. 30, 1747.
Call Number:
Folio Greenberg 75 H67 753
Collection Title:
Leaf 45. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the foreground a...
Alternative Title:
Idle apprentice executed at Tyburn
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Crowds, Executions, Executioners, Judges, Parables, Skeletons, Spectators, and Street vendors
Maurer, John, active 1720-1742, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowes Survey.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Page 181. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View in the park with spectators watching the parade, as George II makes his way to the House of Lords, showing the Horse Guards and the Treasury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de la parade dans le Parc de St. James : le Treser, le nouveau batiment de Gardes a Cheval, et la procession du Roy allant a la Chambre des Seigneurs
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
W. Innys and J. Richardson, etc.
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Saint James's Park (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760,, Horse Guards (London, England : Building),, and Great Britain. Treasury
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Parks, Government facilities, Soldiers, Parades & processions, Spectators, and Carriages & coaches
"Satire on the dispute between the Fellows and Licentiates of the College of Physicians. A procession of Licentiates, several of whom are particularly small, march into Warwick Lane in the City of London, towards the College, an octagonal building wit...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, and John Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
In the center of a panelled ballroom, a couple dance together, an older man standing behind his younger, pretty partner holds her outstretched hands by the finger-tips. She looks serious; he leers towards her. On each side of the room seated elderly s...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside & R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Couples, Dance, Evening gowns, Musicians, Sconces, and Spectators
The exhibition room of the Royal Academy in Pall Mall is crowded with visitors conversing or looking at the three walls covered with pictures up to the cornice which supports a top light. The fashionably dressed crowd hold catalogues, stoop to look at...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Subject (Topic):
Art exhibitions, Galleries & museums, Hats, Paintings, and Spectators
"Scene outside a posting inn. A man (right) riding right to left clutches his horse round the neck, he has lost his stirrups and his hat flies off. The horse is rearing, startled by the drum and fifes of a recruiting party in Guards' uniform led by an...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Margate (England)
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Carriages & coaches, Taverns (Inns), Military uniforms, British, Musical instruments, Outbuildings, Signs (Notices), and Spectators
A small audience sitting on benches on a tribune next to the equestrian statue of Cosimo I de' Medici in Piazza della Signoria, watching a military parade of the guards of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorena (1765-1790), son of the Empress Maria ...
Description:
Title and artist attribution from dealer's description.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Piazza della Signoria (Florence, Italy), and Palazzo vecchio (Florence, Italy),
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Equestrian statues, Military parades & ceremonies, Spectators, and Carriages & coaches
On a podium in front of a booth signed "Treasury," Lord North offers a "Coalition Pay" ladle filled with coins to Charles Fox (depicted with fox's body and human face) sitting in a contraption with a slit for mail and signed "American Letter Box." Mor...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs No. 2 Shoe Lane Fleet St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Coins, Spectators, Fools' caps, and Hats
A bewildered group of French people watches in amazement the rising air balloon shown as a perfect globe attached to the handle of a basket in which travel a sheep, a cock, and a goose. The observers include members of all social classes, from the loc...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1st, 1783, by I. Fielding, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Spectators, Animals, Telescopes, and Clothing & dress
An air balloon, shown as a globe, lands in front of a cottage causing panic among those who were watching its progress. A cleric, holding a crucifix and a bible, attempts to exorcise the evil while the sheep, the cock, and the goose that travelled in ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1783, by J. Fielding, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810.
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Spectators, Animals, and Clergy
A witch flying to the left on a broomstick and suckling a cat, discharges a blast of "inflammable air" towards a large sphere suspended midair behind her. A spectator standing below holds a torch to the stream of air and says, "How blue it burns!" An...
Description:
Title from inscription in black ink in the artist's hand above image.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Balloons (Aircraft), Witches, and Spectators
"A circular globe floating in the air just above the heads of three standing spectators. A witch on a broom-stick (left) flies with her back to the balloon at which she directs a blast, labelled 'Inflammable Air', from her posteriors; she is suckling ...
Alternative Title:
Trip to the moon
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd 02th [sic] Novr. 1783 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
A fox is being hunted by three dogs encouraged in their attack by two men with whips and a crowd of spectators. A burning sheet signed, "India Bill" is tied to the tail of the fox who turns back to snarl at a hound wearing a collar signed, "Pitt," whi...
Alternative Title:
View holla! from Leadenhall Street
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 27th, 1784, by W. Wells, No. 132, opposite Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Fox hunting, Spectators, and Clothing & dress
Edmund Burke, as a Jesuit, and Lord North kneel praying in front of a gallows from which hangs the body of Charles Fox with a label "East India Bill" issuing from his pocket. The comment made by one of the spectators standing in the background and the...
Alternative Title:
Cromwell ye 2nd. exalted, or, The poison bag outdone by the halter and Poison bag outdone by the halter
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publishd March 1st 1784, as the act directs by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
A large and animated procession approaches the Grocers' Hall on the left, led by musicians and Wilkes who tosses coins to the crowd. In the first of the three coaches, shown as a child's or an invalid's chair, sits Sir Watkin Lewes, alderman and M.P. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 8th by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821, Turner, Barnard, 1741 or 1742-1784, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Grocers' Company (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Political elections, Parades & processions, Spectators, and Wheeled chairs
