"Copy of a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table, to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of al...
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 7
Description:
Title from text engraved above image.
Publisher:
Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell
"Copy of a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table, to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of al...
Alternative Title:
[Rake's progress]. Plate 7 and His Hours of Joy are fled with raipd speed, ...
Description:
Added title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Ward, William James, approximately 1800-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 June 1827]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait; half-length standing to right, looking towards the viewer, holding a telescope in both hands, his left elbow propped on the base of a column supporting an arch above him, wearing military uniform with epaulettes and star, with a curtain beh...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published June 1, 1827, by W. Sams, Royal Library, 1 St. James's Street
"The comet has the profile head of Napoleon wearng a plumed bicorne; it rushes up from the left. towards the sun, the profile head of George III, much irradiated. John Bull, a carbuncled 'cit', stoops low to look through a telescope on a tripod pointi...
Alternative Title:
John Bull making observations on the comet
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Coastlines, Comets, Ships, Sun, and Telescopes
The collection contains scientific, political and personal correspondence of the Earl of Morton and the first Lady Morton; a travel diary kept by Sholto, Lord Morton in 1784; and a few folders of letters to George Douglas, Earl of Morton (1761-1827). ...
Description:
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton (1702-1768) was educated in Edinburgh and at King's College, Cambridge. An amateur scientist and mathematician, Morton was the first President of the Edinburgh Society for Improving the Arts and Sciences; served as P...
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland., France, Great Britain, and Scotland
Subject (Name):
Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761., Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788., Clairaut, M., 1713-1765., Decker, Matthew, Sir, 1679-1749., Douglas, Robert, -1745., Douglas, William, -1747., Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782., Farquharson, Francis., Geoffrin, Marie-Thérèse Rodet, 1699-1777., Hoey, Abraham van, 1684-1766., Irwin, Anne, Viscountess, 1696-1764., König, Samuel, 1712-1757., Le Monnier, Louis Guillaume, 1717-1799., Le Monnier, M. 1715-1799. (Pierre-Charles),, MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746., Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755., Morton, George Douglas, Earl of, 1761-1827., Morton, James Douglas, Earl of, 1702-1768., Morton, Sholto Charles Douglas, Earl of, 1732-1774., Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de, 1683-1757., Saint-Germain, comte de, -1784., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., West, Benjamin, 1730-1813., Bastille., Royal Society (Great Britain), and Select Society.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Enlightenment, Influence, Natural history, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Philosophes, Telescopes, Design and construction, Intellectual life, Politics and government, and Civilization
"Two pretty women leave a shop (left) to enter a coach whose back is towards the spectator. The foremost (? Duchess of Rutland), raising her petticoats high, puts a foot on the step. She is followed by (?) Lady Jersey, who crosses a step laid across a...
Alternative Title:
Cause of the lounge!!
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. April 17st [sic], 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Name):
Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners, Duchess of, 1756-1831 and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
Subject (Topic):
Stores & shops, Carriages & coaches, Streets, Hand lenses, Telescopes, and Voyeurism
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A wide space leads to the harbour. On one side (left) is the corner of a large old clothes shop: 'Moses Levy Money Lent', with garments, &c., hanging from it. Opposite is the old-fashioned 'Ship Tavern'. Off shore are ships in full sail, boats are ma...
"A wide space leads to the harbour. On one side (left) is the corner of a large old clothes shop: 'Moses Levy Money Lent', with garments, &c., hanging from it. Opposite is the old-fashioned 'Ship Tavern'. Off shore are ships in full sail, boats are ma...
