Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1ts [sic] Iany. 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.01.03 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing in an inn in profile to left, holding a gourd and a bowl against her sides, looking ahead, wearing a mob-cap and check apron, with a chair to left, casement window to right and three pictures on the wall behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1ts [sic] Iany. 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.01.03 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing in an inn in profile to left, holding a gourd and a bowl against her sides, looking ahead, wearing a mob-cap and check apron, with a chair to left, casement window to right and three pictures on the wall behind."--British Museum online catalogue
A large group of men sit in chairs around a table in panelled room, among them Hudibras. In the center of the table is a piece of paper titled "The League & Covenant" along with quill pens and an ink well. Their hats hang on pegs on the walls behind them. Several of the men look to the right with startled expressions as a messenger rushes in through a door to the right, accompanied by a black man in a cloak and turban
Description:
Title engraved below image., After Hogarth., Caption on either side of title begins: And now the saints began their reign for wch. th' had yearn'd so long in vain ..., Copy of no. 512 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 91.
Volume 2, page 3. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
In the collection of James Harris Esqr
Description:
Title devised by curator., Mounted on page 3 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Pasted beneath print is a strip of paper, likely trimmed from the verso of the same sheet, which bears a note in the printmaker's hand: The drawing with a pen and [...?], by A. Ostade in possion. of Mr. Harris.
Perspective intérieure de l'eglise Cathédrale de St. Paul : qui fait voir le dome, les piédroits et les arcs qui le supportent, ainsi que les entrées du choeur et des aîles de la nef
Description:
Titles in English and French engraved below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Window mounted to 35 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, & Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
A very fat man (Councellor Wollop), wearing a silk robe and cap sits at a well-laid table, his large napkin tucked in at his neck. He leans back in his chair while a thin man pours wine down his throat. Two other men smile as they offer him more food, as the one carves a joint. The table has contains platters with bread and plum pudding as well as a decanter of spirits. They are a well-appointed room arches and a portrait of a man in a wig hanging on the wall behind the councellor
Alternative Title:
Another slice of plum pudding for Councellor Wollop
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark with thread margin on top and bottom., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 20, 1774, by I. Sledge, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
Title devised by curator., After a painting by Raphael., Questionable date supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Mat: 27" and "Mar: 15" etched below image in lower right., Mounted on page 155 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill P ress (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., and Contemporary manuscript annotation in lower margin: Raphael p.
Hudibras is beaten with clubs by two masked men dressed as devils; a third man with mask in hand gestures to the young widow in the doorway on the left. A fourth, smaller masked man holds a large torch as he lights the way in the room. Ralpho hides behind a curtain on the far left. The room is decorated with a large wardrobe, an oval portrait, and large mirror; a footstool and urn in the right corner partially seen in the right corner
Alternative Title:
Hudibras catechized
Description:
Title engraved below image., After Hogarth., Caption on either side of title begins: "No sooner was he come t' himself, but on his neck a sturdy Elf ... And that which was prov'd true before prove false again two hundred more.", Copy of no. 512 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 90.