A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the characters Frederic and Hippolita shown full-length at center, the latter wearing a pink gown. Frederic, who wears a sword at his side and whose feathered cap has fallen to the...
Hogarth shows Sganarelle coming up behind his wife, who is admiring a miniature portrati of a young man which she had innocently discovered on the ground. Sganarelle is making the cuckold's sign with his right hand over his head
A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. She watches a servant holding a foppish, elderly naval officer by the collar as he flourishes a cudgel. At his fe...
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing.
Subject (Topic):
Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Couples, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
Plate lettered in the top center 'F': Reverse copies of details of three men and one woman, after characters on the left edge under the flag in Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered; 1. A man smoking a pipe (upside-...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Couples, Kissing, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Plate lettered in the top center 'G': Reverse copies of details from figures from the lower left corner of Hogarth's "Beer Street". Numbered 1: A detail of man drinking from the lower right, above the hamper; 3. A paver with his ramer barely visible w...
Plate lettered in the top center 'C': Reverse copies of details from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism: a medley". Each item is numbered; 1, 2. The embracing couple; 5 [i.e. 3]. A thermometer measuring emotions resting on two books, in...
Plate lettered in the top center 'C': Reverse copies of the upper bodies of four figures in the third plate of Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode. Each of the figures is numbered: 1. The viscount; 2. The quack; 3. The child-mistress; 4. The angry woman
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Anger, Girls, Couples, Quacks, and Marriage
Plate lettered in the top center 'D': Reverse copies of the upper bodies of eight figures in the fourth plate of Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode. Each of the figures is numbered: 1. the countess; 2. Silvertongue; 3. the hairdresser; 4. the black servant;...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Couples, Eating & drinking, Hairdressing, Singers, and Marriage
Plate lettered in the top center 'E': Reverse copies of the upper bodies of six figures in the fifth plate of Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode. Each of the figures is numbered: 1. The dying earl; 2. The countess; 3. Silvertongue, escaping through the wind...
Description:
Title and from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Couples, Death, Escapes, Homicides, Singers, Marriage, and Watchmen
