A drinking and smoking scene with men and women around a table, musicians playing instruments and maps and painted portraits hung on the wall behind. Design based on William Hogarth's third plate in the series Rake's Progress
Description:
Title etched below image. and On page 69 in volume 1. Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above: A Tobacco Paper.
Subscription ticket for "A harlot's progress" with three naked putti, one painting, one engraving, and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Verse in Latin from Horace's Ars poetica below image: " ... necesse est. Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, dabiturque Licentia sumpta pudenter. Hor.", Lettered below the verse with subscription receipt: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] a half a guinea being [the] first payment for two six prints of a Harlot's progress which I promise to deliver when finish'd, on one half guinea more.", Pencilled notes in Steevens' hand. Above a group of three: Boys Peeping at Nature, a Receipt for the Harlot's Progress. See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d Edit. p. 188. 319. On mount sheet, below print: Very scarce,, and On page 57 in volume 1. Plate cropped below design to: 103 x 125 mm, mounted to 139 x 140 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Art, Painting, and Putti
"Subscription ticket for "Moses brought to Pharaoh's Daughter"and "St Paul before Felix" with three naked boys, one painting, one engraving and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Lettered below the image with subscription receipt: Receiv'd [blank] of [blank] 5 Shillings being the first Payment for two large Prints one representing Moses brought to Pharoah's Daughter, The other St. Paul before Felix. wch. I Promise to Deliver when finish'd, on Receiving 5 Shillings more./N.B. They will be Seven and Six Pence each Print, after the time of subscribing., Originally etched 1731, reworked 1751., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 57 in volume 1. With a pencilled note in Steeven's hand above print: Very scarce. Plate trimmed to: plate mark 151 x 125 mm, sheet 16.5 x 14 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Art, Painting, and Putti
Title, state, and date from Paulson., One of fourteen illustrations created for John Beaver's Roman military punishments; used as headpiece for Chap. XI; see p. 99., Ms. note in Steevens's hand: Breaking etc. arms & legs., and On page 24 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 4.5 x 7.6 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beaver, John, active 18th century.
Subject (Topic):
Military camps, Roman, Punishment & torture, and Soldiers
A scene from La Calprenede's Cassandra used as the frontispiece to the 3rd edition and translated by Sir Charles Cotterell and published by John Darby in London, September 1725
Alternative Title:
Cassandra, Frontispiece, Volume 1
Description:
Title, imprint, and publisher from Paulson., "Vol: I"--Lower left corner below image., One of five frontispieces engraved for the five volume set of the third edition of Sir Charles Cotterell's English translation of La Calprenède's Cassandre, published by John Darby in 1725., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 13.4 x 7.6 cm.
Publisher:
John Darby
Subject (Name):
La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, -1663.
A scene from La Calprenede's Cassandra used as the frontispiece to the 3rd edition and translated by Sir Charles Cotterell and published by John Darby in London, September 1725
Alternative Title:
Cassandra, Frontispiece, Volume 2
Description:
Title, imprint, and publisher from Paulson., "Vol: 2."--Lower left corner, below image., One of five frontispieces engraved for the five volume set of the third edition of the English translation of La Calprenède's Cassandre by Charles Cotterell, published by John Darby in 1725., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 21 in volume 1.
Publisher:
John Darby
Subject (Name):
La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, -1663.
A scene from La Calprenede's Cassandra used as the frontispiece to the 3rd edition and translated by Sir Charles Cotterell and published by John Darby in London, September 1725
Alternative Title:
Cassandra, Frontispiece, Volume 3
Description:
Title, date, and publisher from Paulson., "Vol: 3"--Lower left, below image., One of five frontispieces engraved for the five volume set of the third edition of Sir Charles Cotterell's English translation of La Calprenède's Cassandre, published by John Darby in 1725., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 13.9 x 7.3 cm.
Publisher:
John Darby
Subject (Name):
La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, -1663.
A scene from La Calprenede's Cassandra used as the frontispiece to the 3rd edition and translated by Sir Charles Cotterell and published by John Darby in London, September 1725
Alternative Title:
Cassandra, frontispiece to volume 5
Description:
Title, date and publisher from Paulson., "Vol: 5"--Lower left, below image., One of five frontispieces engraved for the five volume set of the third edition of Sir Charles Cotterell's English translation of La Calprenède's Cassandre, published by John Darby in 1725., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 13.5 x 17.1 cm.
Publisher:
John Darby
Subject (Name):
La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, -1663.
A scene from La Calprenede's Cassandra used as the frontispiece to the 3rd edition and translated by Sir Charles Cotterell and published by John Darby in London, September 1725
Alternative Title:
Cassandra, frontispiece to volume 4
Description:
Title, date, and publisher from Paulson., "Vol: 4."--Lower left, below image., One of five frontispieces engraved for the five volume set of the third edition of Sir Charles Cotterell's English translation of La Calprenède's Cassandre, published by John Darby in 1725., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 21 in volume 1.
Publisher:
John Darby
Subject (Name):
La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, -1663.
The top of two images (by Hogarth) shows the first encampment of the King of Sweden; the lower image (by Parker) is a map of the encampment. In both cases there are keys to the numbers identifiying persons and places in the image. Charles XII and his friend Baron Ernest Fedrik de Fabrice, the Holstein minister, are riding about accompanied by the Janizaries assigned to Charles bu Sultan Achmet. One of the horsement bringing up the rear isLa Motraye himself. See Paulson
Alternative Title:
Bender
Description:
Title from banner at top of image., Hogarth signed below top image; Parker signed below border of map., Publisher and state from Paulson., 'XXX.'--Top left corner., 'T II.'-Top right corner., Each image lettered in French and English: A. Premier campement du Roy de Suede; AA. Second campement du Roy de Suede; A. King of Sweden's first encampment; AA. King of Sweden's second encampment., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., and On page 17 in volume 1.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Name):
La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743., La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743,, Fabrice, Friedrich Ernst von, 1683-1750,, and Charles XII, King of Sweden, 1682-1718,
