Plate 62. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Fourth state of a plate for a subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair" with the text burnished with only a couple of traces remaining. "The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of an orange girl and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another orange girl reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; to the left, three musicians protected from the audience by a row of spikes"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., With ms pencil note in Steevens's hand above: Retouched., and On page 57 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 214 x 177 mm with loss of receipt text.
Illustration to one of the episodes added by Gildon: Young Fantasio (Apuleius's Lucian) enters an Italian church where corrupt priests and gallants are celebrating the feast of St. Theresa
Description:
Title and imprint from Paulson., "Vol: I : P : 8"--Lower left, below image., A reversed copy of a print from the 1708 edition facing p. 5, with changes to the design by Hogarth: raised lectern and figures in foreground shifted., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 14.1 x 7.8 cm., and Date given in Steevens's hand: 1724. With other notes by Steevens that apply to the group of seven other illustrations mounted on same sheet.
A night scene in which Camilla is abducted by four bandits on horseback, as described by Apuleius. Three women stand in a doorway in the foreground at the right, in various poses showing their sense of alarm and distress
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson., "Vol: I P: 113"--Lower left, below image., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., A reversed copy of a print in the 1708 edition, with some changes. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 14 x 7.6 cm., and Date given in Steevens's hand: 1724. With other notes by Steevens that apply to the group of seven other illustrations mounted on same sheet.
Fantasio is being released by the hunchbacked witch Invidiosa from the chest in which he has been hiding; a young man holds the boy's shoulders. The scene is set in a ramshackle room with broom and bundle of twigs in the foreground, fire behind. The scene just before the witch lures Fantasio to her bed and changes into a beauty
Description:
Title and imprint from Paulson., "Vol: I P: 155"--Lower left, below image., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 14 x 7.6 cm., and Date given in Steevens's hand: 1724. With other notes by Steevens that apply to the group of seven other illustrations mounted on same sheet.
A scene in Donna Theresa's bedchamber: Fantasio transformed by witchcraft into a lap-dog is being petted in the arms of Donna Theresa, who sits on her canpoied bed. The Provincial stands to her right as he addresses her
Description:
Title and imprint from Paulson., Paulson notes that Hogarth omits "invt." from his signature suggesting perhaps that this print too is a copy., "V: II : P: 1"--Lower left, below image., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 14.3 x 7.8 cm., and Date given in Steevens's hand: 1724. With other notes by Steevens that apply to the group of seven other illustrations mounted on same sheet.
Illustration of the story of Cupid and Psyche; in a bedchamber at night, Psyche holding up a lamp, is startled to discover Cupid lying on the bed
Description:
Title and imprint from Paulson., "V: II. p: 29"--Lower left, below image., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 14.5 x 7.4 cm., and Date given in Steevens's hand: 1724. With other notes by Steevens that apply to the group of seven other illustrations mounted on same sheet.
The cardinal is talking to a hermit outside his hut in the mountains. Fantasio (as a lap-dog) is in the arms of Donna Angela
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., "V: II. P: 100"--Lower left, below image., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 14 x 7.6 cm., and Date given in Steevens's hand: 1724. With other notes by Steevens that apply to the group of seven other illustrations mounted on same sheet.
Frontispiece to Charles Gildon's The new metamorphosis (London : Sam. Briscoe, 1724) shows Apuleius on the left and Lucian on the right each with an ass with the modern adaptor in the middle. Below the figures of Apuleius and Lucien are two satyrs; between them is a scene in front of church with couples embracing and kissing; a man and a woman stand on either side of a boy chastising him (?).On the base is etched "Credo pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris", an allusion to the satire on women
Alternative Title:
Credo pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., "Vol. 1. p.1"--Lower left corner, below image., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The Golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 14.1 x 7.7 cm.
Publisher:
Sam. Briscoe
Subject (Name):
Apuleius.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Satyrs (Greek mythology), Authors, Children, and Couples
Illustration of Canto IV, II, 121 ff.: Sir Plume dispatched by Belinda demands her stolen lock of hair from the Baron
Description:
Title etched below image and above eight lines of verse., Date based on Samuel Ireland's copies., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 244., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Saml. Ireland's copy., and On page 7 in volume 1.
