Plate 8. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 8. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden as seen in 2nd state, but now removed) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out
Alternative Title:
O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever froward ...
Description:
Title, imprint, and state from Paulson., Added title from first lines of caption. Cf. Paulson, Description based on imperfect impression;, 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 40.8 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 8 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a clergyman, and a warder; in the background, an inmate who believes himself to be God has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall. Two elegantly dressed female visitors whisper together, the one holding a fan against her face to shield from her view an inmate in a cell who believes he is King and sits naked, save for a crown, urinating on his straw bed. The wall and the banister of a staircase to the right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude
Alternative Title:
Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art?
Description:
Title, state and imprint from Paulson., Additional title from first lines of verse etched below image., Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 40.7 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 15 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
Following the seduction, the young man pulls up his breeches while the young woman clings to his arm with an adoring, pleading look on her face. On the wall are two pictures one entitled "Before" and the other "After"; in the first Cupid is lighting a firework, in the second he is pointing to a spent firework. The dresser is turned over, the mirror and chamber pot broken; the curtain rod around the bed has been pulled down. The dog is curled asleep under the chair on which her corset sits. The woman's head is framed by the shell on the head
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., "Pursuant to an act of parliament. Price two shillings & 6 pence.", Companion print to Hogarth's Before, published on the same date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The man is said to have been modeled on Sir John Willes. See Paulson., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 41 x 32.8 cm, on sheet 56 x 45 cm., and Leaf 27 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761
Subject (Topic):
Boudoirs, Canopy beds, Chamber pots, Couples, Cupids, Dogs, Fireworks, Seduction, Sex, and Women
In her bedroom, a young woman seems to resist the advances of an eager-looking young man sitting on her canopied bed. He pulls her towards him as she pulls away. On the wall to the left is a picture which shows Cupid lighting a firework; it is titled "Before." As she pulls away she upsets the dresser with a mirror; her powders and cosmetics have tumbled to the floor. In the drawer can be seen letters, a novel, and "The Practice of Piety", but on top is a copy of Rochester's Poems. The lady's dog jumps toward the couple. Her willingness to be seduced is suggested by the fact that she is not wearing her corset which can be seen on a chair to the right; her bonnet hangs on the curtains around her bed
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to Hogarth's After, published on the same date., "Price two Shillings & 6 pence"--Below design, on the right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 42.4 x 32.7 cm, on sheet 56 x 45 cm., and Leaf 26 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761
Subject (Topic):
Boudoirs, Canopy beds, Chamber pots, Couples, Cupids, Dogs, Fireworks, Seduction, Sex, and Women
Plate 43. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 39. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Benjamin Hoadly; three-quarter length, seated, facing to the right, his left hand raised as if in blessing. He is wearing a shoulder length curly white wig and grand ecclesiastical robes. Behind him is a draped curtain and in the background stained glass windows with images of an apostle and king(?).
Alternative Title:
Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester ...
Description:
Title from Paulson: Bishop Hoadly., Caption title engraved below image: The Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, aet. 67, A.D. 1743., Date from Paulson., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 42.8 x 29.9 cm, on sheet 56 x 40 cm., and Leaf 39 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
The subscription ticket for "Marriage A-la-Mode". A group of heads drawn in a naturalistic style seen in profile; below, five compartments with heads after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons (i.e."characters") and caricatures after Ghezzi, Raphael Urbin, Annibale Carracci, and Leonardo da Vinci
Alternative Title:
3 characters. 4 caricaturas, Three characters. Four caricaturas, and Characters and caricaturas
Description:
Title from Paulson: Characters and caricaturas., Title etched below image: 3 characters. 4 caricaturas : for a farthar explanation of the difference betwixt character & caricatura see [the] preface to Joh. Andrews., Second state, with receipt at bottom of plate masked. See Paulson., Date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., and Mounted on leaf 49 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Plate 69. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 49. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Originally designed as the subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty" the design, based on Leonardo's Last Supper shows, depicts Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. On the bottom right, a dog peeps over the edge of the table, the cloth and cutlery tossed off to the side. In this state the receipt portion has been cut off and statement of responsibility added
Description:
Title, publisher, and state from Paulson., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 16.2 x 19.2 cm, on sheet 21.2 x 24.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 49 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Mary Hackabout, now a harlot and mistress of a wealthy London Jew, exposes her breast and kicks over a tea table to divert his attention from the presence of her younger lover who hides behind the door of the room with her maid servant. A monkey and young black servant boy in a feathered turban look on the scene with frighten expressions. The mask and mirror in the lower left corner and the paintings of scenes from the Old Testament (Jonah IV.8 and 2 Samuel VI.1-5) hanging on the wall further amplify the artist's moral message
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Title, state, and date from Paulson., State before addition of black Latin cross in the center below design, "Plate 2."--Lower left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 31.2 x 37.9 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 3 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Biblical events, Blacks, Boudoirs, Jews, Masks, Monkeys, Paintings, Prostitutes, Rake's progress, Relations between the sexes, Servants, and Tea
A scene in Bridewell prison with Moll Hackabout and the other inmates beating hemp under the supervision of a stern warder holding a cane. Moll is still dressed in her finery, but a one-eyed female attendant fingers the lace lappet hanging from her cap and her serving-woman sits before her in Moll's elegant shoes; next to her a fellow inmate picks vermin off her clothes. Next to Moll is a gambler, a torn playing card on the floor in front of him; behind her, a man stands with his hands in a pillory on which hangs a sign "Better to Work than Stand thus." Further down the wall is a whipping post with the words "The Wages of Idleness." On a shudder against the back wall is an effigy of Sir John Gonson ("Sr. J G").
Alternative Title:
Moll Hackabout and her fellow inmates at work in Bridewell prison
Description:
Title, publisher, date, and state from Paulson., State before black Latin cross added in the middle, below design. See Paulson., "Plate 4"--Lower left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 31.3 x 38.7 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 5 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
In a squalid room Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is attended by her two physicians (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies. Her serving-woman reaches out to them in alarm to get their attention for the invalid, while another woman rifles through Moll's portmanteau (with her initials as in Plate 1). A small boy knelling next to Moll's chair scratches his head as he turns a joint of meat roasting in front of the fire while a pot overflows on the grate. An over-turned table with an advertisement "Practical scheme ... 'Anodyne" litters the floor in the foreground
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publisher, date, and state from Paulson., State before addition of black Latin cross added to center below design. See Paulson., "Plate 5"--Lower left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 32.1 x 39 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 6 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Misaubin, Jean, 1673-1734. and Rock, Richard, 1690-1777.