A copy of the fourth print in William Hogarth's series "Four Times of the Day", set at the intersection of Rummer Court and Charing Cross. Le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I can be seen in the background. It is the anniversary of the Restoratio...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published February the 1.st 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson Pater-noster Row London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England.
Subject (Name):
De Veil, Thomas, Sir, 1684-1746
Subject (Topic):
Liquor laws, Freemasons, Jacobites, Accidents, Barbering, Butchers, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Children, Fires, Intoxication, Liquor, Prostitution, Sleeping, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
"A fat bottle-nosed parson preaches from the upper story of a three-decker pulpit. Below him a lean curate sleeps, spectacles on forehead. A lank-haired rubicund clerk listens alertly. At the base of the design are the heads of a congregation, asleep,...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. May 12, 1823, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Preaching, Pulpits, Religious services, and Sleeping
Printed and published by J. Turner, 170, Aldersgate Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Subject (Topic):
Political satire, English, Beds, Sleeping, Dreaming, Ghosts, and Demons
A series of twelve plates following the careers of two apprentice weavers, one who through industry rises to become Mayor of London while the other through his idleness ends up hanged at Tyburn