Foundling Hospital: above, the achievement of arms; below, Captain Coram and several children, carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. The lower scene shows Coram carrying the Royal Charter, granted in 1739, under his arm. Hog...
"Interior of the Fleet Prison with the House of Commons committee appointed to enquire into the state of gaols (after Hogarth's painting of c.1729 in the National Portrait Gallery); to left, James Oglethorpe, Chairman of the Committee, confronts the w...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published June 1st, 1803 by G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London
Subject (Name):
Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785, and Bambridge, Thomas, active 1729.
A group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. A version of the print also published with lettering "The company of undertakers". The three named quacks occupy the top, twelve other 'doctors' are s...
Alternative Title:
Company of undertakers
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Mapp, Sarah, -1737,, Taylor, John, 1703-1772,, and Ward, Joshua, 1685-1761,
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Quacks and quackery, Costume, Medical equipment & supplies, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs
"The interior of a chapel with an impassioned preacher inspiring his listeners; considerably altered from the earlier state known as "Enthusiasm Delineated", for instance, by the substitution of representations of the Cock Lane Ghost (a topical refere...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published by G.G. & J. Robinsons Pater-noster Row
Subject (Name):
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763, Villiers, George, 1690-1748., and Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
Subject (Topic):
Christianity, Superstition, Demonology, Demons, Ghosts, Rabbits, Witches, Sleeping, and Supervisors
The third print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set at Sadler's Wells. "A dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River; the wife holds a fan with a design of Aphrodite and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published December the 1st, 1797, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, London
Facsimile of a sketch with hand-written descriptions, with outlines of Garrick and Quin from the back, next to a scale of feet, with profiles of a 'short proportion' to the left of Quin, and a 'tall proportion' to the right of Garrick
Alternative Title:
Facsimile of the proportions of Garrick and Quin
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme
Subject (Geographic):
British.
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779 and Quin, James, 1693-1766
Facsimile of a sketch with hand-written descriptions, with outlines of Garrick and Quin from the back, next to a scale of feet, with profiles of a 'short proportion' to the left of Quin, and a 'tall proportion' to the right of Garrick
Alternative Title:
Facsimile of the proportions of Garrick and Quin
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme
Subject (Geographic):
British.
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779 and Quin, James, 1693-1766
A conversation piece: John Rich and his family relaxing in the gardens at Cowley; three men on the right stand admiring a painting; two women on the left sit by the table in conversation, behind John Rich who reclines on pillows on grass, an open book...
Portrait after Hogarth, full-length standing in a landscape, right hand on a stone ledge, hat and cane in his left, looking at and bowing slightly to the viewer with right foot advanced, wearing a suit with a high sheen, the coat open to reveal a long...
