A scene in London, possibly near St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, shows a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street; a pregnant ballad-seller chants while her baby cries and a parrot above her head on the lamp post squawks...
Description:
Title based on published original.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blocks (Toys), Cats, Children, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Musical instruments, Musicians, Noises, Occupations, Parrots, Street vendors, and Urination
In an attic, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes. He is seated on a chair; behind him his bed is folded up in his sparsely furnished garret. Beside him is a ink well and a candle in a bottle. He rests his left elbow on a pile of b...
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Poverty
Copy of Hogarth's self-portrait; he is painting Thalia, the Comic Muse who holds a satyr's mask in her left hand and a book in her right hand. After the state without "Comedy 1764" on the pillar. Hogarth is seated in a chair leaning forward toward the...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
Subject (Topic):
Painting, Muses (Greek deities) in art, Artists, and British
Lord Thurlow depicted as a schoolmaster is seated on the left. He wears an enormous wig, and holds in his left hand the book "A new guide to India" and in his right a birch rod. Facing him stands Pitt dressed as a young girl, with a key (to the Treasu...
Alternative Title:
Master Billy learning his task and Wiggism, or, Master Billy learning his task
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd for S.W. as the act directs, by J. Cattermoul, No. 376 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England.
Subject (Name):
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805.
