Satire on royalty, episcopacy and the law, after a print by Hogarth; a group of nine composite figures, the most prominent of which are a king, whose head is represented by a coin, a bishop whose head is a jew's harp, and a judge whose head is a gavel...
Description:
Title, publisher, and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
Molton & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Law & legal affairs, Rulers, and Allegorical prints
Satire on royalty, episcopacy and the law, after a print by Hogarth; a group of nine composite figures, the most prominent of which are a king, whose head is represented by a coin, a bishop whose head is a jew's harp, and a judge whose head is a gavel...
Alternative Title:
Some of the principal inhabitants of the moon
Description:
Title and imprint from Paulson.
Publisher:
Molton & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Law & legal affairs, Rulers, and Allegorical prints
Five sketches depicting from upper left: two elder women in profile, "A infant Jew. Peter" (a Jupiter-like figure holding a thunderbolt) with an eagle emering from the clouds, a caricature of a man with a look of consernatin in profile, outline of six...
"Portrait after a drawing by Hogarth; head and shoulders of a man with a prominent forehead and hooked chin, to left looking down, wearing a wide-brimmed hat set at a tilt and cravat; with another head in profile to left wearing a plumed cocked hat, b...
Two images. On the top: in an elaborate frame, the Virgin holds the swaddled Child; a bald man (monk?) looks down at the child from over her left shoulder. Below, a detail of the friar's foot, also in a frame, with a curtain pulled to the left side
Two images. On the top: in an elaborate frame, the Virgin holds the swaddled Child; a bald man (monk?) looks down at the child from over her left shoulder. Below, a detail of the friar's foot, also in a frame, with a curtain pulled to the left side
Night scene, a couple interrupted in flagrante by the night watch, she lying on the ground at right with dishevelled clothing, he held back on the left, with his breeches undone; a censorious old woman on the far left; a watchman on the right holding ...
