In a graveyard with tombstones and sarcophagi, a headless ghost in a monk's robes (crucifix and rosary hanging round his neck) carries his head in his left arm as he walks left toward a sarcophagus inscribed "This monument was erected by Simon Lord Fr...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st 1788, by Malton & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall
"Sin interposes herself between Satan on the left and his son Death on the right to stop them attacking each other, revealing their relation to each other, with a portcullis gate in upper right, attached by a chain in the foreground; copy of a print b...
Alternative Title:
Satan, sin and death
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by Messrs Moulton & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall
Benefit ticket for William Milward, for his performance of Colonel Feignwell, in Centlivre's 'A Bold Stroke for a Wife' at Lincoln's Inn in 1728; illustrated with a scene from Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' with Lockit, Lucy, Macheath, and Polly Peachum i...
Alternative Title:
Benefit ticket for Milward
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Faulder and Egerton
Subject (Name):
Milward, William, 1702-1742. and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Benefit ticket for William Milward, for his performance of Colonel Feignwell, in Centlivre's 'A Bold Stroke for a Wife' at Lincoln's Inn in 1728; illustrated with a scene from Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' with Lockit, Lucy, Macheath, and Polly Peachum i...
Alternative Title:
Benefit ticket for Milward
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Faulder and Egerton
Subject (Name):
Milward, William, 1702-1742. and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
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
"Four gentlemen beside a curtained bed in which a black woman reclines; she reaches out to touch the chin of one of the men who has evidently just pulled back the curtain."--British Museum catalogue
"Benefit ticket for Spiller: the comedian stands in the center under a set of scales; he supports a burning taper; at his feet is a pile of tickets for his benefit performance labelled 'Pit', 'Gallery', and 'Box'. He offers the tickets to people on th...
Alternative Title:
Ticket for the benefit of Spiller
Description:
Title etched within image.
Publisher:
Samuel Ireland
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Spiller, James, 1692-1729.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Bailiffs, Jails, City & town life, and Scales
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
A game of draughts ended; four men at a table, the figure on left is in full bottom powdered wig, standing, with cane on table, his three-cornered hat beside him, the players, seated opposite each other in the centre, and to right, a figure standing w...
Alternative Title:
Dr. Garth. Pope
Description:
Title from text in image. Series title etched below image; series number in upper right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719. and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Etching after a painting by Hogarth; head and shoulders of a young woman looking down and to the left; wearing a gown with a loose neckline, her hair dressed tied with a bow at the back and a band decorated with a crescent moon in front
"The Gamble Arms; a garlanded shield with crossed lion's paws supported on scrolls with a woman's head, flanked by two male torsos supporting a lintel with a head of Minerva in a scalloped niche at the centre and baskets of fruit to either side; a scr...
"A waiter and a hungry customer; an elderly man with dishevelled hair and a dog at his heels, bending forward to seize a mug from the waiter, said to be Daniel Button, who turns his head away; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth."--British ...
Description:
Title from Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, no. 1702.
"A game of draughts interrupted; four men at a table, on the left, Alexander Pope (?) standing with a paper in his right hand, at centre, the players (one of whom is said to be Dr. John Arbuthnot) in full-bottomed powdered wigs, to right, a man said t...
Alternative Title:
Dr. Arbuthnot. Count Viviani
Description:
Title from text in image. Series title below image; plate number in upper right corner.
Publisher:
S. Ireland?
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735., and Viviani, Count.
"A game of draughts ended; four men at a table, figure on left in full bottom powdered wig, standing, with cane on table, his three-cornered hat beside him, the players, seated opposite each other in the centre, and to right, a figure standing with hi...
Alternative Title:
Dr. Garth. Pope
Description:
Title from text in image. Series title etched below image; series number in upper right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719. and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Hogarth's shop card presenting him as an engraver both of prints and decorative metalwork; frame with a figure in classical dress on either side (on the left a woman, on the right a man drawing) and, above, putti holding a print and a vase; lettered i...
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth, engraver and Hogarth's shop card
Description:
Title etched within image.
Publisher:
Published for Samuel Ireland; by R. Faulder; T. Egerton; and B. White
Portrait after a painted sketch by Hogarth; head and shoulders to right, glancing towards the viewer, wearing a gown with a plain cravat and full-bodied jaw-length wig
A copy after the 1734 print from a design by W. Hogarth. The artist Jonathan Richardson, seated at a table, looks through a telescope that is aimed at the bare bottom of his son who stands on the table before him. Through his son the father looks at a...
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 from caption below image.
Publisher:
Samuel Ireland.
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Law & legal affairs, Rulers, and Allegorical prints
Etching after a painting by Hogarth; head and shoulders of a young woman looking down and to the left; wearing a gown with a loose neckline, her hair dressed tied with a bow at the back and a band decorated with a crescent moon in front
Etching after a painting by Hogarth; head and shoulders of a young woman looking down and to the left; wearing a gown with a loose neckline, her hair dressed tied with a bow at the back and a band decorated with a crescent moon in front
"A boy sitting on a rock and looking to right, resting his elbow on the rock bank behind him, holding a piece of bread in his left hand, wearing an open jacket, breeches and soft broad-brimmed hat; after a drawing by Hogarth
"Four gentlemen beside a curtained bed in which a black woman reclines; she reaches out to touch the chin of one of the men who has evidently just pulled back the curtain"--British Museum catalogue
"A waiter and a hungry customer; an elderly man with dishevelled hair and a dog at his heels, bending forward to seize a mug from the waiter, said to be Daniel Button, who turns his head away; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth."--British ...
Description:
Title from Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, no. 1702.
"A waiter and a hungry customer; an elderly man with dishevelled hair and a dog at his heels, bending forward to seize a mug from the waiter, said to be Daniel Button, who turns his head away; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth."--British ...
Description:
Title from Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, no. 1702.
Two men are seated at a table, the elder (on the left, identified as Martin Folkes) looks through his eyeglasses at a watch, a paper headed 'Votes of the Common' is on the table in front of him. On the right a younger man (identified as Addison) sits ...
Alternative Title:
Martin Folkes
Description:
Title from text in image above the two figures.
Publisher:
Faulder and Egerton
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719. and Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754.
