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
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st 1788 by Molton & Co. 132, Pall Mall
"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
Alternative Title:
Discovery
Description:
Title etched below image., Added title from Paulson: The discovery., Statement of responsibility continues: "... the gallant hero who gave rise to this design was Mr. Highmore formerly Manager of Drury Lane Theater, by purchase of Cibber's share in the patent. Few impressions were taken from the plate when it was destroy'd. Mrs. Hogarth recollected the print by the title of Discovery.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st May 1788, by Molton & Co., 132 Pall Mall
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, as they were perfectly discover'd by a telescope brought to [the] greatest perfection since [the] last eclipse; exactly engraved from the objects whereby [the] curious may guess at their religion, manners, &c.
Description:
Title from Paulson., Copy after Hogarth. See British Museum catalogue no. 1739., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), p. 89
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st May 1788, by Molton & Co., 132 Pall Mall
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Law & legal affairs, Rulers, and Allegorical prints
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 Fraser of Lovat &c. &c."
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Lettered below the title, six lines of verse in three sections: "Disguis'd thro' Life, a Layman at [the] Block, My headless Trunk resumes [the] Monkish Frock Doom'd for my Crimes in Pilgrimage to roam. With weary steps I seek my Native Home, Where Vanity inscribes my Father's Tomb, But Justice now denies my Carcase Room.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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 by Charles Townley after a design by Hogarth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Satan, sin and death
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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 in a jail cell; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799).
Alternative Title:
Benefit ticket for Milward
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : R. Faulder and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, p. 98., Reissued plate with imprint burnished out., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 113.
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 in a jail cell; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799).
Alternative Title:
Benefit ticket for Milward
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : R. Faulder and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, p. 98., Reissued plate with imprint burnished out., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 113., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Copy by S. Ireland., Ms. note in pencil "Pen and ink", applies to the drawing also on this page., Printmaker's statement erased from this impression: S.I. ft. erased., and On page 6 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed to: 15.3 x 11.6 mm.
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., Copy after Hogarth. See British Museum catalogue no. 1739., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), p. 89, Ms. note in Steeven's hand above image: Copy. Ms. note note below image: Proof of S.I.'s copy., and On page 7 in volume 1. Sheet 261 x 200 mm.
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., Text continues : as they were perfectly discover'd by a telescope brouhgt to [the] greatest perfection since [the] last eclipse exactly engraved from the objects, whereby [the] curious may guess at their religion, manners, &c., Copy after Hogarth. See British Museum catalogue no. 1739., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 56, Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of print: The same copy, the size of the plate somewhat diminished that is might suit S.I.'s book afterwards published., and On page 301 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Molton & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Law & legal affairs, Rulers, and Allegorical prints
