Caricatured portrait of John Wilkes holding the Cap of Liberty; reversed copy from Hogarth's print
Alternative Title:
John Wilkes Esquire drawn from life
Description:
Title etched at base of image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. 1, p. 176., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 214., and Mounted to: 33.7 x 45.7 cm.
"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., and Cf. No. 2600 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
"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 the left who put their payment on that side of the balance, while a bailiff on the right taps him on the shoulder, holding out a 'Writ' and creditors add their bills for 'Tripe', 'Gin', Tobacco', 'Snuff', 'Ale', 'Beer' and "The Taylor's bill" to the other side of the balance. A scroll looped over the top of the scales is a banner labelled 'For the Benefit of Spiller', its ends reaching a window of a tavern on the left and the window of a debtor's prison on the right ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ticket for the benefit of Spiller
Description:
Title etched within image., See description of original print. No. 1815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 2.
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
Alternative Title:
Friar's foot
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, vol. 1, p. 127., and For original print see Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2157.
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 with his left hand raised; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth
Alternative Title:
Dr. Garth. Pope
Description:
Title from text in image. Series title etched below image; series number in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, 1701., and Ms. annotation: plate number altered in black ink from '3 ' to "4".
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
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from v.1 of: Ireland. S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, ... and J. Egerton ..., 1794-99., See British Museum catalogue registration no. 1875,0213.372 for description of this state., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark: sheet 180 x 148 mm. Matted with Kinnaird 87K(e): [A black girl].
"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 scroll below labelled '[blank] Gamble.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gamble arms
Description:
Title etched in image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, vol. i, p. 8., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"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 Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, no. 1702., "Plate 1."--Upper right corner., See British Museum Catalogue of drawings, vol. ii, p. 321., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1702., and Sheet trimmed to 131 x 160 mm. Mounted with another print: Kinnaird 89K(a) pl. 2.
"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 to be Count Viviani in a long curling wig and cloak, his left hand resting on a stick; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dr. Arbuthnot. Count Viviani
Description:
Title from text in image. Series title below image; plate number in upper right corner., Traces of burnished text below series title., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, 1702., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Mounted with another print: Kinnaird 89K(a) pl. 4.
Publisher:
S. Ireland?
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735., and Viviani, Count.
