Trade card for Richard Lee, tobacconist at the Golden Tobacco Roll in Panton Street near Leicester Fields, London; design based on Hogarth's 'A Midnight Modern Conversation' (Paulson 128) framed by a lettered oval in a rectangle, decorated with tobacco leaves; a drinking and smoking scene with ten men around a table, one rising to vomit, another collapsed on the floor, paintings and hats hung on the wall behind, fireplace to right. Etching with engraved lettering
Alternative Title:
Richard Lee at the Golden Tobacco Roll in Panton Street near Leicester Fields and Richard Lee at ye Golden Tobacco Roll in Panton Street near Leicester Fields
Description:
Title etched in image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, v. i, p. 12., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 128, Ms. note in pencil above: Doubtful. Ms. note in pencil below: Perhaps an imitation of Hogarth's Midnight Modern Conversation., and On page 5 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed to: 103 x 115 mm.
"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., Cf. No. 2600 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Samuel Ireland's copy., and On page 7 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed to: 160 x 197 mm.
Make the label on the breast & the ring round the neck more distinct and Make the label on the breast and the ring round the neck more distinct
Description:
Titles devised by cataloger based on Paulson titles for Hogarth's originals., With: [Third modern military punishment]., No statement of responsibility below second (lower) image., The top plate with note etched above image: "make the label on the breast & the ring round the neck more distinct.", Design intended for: John Beaver's Roman military punishments., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, vol. i, opposite p. 54., On page 24 in volume 1., and Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above these two plates on one sheet: Forgeries.
Publisher:
Faulder and Egerton
Subject (Name):
Beaver, John, active 18th century.
Subject (Topic):
Military camps, Roman, Punishment & torture, and Soldiers
A copy based on Hogarth's Satire on flase perspective: A view of a tower, staircase, bridge over a river
Alternative Title:
Satire on false perspective
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and artist statemetns inscribed in reverse on print., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 239., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit, page 333., and On page 168 in volume 2.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 15th 1747 [i.e. not before 1794?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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."; the lefy side is also inscribed "To the memory ofThomas Lord Fraser of Lovat."
Description:
Title etched below image., Re-issue after plate cut down, removing Molteno's publication address?, 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., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed), p. 306., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 147., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Spurious. Not in Mr. Nichols's book., and On page 179 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 23.6 x 33.6 cm.
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 up a lantern, illuminating the pillory behind
Description:
Title and date from Paulson, Questionable attribution to Hogarth, but Paulson is inclined to accept as an early work by Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 245., According to Samuel Ireland in his Graphic illustrations of Hogarth (v.1 , p. 9-10) Hogarth executed this design when he was under twenty on the lid of a tobacco box for a Captain Johnson., A copy by Ireland. Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. 1, p. 8., Trimmed sheet., Ms. note I in Steevens's hand in pencil above image: Copy., and On page 180 in volume 2.
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., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of print: See next page., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: See Mr. Nicholl's book, 3d edit, p. 386., and On page 195 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: .
Half-length portrait of Sir James Thornhill, slightly turned to the right
Alternative Title:
Sir James Thornhill
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. i, p. 86., and On page 207 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to:
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 from caption below image., Plate used in: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations, v. 1, p. 155, and On page 231 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed close to plate mark: 13.9 x 12.7 cm.