Copy after a Hogarth's design for a frontispiece to a pamphlet against the Hutchinsonians; a witch sitting on top of a crescent moon, pissing a cascade onto the rocks far below, on which lies a bound copy of 'Hutchin', and drowning a group of rats, some of which are gnawing at a bound copy of 'Newton' and a telescope, Title etched below image., Date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4089., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 243., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Copy., and On page 199 in volume 2.
"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, behind; before plate reduced and inscription curtailed and re-engraved."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later states., "S.I. fecit aqua fort" scored through with hashes., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For another state published by W. Dickinson see: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3099., On page 208 in volume 3., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Solsull, the maker of punches for engravers., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit., p. 407.
"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, behind; before plate reduced and inscription curtailed and re-engraved."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, with line break before the word 'engravers'., Date in plate has been changed from 1786 to 1781., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For another state published by W. Dickinson see: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3099., and On page 208 in volume 3.
"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, behind; after plate reduced and inscription curtailed and re-engraved."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, with line break after the word 'engravers',, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For another state published by W. Dickinson see: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3099.
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 silhouettes in profile and two in front view, and an image of two figures, half-length, fighting
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Plate 1: Copy of 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 (BM, 1861,0413.506)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From the original drawing by Hogarth in the collection of Sam. Ireland, Satire on the frequenters of Button's coffee house, Russell Street, Covent Garden, London. No. 2, and Doctor and patient
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., "A later state of the print was used as an illustration facing p. 25 of Samuel Ireland, Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth, I, 1794, where Ireland identifies the waiter as Daniel Button"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1875,0213.361.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1st, 1786, by W. Dickenson, No. 158, New Bond St.
