Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., Sheet trimmed on right and left edges., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Copy., and On page 101 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to, plate visible at bottom: 9.7 x 13.2 cm.
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., and Sheet trimmed on right and left edges.
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., and Sheet trimmed on right and left edges.
Detail of the right side of the first design for William Hogarth's A rake's progress; an older man sits at a table holding the hands of the two young people whose marriage he has just arranged. Only the forearms of the betrothed couple are shown
Description:
Title etched below image., Inscribed in plate at top right: Page 276., Illustration from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth?, Not in: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 209 in volume 3.
A politician sits center in a chair before a table with a single candlestick on top. He holds the candle itself in his hand as he closely examines a sheet of paper, oblivious to the fact that the candle is burning a hole in the brim of his hat. A copy after Hogarth without the two wall maps
Description:
Title etched below image., "Page 274".--Upper right corner., On page 206 in volume 3., and Text visible from verso.
Title etched below image., "Page 147."--Upper right corner., Plate from the first edition of: Ireland, J. Hogarth illustrated, vol. iii, p. 147., Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand above print: The Vase. Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand below print: See Mr. John Ireland's Hogarth illustrated, p. 147., and On page 231 in volume 3.
Title etched above image., Vignette from titlepage of John Ireland's Hogarth illustrated, vol. iii., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand above print: Serpentine or Dolphin Candlestick. See the title-page to Mr. John Irelandss Hogarth illustrated., and On page 231 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Published March 1798, for John Ireland, Poets Corner, Palace Yard, Westminster
A pregnant young woman standing to the right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text following title: Vide Picart's Religious ceremonies, Vol. VI, p. 81., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., See reference to related print published by Joseph Sympson: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), p. 107., and On page 11 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Courtrooms, Dogs, and Pregnant women
Don Quixote and the knight of the rock; on a rocky mountain pass, Quixote graciously addresses the madman, Cardenio, who stands at left in ragged clothes and distrait posture; at right Sancho, standing beside the goatherd and a goat, looks on angrily
Alternative Title:
Freeing of the galley slaves
Description:
Title from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Page 317. Don Quixote. Pl. 7."--Above image., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 98.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Goats, Herders, Mentally ill persons, and Swords & daggers