Portrait after a self-portrait; half-length in an oval frame, directed to right, looking towards the viewer, arms at his sides, wearing a plain coat buttoned at the waist, a white cravat and tricorn over a shoulder-length wig
Description:
Title etched below image., State without price below image, lower right., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 209 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d edit., p. 409.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, June 1781, and sold by C. Townley, Arlington Street, Piccadilly
A beautiful woman reclines on a sofa dangling a bandelure on a strong over the arm of the sofa to amuse a cat
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Had I the treasures of the world, All the fun vies, or the seas borrow, Else my I to the Devil be hurl'd, I'd lay then at her feet to morrow., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. August 1, 1794, by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Str
published according to act of Parliament April 15th, 1767.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"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
Description:
Title engraved below image., "Price five shillings."--Following imprint., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On page 1 of volume 3., and With ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print lower right: See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d Edit. p. 404. This identical print was sold for twenty pounds. In pencil to left of engraved text on print: No more than five impressions were taken from this plate.
