"A procession of the poor; a horse-drawn cart travels to the left, pulled by two donkeys, surrounded by figures personifying traits of the poor; Poverty sits at top of cart, half naked and meagre, behind her sit Misfortuen, and in front Memory, Experience, Hope, and Industry, who hands out instruments of manual labour, Diligence leads the donkey holding up a whip, other allegorical figures including Labour and Solicitude amongst shabbily clothed procession, Misery and Beggary follow behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumphus paupertatis
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.105., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Tipped in at page 103 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Plate [132] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; an angel with torch grabbing the arm of a veiled figure who creeps towards a pile with crown, staff, sword, scroll and book in the right foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [132] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin performing his famous experiment of June 1752 in which he attached a key to a kite and flew it in a thunderstorm in order to prove that lightning was electricity. Almost allegorical in presentation, Franklin is shown seated on clouds with cherub-like figures assisting him on the right in the backgroun, his red cape blowing in the wind against a stormy sky
Description:
Date and title taken from impression at the Philadelphia Museum of Art., Based on the Benjamiin West oil painting now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art., and Embossed letters at lower left corner: Cercle Librairie estampes encircling initials RTN.
"Plate 3: Charity. A female figure, whole-length to right, holding two children in her arms, in a niche."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue., Publisher not identified; the set of plates was published on several occasions in the Netherlands, first by Goltzius in Haarlem, then by Claes Jansz Visscher (before 1652) in Amsterdam, and finally by Jochem Ottens. See British Museum online catalogue., One of a series of seven numbered plates showing whole length personifications of "The Virtues" placed in niches, after Hendrik Goltzius., Two lines of text engraved below image: Blanda Charis diuina ... constringit aheno. F.E. [Franco Estius]., Plate numbered "3" in lower right corner of image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of design. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1857,0613.505., Mounted on page 77 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 30.9 x 12.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Based on the type of paper, this impression probably represents a mid- to late-18th century printing from an earlier plate.
"Plate 1: Faith. A female figure, whole-length, holding a crucifix and chalice, in a niche."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Publisher not identified; the set of plates was published on several occasions in the Netherlands, first by Goltzius in Haarlem, then by Claes Jansz Visscher (before 1652) in Amsterdam, and finally by Jochem Ottens. See British Museum online catalogue., One of a series of seven numbered plates showing whole length personifications of "The Virtues" placed in niches, after Hendrik Goltzius., Two lines of text engraved below image: Prisca Fides nullo macula ... tartara spernit. Franco Estius., Plate numbered "1" in lower left corner of image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of design and text. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1857,0613.503., Mounted on page 76 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 31.1 x 12.9 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Based on the type of paper, this impression probably represents a mid- to late-18th century printing from an earlier plate.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 July 1762]
Call Number:
762.07.25.01++ Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A full-length female figure holding a vase in her hands stands before a large, leafed-out tree, a open landscape in the distance. At her side, stands the small figure of her brother as Cupid holding her dress and looking off to the left
Description:
Title from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits. and Second state, with letters.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 25th 1762 ; sold at the Golden Head in Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Crewe, Frances Anne, 1748-1818,, Greville, William Fulke, -1837,, and Cupid (Roman deity)
A lady (a Muse?), with a cello and open book with musical notations at her feet, addresses, on behalf of Leveridge's songs, Venus and Bacchus, shown in clouds above; Cupid stands at his mother's side presumably helping to persuade her
Description:
Title, printmaker and artist, state, and date from Paulson, With: Engraved title page for "A collection of songs with the musick by Mr. Leveridge. In two volumes. London : Engrav'd and printed for the author in Tavistock-Street, Covent-Garden, 1727.", "The ornaments around the title page many also be by Hogarth, but I see no very good reason to thinks so"--Paulson, p. 71., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Not inserted by Mr. Nichols., and On page 47 in volume 1. Plate mark 9.6 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 17.3 x 10 cm.
A lady (a Muse?), with a cello and open book with musical notations at her feet, addresses, on behalf of Leveridge's songs, Venus and Bacchus, shown in clouds above; Cupid stands at his mother's side presumably helping to persuade her
Description:
Title, printmaker and artist, state, and date from Paulson, With: Engraved title page for "A collection of songs with the musick by Mr. Leveridge. In two volumes. London : Engrav'd and printed for the author in Tavistock-Street, Covent-Garden, 1727.", "The ornaments around the title page many also be by Hogarth, but I see no very good reason to thinks so"--Paulson, p. 71., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Frontispiece only.
published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 20.3 x 15.9 cm, on sheet 21.9 x 16.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., Plate 67 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works., and With contemporary annotation in ink at bottom of sheet: Frontispiece to Catalogue of Pictures &c. at Exhibition of Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manusfacturers & Commerce, 1761.
published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
49 3885.2 v.1
Collection Title:
Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., and Bound in before title page of: A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Society of Artists of Great-Britain at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Cross, May the 9th, 1761 ... (no. 3 in Horace Walpole's bound collection of catalogues).
