After William Hogarth's plate 6 from A rake's progress, depicts the interior of a gambling house (Leicester Fields) where groups of men play cards and roll dice, large piles of coins at their sides. The losers are shown in various stages of despair, their wigs tossed on the ground alongside their losing hands. The windows are shuttered and the room lit with candles in wall sconces and in candlesticks on the table. On the right one man is being restrained by his friends as he tries to attack the winner of the stacks in their game. On the left a young man sits at a table signing over his plate and jewelry as an angry man stands over him
Description:
Title in manuscript on mounting sheet., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plagiary on Hogarth's design of A rake's progress, plate 6, "Scene in a gambling house.", Copy of No. 2235 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Mounted to 18 x 26 cm.
Title from later state., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., State before title. Cf. later state in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London?, 1836?], p. 82., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the later state was published., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of artist's name., A reduced copy of one of several prints published in 1771 based on the same Bunbury drawing. Cf. no. 4764 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Shading added in pencil to lower part of design., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Page 83. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and date from note in ink below image, on mounting page., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Possibly a book illustration?, Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 83 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lord Mayor's Show
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, City & town life, Mayors, and Robes
Mr. Pulteney duels with Lord Hervey in a country road, an open field behind them and in the distance trees against a dark, cloudy sky. In the foreground on the right stands the figure of Sir Robert Walpole who points to the two duelers
Description:
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 1., Subjects identified below image in contemporary hand., and Window mounted to 20 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Ickworth, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
"Portrait of Baroness Mary Nolcken, or Mary Le Maistre, seated to front resting on table with her hands clasped in her lap, almost three-quarter length, and facing left, her hair elaborately done with long plait falling over her right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Mrs. Lemaitre, since married to Baron Nolliken envoy from Sweden," written in black ink below artist and printmaker by unknown hand., Mounted on leaf numbered 8 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm, Ms. notes written in black ink by unknown hand., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 21st, 1771, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Page 219. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and date from note in ink below image, on mounting page., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of text., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Gaming-table -- Male costume, 1736 -- Female costume, 1736 -- Table settings -- Furniture., Folded to 23.1 x 25 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 219 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Satire on Sir Robert Fagge, M.P. for Steyning, Susses and a Baronet, showing him on a poor-conditioned, thin horse offering a coin to a country woman in exchange for eggs that she carries in a basket
Description:
Title from published state. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., For possible Hogarth attribution see: Anecdotes of William Hogarth, written by himself. London : J.B. Nichols and son, 1833, p. 312., Cf. No. 2023 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Annotated on verso in an unidentified hand: original state., and Title, "Sr. R. Fagg & the Gypsy," added in an unidentified hand below image.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Sympson, print seller at the Dove in Russell Court Drury Lane
"The King's champion challenges anyone opposing the King's authority; the King standing underneath a large drapery in a room of his palace on the left; courtiers surround him; his champion standing in the centre; three knights on horseback approach from the right; spectators in the back."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1849,0210.500., Series title given in the British Museum online catalogue: Engelants Schoutonneel., Two lines of text in Dutch on the left below image: S. Konings voorvegter daagt aldie geen die Koning William de III ..., Two lines of text in French on the right below image: Le champion du Roy fait un défi á tous ceux ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Joint coronation of William III and Mary II, April 11, 1689 -- Coronation challenge -- Coronation cups: silver-gilt chalice -- Champion of the King -- Yeomen of the Guard -- Royal canopies -- Constable's staff -- Royal arms upon shield -- Coronation banquet in the Westminster Hall -- Corner chairs -- Heralds -- Corinthian columns -- Westminster Hall -- Wall decoration -- Halberds -- Gloves: gauntlets -- Lion & unicorn -- Coronation costume.
Publisher:
Adriaan Schoonebeek
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William III, King of England, 1650-1702, Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694, and Westminster Hall (London, England),
Title from item., Title, pintmaker, and imprint from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Proof before letters, without inscriptions on the flags or on the sash of the figure holding horse's reins, and without "Warwick Lane" plaque on the corner building., Earlier state of No. 4174 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: College of Physicians -- London: Warwick Lane -- Medical: doctors -- Farriers -- Tooth pullers (blacksmiths)., Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.; Bowditch's notes on mounting sheet., and Title and imprint added in ink at bottom of plate below image and inscriptions on flags added in pencil; added by an unknown hand.
