"A copy of Hogarth's design: on the shield, a naked and reclining infant raising its right arm. Supporters, dexter, a terminal figure of 'Nature', many-breasted; sinister, 'Britannia', holding a cap of Liberty on a staff, and her shield. Crest 'a Lamb'; motto 'Help'. Below the title: 'These Armes are to be altered by the Desire of the Committee, a Wolf in Fleecy Hosiery is to be substituted for the Lamb and the Supporters are to be taken away - '."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Arms for the Foundling Hospital
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and imprint from British Museum catalogue., One plate [tail-piece] to Sayers' verse satire: Foundling Chapel Brawl. Printed by C. Roworth in Bell Yard, Temple Bar in 1805., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Title from engraved text above image., Imprint from British Museum online catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Numbered 'Plate 42' in upper left corner., 'Page'--Upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward. 1796., Temporary local subject terms: Coats of arms: burlesque arms -- clergy: monks -- Emblems: man on an eagle -- Scrolls -- Executions -- Military uniforms: Hussars' uniform -- Brazen Head -- Reference to Katterfelto -- Weapons: bows -- Literature: R.E. Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his marvellous travels ..., 1786., and Plate numbering and placement instructions erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):
Munchausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von, 1720-1797
Foundling Hospital: above, the achievement of arms; below, Captain Coram and several children, carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. The lower scene shows Coram carrying the Royal Charter, granted in 1739, under his arm. Hogarth made the original drawing to head the subscription roll of the hospital
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Nichols, J. The genuine works of William Hogarth. London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row, 1808-17, v. 2, page 152., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., and Two images on one plate. Top image is a copy of an engraving after Hogarth from ca. 1747; see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 230. Bottom image is a copy of an engraving after Hogarth from the 1740s; see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 225.
Tom boxes with Jackson: two fencers (1eft), one masked, watch the boxers. Logic (the Oxonian, third of the trio) stands by the door, his umbrella under his arm, watching Jerry who is being weighed to decide a bet between them. On the wall are diagrams, a row of prints of fencers; a picture of two pugilists hangs above the door (right); boxing gloves and foils line the walls
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Egan, Pearce. Life in London. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1821, page 217., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint: 14.2 x 21.6 cm.
Depiction of seven Roman weights(?), numbered in Roman numerals from I to VII. The sides of the circular objects bear pictures of various heads, beasts, objects and symbols. Three of the objects have their obverse and reverse depicted side by side, the two faces connected with a horizontal double line. All were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Ex aere" etched in lower center, below object numbered "VI"., "Tab. XVIII"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 116 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 22.4 x 18.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Depiction of seven Roman weights(?), numbered in Roman numerals from I to VII. The sides of the circular objects bear pictures of various heads, beasts, objects and symbols. Three of the objects have their obverse and reverse depicted side by side, the two faces connected with a horizontal double line. All were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Ex aere" etched in lower center, below object numbered "VI"., "Tab. XVIII"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 94 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.
Depiction of eleven antiquarian coins, numbered in Roman numerals from I to XI. The eight at the top of the plate have the obverse shown above and the reverse below (the two sides connected by a double line), and the three at the bottom of the plate have the obverse shown on the left and the reverse shown on the right (similarly connected by lines). All were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Ex aere" etched in lower center, to the right of object numbered "X"., "Tab. XIX"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 193 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 22.8 x 17.9 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Depiction of eleven antiquarian coins, numbered in Roman numerals from I to XI. The eight at the top of the plate have the obverse shown above and the reverse below (the two sides connected by a double line), and the three at the bottom of the plate have the obverse shown on the left and the reverse shown on the right (similarly connected by lines). All were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Ex aere" etched in lower center, to the right of object numbered "X"., "Tab. XIX"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 94 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.
Title from text in image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Four lines of text below title, within design: Erected by the voluntary subscription of Englishmen to perpetual memmory [sic] of Gisbal, a northern patriot ..., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: Monuments: Emblems: boot as Lord Bute -- Emblems: thistle -- Emblems: bagpipes -- Animals: Lord Holland as fox -- Birds: the Duke of Bedford as duck -- Emblems: staff and cap of liberty -- Emblems: scales of justice -- Mouth of Hell., and Mounted to 34 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
