"The Committee" made up of members of Parliament who are depicted here seated around a table, their hats hung on the wall behind them; two members standing and debating; to the left, standing in doorway, a man wearing a long cloak, holding a staff. The sheet of paper on the table reads "The League & Covenant." The doorway is on the left as it appears in the original drawing
Alternative Title:
Committee and Comittee
Description:
Title engraved above image., Reversed copy of the first state of Hogarth's The committee. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 91., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered '10' in upper right corner.
A large group of men sit in chairs around a table in panelled room, among them Hudibras. In the center of the table is a piece of paper titled "The League & Covenant" along with quill pens and an ink well. Their hats hang on pegs on the walls behind them. Several of the men look to the right with startled expressions as a messenger rushes in through a door to the right, accompanied by a black man in a cloak and turban
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Caption on either side of title begins: And now the saints began their reign for wch. th' had yearn'd so long in vain ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; "carried on in the next print" mostly erased from this impression., and One of twelve large illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, 1725/6.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by P. Overton near St. Dunston's Ch. in Fleet Street & J. Cooper in James Street, Convent Garden
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, History, Blacks, Interiors, and Legislative bodies
A large group of men sit in chairs around a table in panelled room, among them Hudibras. In the center of the table is a piece of paper titled "The League & Covenant" along with quill pens and an ink well. Their hats hang on pegs on the walls behind them. Several of the men look to the right with startled expressions as a messenger rushes in through a door to the right, accompanied by a black man in a cloak and turban
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Caption on either side of title begins: And now the saints began their reign for wch. th' had yearn'd so long in vain ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; "carried on in the next print" mostly erased from this impression., One of twelve large illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, 1725/6., and On page 37 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 27 x 34.7 cm.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by P. Overton near St. Dunston's Ch. in Fleet Street & J. Cooper in James Street, Convent Garden
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, History, Blacks, Interiors, and Legislative bodies
"Design in two rows of six sections, with 11 figures demonstrating an exercise for the halberd, fortifications in the background, at lower right three halberds, a pike and flag tied together ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson., One of two folding plates to John Blackwell's A compendium of military discipline., Companion print to: Manual for saluting with the half-pike., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print: Captain Grose asserts, that in this book only, the exercises of the Halberd is displayed. Nichols's Biographical anecdotes &c, third edit, p. 439., and On page 45 in volume 1.
Publisher:
John Blackwell
Subject (Name):
England and Wales. Army. Honourable Artillery Company of London.
Subject (Topic):
Arms & armament, Forts & fortifications, Saluting, Soldiers, and British
In an auditorium with seats around the perimeter, a stout college dignitary holding out a piece of paper stands on the right observing a scuffle between students on the left. The only word left on the torn piece of paper is "terrae".
Description:
Title, publisher, and date from Paulson., Frontispiece to Vol. 1 of Nicholas Amhurst's Terra-Filius, or The secret history of the University's of Oxford. London : R. Francklin, 1726., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
In an auditorium with seats around the perimeter, a stout college dignitary holding out a piece of paper stands on the right observing a scuffle between students on the left. The only word left on the torn piece of paper is "terrae".
Description:
Title, publisher, and date from Paulson., Frontispiece to Vol. 1 of Nicholas Amhurst's Terra-Filius, or The secret history of the University's of Oxford. London : R. Francklin, 1726., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Original. Below this print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 169., and On page 47 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 13.9 x 8.6 cm.
"Design in two rows of eight sections, with 15 figures demonstrating a salute with the half-pike; at top, the title in an oval decorated with arms, and figures numbered 1-7, below, figures numbered 1-8 ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson., One of two folding plates to John Blackwell's A compendium of military discipline., Caption in the oval at the left: The several postures of [the] salute wth [sic] [the] half-pike. Describ'ed from order & on [the] long march, as it is practis'd in [the] Artillery Company of [the ] City of London. By Jon. Blackwell adjutant and clerk., Companion print to: Exercise for the Halberd., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 439. Blackwell's figure in all, 26. Note below print: Given me by the Revd Dr. Lort., and On page 44 in volume 1.
Publisher:
John Blackwell
Subject (Name):
England and Wales. Army. Honourable Artillery Company of London.
"An exterior scene set among ruins; to left the naked buttocks of Gulliver to whom an enema is being administered by a crowd of Lilliputians; to right their prime minister, carried in a thimble, supervises operations while beyond a rat carries off a child."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Alternative form of title
Description:
Title, state, and publisher from Paulson., Caption below image: The punishment inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver by applying a Lilypucian fire engine to his posteriors for his urinal profanation of the Royal Palace at Mildendo which was intended as a frontispiece to his first volume but omitted., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 331., and On page 163 in volume 2.