Title from caption below image., Text at top of image: "pindarici fontis qui non expalluit haustus" and "ob. 1667, aet. 49.", Date and place of publication surmised from data on similar print from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,59.4., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
Edward Vaughan fanmaker and Edward Vaughan marchand evantalists
Description:
Title etched within image., Formerly attributed to Hogarth., Text in English and French., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On page 5 in volume 1.
Title from text in image., Text in image above sitter's name: nat. 1632; denat aetat 68., Text in image below sitter's name: "... whose tunefull [sic] muse affords the sweetest numbers and the fittest words. Addison.", Caption below image: Praenobili dno. dno. Edoardo comiti Oxoniae, &c. ad archetypu[m] museo Harleyano asservatum qua[m] par est observantia[m], D. D. Vertue sculptr., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and Mounted on sheet: 326 x 257 mm.
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand on mount beneath print: Concert at St. Mary's Chapel. See Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 445. Sold at Gulston's auction, for £3.4.0., and On page 48 in volume 1. Mounted to sheet: 14.7 x 15.8 cm.
"Satire on foreign opera singers based on "The Beggar's Opera Burlesqued"; animal-headed singers portraying the principal characters are shown on an outdoor stage with musicians and audience in the foreground; beyond, to left, theatre boxes with an audience of ladies and below a wall hung with ballads against which two men urinate and defecate; to right, a conventional stage scene; an angel carrying a ribbon lettered "Harmony" flies off at top right. On either side hang scrolls listing the presents given to Farinelli, copied from Hogarth's Rake's progress, Plate 2; ten lines of verse below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Italian eunuch's glory
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Formerly attributed to Hogarth, now dismissed. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Given me by the Revd Dr. Lort., and On page 49 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to:
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Musicians, and Opera singers
Title devised by former owner., Date supplied by curator., Formerly attributed to Hogarth., Ms. note in pencil below: Arms of Cox., and On page 6 in volume 1.
Coat of arms with wolves heads and the motto "Virtus invidiae scopus" etched in verse
Alternative Title:
Virtus invidiae scopus
Description:
Title from manuscript note in George Steevens's hand., Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works., Not in: British Museum catalogue., Penciled ms. note above: Sold at Gulston's Auction for £6.10.0. Penciled ms. note below: Arms of Methuen., and On page 5 in volume 1.
