Title from text above image., Questionable date of publication from annotation in pencil below plate mark., Four columns of verse below image: Know, all the distant din the world can keep rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep ... A. Pope., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge., and No. 9, "Pope's Villa," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
Title from text in image., Text at top of image: "Mon dieu et droit.", and Plate from: Vertue, G. The heads of the kings of England. London : Printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street, 1736.
Portrait of George Granville, Baron Lansdowne; half-length to left, with head turned to look to front; wearing cap, open coat and shirt; his left hand inside the breast of his coat
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Frontispiece to: The genuine works in verse and prose, of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne. In three volumes. London : Printed; and sold by J. Osborn, 1736., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 57 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 first line of letterpress verse surrounding the image., Engraved from Hearne's portrait by Tillemans., Four lines of satirical verse printed around the plate: Hearnius, behold! in closet close y-pent, Of sober face, with learned dust besprent, To future ages will his dulness last, Who hath preserv'd the dulness of the past., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum., Subject identified by J. Reed on second mounting sheet, recto and in later unknown hand on first mounting sheet, recto., and Mounted to 22 x 18 cm, window mounted to 30 x 24 cm.
"Portrait of Henry, Lord Darnley, King of Scotland, set into a frame with emblems relating to him; illustration to Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, 'The History of England'. 1736"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Henry Lord Darnley King of Scotland
Description:
Title from text in image., Text in image below sitter: Ao. dat. MDLXIII, aeta XVII., Plate from: Vertue, G. Heads of the kings of England. London : Knapton, 1736., and Original portrait currently attributed to Hans Ewouts. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1979,U.1241.
"Portrait of Thomas Tanner, half-length to right, looking to front; wearing ecclesiastical robes and bands; in an oval frame, with putto and Acanthus leaves on top, placed behind a marble container with coat of arms in front; books on left, burning lamp on right; impression pasted onto sheet of paper; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place of publication from printmaker's known place of activity., Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text., and In paper frame: 399 x 280 mm.
"Portrait of Sarah Duchess of Somerset, whole length; seated to right in front of a curtain on an elevated pedestal, looking to front; wearing pearl earrings, and fur-trimmed cape over low-cut dress with lace collar and jewels; pointing downwards with the index finger of her right hand; her left hand resting on a crown on a table, next to a closed book; pillar on right; after Quinckhard."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text in image: "M.S.P. Sara Illustrissima Nuper Ducissa Somersetensis ... MDCXCII.", and After Jan Maurits Quinckhard.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Somerset, Sarah Alston Seymour, Duchess of, 1631-169,
Portrait, half-length in an oval on pedestal, wearing wig, lace cravat, and sash; coat of arms below
Alternative Title:
William III King of England
Description:
Title from text in image., Text above image at top left: "Place before this Reign.", Plate from: Lediard, T. The history of England. London : printed by and for, the sole proprietor, J. Mechell, 1736., and Sheet trimmed on right side.
A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen, after Hogarth; a pregnant young woman standing to right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book labelled 'Law of Bastadry [sic]' in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs
Alternative Title:
Denunciation
Description:
Title from Paulson and British Museum catalogue. Alternative title from Paulson: The denunciation., Twelve lines of verse describing the scene etched below image: 'Here Justice triumphs in his Elbow Chair, And makes his Market of the trading Fair; His Office Shelves with Parsh Laws are grac'd, But Spelling Books and Guides between 'em plac'd. Here pregnant Madam screens the real Sire, And Sally swears her Bastard Child for Hire Upon a Rich old Letcher, who denies The Fact, and vows the naughty Hussif [sic] lies; His Wife enrag'd, exclaims against her Spouse, And Swears she'l be reveng'd upon his Brows; The Jade, the Justice and Church Ward'ns agree, And force him to provide Security'., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and See reference in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 309.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Sympson engraver and print-seller at the Dove in Russell Court, Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Courtrooms, Dogs, and Pregnant women
