"Scene on a road near St. Pancras church, which is visible in the background; two women and two men stand in road, one woman with her arms tied and a look of anguish on her face, the other woman raises her arm as one of the men points towards her; illustration to Johnson's 'History of ... Highwaymen"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., 'Page 120.'--Upper left corner of plate., The fictional character, Colonel Jack, is the hero of Defoe's The history and remarkable life of the truly honorable Col. Jacque ... (1722)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: countermark H.
Title from captions below both images., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Reversible head image labeled "Courtship" in one direction and "Marriage" in the other. Title taken from title on each side of image., Dated by costume., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: horn on crowned shield, with initials LVG below.
Sh-tten condition of the King of Pru---a and Shitten condition of the King of Prussia
Description:
Title engraved above image., Printseller's announcement after imprint: Where is sold 20 more., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: All mark'd with De Luces& cram'd with French gold, forth sally'd our hero, to seize, have and hold ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Defecation -- Medicine: smelling salts -- Money.
Publisher:
May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, and Charles Alexandre, duc de Lorraine, 1712-1780
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy in reverse of a figure in: Taste a-la-mode 1745., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress, ca. 1745., and Annotated on verso in contemporary hand: February 1760. Below it, in another contemporary hand: In Cole 1751.
In an open landscape, an elegantly dressed Columbine is seated on a rock and taking a pinch of snuff from a large snuffbox. Her head is turned back slightly towards Harlequin who stands behind her gesturing dramatically
Alternative Title:
Harlequin
Description:
Title engraved below image., Dated by costume., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Columbine. What would'st thou have fonr Harlequin? ... Harlequin. My charmer all I mean is love ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 17 x 17 cm, window mounted to 23 x 19 cm.
In an open landscape, Harlequin is seated on a large rock, holding Columbine in his lap. They are posed in a kiss
Alternative Title:
Columbine
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date from companion print: Columbine ; Harlequin., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Harlequin. Is not this earnest? -- Han't I swore ... Columbine. Ay! if 'twoud last I should be blest ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 18 x 16 cm; window mounted to 23 x 19 cm.
In an open landscape, Mezzetin is sitting on the ground leaning against Columbine who supports herself, half sitting on a large rock. She is pouring wine from a bottle into his mouth. An empty bottle is in her other hand
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Mazzetin. When the mind's with cares possest ... Columbine. If wine can thus your sorrow warm ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 17 x 17 cm., window mounted to 20 x 20 cm.
In an open landscape, Mezzetin and Columbine are sitting on a large rock. She turns away from her companion who, with a drunken expression, holds upside down an empty wine bottle in one hand and a goblet in another
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Mazzetin. My flask is empty, I've no coin ... Columbine. I said when you began to roam ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 17 x 16 cm., window mounted to 20 x 19 cm.
In an open landscape, Columbine reposes on the ground, her arms and head supported on a large rock, her left arm thrown over her head. Scaramouche is kneeling behind her, grabbing with one hand the folds of her skirt as if to lift it. In the background on the left is a large tomb or a ruin
Description:
Title devised by cataloger from captions below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Columbine. How came I overtaken so? ... Scaramouch. Drunk and asleep fie Columbine ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 18 x 17 cm, window mounted to 23 x 19 cm.
In an open landscape, Harlequin is playing with a child placed in a wheeled pen and dressed like himself. Scaramouche is standing on the side watching them
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Scaramouch. So, Harlequin! you've breech'd yr. boy ... Harlequin. Out, devil, you my child will fright ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
In an open landscape, Harlequin is sitting on a rock, holding a little boy across his lap and whipping his bare bottom with a birch rod. Columbine, coming up from behind them, tries to intervene
Alternative Title:
Harlequin
Description:
Title from item., Dated based on another print in this series: Columbine. Harlequin., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of most of the plate number in upper right corner., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Columbine. Will whipping ever mend a child? ... Harlequin. Pray hold yr. tongue how shoud you know ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Pro patria.
Title from caption above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., 'Price 6d.'--Below verse., Twenty lines of verse in two columns below image: When bold rebellion armd by Spain & France, does thro' the land with hasty strides advance ..., Temporary local subject terms: Bishop's mitre -- Reference to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-46., and Mounted to 32 x 25 cm.
Sh-tten condition of the King of Pru---a and Shitten condition of the King of Prussia
Description:
Title engraved above image., Printseller's announcement after imprint: Where is sold 20 more., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: All mark'd with De Luces& cram'd with French gold, forth sally'd our hero, to seize, have and hold ..., Temporary local subject terms: Defecation -- Medicine: smelling salts -- Money., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, and Charles Alexandre, duc de Lorraine, 1712-1780
Title from text in image., "From picture at Althorp. Plate to Birch's Heads."--Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right side.
Publisher:
Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Name):
Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744,
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
Sep. 1745.
Call Number:
745.09.00.06
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An engraving, in which a coach marked "Perkin" carries the Pretender, who is holding a mask and leaning out of the window as he cheers his supporters. The King of France is the coachman; the Pope is a postilion. A monk with the banner "Inquisition" is a running footman as the Devil and two monks hang on behind also as footmen. A band of Scotsmen carry a banner "Slavery". The coach has driven over a clergyman, a lawyer with "Magna Carta", and the figure of Britannia who has dropped her purse and papers inscribed with representations of property -- Leases, Bank, Exchequer, South Sea, India, and Mortgage. In the background, a monk oversees the burning of a martyr as a party of monks kneel before a cross. Several bodies hang from a triangular-shaped gallows. The setting is a town square formed by York Minster, St. James's Palace, and the Admiralty Building, Westminster
Alternative Title:
Perkins triumph
Description:
Title from text at foot of design., With a verse in two columns at foot of design: "Who Views this Print with an Impartial Eye.", "Price 6 d."--Following imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, and Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774
Subject (Topic):
Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Jacobites, Britannia (Symbolic character), and Clergy
Public credit is depicted as a vigorous young gentleman, nobly-dressed in a Senator's gown and holding a merchant's account book whose cover is printed with the motto "solutus omni faenore" signifying true credit free from interest. The griffin below signifies safe custody. In the background figures representing Popery, Rebellion, and Slander, all of which seem to threaten Publick Credit are thwarted as is the fox, an emblem of cunning and deceit. Both the text below describing the image and the image above are enclosed in two separate scroll-formed frames; in the center of the scroll at the top is a mask and a dagger. Probably a response to Robert Walpole's Some considerations concerning the publick funds
Description:
Title engraved in image., Statement of responsibility and place and date of publication engraved in one line below explanatory text., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Portrait, whole length; standing to front, with head turned towards right, looking to front; wearing a long wig, ermine-trimmed robes, lace cravat, breeches and stockings, and a sword hanging from a belt; holding a crown in his right hand; his left hand at his chest; on left, column wrapped in curtain bearing coat of arms with motto: 'Virtute et Fide'; on right, ornate vase in a niche; after Dahl."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text at bottom of plate: Engraved by the appointment of the Honble. Henrietta-Cavendishe-Hollis, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer., 1 print : engraving and etching ; sheet 35.8 x 21.4 cm., Printed on laid paper., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of text from bottom of plate., and In paper frame: 461 x 343 mm.
The young couple are seen in a large, well-furnished room that is in a state of disorder after a night's entertainment; the Viscount is collapsed in a chair having just arrived, the clock showing 1:20 a.m. His sword lies at his feet, broken, and a bonnet hangs from his pocket, suggesting his infidelity; the lap dog sniffs at him suspiciously. The wife's evening's activities at home are suggested by the book "Hoyle on whist" open on the rug in the middle of the floor, a deck of cards on the floor below a card table in the next room, and in the foreground two violins, one with its case open, on the back of an overturned chair, suggesting the wife's own infidelity. The estate steward walks away in disgust at his apparent failure to engage either the husband or the wife in addressing the wad of bills that he has in his hands or the ledger under his arm; in his pocket he carries a pamphlet entitled "Regeneration." Through an archway, a dishevelled and sleepy servant scratches his cap; the walls are decorated with paintings of religious figures. The decor includes an elaborate ormulu clock, chinese porcelain and figures (including a Buddha), a bust of a Roman matron, old master paintings (one, evidently erotic, is screened by a curtain).
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-Mode. Plate 2
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson, and After the painting "Tête à Tête" in the National Gallery, London.
Plate 18. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The scene is the interior of a dispensary with the Viscount sitting in a chair, his child-mistress at his knee. The young girl holds a handkerchief to her mouth as if to hide a sore. With his right hand he holds a pill-box out to the doctor; with his left, he threatens him with his raised cane. A large, well-dressed woman looks angrily at the young man and opens a knife, while the quack polishes his glasses, at his side a skull on the table. The room contains numerous medical and scientific objects, including machines for straightening shoulders and for drawing corks, a dried crocodile, a narwhal's tusk, two mummies, a skeleton, and two pictures, one of a two-headed hermaphrodite and the other an anthropophagi (see Paulson). and After the painting "The Inspection" in the National Gallery, London
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 3
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Series title engraved below image., and State from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Crocodiles, Medical equipment & supplies, Nobility, Physicians, Prostitutes, Quacks, Scientific equipment, Sexually transmitted diseases, Skeletons, and Rake's progress
Plate 19. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The countess holds a morning levée in her lavishly decorated bedroom. Her hairdresser curls her hair as she chats with her lawyer, Silvertongue, who is making arrangements to meet her at a masquerade (as shown on the screen). Others in the room include a female friend and her husband; a castrato singer accompanied by a flautist; a young black man who serves chocolate to the party; and a small black boy who points to the horns of a figure of Actaeon purchased at an auction with other objects, including a fake mermaid and a plate with the scene of Leda and the swan; playing cards and invitations are on the floor in the lower right. On the walls are paintings of biblical stories and mythology, including Lot's Daughters, Jupiter and Io, and Rape of Ganymede
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., and After the painting "The Toilette" in the National Gallery, London.
