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 h...
Figures painted on the bottoms and sides of pots used for funerary rights. These objects were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
A glass urn painted with pictures of boys(?). The vessel on which the image is based was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Depiction of four glass vessels with sepulchral functions. The two flask-shaped vessels at top were apparently used to hold oils and the pot-shaped vessels below used to hold ashes. These vessels were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acq...
Depiction of four tear-shaped vessels, one at each corner of the plate, with a shorter cup-shaped vessel in the middle. These vessels 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.
Publisher:
R. Manby and H.S. Cox
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Classical antiquities, Containers, Glassware, and Pottery
The countess is shown swooning in a chair in her father's house near London Bridge (seen through the window on the left). At her feet a bottle with a label "laudanum" alongside an execution broadside tells us that Silvertongue has been hanged for kill...
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 6
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Children, Death, Dogs, Interiors, Merchants, Nobility, Paintings, Pharmacists, People with disabilities, Physicians, Servants, Suicides, and Syphilis
In a bedroom of The Bagnio, the mortally-wounded Earl leans on a table, the countess kneeling before him with clasped hands. Behind her on the right Silvertongue escapes through the window. On the left the watchmen stand in the doorway with startled...
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 inclu...
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 ...
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 3
Description:
Ttitle and number engraved below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Crocodiles, Medical equipment & supplies, Nobility, Rake's progress, Physicians, Prostitutes, Quacks, Scientific equipment, Sexually transmitted diseases, and Skeletons
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 bon...