"Interior of St Paul's; elegantly dressed figures strolling across tiled floor in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Perspective interieure de l'eglise Cathedrale de St. Paul
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge., and Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street
A young man sleeps reclining on a chaise-longue, his wig removed and placed on a chair to the left. A richly dressed young woman standing behind the chair leans forward looking at him with a sceptical expression on her face. On the other side, another young woman leans close to him, upsetting in the process a table on which a black servant was about to place a tea tray. In the background on the right, a serving maid walks into the room, her arms raised in alarm
Description:
Title from item., Second line of title and publisher from an impression in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of the second line of title and imprint., and One of a series of engravings made from the paintings by Francis Hayman for the ballroom at Vauxhall Gardens in 1743.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in the Golden Buck in Fleet Street
"The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr. Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a young chimney sweep, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink. In the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve depicted), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to the right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
March to Finchley
Description:
Title from caption below image., Added title and state from Paulson., State with date in 'Tottenham Court Nursery" sign changed from 1746 to 1745., Dedication etched below image: To His Maiesty the King of Prusia [sic], an encourager of the arts and sciences! This plate is most humbly dedicated., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: First impression., A line has been added above the 's' in 'Prusia' to indicated the need for a correction; a comma has been added in ink following the word "Prusia"., and On page 151 in volume 2.
"The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr. Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a young chimney sweep, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink. In the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve depicted), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to the right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
March to Finchley
Description:
Title from caption below image., Added title and state from Paulson., State with date in 'Tottenham Court Nursery" sign changed from 1746 to 1745., Dedication etched below image: To His Maiesty the King of Prusia [sic], an encourager of the arts and sciences! This plate is most humbly dedicated., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 43 x 55.4 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 37 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
"The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr. Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a young chimney sweep, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink. In the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve depicted), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to the right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
March to Finchley
Description:
Title from caption below image., Added title and state from Paulson., State with date in 'Tottenham Court Nursery" sign changed from 1746 to 1745., Dedication etched below image: To His Maiesty the King of Prusia [sic], an encourager of the arts and sciences! This plate is most humbly dedicated., and A line has been added above the 's' in 'Prusia' to indicated the need for a correction; a comma has been added in ink following the word "Prusia".
"In a room, a group watching as a man sitting at a round table builds a house of cards, which tumbles down as a figure leans in at right, the man and a man standing in outdoor clothes behind looks at him with dismay; in the right foreground two young children build their own house on a small table; doors open onto garden in background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher inferred from another print in the series: The king and miller of Mansfied., One of a series of engravings after paintings by Francis Hayman for the ballroom at Vauxhall Gardens in 1743., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting i`n loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Children, Dogs, Drawing rooms, Furniture, Interiors, Playing cards, Screens, Tables, and Toys
Title from text in image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Design enclosed by a horseshoe-shaped border., Two columns of verse below image: Calm, tho not mean, couragious without rage ... Signed: W. Hamilton., and Mounted to 23 x 20 cm.
"The object of this engraving is to enumerate the many evils inflicted on England by its connection with Hanover. A great number of persons are crowded in groups in a place of public resort, and conversing on public affairs ... The general discontent at the injurious influence of German politics broke out very strongly at this time in reference to the expenses entailed on England to "secure the succession of the imperial dignity to the Archduke Joseph, eldest son and heir to the reigning emperor"."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Conference, pour parler entresien
Description:
Title engraved within cartouche below image; alternative title engraved within banner at top of image: The conference, pour parler entresien., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Fourteen lines of verse in two columns below image: How great must Britain's Influence appear, while from it Germany expects an heir? ... If then the poorest could corrupt the rest.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Germany, Hannover (Province), Hannover (Germany : Province), and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790. and Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, 1727-1777.