publish'd according to act of Parliament, August 1, 1763.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A re-working of Hogarth's self-portrait of 1749 (Paulson 181); the artist has been replaced by a bear representing Charles Churchill wearing preaching bands and holding a tankard of beer in one paw and a knotty club in the other; the knots in the club are labelled 'Lye 1, Lye 2, Lye 3 ... Lye 16". The oval canvas rests on two books, on top is 'Great George Street : a list of the subscribers to the North Britons' and below 'A new way to pay old debts, a comedy by Massenger.' The dog Trump is urinating on a copy of Churchill's "Epistle to Hogarth". The palette on the right in this state is blank
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher from Paulson., Quote following title: 'But he had a club this dragon to drub, or he had ne'er don't I warrant ye.", "Price 1s."--Following Hogarth's name., Lacks publication line as described by Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand along inner side of page: See Mr. Nicholl's book, 3d edit. p. 387 & seg., Formerly on page 197 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator., and Sheet trimmed to: 37.2 x 27.6 cm.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, August 1, 1763.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 77K(a) Box 220
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A re-working of Hogarth's self-portrait of 1749 (Paulson 181); the artist has been replaced by a bear representing Charles Churchill wearing preaching bands and holding a tankard of beer in one paw and a knotty club in the other; the knots in the club are labelled 'Lye 1, Lye 2, Lye 3 ... Lye 16". The oval canvas rests on two books, on top is 'Great George Street : a list of the subscribers to the North Britons' and below 'A new way to pay old debts, a comedy by Massenger.' The dog Trump is urinating on a copy of Churchill's "Epistle to Hogarth". The palette on the right in this state is blank
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher from Paulson., Quote following title: 'But he had a club this dragon to drub, or he had ne'er don't I warrant ye.", "Price 1s."--Following Hogarth's name., Lacks publication line as described by Paulson., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
763.04.00.03+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption engraved above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., George Bickham, Jr. listed as publisher at this address., Following imprint: Pr. 1s., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: I have a salve shall answer all intents; my conduct shall be just at all events ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Slogans: 'Liberty no excise' -- Literature: paraphrase from Cato, iv.4, by Joseph Addison, 1672-1719: "What a pity it is that we can die but once to serve our country" -- Personifications: Time as infant genius -- Medallions: representation of Justice -- Bridges: Union Bridge in Berwick-on-Tweed -- Clergy: allusion to the bishop of Osnaburg -- Battle-fields -- Eclipses: sun -- Placemen -- Gallows -- Excise -- Unicorns -- British Lion -- Personifications: Death -- Tapestries -- Hands -- Axes -- Emblems: Scottish thistle -- Mottoes -- Orders: Order of the Garter -- Buildings: Tower of London -- Escutcheons: French escutcheons -- Jars -- Serpents.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covens [sic] Garden
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
Title from item., Two columns of verse below title: On George's natal night the laddies come, To fam'd St. James's, each to warm his bum ..., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Celebrations: George III birthday, 1763 -- Military: sentinels -- Bonfires -- Scots -- Frenchmen -- Squibs -- Blacks -- Domestic service: black child servant -- Trades: butcher., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Text on sheet of paper in image: His Majesty's Secretary at War 1763 ...
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and In paper frame: 379 x 249 mm.
"Frontispiece to John Clubbe, 'Physiognomy'; being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan...' (London, 1763); scene outside an inn with the sign of 'The Weighing House', with nine men being assessed along a scale of gravity to levity; at right a man by the inn door operates a pulley to raise a magnet from the crossbeam of the inn sign; the men are balanced in a semi-circle from 'A', 'absolute Gravity', standing on his head, to 'I', 'absolute Levity or Stark Fool', in the middle of the air just beneath the magnet; at the centre, horizontally balanced and with nonchalant expression, is E, 'good Sence'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Weighing house
Description:
Title, date, artist, printmaker and publication information from Paulson., The degree of Hogarth's involvement in the design is unknown (see Paulson for discussion). Clubbe dedicated the 'Physiognomy' to Hogarth, and the author's son claimed that Hogarth had drawn at least the faces, but that perhaps the rest of the design was by Joshua Kirby, draughtsman and writer on perspective and a mutual friend to Hogarth and Clubbe. The attribution of the engraving to Luke Sullivan is as early as Nichols and Steevens' 'The Genuine Works of William Hogarth' (1808) vol. 1, p. 373., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 199 in volume 2.
