Page 126. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London; seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. This is the second building of Bethlem Hospital, dating from 1675-6, before the addition of the side pavilions. The engra...
Alternative Title:
Bedlam in Moorfields
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England), and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
"Tree of law in a frame decorated with a garland of leaves, surmounted by a portrait of Robert Price in an oval, wearing a long wig and judges' robes and bands, with banner lettered 'Legum Decus Patriae Que Is Erat'; to left and right, two female alle...
Alternative Title:
Inutilis et sine fructu labor, non est legis, effectus
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Sold by Ph. Overton in Fleet Street and J. King in the Poultry, Printsellers entered in the Hall Book, London
Advertisement for the shop of Mary and Ann Hogarth (sisters of the artist), at the sign of the King's Arms, Little Britain Gate; a view of the interior of a clothing shop with two women serving parents and their young sons; surrounded by a frame with ...
Alternative Title:
Mary and Ann Hogarth
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, Mary, 1699-1741 and Hogarth, Ann, 1701-1771
"Satire on foreign opera singers based on "The Beggar's Opera Burlesqued"; animal-headed singers portraying the principal characters are shown on an outdoor stage with musicians and audience in the foreground; beyond, to left, theatre boxes with an au...
Alternative Title:
Italian eunuch's glory
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Musicians, and Opera singers
"Satire on the popularity of masquerades and the decline of Italian opera in London with caricatures of the singers Cuzzoni, the tall, thin "scarecrow" Farinelli and the impresario Heidegger who points to a grenadier's cap hanging on the wall. Farinel...
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748., Farinelli, 1705-1782., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
