"The Cotswold Games, with Robert Dover on horseback at lower centre, riding to left; illustration to James Caulfield's 'Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of remarkable Persons, from the Reign of Edward III to the Revolution' (London: 1794); copy from woodcut prefixed to 'Annalia Dubrensia'."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched above image., A copy of a print published in Annalia Dubrensia in 1636., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Robert Dover, 1575-1641 -- Cotswold -- Gloucestershire: Dover's Hill -- Games: Olympics, Cotswold -- 17th-century games: cudget playing, wrestling, leaping, pitching the bar, throwing the sledge, topping the pike, guns discharged from the castle of boards -- 17th-century dances -- Bagpipes -- Hunting -- Coursing., and Robert Dover's name added below image in a later hand.
A copy in reverse of Hogarth's print: A night scene. A couple interrupted in flagrante by the night watch, she lying on the ground at left with dishevelled clothing, he held back on the right, with his breeches undone; a censorious old woman on the far right; a watchman on the left holding up a lantern, illuminating the pillory behind
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Title etched above image., Questionable attribution to Hogarth, but Paulson is inclined to accept as an early work by Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 245., According to Samuel Ireland in his Graphic illustrations of Hogarth (v.1 , p. 9-10) Hogarth executed this design when he was under twenty on the lid of a tobacco box for a Captain Johnson., "Price 6d"--Lower right., Trimmed sheet., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Copy., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 365., and On page 180 in volume 2. Sheet mounted to: 7.4 x 9 cm.
Night scene, a couple interrupted in flagrante by the night watch, she lying on the ground at right with dishevelled clothing, he held back on the left, with his breeches undone; a censorious old woman on the far left; a watchman on the right holding up a lantern, illuminating the pillory behind
Description:
Title and date from Paulson, Questionable attribution to Hogarth, but Paulson is inclined to accept as an early work by Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 245., According to Samuel Ireland in his Graphic illustrations of Hogarth (v.1 , p. 9-10) Hogarth executed this design when he was under twenty on the lid of a tobacco box for a Captain Johnson., A copy by Ireland. Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. 1, p. 8., Trimmed sheet., Ms. note I in Steevens's hand in pencil above image: Copy., and On page 180 in volume 2.
