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- Published / Created:
- [1721]
- Call Number:
- 721.05.13.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Lucifer's new row-barge
- Description:
- Title etched at top of image., Publication date in the British Museum catalogue: 13 May 1721., A copy, with added price statement, of no. 1714 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Eighteen lines of verse in three columns below image: Go on vile traytors! Glory in your sins, And grow profusely rich by wicked means ..., and 'Price. 6.d'--Lower right corner of plate.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lucipher's new row-barge [graphic].
3.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1721 and 1736]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Funeral ticket, with a scene of a funeral procession arrived at a church, the pall being drawn back, the parish clerk on the steps at left, a clergyman reading the exordium of the burial service at the head of the procession; the mourners following the coffin, a crowd of onlookers behind, one man clinging to a pillar to see above the others"--British Museum catalogue
- Description:
- Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson., Receipt text below image: You are desired to accompany [the] corps of [blank] from h[his/her] late dwelling in [blank] to [blank] on [blank] next at [blank] of the clock in the evening. Perform'd by Humphrey Drew, undertaker, in King-Street, Westminster., This impression has been cut, with loss of receipt area., Ms. note in Steevens's hand on page above print: Original. Note on mount below print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. P. 419 / Sold at Mr. Gulston's auction for £5.7.6., and On page 46 in volume 1. Plate mounted on sheet: 15.3 x 20.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Humphrey Drew
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Funerals, Undertakers and undertaking, Crowds, and Funeral processions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Funeral ticket] [graphic].
4.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1721]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title and state from Paulson., Publication information inferred from 3rd state., Verses below image: See here [the] causes why in London, so many men are made, & undone .... Guess at the rest you find out more., "Price 1 shilling."--Lower right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss to text at bottom margin., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: South-Sea. In pencil below: See Nichol's book, 3d edit. p. 122., and On page 8 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- Mrs. Chilcot and R. Caldwell?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Financial crises and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The South Sea scheme] [graphic]
