"Title page to catalogue of John Bowles, printer and printseller, at the Black Horse, Cornhill, London; text in rectangle at the centre, with naval scene showing two ships on the sea below; behind the text a map, a letter to Mr John Bowles, a landscape and a study of eyes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., "This title page was used for Bowles's catalogues from at least 1731, when his shop was at Mercer's Hall, Cheapside; the address was altered when he moved to Cornhill."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.19., Date of publication based on publisher's street address; John Bowles started trading at the sign of the Black Horse, Cornhill, by 1733. See British Museum online catalogue., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
John Bowles
Subject (Topic):
Warships, Maps, Landscapes (Representations), and Eyes
Title engraved below image., Date from printsellers' active dates., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 128.
Publisher:
Sold by Tho. Bowles in Paul's Church Yard and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Title from item., Initial letters of artist's name form a monogram., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in partial loss of statements of responsibility and plate number., Plate numbered '20' in lower right corner., Plate from: The cryes of the city of London, 1733, p. 20., and Watermark: countermark W.
Title from item., 2nd state with variant verse, as described in British Museum catalogue., One line of text below image burnished from plate., Four lines of verse below image: The grenadier seems such a furious blade ..., Key to persons, emblems and buildings within image on either side of verse., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Trade -- Emblem of trade -- Westminster Hall -- St. James's Palace -- British lion -- Unicorns -- Wooden shoes: reference to slogan: No slavery, no excise, no wooden shoes -- Grenadiers -- Bills: excise -- Taxes: excise -- Standing armies -- Military uniforms: grenadier guards -- 'Interest.', and Imperfect, trimmed to design with loss of publication information and plate number.
James Figg stands with his right hand on his back-sword and his left hand on his hip as he faces his a gentleman opponent in a boxing ring; specators crowd the stands on two levels; with ornaments above the frame
Description:
Title from etched text., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not Hogarth., and Mounted on a sheet (wove paper 333 x 268 mm, ruled-border in red ink) with two clippings from newspapers (or broadsides?) announcing boxing matches: one dated in ms. 29 May 1752 and the other 1729.
Sarah Malcolm, three-quarter length, turned to right but looking to left, her hands resting on a simple wooden table
Description:
Title etched below image., Pirated by an unknown printmaker; possibly the first state without the price added above image. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129., Mounted on page 72 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Sarah Malcolm, three-quarter length, turned to right but looking to left, her hands resting on a simple wooden table
Description:
Title etched below image., Pirated by an unknown printmaker; second state with price added above image. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Etched above image: Price 6d., and See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd edition), numbers 129.
Sarah Malcolm, three-quarter length, turned to right but looking to left, her hands resting on a simple wooden table
Description:
Title etched below image., Pirated by an unknown printmaker; second state with price added above image. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Etched above image: Price 6d., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd edition), numbers 129., and On page 53 in volume 1. Plate mark 200 x 177 mm.
A reversed copy of a Hogarth print. Portrait of Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on publication of Hogarth's version., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129., and On page 53 in volume 1.
