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., Date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Etched above image: Price 6d., and On page 53 in volume 1. A pencilled note in Steeven's hand below print: In 1799, this print was sold by auction for seven guineas.
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. A bloody knife has been added, on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on publication of Hogarth's version., Lower right corner, following title: Price 6d., 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. With a note in Steevens hand below: Of this Plate (which belonged to Mr. Richardson) only 25 impressions were taken off, the Plate itself being destroyed by an accidental fire.
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. A bloody knife has been added, on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on publication of Hogarth's version., Lower right corner, following title: Price 6d., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129., Mounted on page 56 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., 1 print : mezzotint with line engraving on laid paper ; sheet 19.6 x 15.3 mm, and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two columns of verse below image: Since bribes in modern days so much prevail, And votes have daily been expos'd to sale ..., Bowditch's notes on mounting sheet., and Mounted to 56 x 38 cm.
"Satire on the defeat of the Excise Bill. In the foreground, on the left, stands Justice trampling on Oppression, in her scales papers lettered, "Magna Charta", "City Petition" and "204" (the number of members of parliament who voted against the Bill) outweigh chains and wooden shoes; on the right, Trade, a merchant holding a ship standing on two barrels, one of wine and one of tobacco, is supported by Liberty holding a hat on a staff. In the background, Britons, including a sailor, dance around a maypole decorated with tobacco leaves and grapes and topped with a sign lettered "Perry & Barnard" referring to the members for the City of London. Above fly Plenty and Fame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Glorious CCIIII and Glorious 204
Description:
Title from item., Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., "Price 6 Pence."--Lower right corner., Twenty lines of verse in three columns below image: 'Arise Britannia! joyfull now arise! ... And the Vine's fruit, they raise and dance around'., Below the verses is an explanation of the 'two hundred and twice two' as 'The number of the Senators who oppos'd the Excise Bill'., State without subtitle "Sacred to their Immortal Honour down to the latest Posterity". Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1921., and Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Excise tax, Tobacco taxation, Internal revenue, Allegories, and Justice
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two designs, side by side, within a border containing seventeen smaller designs., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to 'Carus', fl. 1733 -- Allusion to William Arnall, ca. 1700-1736 -- Nicknames: W. Arnall as 'Francis Walsingham' or 'Mother Osborne' -- Allusion to James Pitt, fl. 1733 -- Nicknames: J. Pitt as 'Fr. Osborne' or 'Mother Osborne' -- Hand of Providence -- Newspapers: allusion to The daily gazeteer -- Journals: Prompter -- Mythology: Acteon as a stag -- Imperial princes as a naked boy -- Implements of torture -- Maps: Naples and Sicily -- Figure of Rome as a nun -- Figure of Germany -- Figure of Scotland -- Britannia -- Shields -- Magna Charta -- Nuns -- Altars -- Pyramids -- Defeat of the excise scheme -- Devils -- Coins -- Dragons -- Harpies -- Mottoes -- Houghton Hall -- Slogans: liberty and property -- Navy: fleet of ships -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis on globe -- Ropes: halter -- Allusion to the sinking fund -- Treaties: Hanover -- Treaties: Seville and Vienna -- Spithead expedition -- Fasces -- Sir Robert Walpole's mistresses as Harpies -- Headsman's axe -- British lion tied by heels -- Sir Robert Walpole as a serpent -- Sir Robert Walpole's French policy, 1733 -- English commerce foundering -- Writing fools -- Unobtainable justice -- Scales tipped by the judge -- Gibbets -- Executions -- Hanged traitors., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Walpole, Maria, Lady, 1701 or 1702-1738, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, and Norfolk, Edward Howard, Duke of, 1686-1777
"Satire on the dispute between the managers of the Drury Lane Theatre and its players portrayed as if on a stage with heavy curtains drawn up above and on the right. In the centre, Theophilus Cibber stands in a swaggering pose in his role as Pistol (Henry IV and V) and behind him, on the left-hand side of the stage, a group of actors among whom are Benjamin Johnson as Testimony (in the play, Sir Courtly Nice), Miller as a runner holding a short stick, Benjamin Griffin in a large wig and three-cornered hat, Harper as Falstaff holding a sword twisted into a spiral, Heron holding a banner lettered "Liberty & property", and William Mills wearing a Roman helmet with a huge plume. This group confronts John Highmore who holds a scroll lettered "it cost £6000" (referring to the price of his share of the patent for the Theatre); to the left an actor without coat or wig flourishes a wooden sword. Behind Highmore, stand two women: to the right, weeping, Hester Booth, widow of the former patentee who died on 10 May 1733, and, holding a banner lettered "We'l starve em out", Mary Wilks who had inherited her husband's share of the patent the previous year. In front of the curtain on the extreme right sits Colley Cibber, wearing a laurel wreath and holding money bags, smiling as he gestures towards Highmore who had bought his share of the patent. Behind the curtain can be glimpsed the audience with asses' ears and staves. At the back of the scene is a narrow street with the sign of the Rose on which sits a monkey holding a flag lettered, "I am a Gentleman" (quoting Highmore); crowds throng the street and people wave from the roof and windows of the building on the left."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Ttile etched below image., Date from British Museum catalogue., In Steevens's hand in pencil, at top of page above print: Laguerre's etching; below image: Given me by the Revd Mr. Harper, of the Brit Museum. See the four in the next page & Mr. Nichols Book, 3rd edit. p. 180., and On page 55 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England), Bridgwater, Roger, active 1745,, Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757,, Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758,, Ellys, John, 1700 or 1701-1757,, Griffin, Benjamin, 1680-1740,, Harper, John, active 1714-1742,, Heron, Mary, active 1736,, Highmore, John, 1694-1759,, Johnson, Benjamin, 1664 or 1665-1742,, Miller, Joe, 1684-1738,, Mills, John, 1670-1736,, Mills, William, 1701-, Santlow, Hester,, Shaw, Hester,, and Wilks, Mary, active 1740-
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Crowds, Industrial arbitration, People associated with arts, entertainment & sports, and Theaters
Judith holding a sword by the cutting edge is posed to cut off the head of Holofernes. The print appears opposite the title page of the printed version of William Hogarth's Judith : An Oratorio, or, Sacred drama ... the musick composed by Mr. William de Fesch, late Chapel-Master of the Cathedral Church at Antwerp. London : Printed in the year MDCCXXXIII
Alternative Title:
Per vulnera servor moret tuâ vivens
Description:
Title and date from Paulson., Engraved caption title below image: Per vulnera servor moret tuâ vivens. Virg. Aeneid., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms, note in Steevens' hand in pencil above print: Judith. Another note next to print on right: See Mr Nichol's Book 3d edit. p. 419., and On page 55 in volume 1.
A coat of arms with allegorical figures and in the banner below the figures "In nocte laetamur". Below the banner, the name "Sutler" is also engraved
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date from Paulson., Formerly attributed to Hogarth. See R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 17, p. 35., With ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Copy., and On page 3 in volume 1.
Title assigned by cataloger., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
