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1. Aeneas in a storm [graphic].
- Creator:
- Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd pursuant to an act of Parliament, 1737.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A ship, apparently bearing 'Aeneas' (George II) is tossed on a stormy sea. On the shore at right, 'Dido' (the figure of Britannia), points and smiles, above the inscription, "She, while [the] outragious winds [the] deep deform, Smiles on [the] tumult, & enjoys [the] storm". In the sea Neptune near the shore looks at the ship in displeasure. Above in the sky are three Winds, as three young boys, one blowing, one farting, the last kicking a hat."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Formerly attributed to Hogarth, now thought to be by Van der Gucht. See British Museum online catalogue., Questionable attribution in Paulson's 2nd edition., Lettered below image: Tanta haec mulier potuit suadere malorum., Latin motto below image translated: So much evil can a woman induce., Verse etched in lower right of image: She, while [the] outragious winds [the] deep deform, Smiles on [the] tumult, & enjoys [the] storm., Also a note in Steevens's hand discussing the three prints on this page pasted down at top of page., and On page 89 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Dido,, Aeneas (Legendary character),, and Neptune (Roman deity),
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Britannia (Symbolic character), Sailing ships, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Aeneas in a storm [graphic].
2. Confined in prison he reflects on his ill conduct and misfortunes [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1735]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 735.00.00.17+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A loose plagiary (reversed) after Hogarth's plate 7 in the Rake's Progress series; a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his old wife brandishing her fists beside a weeping Sarah Young, other prisoners in the background
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Below image, four columns each with six lines of verse: "The compter next our spark receivces ... describes his exit on the wall.", See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2226-2245., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 138., and Mounted to: 360 x 423 mm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Subject (Topic):
- Criminals, Prisons, and Rake's progress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Confined in prison he reflects on his ill conduct and misfortunes [graphic].
3. Confined in the Fleet Prison [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliament, July 1735.
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 735.07.00.01+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Copy of a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table, to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Rake's progress. Plate 7
- Description:
- Title from text engraved above image., Verses, attributed to John Hoadly, below image in three columns, four lines each: His hours of joy are fled with rapid speed, And scenes of anguish in a jail succeed ... Can his person from restraint enlarge., The seventh of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., and "Plate 7."--Lower right below design.
- Publisher:
- Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell
- Subject (Name):
- Fleet Prison (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Children, Debt, Dramatists, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, Telescopes, and Unmarried mothers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Confined in the Fleet Prison [graphic].
4. Farewell Old Gripe! they work is done ... [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1735]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 735.00.00.16+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A loose plagiary (reversed) after Hogarth's first plate in the Rake's Progress series; the interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a bag of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; to the right a table with the papers related to the estate and coins; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods; an upholsterer attaching fabric to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out
- Description:
- Title from verses below image. Verses (in four columns, each with six lines) continue: " ... And thou hast left graceless son to wast thy fund of ill got stores .... plate, gloves and hoarded cash descend.", See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2259-2272., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 132., and Mounted to 358 x 435 mm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
- Subject (Topic):
- Avarice, Corruption, Interiors, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Farewell Old Gripe! they work is done ... [graphic].
5. Going to court he's arrested at St. James's Gate [graphic].
- Creator:
- Bowles, Thomas, -1767, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1735]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 735.00.00.20+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Piracy of plate IV of Hogarth's Rake's Progress with considerable differences: a scene in St James's Street with the Rake (here named Ramble) emerging from a sedan-chair to be arrested for debt; figures in the foreground include a Welshman, probably the creditor, honouring St David's day (March 1st) with a leek in his hat, "Nanny" offering a handful of money to reprieve her former lover, and a lamp-lighter carelessly spilling oil on the Rake's coat; in the distance to left, a group of street-boys point to "Taffy", a mannikin, perched on a lamp-post, and beyond the gate of St James's Palace."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printmaker and publisher from the Wellcome Collection online catalogue, Wellcome Library no. 38342i., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse beneath title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Cf. Paulson, R, Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., and Window mounted to 29 x 44 cm.
- Publisher:
- John Bowles
- Subject (Geographic):
- Saint James Westminster, London, England : Parish),
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Debt, Ethnic stereotypes, Lampposts, Law enforcement, Puppets, Rake's progress, Sedan chairs, and Street lights
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Going to court he's arrested at St. James's Gate [graphic].
6. He and his drunken companions raise a riot in Covent Garden [graphic].
- Creator:
- Bowles, Thomas, -1767, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1735]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 735.00.00.19+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Plate from a pirated series of Hogarth's Rake's Progress, not based on one of the original prints: Covent Garden with St Paul's church and the buildings at the north-western corner of the piazza; the Rake (here called Ramble) and drunken friends are accosting women passers-by and the watch has arrived to set about them with staves."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printmaker and publisher from the Wellcome Collection online catalogue, Wellcome Library no. 38341i., Date of publication from Paulson and the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse beneath title: Young Ramble, without witt or dread, Does non a drunken party head ... Uplifted staves, drawn swords oppose, And stabs are well repaid with blows., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., and Window mounted to 29 x 43 cm.
- Publisher:
- John Bowles
- Subject (Geographic):
- Covent Garden (London, England),, England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fighting, Intoxication, Rake's progress, Watchmen, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > He and his drunken companions raise a riot in Covent Garden [graphic].
7. O! Girls take heed [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1735?]
- Call Number:
- 735.00.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1735? -- Female costume, 1735? -- Drinking -- Maids -- Seduction.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > O! Girls take heed [graphic].
8. Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool ob. 1828 : from the original by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. in the collection of The Rt. Honble. the Earl of Liverpool / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Robinson, Henry, active 1827-1872, engraver
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1835]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Three-quarter length portrait, standing, turned slightly right, with hands folded, looking to front; wearing dark jacket with star on the left breast; table at left, curtain behind
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Proof state, with "Proof" etched in lower right., Plate from: Lodge, E. Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain. London : Harding and Lepard, 1835., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 552 (leaf numbered '162' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- Published May 1, 1835, by Harding & Lepard, Pall Mall East
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828,
- Subject (Topic):
- Prime ministers and Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool ob. 1828 : from the original by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. in the collection of The Rt. Honble. the Earl of Liverpool / [graphic]
9. Shakespear, Rowe, Johnson now are quite undone, these are thy tryumphs, thy exploits O Lun! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1735?]
- Call Number:
- 735.00.00.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Shakespeare, Rowe, Jonson now are quite undone
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date in Stephens: 1729?, Frontispiece from: Miller, J. Harlequin-Horace,or, The art of modern poetry. 3rd ed. London : Lawton Gilliver, 1735., Temporary local subject terms: Theater: scenery -- Theater: stage boxes -- Apollo -- Muses -- Literature: William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 -- Literature: Benjamin Jonson, 1573?-1635 -- Literature: Nicholas Rowe, 1674-1744 -- Literature: allusion to Harlequin Horace by James Miller, 1706-1744 -- Harlequin -- Punch --Pierrot -- Mottoes: Vivitur ingenio -- Nicknames: "Lun" for John Rich -- Actors: Johnson, 1665-1742., and Mounted to 23 x 16 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Rich, John, 1692-1761.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Shakespear, Rowe, Johnson now are quite undone, these are thy tryumphs, thy exploits O Lun! [graphic]
