Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: These men above are artists in their calling ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Westminster plumpers -- Ghosts: Jack Hoff -- Measurers -- Allusion to Grigsby's -- Chequers -- Signs: signboard with gallows -- Thermometers -- Allusion to St. Catherine -- Allusion to Clerkenwell -- Picket fences -- Jack Hoff, d. 1735? -- Bucworth, fl. 1735?, and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
"Satire on young Whig supporters and their supposedly republican tendencies: interior of a tavern with seven young gentlemen drinking at a table on which is a calf's head with a moustache and a nightcap; one of the party holds an axe; an eighth gentleman looks out of the window at a bonfire in the street below; on the wall is a picture of the execution of Charles I."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Calf's Head Club
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Formerly attributed to Hogarth, now thought to be by Van der Gucht. See British Museum online catalogue., "Price 6d."--Lower right corner., Five lines of text below image: The healths. To the pious memory of Oliver Cromwell, damnation to the race of the Stuarts To the glorious year, 1648. To the man in the mask, &c. &c. &c., and Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 34 x 45 cm.
"Satire on young Whig supporters and their supposedly republican tendencies: interior of a tavern with seven young gentlemen drinking at a table on which is a calf's head with a moustache and a nightcap; one of the party holds an axe; an eighth gentleman looks out of the window at a bonfire in the street below; on the wall is a picture of the execution of Charles I."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Calf's Head Club
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Formerly attributed to Hogarth, now thought to be by Van der Gucht. See British Museum online catalogue., "Price 6d."--Lower right corner., Five lines of text below image: The healths. To the pious memory of Oliver Cromwell, damnation to the race of the Stuarts To the glorious year, 1648. To the man in the mask, &c. &c. &c., Also a note in Steevens's hand discussing the three prints on this page pasted down at top of page., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below plate mark: Engraved at least by Vandergucht., and On page 89 in volume 1. Plate mark 208 x 191 mm, on sheet 228 x 196 mm.
"Portrait of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a feathered beret and collar of the Order of St Michel; in an architectural oval with draped curtain beyond and cartouche below; a weeping putto seated next to an axe and resting his hand on a crown below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., State with altered lettering; Anthonis Mor's name replaces that of Holbein in artist statement. For an earlier state with "Holben pinx." etched in lower right corner, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1841,1211.87., Publisher and place of publication from the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "In the collection of Mr. Richardson"--Below image., Engraved after a painting that was afterwards acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 175 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.
Publisher:
John and Paul Knapton
Subject (Name):
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, Duke of, 1538-1572, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"The Jacobean 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 handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories whilst stealing from the coins on the desk; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out"--British Museum catalogue online
Alternative Title:
O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever, froward!
Description:
Title, imprint, and state from Paulson., Added title from first line of text., "Plate 1."--Lower right corner, below imprint., Caption in five columns, below image: "O Vanity of age, untoward, Ever spleeny, ever, froward![sic] Why those bolts, & massy chains, Squint suspicious jealous pains? ...", and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image. Caption and imprint mounted separately below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Cats, Corruption, Ethics, Interiors, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
"The Jacobean 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 handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories whilst stealing from the coins on the desk; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out."--British Museum catalogue online
Alternative Title:
O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever, froward! ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first line of text., "Plate 1"--Lower right corner, below imprint., Caption in five columns, below image: O Vanity of age, untoward, Ever spleeny, ever, froward![sic] Why those bolts, & massy chains, Squint suspicious jealous pains? ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image. Caption and imprint mounted separately below image., and Sheet 355 x 405 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Cats, Corruption, Ethics, Interiors, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
"The Jacobean 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 handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories whilst stealing from the coins on the desk; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out."--British Museum catalogue online
Alternative Title:
O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever, froward! ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first line of text., "Plate 1"--Lower right corner, below imprint., Caption in five columns, below image: O Vanity of age, untoward, Ever spleeny, ever, froward![sic] Why those bolts, & massy chains, Squint suspicious jealous pains? ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image. Caption and imprint mounted separately below image., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil at top of page above this print: Rake's progress, 1st impression., and On page 66 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 34.7 x 39.6 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Cats, Corruption, Ethics, Interiors, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
A fashionable interior (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician at a harpsichord (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, Farinelli), a fencing master, a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master, a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey. In the background on the left in an antechamber, a man holds a letter entitled "Epistle to Rake ..."
Description:
Title, printmaker, and state from Paulson., 'Plate 2d.'--Lower right below image., Four columns of four lines each etched below image: Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, Most pelasing,w hen she most beguiles,) ..., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil at bottom margin of print: Given me by Mr. Henderson., Ms. note in ink (another hand?) below image at right: Scotin fe: aqua fortis., and On page 67 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
"A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, another spits a stream of gin across the table to the amusement of a young black woman standing in the background, another woman drinks from the punchbowl, another is removing her clothes in order to perform "postures"; to right., a harpist and a door through which enter a man holding a large dish and a candle, and a pregnant ballad singer holding a sheet lettered "Black Joke"; on the walls hang a map of the world to which a young woman holds a candle and framed prints of Roman emperors, all (except that of Nero) damaged."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
O vanity of youthfull blood, so by misuse to poison good! Woman form'd for social love, fairest gift of powers above ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first lines of verse engraved below image., Caption in five columns below image., and "Plate 3."--Lower right.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Fighting, Harps, Interiors, Intoxication, Musicians, Rake's progress, Prostitutes, Robberies, Street entertainers, Taverns (Inns), and Vandalism