A satire on Pietro Aretino's (1492-1556) Aretino, the author many licentious poems
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the address in the imprint., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: Giving a loose to all the joys of love, / The wanton pair new postures seek to prove ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: music room -- Reference to postures -- Reference to Damon, fl. 387 BC -- Music sheets -- Harpsichord -- Violin -- Female dress: slippers, ca. 1748 -- Gilt pier table -- Furnishings: gilt mirror -- Gilt wall bracket and shelf -- Furniture: couch with paw feet -- Dishes: china bowl -- Sex: copulation., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
1748, according to Act of Parliam't, Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 3, 1748.
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 31+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
View of the great fireworks on account of [the] general peace
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: This elegant piece of architecture is 410 long & 105 feet high, is embellish'd with statues of Justice, Prudence, Fortitude ..., and Sheet numbered "130" in ink in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Tho. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
"Double portrait of Frances Brandon and Adrian Stokes; she on the left, holding a glove in her right hand on a cushion, touching her necklace with the other, he on the right, holding his gloves to his chest in his left hand; with a cartouche on the base of the plinth forming the lower part of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state and "One of nine plates Vertue engraved of 'Historical Portraitures' (see Alexander nos. 854-857, 921-924 and 954), from copies he made after paintings relating to the Tudor family, issued in three parts: the first four were published in 1743 and advertised in his 1751 catalogue at £1.11s.6d; the second four were published in 1748 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £1.1s; the last print was published in 1750 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £7.7s. They were all republished as a set by the Society of Antiquaries in 1776, together with Vertue's notes on the pictures which he presented to the Society and plate numbers."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Frances Duchess of Suffolk and her husband Adrian Stokes Esqr
Description:
Title engraved within cartouche below image., Published by George Vertue; see Alexander, page 223., Three lines of text below image, on either side of cartouche containing title: This Noble Lady was eldest daughter of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary the French Queen his Dutchess; she was married to Henry Grey Marquess of Dorset and Duke of Suffolk &c. the mother of Lady Jane Grey who was proclaimed Queen., "From an original in the cabinet of the Honble. Horace Walpole Junr. Esqr."--Lower left corner of plate., "Most humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient servant G. Vertue"--Lower right corner of plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate republished in 1776 with added plate number by the Society of Antiquaries of London. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Y,5.142., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 219., Mounted on page 126 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:
George Vertue
Subject (Name):
Suffolk, Frances Brandon Grey, Duchess of, 1517-1559,, Stokes, Adrian, 1519-1585,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from item., Second state of British Museum catalogue no. 2856., "Price 6d"--Lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Independent Electors of Westminster -- Trades: butcher -- M. Trompée -- Nicknames: Count Newport -- Nicknames: Cout Neuf Puerto -- Navy: sailors -- Beverages: taplash -- Scots -- Buildings: Westminster Hall -- Elections: Westminster elections, June 1747 -- Demons: demon with halter and axe -- Emblems: constable's staff -- Clerks -- Outdoord scenes: New Palace Yard -- Lascar -- Nicknames: Trott Plaid (Henry Fielding) -- Rebels -- Jacobites..
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Morgan, David Thomas, ca. 1695-1746, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754, and Warren, Peter, Sir, 1703-1752
A group of eight locusts is gathered in the foreground; each is numbered and identified in the key below image. A long procession of other locusts in the background is walking on Whitehall by the Banqueting House to Holbein's Gate, while a swarm of more locusts descends on the Banqueting House. Some of them landed on the trees leaving them denuded
Description:
Title from item., Text below title: And [the] Locusts rested in all [the] Coasts of Egypt ..., Key below image, in four columns: 1. Found at St. James's; 2. found in Staffordshire; 3. found in Bloomsbury; 4. found in Lincolns Innfields; 5. the fellon to the fourth; 6. a female locust found at Yarmouth; 7. found near Huntingon; 8. found in Worcestershire., and Watermarks: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Whitehall (London, England), Banqueting House (London, England), and Holbein's Gate (London, England)
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
Empiricism display'd, Quackery unmasked, and Empiricism displayed
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's name from address in imprint., Publisher's announcement following imprint: & 100 more., Quotation from Ovid's Metamorphoses below image: In nova fert animis mutatas dicere formas corpora. Dii [sic] cœptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis. Oivd, Met. Lib. 1., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Thus modern empiricks are taught the art, By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part ..., Temporary local subject terms: Lecture Halls -- Quackery -- Quacks: 'Baron Schwanberg' -- 'G. West' -- 'Dr. Rock' -- Edmund Neeler, 'Carpenter Hamersmith' -- Medicine: quack pills -- Quack powders -- Medical implements: reference to clyster pipe -- Birds: crows -- Owl -- Animals: dogs -- Ass -- Sheep -- Horse -- Skulls., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- The White Horse of Hanover -- British territorial concessions: Cape Breton to France.
Publisher:
Publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377, Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422, Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Cathcart, Charles Schaw Cathcart, Lord, 1721-1776, Sussex, George Augustus Yelverton, Earl of, 1727-1758, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, Devil, Hostages, Military uniforms, British, National emblems, and Hanoverian
A satire of the Congress and Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle with references to Silesia and Gibraltar and the territorial concessions made by the British, specifically relinguishing Capr Breton to France. Here the European powers are represented as beasts: France is depicted as a crowing cock; England as lion; Holland as boar; Genoa as dog; Prussia as wolf; Spain as leopard; Germany as griffin; Austria as eagle; and the Duchy of Lorraine as dog
Description:
Title engraved above image., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 10., Watermark: Pro patria., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Europe
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Politics and government, Animals in human situations, Roosters, Lions, Boars, Dogs, Wolves, Eagles, Leopards, and Griffins
A gentleman wtih an angry, disappointed look on his face sits at a table in a coffeehouse filling his pipe with tobacco. On the table is a sugar bowl, a drinking glass, and a sugar basin. Below the design is engraved in two lines: You grumbled at the war; Here is a P-----ce for you, and be d----d to you
Description:
Title engraved above image., Attributed to Hogarth., Publisher identified from address: George Bickham., Two lines of text below image: You grumbled at the war; here is a p-----ce for you and be d----d to you., Earlier state, with different year in title and without the initial "B" forming a monogram with the "H" in printmaker's name, and without a third line in the caption below image. Cf. No. 3921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: Strasburg lily (partially cut off at top) with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, according to act of Parliamt
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Complaining, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
Title from item., Publisher's name from address in imprint., Temporary local subject terms: Treaties: Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748 -- Fences: stile -- British territorial concessions: concession of Cape Breton to France -- British territorial concessions: threat of concession of Gibraltar to Spain., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covt. Gardern
Subject (Name):
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746, Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia, 1701-1773, and William IV, Prince of Orange, 1711-1751
publish'd according to act of Parliament 1 Nov. 1748.
Call Number:
748.11.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left James II, seated on a throne of "hereditary right" and holding manacles, turns left to shake the hand of a monk who tramples on an open volume labeled "Holy Bible". From under the throne dragons or serpents devour the "Magna Carta", "Toleration Act", "Common and Statute Law" and "Acts of Parliament" while slaves bow before the King and Furries with torches and whips dance before him. On an obelisk is inscribed: "The Foundation of the Roman Hierarchy; implicit faith; apostalical succession; infallibility; pardons and indulgences; decrees of council; massacres; private murders; perjury and the inquisition ..." At foot of the obelisk is the Pope preaching "Hereditary indefeasible right and my bull to sanctify thy claim" addressed to the Pretender ...
Description:
Title engraved in cartouche below image., Later state, with publisher's address erased and date altered to 1748. Originally published by J. Collyer in Ludgate Street, 1 November 1745., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., and Mounted to: 31 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
James II, King of England, 1633-1701, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, and Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Animals, Clergy, Demons, Justice, Martyrs, Monks, Shackles, and Enslaved people
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1748]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 73+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"South front of the old church, with the two figures in the clock tower, later removed to Regent's Park"--British museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Southeast prospect of the church of St. Dunstan in the West
Description:
Title from text above image., Date of publication based on printseller's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Later state of a print originally published 18 March 1739. See British Museum online catalogue., Dedication below image, lower left: To Joseph Taylor Esquire, patron of this church, this plate is humbly inscribed by the proprietors Robert West and Willm. Henry Toms., Text below image, lower right: This church was dedicated to St. Dunstan, Archbp. of Cant., who died A.D. 990 ..., and Plate numbered "58" in upper right corner.
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1748]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of the church of Allhalows Barking on Tower Street, from the graveyard
Alternative Title:
South east prospect of the church of All Hallows Barking
Description:
Title from text above image., Date of publication based on printseller's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Dedication below image, lower left: To the Most Reverend Father in God, John by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ..., Text below image, lower right: This church was dedicated to [the] B. V. Mary & Alhallows ..., and Plate numbered "53" in upper right corner.
"The three children of Christian II of Denmark, painted after their mother's death in 1526, wrongly titled the children of Henry VII; three children sitting close to one another around a table within a frame, Prince Hans (who would die as a boy six years after sitting for this painting) at centre wearing flat hat and mourning clothes, three cherries in front of him, Dorothea at left reaching for a quince, and Christina at right holding a quince."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three children of King Henry VII and Elizabeth his queen
Description:
Title etched below image., Engraved after the 1526 painting by Gossaert in the Royal Collection, London. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0914.62., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and Tipped in at page 97 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian II, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 1481-1559. and Christine, Duchess, consort of Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, 1521-1590
The pool of Bethesda after the Hogarth painting. As described in the Gospel of St John, Chapter V, Christ is shown healing the sick beside the Pool of Bethesda, as an angel observes from above. At the center Christ reaches out to a crippled man who sits beside the Pool of Bethesda, shown here with an ulcer on his leg. Among the others looking for cures is a girl with Down's Syndrome (?), a woman with consumption or tuberculosis; a blind man with a stick; a man with jaundice (or melancholia or depression); a bearded man with gout and a distressed woman beside him with an injured breast; a child in the foreground carries a crutch. In the background, a servant of a naked woman pushes aside a mother with a sick baby. The mistress is most probably suffering from gonorrhea, as indicated by the rashes on her skin. Finally, in the foreground on the extreme right a pitiful man with an emaciated face full of pain and a hand on his swollen abdomen uses a crutch to approach the pool
Alternative Title:
There was at Jerusalem a pool call'd Bethesda, frequented by a multitude of impotent folk ...
Description:
Title from painting which this is based., Caption continues: "of blind, halt, & wither'd, to be cur'd by bathing, after an angel had troubled the waters; among whom was a certain man, that had been ill 38 years; but had no one to help him in, wherefore Jesus said unto him, rise, take up thy bed & walk. John Ch.V. Vers 2.8, Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note, and Formerly on page 144 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 24th 1772 by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ,
Subject (Topic):
Bethesda, Pool of., Biblical events, Diseases, Healing, Miracles, People with disabilities, and Sexually transmitted diseases
Reduced composition of a painting by Hogarth, cropped substantially on both sides: The pool of Bethesda after the Hogarth painting. As described in the Gospel of St John, Chapter V, Christ is shown healing the sick beside the Pool of Bethesda, as an angel observes from above. At the center Christ reaches out to a crippled man who sits beside the Pool of Bethesda, shown here with an ulcer on his leg. Among the others looking for cures is a girl with Down's Syndrome (?), a woman with consumption or tuberculosis; a blind man with a stick; a man with jaundice (or melancholia or depression); a bearded man with gout and a distressed woman beside him with an injured breast; a child in the foreground carries a crutch. In the background, a servant of a naked woman pushes aside a mother with a sick baby. The mistress is most probably suffering from gonorrhea, as indicated by the rashes on her skin. Finally, in the foreground on the extreme right a pitiful man with an emaciated face full of pain and a hand on his swollen abdomen uses a crutch to approach the pool
Description:
Title from painting which this is based., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil on page above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit, p. 289., and Formerly on page 144 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Publisher:
publisher not identitfied
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ,
Subject (Topic):
Bethesda, Pool of., Biblical events, Diseases, Healing, Miracles, People with disabilities, and Sexually transmitted diseases
