"This engraving represents a circular building, with conical roof of tiles, shown in two sections, and partly in perspective. Within the building is a large wheel turned by a horse and giving motion to a considerable number of spindles, to which are attached disks; on each of the disks are several razors, which are thus set in action on the faces of the men who apply their cheeks to openings in the inner wall of the building. Exterior to this inner wall is a gallery where stand the men who are thus expeditiously shaved; their hats hang on pegs, each over the hole to which the owner has applied himself. In the gallery several men are finishing or preparing for their toilettes. The operation of dressing a wig is shown below the wheel, on our right, where many combs are placed on a drum which revolves like a water-wheel before a man's wig, placed on a block near it."--British Museum catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text following title: See the explanation., "Price 6d."--Bottom of plate, centered., For an earlier state published in 1745, see no. 2687 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, and English short title catalogue no. T42881., and With watermark of fleur-de-lis. Ms. note on verso in black in ink: Mr. Freeman, Arlington Street.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament Novr. [the] 2, 1749, and sold by J. Dubois at [the] Golden Head [the] corner of Burleigh Street near Exeter Chanc[...]
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Shaving, Razor blades, Machinery, and Wigs
"View in St James's Park of the music gallery and pavillions erected for the fire work display, with a spiked fence surrounding the area, in foreground fashionably dressed figures stand next to a wooden fence looking across the park"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge.
Publisher:
Printed according to act of Parliament, & sold by P. Brookes facing Southampton Street in the Strand, & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
"View in Green Park, the structure in question central in the view, Buckingham House beyond on the left, a few more buildings and rolling country side in the background, a number of fashionably dressed figures in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Veüe perspective du batiment magnifique, erigé dans le Parc Verd pour le Feu f'Artifice Royal exhibé le 27 d'Avril 1749, sur l'occasion de le paix general
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Sheet numbered "127" (later corrected to "129") in ink in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
"Emblematic portrait of a trusty servant, with the head of a boar, padlocked lips and the tools of his profession."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Originally engraved by Mosley. See Pierpont Morgan Library Peel 0455, Peel III, 67., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Later state, with printmaker's name burnished from plate, reduction and lightening of horizontal background lines, and addition of marks outlining hills., Two columns of verse in Latin on left and English on right below title., Temporary local subject terms: Animals: boar -- Shovels -- Pitchforks -- Brooms -- Scrapers -- Shields: saucepan lid as a shield -- Padlocks -- Emblems: boar, partly human -- Borders: scrolls and flowers -- Reference to Winchester College., and Window mounted to 39 x 28 cm.
publis'd [sic] according to act of Parliament, [1749?]
Call Number:
749.08.12.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Publication date extrapolated from earlier state. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum 3047., 'Price 6d.'--Lower right corner., Four lines of verse below image: Thus blest was I before I went to law ..., Another state, with imprint burnished from plate. Cf. No. 3047 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Law and lawyers., and Watermark: Pro patria.
Epistle to Miss - etc, etc and Miss - in the actual dress as she appear'd in ye character of Iphigenia, at ye jubilee ball or masquerade at Ranelagh
Description:
Title from item., Miss - is Miss Chudleigh., Broadside illustrated at top of sheet with an etching (plate mark 26.5 x 33.3 cm)., Two lines of verse below title : Some men to pleasure, some to bus'ness take ... Pope., Twelve lines of verse etched below caption title on the plate: What odd fantastick whimsies fill ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Susannah Maria Ciber, 1714-1766 -- Masquerade: Punch -- Masquerade: Domino -- Masquerade: Iphigenia -- Literature: Alexander Pope, 1688-1744 -- Jubilee: masquerade ball, Ranelagh, May 1, 1749 -- Mask.
Publisher:
Printed for A. Freeman, near Charing-Cross
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760 and Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788
Portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram, shown bust-length to right within oval frame, eyes to the right, his shoulder-length hair loose, wearing plain, open coat and white necktie; after Hogarth. Below frame, a "frontview of [the] Founding Hospital."
Description:
Title from text in image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature and imprint from bottom edge, and periodical's name and date from top edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1880,1113.4783., Plate from: The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : R. Baldwin, v. 18 (1749), opposite p. 239., "Engrav'd for [the] London magazine 1749"--Above image., and On page 107 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Baldwin Junr. at the Rose in Pater Noster Row
Self-portrait after the painting in the Tate; the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin, and palette. On the palette is engraved the title "The line of beauty."
Description:
Title engraved below image., State and publisher from Paulson., Earlier state of this plate was used as the frontispiece to Hogarth's Folios., 1 print : engraving with etching on laid paper ; plate mark 37.8 x 28.4 cm, on sheet 43.7 x 33.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 1 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Self-portrait after the painting in the Tate; the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin, and palette. On the palette is engraved the title "The line of beauty."
Description:
Title engraved below image., State and publisher from Paulson., Earlier state of this plate was used as the frontispiece to Hogarth's Folios., and Imperfect impression; all but date erased. Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Self-portrait after the painting in the Tate; the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin, and palette. On the palette is engraved the title "The line of beauty."
Description:
Title engraved below image., State and publisher from Paulson., Earlier state of this plate was used as the frontispiece to Hogarth's Folios., and On page 1 in volume 1, used as bookplate. Sheet 380 x 285 mm.
