"An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., and Hogarth's signature erased from this impression.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
"An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Sheet trimmed to: 213 x 278 mm., and Ms. annotation in ink, lower right corner: '6'.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Plate numbered '220' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 9328 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: dressing room -- Furniture: dressing table -- Female dress: sandals -- Headdresses -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd 4th July 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"View within the courtyard of the Royal Exchange, from below the colonnade, the statue of Charles II in the centre; men from different nations conversing in space"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802].
Publisher:
Published Decr. 15, 1798, by T. Malton
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Courtyards, Arcades (Architectural components), and Commercial facilities
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: NB. Folios of caricatures lent., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Bath -- Yokels -- Wine bottles -- Architectural details: balustrades., Mounted to 35 x 46 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with date 1797 below.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
The subject of this print, Lazare Hoche, was a general in the French Revolution. He is seen here seated on a rainbow which spans a landscape of devastation below. He plays a guillotine as if it were a lyre
Description:
Title etched below image., Month of publication suggested as January in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. 11th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Coats of arms: royal arms -- Allusion to war with France -- Cap of liberty as bonnet rouge -- British Lion -- White Horse of Hanover -- Allusion to taxation -- Emblems: broken anchor -- Emblems: olive branch -- Mottoes: Prest [sic] pour mon pays -- Mottoes: Le roy & l'estat [sic].
Publisher:
Pubd Jany. 25th 1798 by Dighton, Charg Cross
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
A group of women and girls perform a folk dance in a wooded landscape. The figures are numbered 1-7.
Description:
Title etched below image., A plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 31., Copy of A. de La Mottraye's Travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., On page 14 in volume 1., and Ms. note at top margin in Steevens's hand: Copy.
Billy's return to Iohn Bull and Billy's return to John Bull
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Duels: Reference to duel between Pitt & Tierney, May 27, 1798 -- Reference to taxation., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Oh, let me die in peace! Eumenes cried ..., Above title in lower right corner: Vide Philosophical Transactions of I. Schamburgh., Plate numbered '209' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedrooms -- Furniture: closed stools -- Physicians -- Patients -- Creditors -- Domestic service: maidservant -- Architectural details: staircases -- Lighting: lanterns -- Medicinal: medicine bottles., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799.
Publisher:
Published 6th March 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London