Title supplied by cataloger, based on that of the earlier print from which this design was copied., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly an early state before letters., Questionable date of publication based on that of another print by Rowlandson after Bunbury on the subject of foreign travel. See Rowlandson the caricaturist / by Joseph Grego. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v. ii, p. 78-79., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of no. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and A border enclosing the design and shading to the lower portion of the design added in pencil.
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Grego., Six lines of quoted verse below design: "After supper of heaven I dream, but that is fatt pullets & clouted cream ..., Companion print to: The holy friar., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Copy of Basire print after Hogarth: A portrait of Thomas Morell, a classical scholar and friend of Hogarth's, shown "in the character of a Cynic Philosopher"; behind him, an organ aprtially hidden behind a curtain; in front of him on a table is an ink well, brush, and a pile of books; he sits at the table, pen in hand poised above a sheet of paper. On the wall near the door hangs a watch on a ribbon; over it a coat of arms
Alternative Title:
Thomas Morell
Description:
Title, date, and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no 2., Plate for: Nichols, J. Genunie works of Hogarth. London : Longman [etc.], 1807., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 239., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand under image: Copy., and On page 195 in volume 2.
"Portrait of William Wilberforce, MP, half-length seated at a table on which stand the 'Parliamentary Register' and 'Debates', holding folded in his hand the 'Slave Trade Abolition Bill'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: Painted by the late John Russell Esqr. R.A., crayon painter to the King, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York ; engraved by James Heath A.R.A., Proof before all letters. For a lettered state with the imprint "Published Novr. 26, 1807, by William Faden, Geographer to the King &c., Charing Cross, John Hatchard, Bookseller to the Queen, 190 Piccadilly, and William Russell, 17 Newman Street," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1899,0805.4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 512 (leaf numbered '107' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Later ink annotation below print, on mounting sheet: William Wilberforce (Slave Abolitionist).
