Fortune, blindfolded and with one foot on her wheel, is guided by Wisdom who wears a plumed helmet and carries a spear. They stand on a cloud while a putto walks between them showering banknotes on the Hibernian Magazine's readers, who celebrate on the right side of the foreground, while snakes and demonic figures are kept at bay to the left
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 404; T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian Magazine, was located at Dame Street, Dublin from 1770-1786., and At top of image: "Frontispiece" (probably from the Hibernian Magazine ca. 1775).
Half-length portrait of William Hogarth, facing viewer, slightly turned to the right; he holds a palette in his left hand
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth
Description:
Title from caption below image., After a portrait by Hogarth., Page from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. ii, frontispiece., On page 207 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 19.1 x 12.8 cm., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand to side of print: From S. Ireland's Graphic Illustrations &c.
Half-length portrait of William Hogarth, facing viewer, slightly turned to the right; he holds a palette in his left hand
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth
Description:
Title from caption below image., After a portrait by Hogarth., and Page from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. ii, frontispiece.
Title devised by cataloger based on Paulson titles for Hogarth's originals., Designed originally for John Beaver's Roman military punishments; used as frontispiece., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 47., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 66., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 69., Ms. note in ink on mount above print, in Steevens's hand: In the title-page., and On page 24 in volume 1.
A scene from La Calprenede's Cassandra used as the frontispiece to the 3rd edition and translated by Sir Charles Cotterell and published by John Darby in London, September 1725
Alternative Title:
Cassandra, Frontispiece, Volume 3
Description:
Title, date, and publisher from Paulson., "Vol: 3"--Lower left, below image., One of five frontispieces engraved for the five volume set of the third edition of Sir Charles Cotterell's English translation of La Calprenède's Cassandre, published by John Darby in 1725., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
John Darby
Subject (Name):
La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, -1663.
A scene from La Calprenede's Cassandra used as the frontispiece to the 3rd edition and translated by Sir Charles Cotterell and published by John Darby in London, September 1725
Alternative Title:
Cassandra, Frontispiece, Volume 3
Description:
Title, date, and publisher from Paulson., "Vol: 3"--Lower left, below image., One of five frontispieces engraved for the five volume set of the third edition of Sir Charles Cotterell's English translation of La Calprenède's Cassandre, published by John Darby in 1725., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 13.9 x 7.3 cm.
Publisher:
John Darby
Subject (Name):
La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, -1663.
Drawn frontispiece to Horace Walpole's novel The castle of Otranto, with the Gothic castle featured prominently at center, rising above a tall fortification wall. In the foreground are three mounted knights in full armor and two additional knights on foot leading them. On the far left outside the walls is a church; rolling hills and trees are seen in the distance
Alternative Title:
Castello di Otranto
Description:
Title devised by curator; alternative title from the print that was engraved after this drawing., Signed by the artist in ink in lower right corner., Date of production based on publication date of the book issued with a frontispiece engraved after this drawing., Original drawing for the frontispiece, engraved by Thomas Medland and entitled Castello di Otranto, that was issued with the 1795 edition in Italian of The castle of Otranto., and Inlaid opposite frontispiece in a copy of: Walpole, H. Il castello di Otranto. Londra : Presso, Molini, Polidor, Molini, ed I. Edwards, 1795.
Copy of the 2nd state of the print by Ravenet after Hogarth's design. Corporal Trim stands with his back to the viewer as he reads a sermon upon Conscience. Dr. Slop sleeps in an armchair on the left beside the fireplace, his chin resting on his large belly. In the background Uncle Toby and Walter Shandy sit smoking. Behind them in the corner against the wall is a grandfather's clock and on the wall Toby's map of the fortifications of Namur. A three-cornered hat is shown on the floor in the foreground
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For discussion of the original print see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 233
"An engraving, which represents a clergyman (? Jeremy Taylor) showing to a lady (? Lady Carberry) a mirror, in which she is reflected as a skeleton; by her side is a child, who points to the mirror; and behind her stands an old man, lifting up his hands in astonishment. On the table, which sustains the mirror, is written "Fades natiuitatis suae, James 5. 23"; and on a scroll on the ground, "Vigilate et Orate quia nescitis horam"."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title and printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Publication place and date inferred from other states described in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. No. 821 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., Later annotations in an unidentified hand on verso, partially trimmed off and covered by mounting sheet., and Window mounted to 23 x 14 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Mirrors, Clergy, Skeletons, Children, and Older people
Herein the rich, the honour'd, fam'd, and great, see the false scale of happiness compleat
Description:
Title devised by curator., Inscription in ink at bottom of mounting sheet, in Alexander Pope's hand: Herein the rich, the honour'd, fam'd, and great, see the false scale of happiness compleat., Statements of responsibiliy written in ink below image, in Alexander Pope's hand; the artist "I.M." is unidentified., Date of production based on death date of Alexander Pope, whose annotations are present on mounting sheet., Mounting sheet includes a wash-line border with a line of gold paint surrounding the drawing., and Mounted as the frontispiece in a copy of Alexander Pope's An Essay on man.
