King Henry VIII leads Anne Boleyn towards the throne. A melancholy Cardinal Wolsey leans his head in his hand as he glances sideways toward the couple. In the background Katherine of Aragon sitting in another throne, turns away from the couple to converse with Anne's former lover, Lord Percy. A young page carries the train of Anne's dress as she enters the palace
Alternative Title:
Here struts old pious Harry, once the great reformer of the English church and state ...
Description:
Title from Paulson: King Henry the Eighth and Anne Bullen., Added title from the first two lines from first of the seven couplets in three columns below image., Printmaker, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., Imperfect impresson; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text and image along right side., The subject alludes to the perceived threat to the political supremacy of Robert Walpole (here represented by Wolsey) at the accession of George II. The composition echoes the traditional iconography of the popular story of Fair Rosamond and Henry II. See O'Connell, S. The popular print in England, 1999, p. 20., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit p. 167., and On page 50 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed to: 49.3 x 37.3 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547., Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., and Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Cardinals, Castles & palaces, Ceremonial rooms, Children, Couples, Kings, Nobility, Queens, Reception rooms, and Thrones
Title supplied by cataloger., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i, no. 122, Numbered "122" in lower right of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: Judges.
Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders slightly to left, head turned to right and glancing towards the viewer, wearing a low-necked gown with a rope of pearls hanging from the shoulder and a veil over her hair; in an oval
Description:
Title, artist and date from print in the British Museum online catalogue. and Tentatively identified Madame Kirk based on an annotated impression at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Metagraphic collage portrait of Michèle Bernstein created in 1963. The work has an inscribed title, "Les nopals il ñ'y a pas d'âge," in the image, and includes a drawn portrait of Bernstein made with gouache, pastel, pencil, and ink, as well as collage material consisting of textual and pictorial clippings from newspapers and magazines.
Description:
Inscription and clippings in French., Ivan Chtcheglov (1933-1998) was a French political theorist, activist, and poet. His work, Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau (1953), written under the pseudonym Gilles Ivain, inspired the Lettrist International and Situationist International., Metagraphics, also called hypergraphy and hypergraphics, an artistic technique combining text and graphic arts, was used in Lettrist works., Michèle Bernstein (born 1932) is a French novelist and critic. She was a member of the Situationist International from its founding in 1957 until 1967., Purchased from Librairie du Sandre on the Edith and Richard French Fund, 2017., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Bernstein, Michèle,--Portraits. and Chtcheglov, Ivan.
A young Miss Palmer, niece of Sir Joshua Reynolds, seated and shown three-quarter length, directed and looking to the left, with a mantle around her shoulders and gloves. Her hair piled high and adorned with pearls
Description:
Title from ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand., Plate was first published by J.R. Smith in 1777. It was published again with the address of J. Boydell, 1778., Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Bottom two corners trimmed at an angle., Miss Palmer was the niece of Sr. Joshua Reynolds and wife of Mr. Gwarkin., and Bottom two corners trimmed at an angle.
Title from ms. annotation below image., Date of publication from the year sitter would be of age for portrait., Text in image: "Nemo sibi vivat.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and Mounted in paper frame: 382 x 266 mm.
Title from caption written in contemporary hand below image., Date of publication from the year sitter would be of age for portrait., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., Mounted in paper frame: 382 x 266 mm., and Greene's autograph affixed to frame below image: "Richd. Greene."