Title from item., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Price 6 d."--Lower right corner., Companion print: Yae-ough, cave amice., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Yawns -- Female costume: night cap., and Removed from Lord B. Album, p. 12.
Publisher:
Invented & publish'd in [the] year 1737 & sold by Thos. Bakewell next the Horn Tavern in Fleet-Street, London
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Oct. 10, 1737.
Call Number:
737.10.10.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the jockeying for position of the European powers in the late 1730s, and in particular on the unwillingness of Walpole's government to go to war. A race-course on the sea-shore with a variety of animals and riders representing different countries: first comes a fox ridden by Cardinal Fleury (France) leading a wolf ridden by a Spaniard in 16th-century costume and a bear (Russia) ridden by a man with a scimitar and a flag bearing crescent moons (trophies won in recent wars with Turkey). Fleury has attempted to noose an elephant ridden by a Turk, but the animal has dropped the noose and stands immobile looking through a pair of spectacles (said to be English, i.e., his view is enhanced by warnings given by Sir Everard Fawkener, the British Ambassador to Constantinople) which allows him a clear view of the French fleur-de-lis grafted on to his trunk. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
European race heat first anno domini 1737
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of quotation from the Bible below title: I returned and saw under the Sun, that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong ... Ecclesiastes the 9th, verse the 11th., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
A representation of contrasting feelings and emotions in two separate oval frames on one plate. In the left one, a dejected-looking middle-aged gentleman in fine clothes, bag wig, and a bow under his chin, is gazing ahead with unseeing eyes. His chin rests on the handle of a gold-headed cane that he is holding up with both hands. His forehead is creased with worry and his mouth downturned. In the frame on the right, a stout middle-aged, genial man in simpler clothes of the same period, and in what appears to be a bob-wig parted in the middle, laughs joyously pointing to the disconsolate looking gentleman on the left
Description:
Title from item., Tentatively attributed to Isaac Basire in an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom and sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Contrasts -- Male dress, ca. 1737., Watermark: countermark I V., and Ms. annotations in Italian and Latin written in contemporary hand above image on recto.
A representation of contrasting feelings and emotions in two separate oval frames on one plate. In the left one, a dejected-looking middle-aged man is gazing ahead with unseeing eyes. His chin rests on the handle of the cane that he is holding up with both hands, chapeau-bras. His forehead is creased with worry and his mouth downturned. In the frame on the right, a stout middle-aged man laughs joyously pointing to sad man on the left
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Later state, with the background mezzotinted, of a print made and published by Thomas Bakewell in 1737., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Contrasts., and Window mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by Henry Parker, opposite Birchin Lane, Cornhill
"Satire on George II and Robert Walpole, based on a "Visio"n described in "Commonsense, or the Englishman's Journal", 19 March 1737. The king is represented as a satyr, seen from the rear, standing on an altar kicking his left leg and breaking wind; Queen Caroline, as a priestess wearing a bell on her wrist, approaches from the right to administer an enema of "Aurum potabile" (a flavoured brandy); Bishop Hoadly stands behind her followed by men carrying on their heads vessels of gold, several of which have been deposited at the foot of the altar, square pieces of gold having spilled from one. On the left; Robert Walpole dressed as the Chief Magician, dressed in a coat embroidered with dragons and the words "Auri Sacra fames" and carrying a rod, looks up at the satyr; behind him is a procession of couriters with the insignia of the golden rump embroidered on their shoulders; in the foreground Walpole's brother Horatio Walpole holds out a pair of scales, an allusion to his concern to preserve the balance of power in Europe which earned him the nickname, the "Balance Master". A curtain hanging across the top is embroidered with golden rumps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Printmaker identified as Gerard Van der Gucht by Mark Hallett in Caricature in the age of Hogarth, see p. 137., Design on which this print is based, was attributed to the Earl of Chesterfield by the curator., "Price 1s."--Lower right corner., and Several subjects identified in a later hand below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, Hoadly, Benjamin, 1676-1761, Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754, and Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Bribery, Corruption, Medical procedures & techniques, and Theaters
Title from item., Attributed to Basire from companion print: A companion to yae-ough., "Price 6 d.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Yawns.
Publisher:
Invented & publish'd in the year 1737 by Tho. Bakewell next the Horn Tavern in Fleetstreet, London
A group of scholars at Oxford stare with vacant expressions at a lecturer holding an open book with title "Datum Vacuum" added by Hogarth in ink. He is identified by Paulson as William Fisher. All are wearing square trencher caps. See Paulson
Description:
Title from Paulson., Lower right corner below image: Price six pence., Variant of Paulson's state 2; imprint for state 2 in Paulson:: "Published by W. Hogarth, 3d 1736.", On page 85 in volume 1., Pencil ms. note in Steevens hand above print: First impression., and Hogarth annotated book in image with text "Datur vacuum ...".
A subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". "The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of an orange girl and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another orange girl reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; to the left, three musicians protected from the audience by a row of spikes"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, publisher, date, and state from Paulson. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". "The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of an orange girl and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another orange girl reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; to the left, three musicians protected from the audience by a row of spikes"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, publisher, date, and state from Paulson., Etching on two plates, one for image and one for receipt text:, Etching on two plates, one for image and one for receipt text. Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Hogarth's (?) ms. notes in ink filling in blanks in ticket: date "1733 Dembr." of "the Right Honble. Lord Biron". Ms pencil note in Steevens's hand above prints: See Nichol's Book, 3d edit. p. 179. Ms pencil note in Steevens's hand above this print: Laughing Pit 1st Impression., and On page 57 in volume 1.
