One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade. In this print, the implements making up the figure of the victualler are numbered within image and the key is provided below title. The implemets of the publican's trade include: 1. Molbrough chalk. 2. Pipe, pan, & tobacco. 3. Piss port engrav'd. 4. Butt or barrel. 5. Decanters. 6. Tankard, 7. Candle & candlestick. 8. Bung. 9. Snuffers. 10. Apron. 11. Cock wth. running clout. 12. Silver spoon. 13. Gallon pots. 14. Pails with fining.15. Tap tub. 16. Shovel & poker. Around his neck is a cloth with the words "The London Gazett extraordinary"; on his head label "Sadler Fleet". On the tankards that make up his legs is engraved "Blue potts" and "Bedford Head", and on the pails that are his "feet" "Clavert" and "Parsons". To the left is a shallow barrel with a small tankard with "Penny pot" engraved on it side
Alternative Title:
Publican
Description:
Title from item. and Later state. Cf. No. 2471 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bartenders, Bars, Arcimboldesque figures, and Taverns (Inns)
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in partial loss of plate numbering., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate., For voice and keyboard instrument., Plate numbered '1[8]' in upper right corner., Opening words: What Cato advises, most certainly wise is ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: countermark E., and Plate number partially cut off.
A design within a decorative cartouche, suggestive of a proscenium arch: A well dressed young man stands in the center of a room in the prison in which are five other figures. On the left, a ragged unshaven man in a striped garment is sitting on a bale, a small woman stands beside him. Behind them is a table with a mug on it. On the floor near the man's foot lies a paper inscribed "Sceen [sic] 4. Nation's debts". On the young man's left, another prisoner is sitting on a bench. In front of him is another bench with a carafe of gin and a glass on it. He is the singer of the song. Behind him stands a little boy with a flagon of beer in his left hand. The turnkey in the background holds an open book and is pointing to a page marked "Garnish(?)".
Description:
Title from item., Probably based on Hogarth's Rake's progress, plate 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music for voice on two staves with interlinear words. Additional six stanzas below., Plate numbered '26' in upper right corner., Opening words: Welcome, welcome brother debtor ..., Plate from: Bickham, G. The musical entertainer, v.2., and Plate number erased from this impression.
Title etched within item., One of a series of etchings representing the months of the year; this one for the month of April. Only the image representing January has the series title: Lilliputian figures., Six lines of verse below title: Tis not in April showers alone, wrapt in his cloak, you'll see the Don ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Lilliputians., Month designation in series erased from this impression?, and Suggested restrike date in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament Feby. 26th 1740.
Call Number:
740.02.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
European race for a distance anno dom. 1740
Description:
Title from item., Two lines of quotation from Bible below title: Therefore behold! I will proceed to do marvelous works ... Isaiah 29, verse 14., and Watermark.
Copy of the third print in the Hogarth's series "Four Times of the Day. A dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River; the wife holds a fan with a design of Aphrodite and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds; behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman; to the right is a tavern with the sign of Sir Hugh Middleton's Head, two women and a man are in the tavern garden, other figures are visible through the window two of whom are smoking pipes; and a grape vine is climbing up towards the roof
Alternative Title:
Soireé and Soreé
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date from Paulson: "Publish'd 23d June 1740.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Matted to 379 x 279 mm.
Title etched below image., "Page 255."--Etched above image, upper right., Print prepared for A Supplement to Hogarth Illustrated by J. Ireland., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., A copy of Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), no. 266., and On page 43 in volume 1. Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Copy.
Title etched above image., "Plate 323."--Upper right above image., This print is based on a drawing that was formerly attributed to Hogarth, hence its inclusion in Ireland's 'Hogarth Illustrated'. For the drawing by Goupy see Britism Museum catalogue number 1858,0417.618., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath image: Spurious. The head of Heidegger was impitched from Hist. in vol. 1, p. 43; in ink in Steevens's hand beneath print: Heidegger in a rage. See Mr. John Ireland's Hogarth illustrateed, p. 323., and On page 231 in volume 3.
Scene in a park with high wall and a gate into an alley in the background. Two young ladies lean over the top of the wall looking down on a duel taking place in the foreground. One of the duellists is sprawled on the ground, his wig fallen off. His opponent is standing above him with his rapier aloft. On the right, an apple-woman is trying to recover apples fallen out of the overturned basket. On the left, a surgeon attends to yet another duellist with a wound on his bald head and with his rapier still in his hand. A number of spectators are gathered on the left and on the right in the background. Between them, a lonely gentleman in a bag wig and with his back turned to the viewer, salutes the two ladies leaning over the wall
Alternative Title:
Hob triumphs over Sir Thomas
Description:
Title from item., Later state by a different publisher of the print first published by John Bowles ca. 1740 (cf. Library of Congress, 4-332)., Publication date inferred from publisher's dates of operation., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: Friend sings. O fly from this place dear Flora ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 38 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 125 Fenchurch Street, London
"Satire on Robert Walpole showing him as a colossal figure at the entrance to St James's Palce bending forward with his naked backside exposed for an ambitious young man to kiss; another man holds a petition and bowls a hoop lettered, "Wealth", "Pride", "Vanity", "Folly", "Luxury", "Want", "Dependance", "Servility", "Venality", "Corruption" and "Prostitution", through Walpole's legs towards an arcade whose arches are labelled, "Saint [James's P]alace", "The Treasury", "The Exchequer" and "The Admiralty"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Way to preferment
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in minor loss of text., Four lines of text below image: And Henry the King made unto himself a great idol ... Chronicle of the Kings, page 51., Bowditch's ms. annotations at bottom of sheet., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
