"Men preparing to bathe in a canal, the feet of a diver visible; bridge at right and a row of houses behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from quotation below the image., Publisher, date and place from book for which this plate was engraved., Signed in lower right corner below title: Dunciad. Book II., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of instructions to the binder., Frontispiece from: The works of Alexander Pope, vol. v. London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton, 1751., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Commentary on The Dunciad in an unknown contemporary hand on verso; parts of text lacking.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1751]
Call Number:
751.00.00.44+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young couple head toward the stairs leading up from the small wharf where they have disembarked from a small row boat. They hold onto their hats in the strong wind that brings the water lapping at her heels and bends the trees in the distance. The waterman in the boat leans back on his elbow as he looks up at the girl whose skirts are blown up around her calves; his wig having been blown off lies behind him on the prow of the boat. He wears his waterman's badge on his right arm
Description:
Title from item. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
"Satire on the clergy; a farmer and his wife offering their tythe to a clergyman by the tithe barn at the gate of his rectory; the man holds a sucking pig, the woman holds out an infant, saying that if the clergyman wants the former he must also take the latter; the clergyman turns away looking back over his shoulder in distaste."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tithe pig and Dime
Description:
Title engraved below image., Caption at top of image: La dime., Two columns of verse below title: In country village lives a vicar, fond--as all are!--of tythes and liquor ..., 'Price 6d.', and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title engraved below image., Publication date inferred., Two columns of verse below title: In country village lives a vicar, fond--as all are!--of tythes and liquor ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below., and Mounted to 34 x 23 cm.
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[21 February 1751]
Call Number:
751.02.21.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched above image., Attributed to Boitard on stylistic grounds; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.3913., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Two black geese of middle age, by some thought cunning, few thought sage ..., Caption in the lower left corner of plate: In the porch the emblems of disappointment, malice, envy ..., Caption in the lower right corner of plate: **A cuckow with an asse's head singing his own wise productions., "Price one shilling.", Temporary local subject terms: Portsmouth: Municipal Council as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The farmer and the snake' -- Burgesses as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The dog and the shadow' -- Literature: The geese in disgrace, a tale. Portsmouth : printed by W. Horton, for J. Wilkinson, 1751 -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniforms -- Gangs of sailors -- Taverns: 'The Hercules's Pillars', Portsmouth -- Shops: Agent for Prizes -- Navy: ships -- Ships: Centurion, at anchor in Portsmouth, 1751 -- Maps: map of Nova Scotia -- Map of Gibraltar -- Allusion to trade with Newfoundland -- Furniture: dining chairs -- Lancets -- Postillion blowing horn -- Gothamites -- Aldermen -- Birds: hen and chicks -- Storks -- Eagle grasping fulmen -- Cuckoo with ass's head -- Dining tables -- Trades: surgeon, as a goose -- Medicine: in bottles -- Wheelbarrows -- Emblems -- Trade with Lima, 1751 -- Personifications: Covetousness, Disappointment, Malice, Envy -- Medical procedures: bleeding., Mounted to 30 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Feb. 21, 1751, by Dan Job, stationer in King Street, Covent Garden
Title from item., Four lines of text below image: A view of decideing [sic] the wager between Mr. Codd and Hants of Maldon in the County of Essex ..., Earlier state issued by a different publisher. Cf. No. 3084 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject -- Obesity -- Wagers -- Edward Bright, d. 1750.
Publisher:
Printed for B. Dickinson on Ludgate Hill and publish'd according to act of Parliament
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 'Pr 6d.', Three columns of text below image: In one corner of this poetical apartment stood, a flock-bed and underneath it a green jordan presented itself to the eye ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: garrets -- Furnishings: furnishing of poor -- Furniture: flock-bed.
"Satire on the disputed Westminster election of 1751; view on St James's Street during a procession on the day the Hon. Alexander Murray was released from prison; on the left two men stand in wigs declaring "No Knee Worship" and "It's a Dirty Place"; at the head of the procession a man holds a sign stating "Murray and Liberty", carriages follow behind, in the background people watch the scene from their windows, St James's Palace on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of comment in center below image: Brutus had rather be a villager, than to repute himself a son of Rome ..., Sixteen lines of description in two columns on either side of the comment: The Honble. Alex. Murray Esqr. who by an order of [the] House of Commons had been committed a close prisoner to Newgate ..., Temporary local subject terms: London: London: St. James's Street -- Clubs: White's -- Newgate prison -- Parliament: members of Parliament -- Flags: Union Jack -- Flags: 'Murray & Liberty' -- Trades: butchers -- Male dress: striped election suits -- Mottoes: O tempora! O mores! -- Vehicles -- Elections: 1751 -- Westminster petition -- Lord George Carpenter. 1723-1762 -- George Vandeput, d. 1800 -- George Cooke, d. 1768 -- Richard Crowle, d. 1757 -- William Alexander, d. 1762 -- Robert Scott, d. 1760., and Watermark: indiscernible countermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Murray, Alexander, d 1777 and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, Political elections, Petitions, and Carriages & coaches
A scene in a park showing a number of elegantly dressed men and women walking and bowing and greeting each other. In the background are several buildings, one of which has scaffolding erected in front of it.
Alternative Title:
Gout a la mode en MDCCLI
Description:
Title from impression at the Library of Congress., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Identifications of the Duke of Cumberland and Chevalier Descazeau added in contemporary hand below image., Window mounted to 28 x 39 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, sold by E. Griffin next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 and Du Halley, Michel Descazeaux, 1710-1775
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Hogarth 751.02.01.04.1+ Box 200
Collection Title:
Plate 77. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 53. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the street outside the Thavies Inn, Holborn, the coach driver Tom Nero beats the horse that has collapsed under the weight of the overturned coach, having been overloaded with four lawyers who try to scramble out the door. To the right in the foreground, another man beats to death a sheep. Behind him in the mid-distance a sleeping drayman runs over a small boy with his cart loaded with barrels. To the left a driver uses a pitchfork to prod a donkey burdened with two men, a barrel, and a large trunk on its back. In the distance, a crowd of men follow a bull being baited by a dog. On the side of the building on the left, broadsides advertise a cock-fight and a boxing bout between James Field and George Taylor at Broughton's Amphitheatre
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., Second plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., "Price 1d"--Below design, lower right edge., and 1 plate : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 383 x 319 mm, on sheet 472 x 390 mm.
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Hogarth 751.02.01.03.1+ Box 200
Collection Title:
Plate 76. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 52. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a London street, young boys inflict various forms of cruelty upon animals. In the centre, a boy (Tom Nero), identifiable by the badge on his shoulder as a pupil of St. Giles's Parish School, thrusts an arrow into a dog's anus; he ignores the offer of a large tart from a sympathetic young gentleman (said by Paulson to be a compliment to the young George III). To his left on the front of the balustrade, a boy draws a prophetic picture of Tom hanging from the gallows. Below Tom, another boy ties a bone to a dog's tail. In the lower left, a dog disembowels a cat. In the center foreground another boy kneels on the cobblestones, about to release a cock, as another boy prepares to a stick at it; the boy behind him holds a second cock. On the balustrade one boy holds a torch while his companion blinds a bird with a wire. Further to the left on the balustrade a group of boys laugh at the sight of two cats fight as they are hung by their tails from a gibbet-shaped lamp post. Above them a cat with a pair of wings tied to its back has been tossed out the attic window to see if it could fly
Description:
Title engraved above image., State, publisher, and series title from Paulson., First in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., Quotation engraved below image: "While various scenes of sportive woe, the infant race employ, and tortur'd victims bleeding shew, the tyrant in the boy. Behold! A youth of gentler heart, to spare the creature's pain. O take, he cries - take all my tart, but tears and tart are vain. Learn from this fair example - you whom savage sports delight, how cruelty disgusts the view while pity charms the sight.", This impression stamped '6d' following price '1s'., and 1 print : etching & engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 380 x 320 mm, on sheet 470 x 384 mm.
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Hogarth 751.02.01.06.3+ Box 200
Collection Title:
Plate 79. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 55. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "James Field" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dogs feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians
Description:
Title engraved above image., State, publisher, and series title from Paulson., Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., "Price 1s. 6d"--Left corner, below design., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 383 x 318 mm, on sheet 472 x 376 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Criminals, Dogs, Dissections, Medical education, Rake's progress, Physicians, and Skeletons
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Hogarth 751.02.01.05.1+ Box 200
Collection Title:
Plate 78. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 54. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Tom Nero, now a highwayman, has been arrested for the murder. He stands in the churchyard over the body of his pregnant lover, Ann Gill, whose throat and wrist are severed. One from the group of men who have apprehended Tom show him the knife as the others restrain him; they are armed with pitchforks, sticks, and other farm tools. Ann lies on her back on the ground, the bundle of plate that she has stolen from her mistress at Nero's request spilling out at her side. The light from the lantern in the left foreground illuminates the contents of Ann's letter to Tom telling the story of her entanglement and guilt. A box with her initials is open revealing a copy of the Book of Common Prayer and a copy of God's revenge against murder. Also on the ground near the lantern are Tom's pistol and a collection of watches that he has stolen. The clock in the church tower shows 1:00; a bat and owls circle overhead
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publisher and series title from Paulson., Third in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., Three columns each with four lines of verse etched below design: To lawless love when once betray'd, soon crime to crime succeeds: at length beguil'd to theft, the maid by her beguiler bleeds. Yet learn, seducing man! Nor night, with all its sable cloud, can screen the guilty deed from sight; foul murder cries aloud. The gaping wounds, and blood stain'd steel, now shock his trembling soul: but oh! what pangs his breast must feel, when death his knell shall toll.", "Price 1s"--Bottom left below design., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 383 x 319 mm, on sheet 473 x 380 mm., and Pencilled note on verso: '2nd state'.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Cemeteries, Criminals, Churches, Homicides, and Pregnant women
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Sotheby 67++ Box 315
Collection Title:
Plate 75. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 50. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the streets of the slum Ruins of St. Giles, Westminster, the only business are S. Gripe pawnbroker (left), Kilman Distiller (right) and the undertaker (background right). It is a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners -- charity children, mothers and babies, trades people, cripples, etc. -- shown dead or dying, fighting, or stupefied with drink. Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin". His dog looks down at the empty glass. On the right in a crumbling building a barber is shown hanging by his neck; below a crowd is being pushed back towards Kilman Distiller. Mid-ground a woman is being placed in a coffin, her child weeping on the ground beside the coffin. Another child is impaled on a spit and carried along by a cook with a bellows on his head. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so that the face is wizened and the eyes sunken
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., Verse below image: Gin cursed fiend with fury fraught, makes human race a prey; it enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away ..., and Companion print: Beer Street.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Building deterioration, Children, Crowds, Death, Dogs, Fighting, Gin, Intoxication, Occupations, Pawnshops, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Slums, Starvation, Suicides, Street vendors, and Undertakers
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Sotheby 68++ Box 315
Collection Title:
Plate 74. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 51. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A flourishing urban scene with well fed citizens; in the foreground, butchers, fish wives and a City of London porter hold large tankards of beer; a butcher lifts a skinny Frenchman into the air with one hand; in the background, paviours repair the street, chairmen carry a stout lady, tailors sew in a well lit attic, builders work on the roof of a house clad with scaffolding, and a warehouseman hauls a barrel to an upper storey - all are drinking beer; poverty appears only in the ragged coat of the artist painting the tavern sign and, more particularly, in the collapsing house of "N Pinch Pawn Broker"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., Companion print: Gin Lane., "Price 1s"-- Lower right corner of plate., and Four lines of verse iin each of three columns etched below image, beginning: "Beer, happy Produce of our Isle, Can sinewy Strength impart ..."
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Beer, Bricklayers, Butchers, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Eating & drinking, Fishmongers, Occupations, Painters (Tradespeople), Street vendors, Tailors, Taverns (Inns), and Usury
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Sotheby 69++ Box 315
Collection Title:
Plate 76. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 52. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a London street, young boys inflict various forms of cruelty upon animals. In the centre, a boy (Tom Nero), identifiable by the badge on his shoulder as a pupil of St. Giles's Parish School, thrusts an arrow into a dog's anus; he ignores the offer of a large tart from a sympathetic young gentleman (said by Paulson to be a compliment to the young George III). To his left on the front of the balustrade, a boy draws a prophetic picture of Tom hanging from the gallows. Below Tom, another boy ties a bone to a dog's tail. In the lower left, a dog disembowels a cat. In the center foreground another boy kneels on the cobblestones, about to release a cock, as another boy prepares to a stick at it; the boy behind him holds a second cock. On the balustrade one boy holds a torch while his companion blinds a bird with a wire. Further to the left on the balustrade a group of boys laugh at the sight of two cats fight as they are hung by their tails from a gibbet-shaped lamp post. Above them a cat with a pair of wings tied to its back has been tossed out the attic window to see if it could fly
Description:
Title engraved above image., State, publisher, and series title from Paulson., First in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., and Quotation engraved below image: "While various scenes of sportive woe, the infant race employ, and tortur'd victims bleeding shew, the tyrant in the boy. Behold! A youth of gentler heart, to spare the creature's pain. O take, he cries - take all my tart, but tears and tart are vain. Learn from this fair example - you whom savage sports delight, how cruelty disgusts the view while pity charms the sight."
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Sotheby 70++ Box 315
Collection Title:
Plate 77. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 53. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the street outside the Thavies Inn, Holborn, the coach driver Tom Nero beats the horse that has collapsed under the weight of the overturned coach, having been overloaded with four lawyers who try to scramble out the door. To the right in the foreground, another man beats to death a sheep. Behind him in the mid-distance a sleeping drayman runs over a small boy with his cart loaded with barrels. To the left a driver uses a pitchfork to prod a donkey burdened with two men, a barrel, and a large trunk on its back. In the distance, a crowd of men follow a bull being baited by a dog. On the side of the building on the left, broadsides advertise a cock-fight and a boxing bout between James Field and George Taylor at Broughton's Amphitheatre
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., Second plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., and "Price 1d"--Below design, lower right edge.
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Sotheby 71++ Box 315
Collection Title:
Plate 78. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 54. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Tom Nero, now a highwayman, has been arrested for the murder. He stands in the churchyard over the body of his pregnant lover, Ann Gill, whose throat and wrist are severed. One from the group of men who have apprehended Tom show him the knife as the others restrain him; they are armed with pitchforks, sticks, and other farm tools. Ann lies on her back on the ground, the bundle of plate that she has stolen from her mistress at Nero's request spilling out at her side. The light from the lantern in the left foreground illuminates the contents of Ann's letter to Tom telling the story of her entanglement and guilt. A box with her initials is open revealing a copy of the Book of Common Prayer and a copy of God's revenge against murder. Also on the ground near the lantern are Tom's pistol and a collection of watches that he has stolen. The clock in the church tower shows 1:00; a bat and owls circle overhead
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publisher and series title from Paulson., Third in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., Three columns each with four lines of verse etched below design: To lawless love when once betray'd, soon crime to crime succeeds: at length beguil'd to theft, the maid by her beguiler bleeds. Yet learn, seducing man! Nor night, with all its sable cloud, can screen the guilty deed from sight; foul murder cries aloud. The gaping wounds, and blood stain'd steel, now shock his trembling soul: but oh! what pangs his breast must feel, when death his knell shall toll.", and "Price 1s"--Bottom left below design.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Cemeteries, Criminals, Churches, Homicides, and Pregnant women
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Sotheby 72++ Box 315
Collection Title:
Plate 79. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 55. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "James Field" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dogs feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians
Description:
Title engraved above image., State, publisher, and series title from Paulson., Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., "Price 1s. 6d"--Left corner, below design., and Lacks stamp '6d' following 'Price 1s."
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Criminals, Dogs, Dissections, Medical education, Rake's progress, Physicians, and Skeletons
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 52K(a) Box 315
Collection Title:
Plate 75. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 50. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the streets of the slum Ruins of St. Giles, Westminster, the only business are S. Gripe pawnbroker (left), Kilman Distiller (right) and the undertaker (background right). It is a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners -- charity children, mothers and babies, trades people, cripples, etc. -- shown dead or dying, fighting, or stupefied with drink. Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin". His dog looks down at the empty glass. On the right in a crumbling building a barber is shown hanging by his neck; below a crowd is being pushed back towards Kilman Distiller. Mid-ground a woman is being placed in a coffin, her child weeping on the ground beside the coffin. Another child is impaled on a spit and carried along by a cook with a bellows on his head. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so that the face is wizened and the eyes sunken
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., Verse below image: Gin cursed fiend with fury fraught, makes human race a prey; it enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away ..., Companion print: Beer Street., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark: 385 x 320 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Building deterioration, Children, Crowds, Death, Dogs, Fighting, Gin, Intoxication, Occupations, Pawnshops, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Slums, Starvation, Suicides, Street vendors, and Undertakers
