Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: cooks., Mounted to 24 x 17 cm., and Subject identified in two later inscriptions below image as cook at the Rainbow Tavern in Fleet Street.
Title devised by curator., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record. Possibly later than 1760, based on use of wove paper., Sheet trimmed within plate mark including rounding corners that results in partial loss of design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 27 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Lyres, Masks, Musical instruments, and Picture puzzles
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1760]
Call Number:
760.00.00.111+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on prostitution set in a brothel in which all the men have been given the heads of apes and the women those of cats. In the centre of the room a prostitute sits on the knee of an old man who fondles her, her legs splayed; she holds a glass in one hand and a flask in the other. A magistrate wearing a lace edged hat and holding a large candle stands over them. Constables with staves stand in the open door, behind which the prostitute's pimp (referred to as her bully in the verse beneath) is hiding; he is dressed as a grenadier. On the right, the brothel-keeper holds up a tally-board pointing out one of the symbols to three men who are startled at the entry of the constables; one is seated at a table holding a glass, another holds a large candle. On the table is a large flask, another rests on the floor beside a big jug, and another lies broken in pieces. In the background on the right a couple peer from being the curtains of a large bed. Hanging from the ceiling is a large birdcage on which a bird is perched."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title supplied from description of an earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue by Sayer of a print published anonymously around 1730. See no. 1860 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2., Terminal date of publication based on publisher's street address; according to the British Museum online catalogue, Sayer moved from his "opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street" premises in 1760. A later date is also possible, as the series that included this print was advertised in Robert Sayer's catalogue for 1766; see no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Alas! poor whore, thourt fairly trap'd, Tho' by thy spark so sweetly lap'd; And for thy midnight vice and folly, Your fate is now to mill your dolly ...
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Interiors, Prostitutes, Military uniforms, Judges, Watchmen, Canopy beds, Birdcages, Doves, Wine, and Bottles
Titles devised by cataloger., Imprint from title page accompanying prints., Plate from: A book of caricaturas : on 59 copper-plates, with [the] principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner, with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas / by M. Darly. Cornhill [England] : Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill, [176-?]., Plate numbered: "15"., With: [Profile of a man with a large chin and nose andwearing a hat, smaller view of a man in profile below] / My. Darly 1762. Numbered: '16'., Reissue., and Not bound; in box labeled "Darly 1763".
Title and publication date devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Military: veterans -- Wooden legs -- Animals: donkey -- Military: disabled soldier.
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker from British museum catalogues., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of price and verse below the image., Subject identified by O'Donoghue as Wormald, Johnny (of Halifax)., Temporary local subject terms: Worrall or Wormald, John, fl. 1760-1771., Mounted to 16 x 13 cm., and Inscribed on verso in contemporary hand: Jemmy Worrall a natural of Hallifax in Yorkshire alive in 1771.
A three-quarters length portrait of a man in a hat, sleeping
Description:
Title from ms. not in Steevens's hand on an impression in the Lewis Walpole Library., Note in Paulson's Hogarth's graphic works (1962): not by Hogarth., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print mark: one of Hogarth's club., and On page 235 in volume 3.
Titles devised by cataloger., Imprint from title page accompanying prints., Plate from: A book of caricaturas : on 59 copper-plates, with [the] principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner, with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas / by M. Darly. Cornhill [England] : Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill, [176-?]., Plate numbered: "47"., With: [Portait of a man in a cap] / MDarly fect. No. 48., Reissue., and Not bound; in box labeled "Darly 1763".
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1762]
Call Number:
Folio 72 760 D37
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titles devised by cataloger., Imprint from title page accompanying prints., Plate from: A book of caricaturas : on 59 copper-plates, with [the] principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner, with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas / by M. Darly. Cornhill [England] : Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill, [176-?]., Plate numbered: "21"., With: [Profile of man in a jockey hat, two small profiles below] / M. Darly fect. 1761. Numbered: '22'., Reissue., and Not bound; in box labeled "Darly 1763".
Titles devised by cataloger., Imprint from title page accompanying prints., Plate from: A book of caricaturas : on 59 copper-plates, with [the] principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner, with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas / by M. Darly. Cornhill [England] : Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill, [176-?]., Plate numbered: "13"., With: [Two men wearing hats facing each other] / My. Darly del. et sculpt. 1762. Numbered: '14'., Reissue., and Not bound; in box labeled "Darly 1763".
