The interior of a farmer's cottage, with the farmer seated in an armchair next to a table looking at his wife (right) whose jug in her left hand spills out. To the left of the farmer, on either side of the table, are their two children, a son and daughter (gesturing in surprise as she looks at her mother). The hearth on the left is equipped with a pot hanging above a large fire; a rifle above the mantel piece, a cat on the floor gazing at the fire
Description:
Title from another copy, signed by the printmaker Basire., Plate to: Nichols's Genuine works of Hogarth. Ms. list in copy 3 makes notes of an “admirable copy by the same artist”., Original used as a frontispiece to: Garrick, D. The farmer's return from London. London : Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson, in the Strand, MDCCLXII [1762]., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 240., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand in above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 374. Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below image: Copy., and On page 189 in volume 2.
Title from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., State without title and with original publication date partially burnished from plate. Cf. No. 3880 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: Throne Room -- Orders: Order of the Thistle -- Harlequins -- Scots., and Mounted to 30 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Title from from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., Two columns of verse below image: Great people, like small ones, will have their sport and [the] diffrence is triffling 'twixt city & court ..., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: See-saw -- Buildings: Windsor Castle -- Emblems: jack boot (Lord Bute)., and Mounted to 32 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
A companion to Plate I, the firefighters have become gardeners and the water flows onto the trees in pots that surround the statue of Henry VIII, royal steams of benevolence. Lord Bute is the head gardener
Alternative Title:
Pl. 2
Description:
Title etched below image., Date, publisher, and state as described by Paulson., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Plate II. Ms. note beneath image: Times, Plate 2; proof taken during the life-time of Hogarth., Ms. note in ink on square of paper mounted below in Steevens's hand: This second part of The times (for and impression of which the late Lord Exeter paid Mrs. Hogarth ten guineas, the money to be returned if she published the plate) is every way inferior to the first. Since the death of Mrs. Hogarth, it is become the property of the Boydells., and On page 193 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Cities & towns, and Gardens