A copy in reverse of William Hogarth's Plate 5 of A harlot's progress: In a squalid room Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies. Her serving-woman reaches out to them ...
Alternative Title:
Harlot's progress. Plate 5, In a high salivation at the point of death, and Elle meurt en passant par le grand-reméde
Description:
Title in English and French engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Misaubin, Jean, 1673-1734. and Rock, Richard, 1690-1777.
A copy in reverse of William Hogarth's Plate 6 of A harlot's progress: A dilapidated room with Moll Hackabout's friends, mostly prostitutes, gathered around her open coffin, several of them weeping; one young woman stands with her back to the scene as...
Alternative Title:
Harlot's progress. Plate 6, Her funeral properly attended, and Pompe de ses funérailles
Description:
Title in English and French engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Children, Clergy, Coffins, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Interiors, Prostitutes, Rake's progress, Seduction, Servants, Syphilis, Undertakers, and Wake services
"A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated,...
Alternative Title:
Masonic anecdote
Description:
Titles in English and French etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 21st, 1786, for the proprietor by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
Subject (Topic):
Freemasonry, Quacks and quackery, Fraternal organizations, Interiors, Dining tables, Chairs, Candles, and Eating & drinking
"A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated,...
Alternative Title:
Masonic anecdote
Description:
Titles in English and French etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 21st, 1786, for the proprietor by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
Subject (Topic):
Freemasonry, Quacks and quackery, Fraternal organizations, Interiors, Dining tables, Chairs, Candles, and Eating & drinking
"The "Bedroom of the heart of Voltaire" in Ferney: a bedroom with alcove bed on the far right, portraits hung on the walls, and to the left a pyramid-shaped altar in an alcove; ... with small bust of Voltaire in the lower margin."--British Museum onli...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Imp. A. Quantin
Subject (Geographic):
France and Ferney-Voltaire.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778 and Château de Ferney (Ferney-Voltaire, France)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, and Portraits
An elderly husband, with a look of despair and exasperation, sits at a tall cased escritoire, after reading his young wife's account book; she sits in the chair next to the desk hiding her smile behind a handkerchief. Behind her is a harp. On the desk...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Couples, Desks, Harps, Interiors, Parlors, and Writing materials
A thin man in a cap pulled down on his head feeds a morsel of food to an obese woman who combs a wig in her hand as they sit on a sofa before a table laid with lunch. They are in a well-appointed sitting room decorated with a mirror above a fireplace ...
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1ts [sic] Iany. 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.01.03 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing in an inn in profile to left, holding a gourd and a bowl against her sides, looking ahead, wearing a mob-cap and check apron, with a chair to left, casement window to right and three pictures on the wall behind."--British Museu...
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1ts [sic] Iany. 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.01.03 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing in an inn in profile to left, holding a gourd and a bowl against her sides, looking ahead, wearing a mob-cap and check apron, with a chair to left, casement window to right and three pictures on the wall behind."--British Museu...
