Copy of the image from Hogarth's subscription ticket for "Marriage A-la-Mode". A group of heads drawn in a naturalistic style seen in profile; below, five compartments with heads after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons (i.e."characters") and caricatures after Ghezzi, Raphael Urbin, Annibale Carracci, and Leonardo da Vinci
Alternative Title:
Three characters. Four caricaturas and Characters and caricaturas
Description:
Title etched below image., Lettered immediately below image: Cartons. Raphael urbin pinxt. Cavl. Chezzi del. Annibal Charraci invt. Leonard da Vinci pinx., Plate from: Trusler, J. Complete works of William Hogarth in a series of one hundred and fifty superb steel engravings. London and New York : London Printing and Publishing Company, [18--], between p. 180 and p. 181., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of subtitle. Subtitle supplied from a more perfect impression bound in Lewis Walpole Library book: Quarto 75 H67 876., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2591., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 156.
Copy of the image from Hogarth's subscription ticket for "Marriage A-la-Mode". A group of heads drawn in a naturalistic style seen in profile; below, five compartments with heads after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons (i.e."characters") and caricatures after Ghezzi, Raphael Urbin, Annibale Carracci, and Leonardo da Vinci
Alternative Title:
Three characters. Four caricaturas and Characters and caricaturas
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on date of original in Paulson., Lettered immediately below image: Cartons. Raphael urbin pinxt. Cav. Chezze del. Annibal Charraci invt. Leonard da Vinci pinx., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2591., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 156.
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774, auctioneer, publisher
Published / Created:
[1755]
Call Number:
125 L278 755 3/11
Image Count:
172
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Priced., Signatures: A-B⁴., The seller was the physician and antiquarian Dr. Richard Mead, 1673-1754. This sale appears to be the English version of the second part of an earlier sale of the Museum Meadianum, which was printed in Latin.--Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques., MED,HSL 17th cent: Bound with the author's A catalogue of pictures, London, 1755., BAC: British Art Center copy annotated in pen and ink with prices for all lots. Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Bound in contemporary smooth calf. Bound with Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. London, 1754., and With extensive ms. notes recording prices paid throughout. Title pages are ruled in red.
Publisher:
Abraham Langford
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, Great Britain, and England.
Subject (Name):
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Art auctions, Art, Private collections, Decorative arts, Prices, Private libraries, and House furnishings
"One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty": a ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border around the main image are 41 compartments with diagrams relating to the text; the image is numbered throughout"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., and Bound in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty along with State 3 of Plate 1. Also with the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p.
"One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty": a ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border around the main image are 41 compartments with diagrams relating to the text; the image is numbered throughout"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: See Mr. Nichols'sbook, 3d edit, p. 325., and On page 164 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 39.1 x 50.8 cm.
"One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty": a ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border around the main image are 41 compartments with diagrams relating to the text; the image is numbered throughout"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., and 1 print : etching and engraving, on laid paper ; sheet 385 x 504 mm.
"One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty": a ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border around the main image are 41 compartments with diagrams relating to the text; the image is numbered throughout"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and date from Paulson., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: 3rd Impression., and Formerly on page 166 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
"One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty": a ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border around the main image are 41 compartments with diagrams relating to the text; the image is numbered throughout"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: 2nd impression., and On page 165 in volume 2.
"One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty": a ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border around the main image are 41 compartments with diagrams relating to the text; the image is numbered throughout"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image. and State from Paulson.
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 2 f. 0 1/4 i. by 2 f. 7 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate LV from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Virgin and child.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1784, by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England and Norfolk.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Houghton Hall (England)
