Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1740]
Call Number:
724 791K
Collection Title:
Volume 3, opposite page 466. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the sale of Charles Jervas' studio (1739/40); an allegorical female figure holding a palette and brushes standing on the right, who lays an oval bas-relief portrait of Jervas on a plinth attached to a pyramid, while a cherub cuts the inscription on the plinth below: 'The Collection of Charles Jarvis Esq Consisiting of Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Basso Relievo, &c &c'; with classical artistic fragments to left and classical buildings in the background, including Trajan's column, and a fragment on the right inscribed 'Heath Auctioneer'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Frontispiece to: A catalogue of the most valuable collection of pictures, prints, and drawings late of Charles Jarvis Esq; deceased. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1740]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Folded to 20.3 x 12.2 cm; mounted on leaf 24 x 14 cm., and Bound in opposite page 466 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Knox, V. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best writers ... London : Rivington [etc.], 1791.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739,
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Columns, Pyramids, Sculpture, and Portraits
Plate [158] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions of Isaac Oliver, Cornelius Janssen, Peter Oliver, Sir Peter Lely, Sir Godfrey Kneller and Greenhill on a wall surmounted by another showing Van Dyck, above which two angels recline on clouds, on drawing and the other reaching up to rainbow above; palette and brushes lying in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [158] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617,, Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661,, Oliver, Peter, 1594-1648,, Lely, Peter, 1618-1680,, Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723,, Greenhill, John, 1642-1676,, and Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641,
"Death (left) poises his javelin, about to strike an old man in bed, reading a book by the light of a candle held in his left hand. The room is heaped with his treasures (armour, &c.). Rats scamper, chased by a cat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue; the assigned title for each plate from The English dance of death is the heading to the opposite printed page., Early (proof?) state, before aquatint added. For a later state, see no. 12412 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Publisher and date of publication from imprint on later state: London, Pub. 1 April 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with possible loss of text below image., Later state issued in: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 320., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death., and Ink verse notation on verso, perhaps in Rowlandson's hand; additional pencil notation on verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Wills, Skeletons, Spears, Beds, Sleeping, Cats, Rats, Armor, Musical instruments, Books, Candles, Artists' materials, Urns, and Sculpture
Charles Churchill in the form of a huge bear (right, as in Hogarth's print The Bruiser) and wearing clerical neckbands, looks down, mouth agap, at a little dog (left) who snarls back. The dog personifies Hogarth as in his own print "Trump"; his paws rest on a artist's palette inscribed "Line of beauty". The bear's paw rests on a sheet inscribed "Epistle to Wm. Hogarth," the poem which Churchill published in response to Hogarth's sketch of Wilkes described as "John Wilkes, Esqr."
Alternative Title:
Satire on Hogarth and the Rev. C. Churchill
Description:
Title from later state, engraved for the engd. for the Hiberia magazine. and Alternative title from British Museum catalogue: Satire on Hogarth and the Rev. C. Churchill.
