"Portrait in profile of a young man who lacks hands and legs beyond the knee; full-length, sitting on a cushion before a lectern on the right, drawing a tree with a pen held against his mouth using his left elbow."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Etched below the image: These deficiencies were occasioned, (as his mother supposes) by a fright she suffer'd whilst pregnant with him. Notwithstanding these disadvantages he has by industry acquired the arts of writing, and drawing, holding and guiding the pen and pencil with the muscles of his cheek and arm., and Mounted to: 27.7 x 21 cm
Publisher:
Publish'd for T. Inglefield
Subject (Name):
Inglefield, Thomas, 1769-,
Subject (Topic):
Abnormalities, Human, Phocomelus, Artists, British, and People with disabilities
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 1 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An artist (left) with a caricatured face looks on with horror as a bust falls on the head of the Lord, the sitter, who jumps and shreaks with pain, his foot breaking the window (right). In the background the Lord's round, well-dressed wife looks on in horror and Sketch on verso in pencil shows a boxer with gloves in a fighting stance. The figures in ink on recto, the artist and his lordship, bleed-through the image on verso
Description:
Title from caption written above image on recto; image on verso untitled., Verses below image begin: " A poor sculptor with his work elated, on a fickle lord one evening waited ; with his Lordship's bust ... Now her Ladyship with great acknowledg'd the sculptor's work to be a striking likeness.", Place and date of creation based on Grant's known place of residence and years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Boxers (Sports), Boxing, Couples, Distress, Pain, Sculptors, and Sculptures
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 1 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An artist (left) with a caricatured face looks on with horror as a bust falls on the head of the Lord, the sitter, who jumps and shreaks with pain, his foot breaking the window (right). In the background the Lord's round, well-dressed wife looks on in horror and Sketch on verso in pencil shows a boxer with gloves in a fighting stance. The figures in ink on recto, the artist and his lordship, bleed-through the image on verso
Description:
Title from caption written above image on recto; image on verso untitled., Verses below image begin: " A poor sculptor with his work elated, on a fickle lord one evening waited ; with his Lordship's bust ... Now her Ladyship with great acknowledg'd the sculptor's work to be a striking likeness.", Place and date of creation based on Grant's known place of residence and years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Boxers (Sports), Boxing, Couples, Distress, Pain, Sculptors, and Sculptures
Title engraved below image., An impression of the design engraved on the tankard belonging to the Clare Market artists club which included William Hogarth., Later state of plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 77., After Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 6., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
An printed indenture form apprenticing a poor boy for a period of seven years, issued by the Mayor of the Town of Stamford, Lincolnshire and acting as trustee of an annuity paid from the estate of Thomas Earl of Exeter
Alternative Title:
This indenture witnesseth that of his own free will and with the consent of Gentleman ...
Description:
Title from first line of text., The Lewis Walpole copy: The document is signed and sealed with red wax and blind stamp and dated 1795 January 13. Docket title in manuscript on verso. Blanks filled in with the name of the boy, "Hugh Forster otherwise Foyster", who is apprenticed to George Sparrow, painter. Signed by the mayor, Jeremiah Belgrave, George Sparrow, Hugh Foster and J. Wyche. With notes on the verso, appending the agreement., Pages [2]-[4] blank., and Not in ESTC.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Apprentices, Artists, Training of, and Indentured servants
"Portrait group of the Society of Artists; men gathered around a table in a fine interior, some seated, attended by servants; with portraits of Grinling Gibbons, William Kent, John Michael Rysbrack, Gawen Hamilton, Marcellus Laroon, Michael Dahl, John Vanderbanck, and Charles Bridgman; a landscape painting on wall in background, a curtain to the right, after Hogarth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Society of Artists
Description:
Title etched below image. and Dobson. Hogarth, 1902, p. 233.
Publisher:
Published May 1, 1829 by W.B. Tiffin, 3, Hay Market
Head-and-shoulders self-portrait of English painter Thomas Gainsborough, facing right and "Portrait of Thomas Gainsborough, after his self-portrait; half length, to the right, head turned to the front, his hair lightly curled over ears, wearing jacket fastened at waist and cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted after page 686 (leaf numbered '129' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Nov. 27, 1810, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, and Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.
Title etched below image., Figures and landmarks in this print are lettered in plate with key beneath title: A. Upnor Castle. B. The River Medway. C. Mr. Thornhill. D. Mr. Hogarth. E. Mr. Forrest. F. Mr. Tothall. G. Mr. Scott., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate for: Gosling, W. Account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days peregrination of the five following persons ..., Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.)., and On page 211in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 27th 1781 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarth's Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,, Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734,, Scott, Samuel, approximately 1710-1772,, and Upnor Castle (Kent, England)
A portrait of Hogarth in profile, looking left, with a pencil in his right hand poised above an open book in his left hand. He wears a cocked hat on his head. Adapted from his self-portrait in "The Gate of Calais."
Description:
Title from engraved text above image., Date based on similar print published by R. Sayer. See no. 3066 in the Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Verses engraved below image begin: "In solemn scenes great Kneller's pencil wrought, and kings and heroes fill'd his lab'ring thought. Hogarth more humble, yet as justly draws the lines of nature, and pursues her laws ..."
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
Copy of Hogarth's self-portrait; he is painting Thalia, the Comic Muse who holds a satyr's mask in her left hand and a book in her right hand. After the state without "Comedy 1764" on the pillar. Hogarth is seated in a chair leaning forward toward the easel, looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat; he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife; the pot of oil on the floor in front of the chair. A volume of prints and a burin can be seen in a niche in the wall behind the easel. Leaning against the leg of the easel is a volume with a print protruding from its pages and no title (in the original it is identified as "Analysis of Beauty").
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Date from other prints by Dent in the British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
Subject (Topic):
Painting, Muses (Greek deities) in art, Artists, and British
