First image, 'Painting after life' shows a skeleton (death) seated before an easel painting a portrait of the obese old man seated opposite and holding a cane. The subject is seated against a blank screen; a portfolio of other works is leaning agains...
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1396); whole-length, standing directed to front, head turned in profile to right, leaning with her right elbow on a pedestal bearing a large urn, her left hand on her right arm; hair high and curled, a robe over her ...
Alternative Title:
Honourable Mrs. Parker
Description:
Title engraved in image.
Publisher:
Publish'd. Octr. 25th 1773 for S. Hooper No. 25 Ludgate Street; W. Shropshire No. 158 & T. Watson No. 142 New Bond Street
"Double portrait of the ladies Yorke after Reynolds (Mannings 1956); as children, whole-length to front, in garden beside sphinx on pedestal; Lady Annabel Grey standing at left with dove perched on her right hand, Lady Mary Jemima running towards her ...
Alternative Title:
Ladies Yorke and Two daughters of Philip Yorke Viscount Royston and the Marchioness of Grey, 1761
Description:
Title and publisher from British Museum description.
Publisher:
Publish'd accordg. to act of Parliament by Ed. Fisher in Great Newport Street, Leicester Square
Subject (Name):
Grantham, Mary Jemima Robinson, Lady, 1757-1730, and De Grey, Amabel Hume-Campbell, Countess, 1751-1733,
Group portrait of nine men seated around a table set with fruit and decanters; they are served by a black page. Boswell is on the left, with Johnson to his right talking to Edmund Burke; Reynolds is seated across from Johnson and listens with a trumpe...
Description:
Title from later state in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Published July 1st 1848 by the proprietors Wm. Walker, 64 Margaret St., Cavendish Sqre., & Owen Bailey, 128 Seymour St. Euston Sqre
"Satire on Hogarth's attack on Charles Churchill, "The Bruiser" (Paulson 215). Hogarth, his upper body an ass and the lower part a lion, sits on a three-legged stool on a dais with a painting of "The Bruiser" attached to a ladder as if to an easel; hi...
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Now showing away at Sumpters political theatrical booth facing St. Brides Church, Fleet Street. No more than sixpence a pass, my masters
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764
A series of six scenes, three in two rows, showing skeletons in various activities, each individually captioned: Singing, Dancing, Music, Oratory, Painting, Sculpture
Description:
Title from text above images.
Publisher:
Published 3rd June 1830 by S. Gans, 15, Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Dancers, Musicians, Public speaking, and Skeletons
"Satire on Hogarth's attack on Charles Churchill, "The Bruiser" (Paulson 215). Hogarth, his upper body an ass and the lower part a lion, sits on a three-legged stool on a dais with a painting of "The Bruiser" attached to a ladder as if to an easel; hi...
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Now showing away at Sumpters political theatrical booth facing St. Brides Church, Fleet Street. No more than sixpence a pass, my masters
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764
Two undated crayon drawings by Don Freeman of African American artist Beauford Delaney. Each is signed "DF" at lower right and mounted on a sheet of blue paper. One drawing portrays Delaney seated at a table with a coffee cup and pot; the other is a b...
Description:
Don Freeman (1908-1978), New York illustrator.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979 and Freeman, Don, 1908-1978.
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, Artists, and Illustrators
