A copy of William Hogarth's portrait of Lord Lovat with oval portraits in the four corners of: Lord Balmerino aged 58, Lord Cormartie pardon'd, Charles Ratclif aged 53, and Lord Kilmarnook aged 42.
Description:
Title etched at top of image on a banner with the heads of Townley and Fletcher on pikes on either side., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2801., and On page 123 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747 and Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord, 1688-1746,
"Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino awaiting execution on raised platform encircled by line of infantry within line of cavalry; groups of onlookers at ground level and at windows and on balconies"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to Maurer and approximate date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image., Text below image, lower left: The Governor of [the] Tower delivering the prisoners to the Sheriffs of London at the barr for execution., Text below image, lower right: The view of the scaffold with the guards surounding [sic] at the time of execution., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Partially window mounted., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Ryall at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Kilmarnock, William Boyd, Earl of, 1704-1746. and Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord, 1688-1746.
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of text below image: Chairman, a solicitor refusing to drink King George's health. He leaning on the chair is Jackey of York, an attorney his hackney fool ..., Temporary local subject terms: Nicknames: Jackey of York -- Ghosts: independent rump -- Imps carrying dust basket -- Containers: dust basket -- Jacobites -- Tools: butcher's steel -- Wine bottles -- Executioner's axe -- Lighting: candlestick -- Smoking: clay tobacco pipes -- Food: marrowbone -- Furniture: chair -- Executions: Kennington Common, July 30 1746 -- Trades: bill man -- Executioner -- Butchers -- Woolen draper -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Wine glasses with sign -- Clubs: Independent Electors of Westminster -- Law: rebel barrister -- Elections: Westminster -- Designs: design copied from 'The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver' by William Hogarth, 1697-1764 -- George Fletcher, d. 1746 -- Thomas de Viel, 1684-1746 -- John Smith 'Buckhorse', fl. 1732-1746 -- Mr. Charlton (butcher), fl. 1746., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord, 1688-1746, Henley, John, 1692-1756, Morgan, David Thomas, ca. 1695-1746, and Towneley, Francis, 1709-1746
Title from item., Attribution to George Bickham the younger from an unverified card catalog record., Publisher identified from address., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: Unknown to other each design, in deep distress our looks we join ..., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Tower of London: Tower Green? -- Jacobites -- Executions -- Executioner's axe -- Yeoman wardens -- Nicknames: Gentleman Gaoler (Abraham Fowler) -- Abraham Fowler, fl. 1746-1751., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord, 1688-1746, Kilmarnock, William Boyd, Earl of, 1704-1746, and Cromarty, George Mackenzie, Earl of, approximately 1702-1766
Half-length portrait of Lord Lovat after Hogarth's painting, placed in center of plate and surrounded by four oval portraits of other prominent Jacobites, from top left, respectively: Earl of Kilmarnock, Earl of Cromarty, Lord Balmerino and Charles Radcliffe, Esq
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved for: The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 16 (1747), March issue, on one sheet with British Museum catalogue no. 2853., and Window mounted to 32 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667?-1747, Kilmarnock, William Boyd, Earl of, 1704-1746, Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord, 1688-1746, Cromarty, George Mackenzie, Earl of, ca. 1702-1766, and Radcliffe, Charles, 1693-1746
