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10. The wine duty, or, The triumph of Bacchus & Silenus with John Bulls remonstrance / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 April 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.04.20.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A tun of 'Wine' lies on solid trestles inscribed 'Treasury Bench'. From its huge bung-hole emerges the naked body of Pitt, as Bacchus, crowned with vine branches. He leans back tipsily, a brimming glass in each hand. Behind him stands Dundas as Silenus, fat, and partly draped in tartan; his right hand grasps Pitt's shoulder, in his left he holds up a brimming glass. He also is crowned with vine branches. Bunches of grapes hang down from a vine above their heads and are indicated as a background to the cask whose trestles are on a dais covered with a fringed carpet. Opposite the tun stands John Bull in profile to the left, looking up at Pitt, hat in hand; in his left hand is a lank purse, under his arm three empty bottles. He is a yokel, with lank hair and hydrocephalic head, wearing a smock and wrinkled gaiters. He says: "Pray Mr Bacchus have a bit of consideration for old John; - you know as how I've emptied my Purse already for you - & its waundedly hard to raise the price of a drop of Comfort, now that one's got no Money left for to pay for it!!!" Pitt says: "Twenty Pounds a T-Tun, ad-additional Duty i-i-if you d-d-don't like it at that, why t-t-t-then Dad & I will keep it all for o-o-our own Drinking, so here g-g-goes old Bu-Bu-Bull & Mouth!!! - "."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Triumph of Bacchus & Silenus and Triumph of Bacchus and Silenus
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Wine duty, 1796 -- Mythology: Bacchus -- Silenus -- Containers: wine casks -- Allusion to Treasury., and Watermark: I Taylor.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 20th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Dionysus (Greek deity)
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxes, Wine, Grapes, Barrels, and Purses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The wine duty, or, The triumph of Bacchus & Silenus with John Bulls remonstrance / [graphic]
11. [A procession of painters to the shrine of Bacchus] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1751]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Description from Steevens's note mounted to the right of the print: A procession of painters to the shrine of Bacchus, a slight but spirited etching. The jolly god appears crowned with a jordan. His altar is a Hogshead. Among the trophies carried along, is a helmet which has a punch bowl & ladle for its crest, and a standard displaying pipies and bottles. A figure, probably designed for old Leveridge the singer, in the character of a priest of Bacchus, is seen in the rear of the cavalcade. The chief characters in this plate are copied & introduced, without the slightest propriety, into a wretched print erroneously attributed to Hogarth, and called The oratory. See. As it is not for a certainity known that this procession was the work of Hogarth*, let the collector who wishes to form his judgment of it from the style in which it is etched, compare it with the festoon of laurel, the subscription ticket for Garrick in King Richard III. *Perhaps it represents part of a Bacchanalian procession painted by Lagueree on the walls of a tavern in Drury-Lane where a club of virtuosi met. See Mr. Walpole's account of Laguerre
- Description:
- Title from Steevens., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Paulson in his second edition of Hogarth's graphic works (no. 280) is given tentative attribution to Hogarth but this attribution is dismissed in the 3rd edition based on stylistic grounds., On page 12 in volume 1., and Also ms. note (from Ireland, Hogarth Illus. p. 61-62) is inscribed on separate sheet below.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Dionysus (Greek deity) and Leveridge, Richard, 1670 or 1671-1758
- Subject (Topic):
- Intoxication, Painters (Artists), and Parades & processions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A procession of painters to the shrine of Bacchus] [graphic].
12. [Frontispiece to Leveridge's Collection of songs] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [November 1727]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady (a Muse?), with a cello and open book with musical notations at her feet, addresses, on behalf of Leveridge's songs, Venus and Bacchus, shown in clouds above; Cupid stands at his mother's side presumably helping to persuade her
- Description:
- Title, printmaker and artist, state, and date from Paulson, With: Engraved title page for "A collection of songs with the musick by Mr. Leveridge. In two volumes. London : Engrav'd and printed for the author in Tavistock-Street, Covent-Garden, 1727.", "The ornaments around the title page many also be by Hogarth, but I see no very good reason to thinks so"--Paulson, p. 71., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Not inserted by Mr. Nichols., and On page 47 in volume 1. Plate mark 9.6 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 17.3 x 10 cm.
- Publisher:
- Leveridge
- Subject (Topic):
- Musical instruments, Muses (Greek deities), Cupid (Roman deity), Dionysus (Greek deity), and Venus (Roman deity)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to Leveridge's Collection of songs] [graphic].
13. [Frontispiece to Leveridge's Collection of songs] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [November 1727]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 73K(p) Box 115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady (a Muse?), with a cello and open book with musical notations at her feet, addresses, on behalf of Leveridge's songs, Venus and Bacchus, shown in clouds above; Cupid stands at his mother's side presumably helping to persuade her
- Description:
- Title, printmaker and artist, state, and date from Paulson, With: Engraved title page for "A collection of songs with the musick by Mr. Leveridge. In two volumes. London : Engrav'd and printed for the author in Tavistock-Street, Covent-Garden, 1727.", "The ornaments around the title page many also be by Hogarth, but I see no very good reason to thinks so"--Paulson, p. 71., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Frontispiece only.
- Publisher:
- Leveridge
- Subject (Topic):
- Musical instruments, Muses (Greek deities), Cupid (Roman deity), Dionysus (Greek deity), and Venus (Roman deity)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to Leveridge's Collection of songs] [graphic].
14. [Wheel with 12 sections showing Roman scenes] [art original]
- Creator:
- Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1732]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
- Collection Title:
- Page 16. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A circular image with three concentric designs surrounding the center image of a view of the bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the cupola of St. Peter's. The outer most circle is split into twelve equal sections with classical scenes which in turn are topped with an image of an open book with a page numbered "Tab. I-[XII]" moving counter-clockwise
- Alternative Title:
- Qua mare qua terras lustrat sol lumine semper, sospite me pater imperium Romanus habebit
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility written by Horace Walpole on separate slip of paper (2.9 x 6.6 cm), mounted on opposite page., and Mounted on page 16 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Dionysus (Greek deity), Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano,, and Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo,
- Subject (Topic):
- Social life and customs, Agriculture, Rites & ceremonies, and Views
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Wheel with 12 sections showing Roman scenes] [art original]
