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55. The committee [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1726]
- Call Number:
- Sotheby 91+ Box 205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A large group of men sit in chairs around a table in paneled room, among them Hudibras. In the center of the table is a piece of paper titled "The League & Covenant" along with quill pens and an ink well. Their hats hang on pegs on the walls behind them. Several of the men look to the right with startled expressions as a messenger rushes in through a door to right accompanied by a black man in a cloak and turban
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State and date from Paulson., Caption on either side of title begins: "And now the saints began their reign for wch. th' had yearn'd so long in vain ...", Numbered "9" in upper right corner., and One of twelve large illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, 1725/6.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
- Subject (Topic):
- Puritans, History, Blacks, Interiors, and Legislative bodies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The committee [graphic]
56. The committee [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1726]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A large group of men sit in chairs around a table in paneled room, among them Hudibras. In the center of the table is a piece of paper titled "The League & Covenant" along with quill pens and an ink well. Their hats hang on pegs on the walls behind them. Several of the men look to the right with startled expressions as a messenger rushes in through a door to right accompanied by a black man in a cloak and turban
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State and date from Paulson., Caption on either side of title begins: "And now the saints began their reign for wch. th' had yearn'd so long in vain ...", Numbered "9" in upper right corner., One of twelve large illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, 1725/6., and On page 37 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 27.8 x 34.7 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
- Subject (Topic):
- Puritans, History, Blacks, Interiors, and Legislative bodies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The committee [graphic]
57. The committee [graphic].
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1726]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 62K(a) Box 220
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A large group of men sit in chairs around a table in panelled room, among them Hudibras. In the center of the table is a piece of paper titled "The League & Covenant" along with quill pens and an ink well. Their hats hang on pegs on the walls behind them. Several of the men look to the right with startled expressions as a messenger rushes in through a door to the right, accompanied by a black man in a cloak and turban
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Caption on either side of title begins: And now the saints began their reign for wch. th' had yearn'd so long in vain ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; "carried on in the next print" mostly erased from this impression., and One of twelve large illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, 1725/6.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by P. Overton near St. Dunston's Ch. in Fleet Street & J. Cooper in James Street, Convent Garden
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
- Subject (Topic):
- Puritans, History, Blacks, Interiors, and Legislative bodies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The committee [graphic].
58. The committee [graphic].
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1726]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A large group of men sit in chairs around a table in panelled room, among them Hudibras. In the center of the table is a piece of paper titled "The League & Covenant" along with quill pens and an ink well. Their hats hang on pegs on the walls behind them. Several of the men look to the right with startled expressions as a messenger rushes in through a door to the right, accompanied by a black man in a cloak and turban
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Caption on either side of title begins: And now the saints began their reign for wch. th' had yearn'd so long in vain ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; "carried on in the next print" mostly erased from this impression., One of twelve large illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, 1725/6., and On page 37 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 27 x 34.7 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by P. Overton near St. Dunston's Ch. in Fleet Street & J. Cooper in James Street, Convent Garden
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
- Subject (Topic):
- Puritans, History, Blacks, Interiors, and Legislative bodies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The committee [graphic].
59. The doctors in labour, or, A new whim wham from Guildford being a representation of [the] frauds by which [the] Godliman woman, carried on her pretended rabbit breeding; also of [the] simplicity of our doctors, by which they assisted to carry on that imposture discover'd their own skill, & contributed to [the] Mirth, of His Majesties liege subjects. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1726]
- Call Number:
- 726.00.00.26+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print with twelve panels relating to the affair of Mary Toft, "the rabbit breeder": from top left, she is held aloft by two men and a Harlequin or Merry Andrew, she has a rabbit in either hand; she pursues a rabbit while working in a field; she dreams of being impregnated by rabbit, Cupid is shown on a cloud beside her bed holding a rabbit in either hand; she is seated in a chair attended by two women while the two men and Harlequin discuss the monstrous birth; Harlequin demonstrates that he can express milk from her breast; Harlequin feels "the rabbets leapin in her belly" while two men look on; she sits on the edge of a bed and Harlequin kneels to seize a rabbit that emerges from her skirts while a doctor raises his hands in surprise, wishing to anatomize the animal; Harlequin stands behind a table holding a balance in which he weighs dung removed from the rabbit explaining to two men that this will allow him to judge whether the animal had "breath'd in air"; doctors and midwives discuss the phenomenon around a table and Harlequin enters claiming that the birth must be "praeternatural"; a crowd of gentlemen are welcomed to the bagnio in Leicester Square where Toft is housed; two men spy from the door to Toft's room as another hands her a dead rabbit; Toft, weeping, is led away to Bridewell by two constables while Harlequin "sits upon Repenting stool, Cursing his fate in being made a Fool. See British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- New whim wham from Guildford
- Description:
- Title etched above images. and Trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
- Subject (Topic):
- Christianity, Superstition, Demonology, Births, Brothels, Cupids, Fools & jesters, Fraud, Law enforcement, Physicians, Pregnant women, and Rabbits
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The doctors in labour, or, A new whim wham from Guildford being a representation of [the] frauds by which [the] Godliman woman, carried on her pretended rabbit breeding; also of [the] simplicity of our doctors, by which they assisted to carry on that imposture discover'd their own skill, & contributed to [the] Mirth, of His Majesties liege subjects. [graphic]
60. [Frontispiece to Terrae-Filius] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [June 1726]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 73K(h) Box 110
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an auditorium with seats around the perimeter, a stout college dignitary holding out a piece of paper stands on the right observing a scuffle between students on the left. The only word left on the torn piece of paper is "terrae".
- Description:
- Title, publisher, and date from Paulson., Frontispiece to Vol. 1 of Nicholas Amhurst's Terra-Filius, or The secret history of the University's of Oxford. London : R. Francklin, 1726., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- R. Francklin
- Subject (Name):
- Amhurst, N. 1697-1742. (Nicholas),
- Subject (Topic):
- Lecture halls and Fighting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to Terrae-Filius] [graphic]
61. [Frontispiece to Terrae-Filius] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [June 1726]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an auditorium with seats around the perimeter, a stout college dignitary holding out a piece of paper stands on the right observing a scuffle between students on the left. The only word left on the torn piece of paper is "terrae".
- Description:
- Title, publisher, and date from Paulson., Frontispiece to Vol. 1 of Nicholas Amhurst's Terra-Filius, or The secret history of the University's of Oxford. London : R. Francklin, 1726., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Original. Below this print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 169., and On page 47 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 13.9 x 8.6 cm.
- Publisher:
- R. Francklin
- Subject (Name):
- Amhurst, N. 1697-1742. (Nicholas),
- Subject (Topic):
- Lecture halls and Fighting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to Terrae-Filius] [graphic]
62. [Punishment inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [December 1726]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An exterior scene set among ruins; to left the naked buttocks of Gulliver to whom an enema is being administered by a crowd of Lilliputians; to right their prime minister, carried in a thimble, supervises operations while beyond a rat carries off a child."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Alternative form of title
- Description:
- Title, state, and publisher from Paulson., Caption below image: The punishment inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver by applying a Lilypucian fire engine to his posteriors for his urinal profanation of the Royal Palace at Mildendo which was intended as a frontispiece to his first volume but omitted., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 331., and On page 163 in volume 2.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Name):
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Punishment inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver] [graphic]
