Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd November the 26th 1738 according to the late act.
Call Number:
738.11.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
European race heat second anno domini 1738
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One line of quotation from the Bible below title: Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter ... Ecclesiastes the 12th, verse the 13th., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sep. 4, 1738.
Call Number:
738.09.04.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to C. Moseley from another state. See Stephens., State without printmaker's name, the figure of Pope in the image, and with the later publication date. See Stephens., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of quotation from Bible below title: [I return]ed and saw under the Sun, that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong ... Ecclesiastes the 9th, verse the 11th., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet., and Mounted, mounted again to 34 x 48 cm.
Title from item., Publication date inferred from dated edtion described in British Museum catalogue., Three columns of verse below title: A lyon once to love inclin'd, thus to a farmer broke his mind ..., State without imprint. Cf. No. 2347 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Dismemberment of British Empire -- Literature: allusion to Aesop's fables -- Don Thomas Geraldino., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Title from item., Publication date inferred from dated edtion described in British Museum catalogue., Three columns of verse below title: A lyon once to love inclin'd, thus to a farmer broke his mind ..., State without imprint. Cf. No. 2347 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Dismemberment of British Empire -- Literature: allusion to Aesop's fables -- Don Thomas Geraldino., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
The third print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set at Sadler's Wells. "A dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River; the wife holds a fan with a design of Aphrodite and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds; behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman; to the right is a tavern with the sign of Sir Hugh Middleton's Head, two women and a man are in the tavern garden, other figures are visible through the window, and a grape vine is climbing up towards the roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, imprint, and series from Paulson and finished states. Third print in a series: Four times a day and Strolling actresses dressing in a barn., "Price 5 shillings"--Following printmaker's name., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print: See Mr Nichols's book, 3d edit p. 250. This 3rd Plate of the set, was engraved by Baron, the figure of the girl excepted, which being an afterthought, was added by Hogarth's coarser burin., and On page 93 in volume 1. Sheet 498 x 373 mm.
"Satirical ballad on the unwillingness of the British government to go to war with Spain with a woodcut illustration derived from British Museum Satires No. 2355 showing Robert Walpole holding the tail of the British Lion which holds a staff topped by a crown. The lion is apparently attempting to lunge at a Spaniard holding a whip who has harnessed three English sailors to a cart."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Negotiators, or, Don Diego brought to reason and Don Diego brought to reason
Description:
Title and publication information from British Museum catalogue., Mounted on leaf 73. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
R. Thompson
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757
Subject (Topic):
Whips, Carts & wagons, Lions, Sailors, and Staffs (Sticks)
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1738]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3636 no. 5+ (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Self-portrait of Jonathan Richardson the elder, head and shoulders, wearing wig and neckcloth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Me, as you find my soul, neglect or love ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist, printmaker, and date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Text below image: Me, as you find my soul, neglect or love, and show by virtue virtue you approve. R. 1738., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Note in pencil in a 20th century hand: Taken from an extra-illustrated Boswell's "Johnson"., Window mounted on wove paper to 29 x 23 cm., and Annotation in ink in Horace Walpole's hand, on a 2.5 x 7.6 cm piece of laid paper, window mounted below portrait: John Richardson, painter, by himself.
"Nine actresses and four child actors dressed as classical deities preparing for a performance; among props and costumes are kittens playing with an orb and lyre, a monkey urinating in a helmet and a baby being fed by a child dressed as an eagle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Leaf 38 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Plate 38. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Nine actresses and four child actors dressed as classical deities preparing for a performance; among props and costumes are kittens playing with an orb and lyre, a monkey urinating in a helmet and a baby being fed by a child dressed as an eagle."--British Museum online catalogue
Plate 38. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Nine actresses and four child actors dressed as classical deities preparing for a performance; among props and costumes are kittens playing with an orb and lyre, a monkey urinating in a helmet and a baby being fed by a child dressed as an eagle."--British Museum online catalogue
