Plate 64. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Five rows of wigs classified as "Parsonic", "Old Peerian or Aldermanic", "Lexonic", "Composite" and "Queerinthian"; at the bottom of the sheet a row of womens heads with, on the left, that of the newly-crowned Queen Charlotte; the wigs are annotated in the manner of illustrations to contemporary architectural treatises."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Five orders of periwigs
Description:
Title etched above image., Title from Paulson: The five orders of periwigs., State from Paulson. The second 'e' in advertisement added above the line; the 'k' in parsonic burnished out., Caption etched below image: Advertisement. In about seventeen years will be compleated, in six volumns, folio, price fifteen guineas, the exact measurements of the perriwigs of the ancients ..., Portraits after James 'Athenian' Stuart and Nicholas Revett., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 30.2 x 22.3 cm, on sheet 36.6 x 28.9 cm., Mounted on leaf 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 64 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 15, 1761 by W. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804, and Stuart, James, 1713-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Wigs
Plate 64. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Five rows of wigs classified as "Parsonic", "Old Peerian or Aldermanic", "Lexonic", "Composite" and "Queerinthian"; at the bottom of the sheet a row of womens heads with, on the left, that of the newly-crowned Queen Charlotte; the wigs are annotated in the manner of illustrations to contemporary architectural treatises."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Five orders of periwigs
Description:
Title etched above image., Title from Paulson: The five orders of periwigs., State from Paulson. The second 'e' in advertisement added above the line; the 'k' in parsonic burnished out., Caption etched below image: Advertisement. In about seventeen years will be compleated, in six volumns, folio, price fifteen guineas, the exact measurements of the perriwigs of the ancients ..., Portraits after James 'Athenian' Stuart and Nicholas Revett., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 302 x 218 mm, on sheet 382 x 282 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 15, 1761 by W. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804, and Stuart, James, 1713-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Wigs
Plate 64. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Five rows of wigs classified as "Parsonic", "Old Peerian or Aldermanic", "Lexonic", "Composite" and "Queerinthian"; at the bottom of the sheet a row of womens heads with, on the left, that of the newly-crowned Queen Charlotte; the wigs are annotated in the manner of illustrations to contemporary architectural treatises."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Five orders of periwigs
Description:
Title etched above image., Title from Paulson: The five orders of periwigs., State from Paulson. The second 'e' in advertisement added above the line; the 'k' in parsonic burnished out., Caption etched below image: Advertisement. In about seventeen years will be compleated, in six volumns, folio, price fifteen guineas, the exact measurements of the perriwigs of the ancients ..., Portraits after James 'Athenian' Stuart and Nicholas Revett., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 300 x 218 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 15, 1761 by W. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804, and Stuart, James, 1713-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Wigs
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., 'Price 6d.', Seven stanzas of verse engraved below image: Behold his bust who saved our state, view sympathizing Britain weep ..., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: old and injured British Oak -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Wars: allusion to war with Spain -- Wars: allusion to peace negotiations, 1762 -- Navy: war ships -- Family compact -- Containers: travelling trunks -- Medallions -- Bribes -- Spaniards -- Frenchmen -- Literature: quotation from Cato, iv.139, by Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 -- Allusion to François de Bussy, 1699-1789 -- Allusion to John Russell, Duke of Bedford, 1710-1771., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by R. Withy, at the Dunciad in Cornhill
"Satire on Scots profiting from the influence of Lord Bute and his supposed relationship with Princess Augusta, showing a young Scotsman addressing the Princess with the support of a number of ladies, including Lady Mary Stuart, Lord Bute's daughter, who says, "Upon my Papa's Recommendation & mine your sure of Success"; a rebus below complains of the surprising Scottish achievements considering the recent rebellion of 1745."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sawney at St. ******, Sawney at St. James's, and Powerful recommendation
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Twenty lines of verse below image, in a form of rebus: Ye Br[i][tton]s who'd think in the [Time]s of re[bel][lion]? T[hat] Caledon's [child]ren wou'd ere [be] thought [well] on ..., Temporary local subject terms: Mary Stuart, Countess of Lonsdale., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 37 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by all the printsellers and pamplett shops on this side the Tweed
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Lonsdale, Mary Lowther, Countess of, 1740-1824
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price six pence plain coulourd one shilling.", Publisher's announcement following imprint: ... likewise two houmourous [sic] prints on the present time price 6d. each. In a few days will be publishd Act III. P. 6d., Second of four prints on the same subject, with the same title, distinguished by act numbers., Six columns of verse below image: An artfull [sic] young high German vixen form'd for to draw the potent sex in ..., Temporary local subject terms: Wars: Seven Years' War., and Mounted to 32 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Hilton to be had of the following printsellers ... [5 named printsellers and others in London & Westminster]
Subject (Name):
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780 and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1708-1765
Title from item., Mezzotinted area shows heavy use of roulette., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768 -- Literature: reference to Shakespeare's Hamlet., and Mounted to 35 x 21 cm.
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
761.00.00.05+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Scotch coal for ever and We are all acoming
Description:
Title from caption etched above image., Printmaker and publication date and place from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Preferment -- Medical: allusion to a physician -- Slang : coal, i.e., money., Ownership mark in lower right corner of sheet: five-petaled radiating flower., and Mounted to 25 x 38 cm.
published according to act of Parliament May 7 1761.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State without quotation from Juvenal etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 373., and On page 188 in volume 2.
publish'd according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 68. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A monkey dressed as a connoisseur waters with a watering can three withered and sapless trees in pots. A banner under the pots is labelled 'EXOTICKS'. In his right hand he holds a magnifying glass to his eye. The trees are labelled 'OBIT 1502', 'OBIT 1600' and '[O]BIT [1]604'
Alternative Title:
Tailpiece to The catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 14.4 x 14 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 68 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
