publish'd according to act of Parliament [after 1763?]
Call Number:
762.09.15.01.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched above image., Cf. No. 3900 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Coffee houses: Bedford Coffee House -- Architectural details: Palladian windows -- Newspapers: The Briton, The Gazeteer, The Ledger, The Monitor -- Dishes: coffee service., Mounted to 32 x 45 cm., and Watermark.
Title from item., Attributed to Johm Pridden by former owner., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., State with plate number. Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : E. Sumpter, 763., Temporary local subject terms: Scots -- Male dress: Highlander dress, ca. 1762., and Mounted to 28 x 28 cm.
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Two lines of verse below image: To scrubb one self where'ere it itches, is better far than clothes & riches., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: Scots -- Male dress: Highlander dress, ca. 1762., and Mounted to 25 x 28 cm.
The scene is the interior of a perpendicular Gothic church. The sand in the hourglass has run out, but the preacher continues to lecture, oblivious to the fact that his congregation has fallen asleep. The clerk below the pulpit eyes the bosom of the young woman sleeping in the lower right, fan in one hand and a book open to "... of Matrimony" about to slip from her fingers
Description:
Title from caption below image., One of only a handful of Hogarth's original plates that have survived, this plate shows the work of the artist over a period of years, from its creation in 1736 with the evidence of later changes made in 1762 as a more mature artist., "Price one shilling.", Copper plate for print described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 2285., and For a description of the prints from this copper plate see R. Paulson's: Hogarth's graphic works, no. 140.
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Quacks -- Zannies -- Peace negotiations with France, 1762 -- Newspapers: The Auditor -- Newspapers: The Monitor -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Demons -- Trades: street pedlar -- Medical instruments: clyster pipes -- Medicine bottles -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniform -- Letters: "Wandsworth Epistle" -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Reference to Lord Temple., and Mounted to 35 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Plate numbered '47' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Quacks -- Zannies -- Peace negotiations with France, 1762 -- Newspapers: The Auditor -- Newspapers: The Monitor -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Demons -- Trades: street pedlar -- Medical instruments: clyster pipes -- Medicine bottles -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniform -- Letters: "Wandsworth Epistle" -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Reference to Lord Temple., and Mounted to 33 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Another state without plate number and with slight change in the text of the Speaker's balloon. Cf. No. 3987 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: Racing: horse races -- Devil -- Lawyers: barrister as an owl -- Coalitions: France and Spain, 1762, and Mounted to 26 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
Title from item., Four columns of verse below image and title: A lion that was bred up tame, Was tutor'd by a man of fame ..., Temporary local subject terms: British Lion., and Watermark: Anglo-Dutch coats of arms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Newspapers: The Briton -- Newspapers: The North Briton -- Newspapers: The Monitor -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- British Lion -- Seven Years War: reference to Newfoundland -- Orders: Order of the Garter (star and ribbon) -- Literature: reference to Gisbal : a Hyperboran tale / translated from the fragments of Ossian, the son of Fingal -- Literature: reference to Shakespeare., and Mounted to 30 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, and Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805
Title etched above image., Reduced and reversed copy., Plate numbered '40' in upper right corner., Two lines of verse below image: "So Pug began to turn his brain (like other folks in place) on gain." Gay., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., and Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Peace, Dogs, Peddlers, Pillories, and Street vendors