A copy of Hogarth's design and C. Grignion's print, first version: Tailpiece to the catalogue of pictures exhibited in Spring Gardens. 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 1604'.
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Title etched below image., "Page 99"--Above image, right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3809., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 237., and On page 188 in volume 2.
"An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: See Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 259., and On page 105 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 20.9 x 27.2 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
Copy: an expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Copy of: No. 2563 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: Copy., and On page 105 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
"An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., and Hogarth's signature erased from this impression.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
"An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Sheet trimmed to: 213 x 278 mm., and Ms. annotation in ink, lower right corner: '6'.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
"An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Dobson calls this the second state although he mis-identifies the publisher as Boydell., Sheet trimmed close to plate mark., Copy of: No. 2564 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On page 105 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Published May 1, 1798 by Saml. Phillips 5. Leicester Square
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Plate numbered '220' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 9328 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: dressing room -- Furniture: dressing table -- Female dress: sandals -- Headdresses -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd 4th July 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: NB. Folios of caricatures lent., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Bath -- Yokels -- Wine bottles -- Architectural details: balustrades., Mounted to 35 x 46 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with date 1797 below.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
The subject of this print, Lazare Hoche, was a general in the French Revolution. He is seen here seated on a rainbow which spans a landscape of devastation below. He plays a guillotine as if it were a lyre
Description:
Title etched below image., Month of publication suggested as January in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. 11th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
