Smith, J. (John), 1652-1743, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1720]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 4 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, three-quarter length, sitting, wearing loose dress; curtain in background to right, trees in distance to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 28 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Smith at [the] Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden
"Satire on the financial crisis of 1720 (based, partly in reverse, on 1868,0808.9612) the courtyard of the Amsterdam Exchange now standing for stockbroking in London. The banner now lists 42 investment schemes, including "Robin's Fishery for Gudgeons", (an allustion to Robert Knight, cashier of the South Sea Company), and "Moore's most Royal Fishery" (alluding to Arthur Moore, director of the South Sea Company); in the colonnades and at the front stockbrokers and investors, including a man in middle Eastern dress, celebrate their successes or bemoan their losses as they circulate documents; in niches above are figures of Fortune and Plenty both casting papers labelled with the names of speculations; the clock is no longer labelled "Quinquenpoix". Engraved title, inscriptions, and English verses in three columns."--British Museum online catalog
Alternative Title:
Devil take the hindmost and Bubblers bubbled
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., A 'List of the Bubbles' in the image, and below the image with twenty-four lines of verse in three columns 'Come all ye mony'd Bites & Culls ... When jobbing in Change-Ally / Here Whig and Tory, Rich & Poor ... Whilst others fart with Squeezing / Here Fortune does her smiles dispense ... O Britain! mourn thy troubles!', and "J. Cole Sculp / Sold by the Printsellers of London & Westminster.'. There are early annotations in pen and ink against two investment schemes: "24 For Erecting Houses of Office in ye North of England and Scotland for ye convenience of Strangers and Travellers" is annotated "Ha! Ha!", and "37 Lending Money to necessitous Persons" "Hay" Day"., and Watermark in the upper portion of sheet. Countermark I V in the lower portion.
Publisher:
Sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Moore, Arthur, 1666?-1730., Knight, Robert, 1675-1744, and South Sea Company
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Financial crises, History, Politics and government, and Stock exchanges
Verse -- "Once I read a noble volume,"., In five columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules; there is no imprint., Divided into four parts; each part headed with a line reading "PART [roman numeral].", Column 2, line 1: "Prince and princess both admire"; column 4, last line: "Since he’s dead let us two die."; last line of text: "He is ace,borrinp royal sir,n." (apparently the last line dropped out and the types were replaced haphazardly)., Some letters of the title appear above the space between the woodcuts; in this printing, all or part of "Y[space]LO" are above the space. The right edge of the left woodcut aligns with the p in "princess" (column 2, line 1)., There are several printings from this setting of the text, with variations in several points: text of column 2/line 1, column 4/last line, and the last line of text; the presence or absence of part numbers; the alignment of the woodcuts with the title and text; and the presence or absence of an imprint., The other printings are ESTC N48661, T44329, N511125, N511126, and T44330., Dated from the address in the imprint found on one printing (ESTC T44330); see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 25. 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.
Page 95. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Bird's eye view of the inner courts towards the south, a few elegantly dressed figures dotted around courtyards."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched within banner at top of image., Plate from: Stow, J. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster. London : Printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, [and 5 others in London], 1720, v. 1, book 1, opposite page 176., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in partial loss of printmaker's signature from lower right and complete loss of volume, book, and page numbering from upper right. Missing text and numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1880,1113.3244., "V 1: B 1: p 176"--Upper right corner., Folded to 20.6 x 25.1 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 95 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Verse in three parts begins: "Hard by a sweet delightful green,"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the imprint below the last two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 59. 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:
Printed and sold by R. Marshall, in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane
View of a house supposedly near Putney Common, satirically called 'Bear's Den Hall', a rickety house with cracked plaster walls and a chimney-stack with broken brick, and with weeds growing from the cracks and on the roof. A key at the top references many of the features of the scene, including a bear is chained by the front door (B) at the left, birds in flight (K). The property is separated from the road in the foreground by a wicket fence, with a satircial armorial crest along the lower edge with portraits of Charles Christian and Skelton and "Satire on social pretensions: a view of a dilapidated cottage set into a garden behind a wooden fence, with a Greek inscription and mock coat-of-arms at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker identified as Charles Christian Reisen in the British Museum online catalogue. An alternative attribution to George Vertue derives from a contemporary marginal note on an impression in the Royal Collection (RCIN 701972)., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Charles Christian the engraver and Humphrey Skelton the upholsterer, notorious for their bad tempers lived, perhaps together, in the house, which acquired the name Bear's Den Hall by virtue of their eccentricities., and Titled 'W. prospect of Bears Den Hall, in the county of Surrey.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and Putney.
Subject (Name):
Reisen, Charles Christian, 1680-1725, and Skelton, Humphrey, active 1720s,
View of a house supposedly near Putney Common, satirically called 'Bear's Den Hall', a rickety house with cracked plaster walls and a chimney-stack with broken brick, and with weeds growing from the cracks and on the roof. A key at the top references many of the features of the scene, including a bear is chained by the front door (B) at the left, birds in flight (K). The property is separated from the road in the foreground by a wicket fence, with a satircial armorial crest along the lower edge with portraits of Charles Christian and Skelton and Satire on social pretensions: a view of a dilapidated cottage set into a garden behind a wooden fence, with a mock coat-of-arms at the bottom.--From variant state in the British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker identified as Charles Christian Reisen in the British Museum online catalogue. An alternative attribution to George Vertue derives from a contemporary marginal note on an impression in the Royal Collection (RCIN 701972)., Early state, before Greek motto added at bottom of image. For a later state with this added text, see no. 1695 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2., Approximate date of publication from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "This cottage was the country residence on Putney Heath of C. C. Reisen, seal engraver and painter, and Skelton, upholsterer, and kept at their joint expense"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1847,0713.15)., and "The print is not a satire, but rather a jokey plate made for private distribution to friends"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1866,1110.1468).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Reisen, Charles Christian, 1680-1725, and Skelton, Humphrey, active 1720s,
Hogarth's shop card presenting him as an engraver both of prints and decorative metalwork; frame with a figure in classical dress on either side (on the left a woman, on the right a man drawing) and, above, putti holding a print and a vase; lettered in the centre 'W. Hogarth Engraver'. In an oval cartouche in the lower frame, "Aprill [the] 23 1720."
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth, engraver and Hogarth's shop card
Description:
Title etched within image., Date engraved in cartouche centered in lower frame., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Center is cut out and ms. inscription added “W: Hogarth Engraver” on mount below showing through., and On page 3 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Title from Paulson., Questionable attribution to Hogarth by Paulson. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, p. 199, no. 250., On page 4 in volume 1., Mss in ink on bottom of print: Only twenty five Impressins taken off this plate before it was cutt to pieces. Richard Morrison No. 10., Ms. in pencil: See Mr. Nichols's Biographical anecdotes of Hogarth, 3rd edit. Page 422., and Ms. in pencil: Arms of Sir Gregory Page br/in reverse.
