Title from caption above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Law -- Tree of law.
Publisher:
Sold by Ph. Overton in Fleet Street and J. King in the Poultry, Printsellers entered in the Hall Book, London
Title from engraved text., Not in Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On page 5 in volume 1.
Publisher:
At the Grand Duke of Tuscanys Arms agst. Cecill Street in the Strand, London
Titles etched below images., Date of publication based on depiction of the corner towers with peaked roofs, which were changed to domes in the final design of the hosue., Two images on one plate, each individually titled., Four lines of explanatory text above top image: The general front, and the south front of Houghton in Norfolk, one of the seats of the Right Honourable Sr. Robert Walpole, Chancellour of the Exchequer &c. ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 81 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Houghton Hall (England)
"Satire on foreign opera singers based on "The Beggar's Opera Burlesqued"; animal-headed singers portraying the principal characters are shown on an outdoor stage with musicians and audience in the foreground; beyond, to left, theatre boxes with an audience of ladies and below a wall hung with ballads against which two men urinate and defecate; to right, a conventional stage scene; an angel carrying a ribbon lettered "Harmony" flies off at top right. On either side hang scrolls listing the presents given to Farinelli, copied from Hogarth's Rake's progress, Plate 2; ten lines of verse below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Italian eunuch's glory
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Formerly attributed to Hogarth, now dismissed. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Given me by the Revd Dr. Lort., and On page 49 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to:
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Musicians, and Opera singers
"Satire on the popularity of masquerades and the decline of Italian opera in London with caricatures of the singers Cuzzoni, the tall, thin "scarecrow" Farinelli and the impresario Heidegger who points to a grenadier's cap hanging on the wall. Farinelli holds a chain attached to a shackle around his ankle, referring to one of his roles; two masks lie at Heidegger's feet. The verses etched below, supposedly in Heidegger's words, state he is more likely to return to the regiment than are "midnight revels" and "Ridottos" to fail."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date from British Museum catalogue., With eight lines of English verse below beginning: Thou tunefull scarecrow & thou warbling bird, No shelter for your notes, these lands afford, This town protects no more the sing-song strain ... And save from ruin this harmonious face., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 43 in volume 1., and Ms. note in Steevens's hand below: Imputed to Hogarth; but in reality designed by the Countess of Burlington, and edited by Goupy.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748., Farinelli, 1705-1782., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
Title devised by former owner., Date supplied by curator., Formerly attributed to Hogarth., Ms. note in pencil below: Arms of Cox., and On page 6 in volume 1.
Coat of arms with wolves heads and the motto "Virtus invidiae scopus" etched in verse
Alternative Title:
Virtus invidiae scopus
Description:
Title from manuscript note in George Steevens's hand., Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works., Not in: British Museum catalogue., Penciled ms. note above: Sold at Gulston's Auction for £6.10.0. Penciled ms. note below: Arms of Methuen., and On page 5 in volume 1.
A drinking and smoking scene with men and women around a table, musicians playing instruments and maps and painted portraits hung on the wall behind. Design based on William Hogarth's third plate in the series Rake's Progress
Description:
Title etched below image. and On page 69 in volume 1. Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above: A Tobacco Paper.
In a room in an Oxford tavern, one of the fellows drunkenly holds up a glass of wine while addressing the Vice-Chancellor who rebukes him for his conduct. A man with a bludgeon resting on his shoulder stands in the doorway. On the wall, an almanck (Oxford alm[...]. A dog lies asleep on the floor
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: The humours of Oxford. 2nd ed. London : J. Watts, 1730., and Pencilled note on verso in W.S. Lewis's hand: Removed from Lady Ossory's copy of Fugitive pieces.
