"Portrait, half-length facing front, leaning with both arms on a bannister, wearing a gown with sleeves of long frilled layers at the elbows, a thick choker of pearls, earrings and a fur tippet crossed over her chest, smiling towards the viewer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6410., Mounted on leaf numbered 49 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:
Printed for Robt. Sayer map & printseller, at the Golden Buck, near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Copy of the fourth print in the Hogarth's series "Four Times of the Day. Set at the intersection of Rummer Court and Charing Cross, Le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I can be seen in the background. It is the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II (29 May, known as "Oak Apple Day"). In the foreground a drunken freemason (probably the corrupt magistrate Sir Thomas De Veil) is supported by a serving man. Behind them a man pours gin into a keg. To the left a barber is seen at work through a window; each pane of the shop window contains a lit candle. From a window above the barber shop, a chamber pot is being emptied onto the top of a wooden shelter under which a man and woman sleep. Beside them, a link boy crouches as he blows on the flame of his torch. Behind and to the right of the freemason, the Salisbury Flying Coach has crashed and overturned while trying to avoid a bonfire in the middle of the street; the passengers reach out the window of the coach, alarmed looks on their faces.Two men look on, one of whom appears to be a butcher. Shop and tavern signs include the barber's which is decorated with oak leaves and advertises "Shaving Bleeding & Teeth Drawn wth. a Touch Ecce Signum"; the Rummer Tavern; the Earl of Cardigan; and, the Bagnio and the New Bagnio
Alternative Title:
Nuit
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date from Paulson: Publish'd 23d June 1740., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Matted to: 379 x 281 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England.
Subject (Topic):
Liquor laws, Freemasons, Jacobites, Accidents, Barbering, Butchers, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Children, Fires, Intoxication, Liquor, Prostitution, Sleeping, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
Title from item., Plate numbered '5' in lower left corner., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional stanza below. Part for flute at foot of page., Opening words: By masons art ye aspiring dome, in various columns shall arise ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v.1., Watermark., and Plate number erased from this impression.
Volume 4, opposite page 93. Anecdotes of painting in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Syrinx, naked apart from a loosely draped sheet, hides among the reeds in the foreground on the left; she holds a clump of reeds in front of her face, concealing it. Pan, behind her on the right, lunges forward through the reeds in pursuit
Alternative Title:
Pan and Syrinx
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate was likely engraved by Lens in addition to being published by him; according to the British Museum online catalogue, plates that carry only his 'excudit' seem also to have been made by him. See entry for 'Bernard Lens II'., Date of publication based on Bernard Lens's death date., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted to 24 x 19 cm., and Bound in opposite page 93 in volume 4 of Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England. Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-1771 [i.e. 1780].
Publisher:
Bernard Lens
Subject (Name):
Pan (Greek deity),
Subject (Topic):
Syrinx (Greek deity), Supernatural beings, Chasing, and Reeds (Plants)
Title etched within item., Print for February. One of a series of etchings representing the months of the year. Only the image for January has the series title "Lilliputian figures"., Six lines of verse below image: Of all the times for leud [sic] delights, There's none like masquerading nights ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Lilliputians -- Literature: allusion to Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, 1547-1616., Month designation in series erased from this impression., and Suggested restrike date in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
Title etched within image., Publication attributed to John Bowles and dated based on imprint from other prints in the series., Print for September. One of a series of etchings representing the months of the year. Only the image for January has the series title "Lilliputian figures"., Six lines of verse below title: With many snares and many a wile, I larks and woodcocks can beguile ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Lilliputians., Month designation in series erased from this impression., and Suggested restrike date in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
"Satire on John Rich and his new theatre in Covent Garden with a procession moving from left to right across the east end of the market square and entering the colonnade leading to the theatre. John Gay is carried on a porter's back preceded by a crowd, one of whom cries "Gay for ever". He is followed by Rich, as Harlequin, driving an open carriage drawn by six satyrs, with Columbine and a spotted dog (a disguise adopted by Rich as Harlequin in "Perseus and Andromeda", 1730). Two authors bow obsequiously to Rich, another wheels a barrow of plays towards the theatre, bootblacks also bow, but in the lower right-hand corner, Alexander Pope defecates on sheets from the Beggar's Opera (the great triumph of Rich and Gay). Actors in costume, some identified in the verses below, follow the carriage, and a cart containing properties including "A Box of Thunder and Lightening", brings up the rear. Beyond the main procession is a large crowd of admirers and a closed carriage; St Paul's church in the background is clearly identifiable."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
His triumphant entry into Covent-Garden
Description:
Title etched above image., Signed twice: once in the shadowing lower left of design (illegible) and again above first stanza., Formerly attributed to Hogarth. See Paulson., First recorded as having been published in 1811 by Robert Wilkinson. See British Museum online catalogue., "Price 6d."--Lower right., Three columns of ten lines each etched below image: Not with more glory through the streets of Rome ... For such a day he sees not ev'ry year., In Steevens's hand in pencil above the print: A pretended Hogarth which nevertheless has sold for £4.4.0. See Nicholss book, 3d edit. p. 161., and On page 54 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Covent Garden (London, England)
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Church (Covent Garden, London, England),, Gay, John, 1685-1732,, Hall, John, active 1734,, Quin, James, 1693-1766,, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,, Rich, John, 1692-1761,, Ryan, Lacy, 1694?-1760,, and Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price. 6d.", Dickinson Imprint from earlier state in lower left corner, blacked out on plate but partially legible., Three columns of verse below image: Here, may the wand'ring eye with pleasure see both knaves and fools in borrow'd shapes agree ..., Copy, with English verse only, of No. 1635 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Temporary local subject terms: Court manners: bowing -- Spring Gardens., and Mounted to 29 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Geo. Foster at the White Horse opposite the north gate in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"Portrait, half-length in an oval in profile to left, looking round towards the viewer, wearing a pale coat and lace cravat with chin-length curly brown hair, against a background of ships at sea and sea-creatures surrounding a plaque bearing the inscription."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on sheet: 44.8 x 31.7 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by Mr. King in the Poultry and the Print Sellers of London and Westminster and publish'd according to Act of Parliament
In an oval, a portrait of Samuel Butler, turned to the right and looking at viewer, wearing open jacket with cravat and with loose shoulder length hair
Alternative Title:
Samuel Butler author of Hudibras
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue., False attribution to Hogarth. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., On page 208 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Butler. See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d. edit, p. 442.
