"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.
Title etched within image., Publication attributed to John Bowles and dated based on imprint from other prints in the series., Print for June. 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: So sweet you look my honey suckle, who would not to your beauty bruckle ..., 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 Restrike date suggested 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 March. One of a series of etchings representing the months; only the image for January has the series title "Lilliputian figures"., Six lines of verse below title: So often Dick you take a pot, That half your business is forgot ..., 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 Restrike date suggested in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
"Satire on marriage, illustrating a riotous scene in a country village where a shrewish wife and hen-pecked husband are mocked by their neighbours in procession. The couple ride on one horse, the man facing the tail, preceded by another man on horseback who throws grain from a pannier to the crowd. Further to the right, cuckold's horns in the form of a stag's head, a ram's head and a cow's head are held aloft, the latter attached to a woman's shift, and "rough music" is played on pots and pans. In the background, is a river and a similar procession takes place on the far bank.."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text above image., Undated later state, by a different publisher; see No.1703 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse below image: First pans and kettles of all keys, from trebles, down to double bass ..., Temporary local subject terms: Fairs: "Horn Fair", Charlton, Kent -- Banners: Horns and women's undergarments used as banners on stick -- Kitchen utensils: pots as noisemakers -- Ladles -- Horns: stag's head and antlers on stick -- Ram's horns on stick -- Cow's horns on stick -- Grain -- Distaffs -- Processions: Skimmington -- Buildings: cottages -- Rowboats -- Alehouses -- Signs with horns -- Tubs on poles -- Matrimony -- Countrymen -- Swans -- Shrews -- Literature: verse purported to be from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., Watermark and countermark., "Hudibras" at the end of verse erased from this impression., and Mounted to 36 x 51 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, Spouses, Marriage, Dwellings, Dogs, and Horses
A "Lilliputian" couple in the costume of late 17th century walk from right to left, the verse engraved below them. The design and verse are encirled by a rococco border which incorporates objects and figures that amplify the subject verse
Alternative Title:
Sir Jeffrey Jumble and my lady Grave-airs
Description:
Title from item., Later state of one of a series of etchings representing the months of the year. The month name "January" has been burnished from the top of the image, as has the text "The twelve months represented by" that was present above the remaining text "Lilliputian figures". For an earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1874,0214.1., Date of publication based on the ca. 1840 date given in the British Museum for the earlier state of the plate., Six lines of verse below title: Dear Duck, while thus abroad we go, expos'd to chilling frost and snow ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Series title, including month designation, partially erased from this impression., Traces of an earlier imprint burnished from plate and replaced with John Bowles's publication line., and Suggested restrike date in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Iohn Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Sir Tony Watch-waters and Dame Grizell his beautiful wife
Description:
Title etched within item., Publication attributed to John Bowles and dated based on imprint from other prints in the series., Print for August. 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: Hah madam, have I caught ye napping, how luckily for me things happen ..., 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.
