After William Hogarth's plate 6 from A rake's progress, depicts the interior of a gambling house (Leicester Fields) where groups of men play cards and roll dice, large piles of coins at their sides. The losers are shown in various stages of despair, their wigs tossed on the ground alongside their losing hands. The windows are shuttered and the room lit with candles in wall sconces and in candlesticks on the table. On the right one man is being restrained by his friends as he tries to attack the winner of the stacks in their game. On the left a young man sits at a table signing over his plate and jewelry as an angry man stands over him
Description:
Title in manuscript on mounting sheet., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plagiary on Hogarth's design of A rake's progress, plate 6, "Scene in a gambling house.", Copy of No. 2235 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Mounted to 18 x 26 cm.
Hymen seated on a rock holds a lyre in his left hand and a flaming torch in his right. Cupid leans over, his back to the viewer, to pluck the strings of the lyre. In the distance on the right is Cliveden House
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Title, state, and date from Paulson., Originally engraving used as a subscription ticket; this impression has been trimmed with loss of any text., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Ticket for the Raffle intended for Sigismunda -See Mr. Nichols's book, p. 436., and On page 195 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 16.8 x 20.3 cm. There is no subscription or raffle text.
Hymen seated on a rock holds a lyre in his left hand and a flaming torch in his right. Cupid leans over, his back to the viewer, to pluck the strings of the lyre. In the distance on the right is Cliveden House
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson. and Originally engraving used as a subscription ticket; this impression has been trimmed with loss of any text.
A woman (Liberty?) stands on top the prostrate figures of a clergyman and a lion inside a large courtyard. A bird (a dove of peace?) looks on from the eaves of the building. The clergyman wears a wig and clerical bands. The woman, with a laurel crown on her head, holds in her left hand a staff of liberty surmounted by a cap of liberty. In her raised right hand she holds an extractor with the last of lion's teeth. His other teeth lie scattered on the ground. Dialogue ribbons are attached to the woman, clergyman, and bird. The woman says, "Daniel is conquer'd, the lion slain. Let peace & unity for ever reign." A sign "Coach office" hangs over the courtyard gate
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Dated from broadside: The Lyon in love, or, The political farmer., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Design consists of 4 strips of figures engaged in various activities. Row 1: A dairy maid milking a cow; a mother and child beside a crib; a couple conversing; a musician with flute and drum; two women and a man around a tea table with a maid making tea. Row 2: A couple conversing; a man in stocks getting whipped; a woman with a basket on her head behind a lady with a fan; a boy with a book beside a cobbler, a dog at his feet; a hunter on horseback with a hunting dog. Row 3: An artist painting a portrait of a woman; an old woman seated with a boy at her feet, learning to read; two men; a man with a horn and dancing dog; a Scot in tartan looking at a woman with a yoke on her shoulders support two pails. Row 4: A trainer with a performing bear and dog; a vendor with an urn; a woman with a cart of apples; a boy with a toy hoop; a woman feeding her hogs and piglet as a boy looks on.
Description:
Title devised by curator., Imprint burnished from plate., Dated by costume., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Vryheyt.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Occupations, Trainged animals, and Stocks (Punishment).
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date based on year of Walpole's death., Probably an illustration from a book., and Matted to 14.8 x 18.4 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Title from later impression with title and Hogarth's name added., After the design engraved on the tankard belonging to the Clare Market Artists Club which included William Hogarth., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 77., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), no. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Title added in pencil below: Silver tankard.
Title from later impression with title and Hogarth's name added., After the design engraved on the tankard belonging to the Clare Market Artists Club which included William Hogarth., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 77., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), no. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., With Steevens's ms. note in ink below image: Tankard., With ms. note in pencil: Sold at Gulstons sale for £10.0.0., Printmaker's name erased from this impression., and On page 3 in volume 1. Sheet 12.4 x 17.6 cm.
