A gentleman who wears fool's cap, carries a bauble in one hand and a bell (which he rings) in the other. He is accompanied by another gentleman who carries a halbred as they driving four geese and four turkeys before them on the road "To London" as the sign-post states. The former gentleman says, "This vastly pretty." His companion responds, " This is fine sport, only I am very cold."
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., Copy in reverse of a print of the same title published by Edwards & Darly 27 October 1756. See British Museum catalogue no. 3407., Two lines of text below image: Birds of a feather flock together, Like to Like, as the Devil said to the Collier., Related print identifies the two gentlemen as the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Rockingham: Now goose, now turkey, or, The present state of England. See British Museum catalogue no. 3409., and Plate from: England's remembrancer. London, 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782 and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Title from captions in Latin and English below image., Text below Latin title: E tabula Guidonis Reni, 9 pedes et 6 digitos alta 7 pedes lata in aedibus regiis Kensingtonii conservata., Text below English title: From the painting of Guido Reni, 9 feet 6 inches high by 7 feet wide, in the Royal Palace of Kensington., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cupid, Graces, The, in art, Venus, Gods, and Mythology
Title from item., Plate numbered '89' in upper left corner., Plate from: A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1758 and 1759., and Temporary local subject terms: Battle of Minden.
Title from item., Date based on contemporary annotation "9" in brown ink causing year on invitation to read "1759"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 4 of an album of trade cards and invitations., and Contemporary annotations in brown ink fill the blanks.
"Bookplate of John Holland; a female figure wearing a helmet and holding a spear and a shield decorated with the arms of the herald painter John Holland: a lion surrounded by eight fleurs-de lis, three putti in the foreground, one putto holding a crown with a lion by the window at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, state, printmaker, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and On page 3 (top right) in volume 1. Plate mark 145 x 119 mm.
"Bookplate of John Holland; a woman with a helmet and a spear, holding a shield with the arms of the herald painter John Holland, depicting a lion surrounded by eight fleurs-de lis, three putti in the foreground, one putto holding a crown with a lion by the window at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, state, printmaker, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 3 in volume 1, top left. Sheet 120 x 106 mm.
"Bookplate of John Holland; a female figure wearing a helmet and holding a spear and a shield decorated with the arms of the herald painter John Holland: a lion surrounded by eight fleurs-de lis, three putti in the foreground, one putto holding a crown with a lion by the window at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, state, printmaker, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., "John Holland, No. 95."--Ms. note below image., and Mounted on blank verso of printed price sheet for Hogarth prints, p. xix; sheet 235 x 156 mm.
"Bookplate of John Holland; a woman with a helmet and a spear, holding a shield with the arms of the herald painter John Holland, depicting a lion surrounded by eight fleurs-de lis, three putti in the foreground, one putto holding a crown with a lion by the window at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, state, printmaker, and date from Paulson. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
publish'd according to act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 82. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior of the Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and forty male spectators ranging from a sow-gelder, a butcher, a black footman, coachmen and a sweep to the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (in the centre); on the wall to right, a framed picture of a stout woman, lettered "Nan Rawlings", seated with a cock on her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pit ticket
Description:
Title from Paulson., Title engraved below image, on either side of an image of a rooster wtih the words 'Royal' and 'Sport' etched on either side: Pit ticket., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 31.6 x 38.2 cm, on sheet 42 x 57 cm., and Plate 82 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bertie, Albemarle, Sir, ca. 1720-1765 and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Social life and customs, Blacks, Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Gambling, Nobility, Sports spectators, and Servants
