Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1765?]
Call Number:
765.00.00.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a chemist's workshop, a man sits at a table made of a slab of wood placed over a brick structure, as he mixs the contents of a pot placed on a burner. A large mortar with pestle and a couple of glass bottles stand next to the burner. To his left, a young man with a hat covering part of his face is reading aloud from a sheet of paper while a third man, in a tall hat, is looking over his shoulder
Alternative Title:
Dutch chemist
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title etched below image., Tentatively attributed to Steen., Words "and Son" in imprint statement mostly burnished from plate and replaced with a flourish., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Probably later state, after 1764, when Carington Bowles established his own business separate from his father's. See Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., and Temporary local subject terms: Merchants' stalls -- Customers -- Merchandise: fish -- Vegetables -- Eggs -- Scales.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles and Son, at No. 13 Cornhill
Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1535); three-quarter length seated in profile to right, looking towards front, his right hand turning the pages of a book resting on the table to right
Description:
Title from caption below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., Publisher from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and In paper frame: 182 x 268 mm. Ownership stamp on back: "CIFB" within the shape of an artist's palette.
"Portrait, half-length standing directed to left, looking over his shoulder to right, right arm resting on a ledge, tricorn under left hand, wearing a coat with a high sheen, waistcoat buttoned over a lace cravat, powdered wig tied at the nape, trees behind to left and a city in the distance to right; after Battoni. 1765."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Price 5s."--Lower right corner., and Mounted to paper: 455 x 334 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Novr. 2d. 1765 ; sold at the Golden Lamp in Berwick Street
"Head and shoulders in an oval wearing a flowered coat with lace frill; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., After a painting by John Astley; see: Russell, C.E. English mezzotint portraits and their states, State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Approximate date of publication based on form of publisher's name in imprint and their listed street address. William Wynne Ryland operated from his Kings Arms address in Cornhill around 1765-1766, and began his partnership with Henry Bryer in 1765; see British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Window mounted to 45 x 31 cm., and Bound in after page 214 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Publisher:
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, engravers at the Kings Arms, in Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794,
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
publ'd. accordg. to act of Parliamt. 1765.
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, three-quarter length, of the Countess of Egmont, seated three-quarter to right wearing ermine-trimmed robes, looking towards the viewer, holding her eldest son on a table in front of her, left arm behind his back, right hand on his feet, as he sits facing her, looking towards the viewer, holding her crown in front of him, against her chest."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
The Right Honourable Catharine Compton
Description:
Title from text below image, in three lines on either side of crest., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 6 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.
"Satire on Hogarth's attack on Charles Churchill, "The Bruiser" (Paulson 215). Hogarth, his upper body an ass and the lower part a lion, sits on a three-legged stool on a dais with a painting of "The Bruiser" attached to a ladder as if to an easel; his dog sits at the foot of the ladder. Hogarth has a large boot (alluding to his allegiance to Bute) on his right leg, a bottle of aqua fortis hanging from one ear, a palette lettered "Line of Booty" slung around his neck, an apron into which is tucked a palette knife, a burin tied to his right front leg and a paint brush tucked into its cloven hoof; a "Smush pot" is falling down the steps of the dais spilling its contents on to a sheet labelled "Patirotism". A satyr standing on the ladder holds a notice reading, "Ha! Ha! Ha! said Old Will Now You shall see ye boasted Work of all the Antient & Modern painters, Your Raphael, Rubens, Carrach Outdone! I'll shew you a Picture done by Myself! A Picture Indeed! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!/What the Devil had he to do with the more Sublime Branch of Painting or vile Politicks, whose Talent consisted in low Humour? Ne Sutor ultra Crepidam." Hogarth turns back snarling at Wilkes and Churchill who stand behind him, the former holding a pair of horns, labelled "Horn Fair". Churchill, in clerical dress, writes with a large quill in a book, "The Life and Opinions of Willm. Hogass the Pannell Painter and his last dying Speech and Conf" and sheet hangs below the book which reads, "Since Willie has shown us the Dog & the Bear./Who scruples to own but They're much on a par?/The Bear has been baited & terribly bangd,/ And the Dog when his day comes deserves to be H-gd." Behind these two hangs a curtain on which is lettered in reference to Hogarth's Sigismonda, "This Curtain Hangs Here to preserve from Vulgar Eyes the Beauty of the inestimable Picture representing a Harlot blubbering over a Bullock's Heart; Painted by Willm. Hog-Ass, at the Golden Blockhead in Lie[...]er Fields."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publisher and date from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Below title: The principal charecters [sic] by Mr. Hog-ass, Mr. Wi-k-s, Mr. Church-ll, &c. -- Walk in, ge'men & ladies, walk in!, Possibly a restrike, line with price below imprint burnished out., Below design: "Now shewing away at Sumpters Political Theatrical Booth facing St. Brides Church, Fleet Street.", After Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale? See British Museum online catalogue., See earlier state published by Edward Sumpter. Cf. No. 4085 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., 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: Trades: pewterers -- Kitchen utensils.
A picnic on the grounds of an elegant house are disrupted by dogs who steal the meat and a fist-fight that erupts between one of the attendants and the landowner(?).
Description:
Title from item., Publication date based on costume. Cf. Brooke and Laver., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
