Copy in reverse of the first state of Plate 1 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 132): the Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father with Tom at left being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out.--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 1 and E'er in the grave the miser's corps is cold ...
Description:
Title from text engraved above image., A reissue, with a new publication line and with ornamental borders added, of the first of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., The ornamental borders along the left and right edges are printed from a separate plate (images 25 x 2.8 cm, on plate mark 25.7 x 36.5 cm)., Original publication line: Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell according to Act of Parliament July 1735., and Ornamental borders partially obscure image on the right. A small hole below last line in the first column of the verses below the image.
Publisher:
Publish'd wth. [the] consent of Mrs. Hogarth, by Henry Parker, at No. 82 in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Debt, Interiors, Lawyers, Memorial rites & ceremonies, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Robberies, Servants, and Tailors
Title etched above image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Publication date given in British Museum catalogue: December 8, 1768., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 228., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: Brentford elections, 1768 -- Brentford election riots, December 8, 1768 -- Bludgeons -- Mob -- Trades: costermongers -- Banners: election banners -- Reference to John Glynn, 1722-1779 -- Reference to William Beauchamp, 1st Bt. Proctor, 1722-1773., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Riots, Political elections, Crowds, and Nightsticks
The thin, half-dressed man is scolded by his fat wife who has caught him in the garret bedroom with their young female servant. A bundle of his clothes in her arms, the servant scratches her head at the door. Pasted on the walls and ceilings of the room are several papers inscribed with dictums such as "Thou shalt not commit adultery", "God's warning for sinners", and "Once I lov'd." On the floor a book lies open to pages which read "Servants obey your Masters" and "Sermon to young women by Timy. Button Hole."
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Methodists, Adultery, Attics, Couples, Bedrooms, Servants' quarters, and Women domestics
Seated portrait of John Wilkes, holding a scroll marked 'Magna Charta', leaning on a table on which is a copy of his letter 'To the Gentlemen Clergy & Freeholders of the County of Middlesex', and 'Bill of Rights'. A framed painting on the wall behind (left) shows an image of Hercules defeating the Hydra
Description:
Title from text below image., Seemingly a reduced copy of print by John Dixon that was published in 1768 by Carington Bowles; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.761. See also: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 1, no. 35, page 217. For another reduced copy with a different title, also published by Carington Bowles, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1489., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint from bottom edge., and Mounted to: 22 x 13 cm.
Title from item., First state, as described in British Museum catalogue., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of text below image: To the E--l of [Bute] protector of our liberties &c this plate is humbly inscribed by L Junius Brutus., The word Bute is represented by a boot placed below a petticoat and encircled by Scotch thistle., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to John Stuart, Earl of Bute, 1713-1792 -- Allusion to Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 -- Allusion to Sir Philip Francis, 1740-1818 -- Emblems: Bute as a boot -- Emblems: Augusta, Princess of Wales, as a petticoat -- Military uniforms: Grenadiers, 3rd Foot Guards -- Riots: St. George's Fields, May 10, 1768 -- Accidental shootings: William Allen, May 10, 1768 -- Guns -- Cowhouses in St. George's Fields -- Military: Grenadiers, 3rd Foot Guard -- William Allen, 1749-1768 -- Peter MacLaughlin, fl. 1768 -- Donald McLane, fl. 1768 -- Alexander Murray, fl. 1768., and Bowditch's notes on mounting sheet; mounted to 35 x 46 cm.
Title from item., Below image on left: Price 1s., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: A prophet fourteen years ago, foretold Britannia's fate ..., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: King's Bench prison -- Military: Scotch soldiers -- Riots: reference to St. George's Fields, May10, 1768 -- Animals: Lord Bute as a crocodile -- Nicknames: Lord Bute as Moloch -- Mythology: Hecate -- Cerberus -- Hydra -- Emblems: jack boot -- Emblems: thistle -- Hell -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Law: judges -- Birds: peacock -- Animals: cat -- Monkey -- William Allen, d. 1768., Mounted to 35 x 46 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Title from caption above image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Two lines of quote below image: His wit all seesaw between that & this; and he himself one vile antithesis. Pope., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 3 (1768), page 257., and Temporary local subject terms: Debts: national debt -- Hell -- Riots: reference to St. George's Fields, May 10, 1768 -- Reference to John Wilkes, 1725-1797 -- Personfications: Folly -- Zanies -- Devil -- Seesaws -- Whips -- Literature: quotation from Alexander Pope.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806
In a well furnished room a young, handsome curate is seated at one end of a sofa, surrounded by five admiring women of various ages, drinking tea and eating a biscuit. A little pug is begging for a treat. At the other end of the sofa, sits alone a very disconsolate young man, probably a veteran, with a wooden leg. His only companion is a large dog resting his head on his master's thigh. Between the soldier and the group on his left lies an open book, The Church triumphant - cedunt arma togae. Behind the sofa, a painting on the wall shows an old man being burned at stake by a group of soldiers
Alternative Title:
Mars in the dumps
Description:
Title from item., Below title: Engraved after an original picture by Mr. John Collett in the possession of Mr. Bradford., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: curate -- Military: soldiers -- Amputees -- Peg legs -- Pets: dogs -- Pictures amplifying subject: a saint(?) burned at stake by soldiers -- Furniture: Chippendale sofa -- Furniture: armchair -- Furniture: upholstered screen -- Furnishings: ornate picture frame -- Furnishings: carpet -- Female dress, 1768 -- Dishes: teacups -- Food: biscuits., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Published by T. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street, & H. Parker, No. 82 Cornhill
Two images on one plate, each with a distinctive title., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in Stephens: 1767., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 3 (1768), p. 321., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: American colonies as a native woman -- Globes -- Amputation -- Emblems: British oak -- Ships with brooms at topmasts, i.e., for sale -- Emblems: laurel branch -- Mottoes: Date obolum Bellisario -- Reference to beggary -- Reference to the American colonies: Virginia -- Reference to the American colonies: New York -- Reference to the American colonies: New England -- Reference to the American colonies: Pennsylvania -- Emblems: Maltese Cross -- Weapons: spears -- Daggers -- Dutchmen.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Two images on one plate, each with a distinctive title., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in Stephens: 1767., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 3 (1768), p. 321., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: American colonies as a native woman -- Globes -- Amputation -- Emblems: British oak -- Ships with brooms at topmasts, i.e., for sale -- Emblems: laurel branch -- Mottoes: Date obolum Bellisario -- Reference to beggary -- Reference to the American colonies: Virginia -- Reference to the American colonies: New York -- Reference to the American colonies: New England -- Reference to the American colonies: Pennsylvania -- Emblems: Maltese Cross -- Weapons: spears -- Daggers -- Dutchmen.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
