"Satire on a Cambridge student: a young man on horseback with a macaroni queue holding out a driving whip as if it is a lance and galloping to right; the horse is defecating; a hound runs beside them; in the distance on the right King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker and date of publication from description of an earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Early state, before additional shading of the figures and more ground detail added in drypoint. For a later state before these additions to the plate, see no. 4724 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album.
Volume 1, page 3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a Cambridge student: a young man on horseback with a macaroni queue holding out a driving whip as if it is a lance and galloping to right; the horse is defecating; a hound runs beside them; in the distance on the right King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and For an earlier state before drypoint additions to the plate, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770.
Volume 1, page 3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a Cambridge student: a young man on horseback with a macaroni queue holding out a driving whip as if it is a lance and galloping to right; the horse is defecating; a hound runs beside them; in the distance on the right King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., For an earlier state before drypoint additions to the plate, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770., Mounted on page 3 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 10.2 x 16.5 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Annotation by Horace Walpole in ink in lower left corner of sheet: H.W.B. f.
"Portrait, three-quarter length standing directed to left, head in profile, leaning chin on right hand, the elbow resting on a pedestal in front of her, draped with her cloak, left arm at her side, hair up, wearing a loose gown with billowing sleeves to the elbow, hitched slightly above with a jewel, land an oriental sash, landscape in the background; after Cotes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Proof state? Cf. British Museum impression, registration no. 1902,1011.2938, which has the lower margin of the plate cleaned and has added background detail in the upper right portion of image., and Date of publication based on that of the larger version of the print, likewise engraved by Elizabeth Jenkins and published by Robert Sayer on 1 July 1770. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 3, page 777.
Title from item., Printmaker tentatively identified in British Museum catalogue as Paul Sandby., Tentatively identified on an unverified card catalog record as P. Stevenart., Artist's name in lower left below image burnished from plate., Publication statement appears to be burnished from plate. Probably published by Darlington along with the companion print., Companion print: French beggar woman., and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: French beggar -- Signs: French beggar's sign.
Title from item., Printmaker tentatively identified by Stephens as Paul Sandby. Possibly by P. Stevenart, based on comparison with his prints in the collection. See The lemonade seller., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For companion print: French beggar., Temporary local subject terms: Beggars -- Rosaries., and Mounted to 26 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Dec. 10, 1770, by William Darling, Great Newport Street, London
Leaf 59. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A standing woman facing left with giant sabots holding a fan."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4677 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "8" in upper right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: French peasants -- Female costume -- French costume -- Clocks on stockings of French peasant -- Pompons on sabots of French peasant -- Shoes: Sabots.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. April 1st, 1770, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Peasants, and Fans (Accessories)
Leaf 59. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A standing woman facing left with giant sabots holding a fan."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4677 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "8" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: French peasants -- Female costume -- French costume -- Clocks on stockings of French peasant -- Pompons on sabots of French peasant -- Shoes: Sabots., Second of three plates on leaf 59., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 15.2 x 10.8 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. April 1st, 1770, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Peasants, and Fans (Accessories)
Leaf 59. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A standing woman facing left with giant sabots holding a fan."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4677 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "8" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: French peasants -- Female costume -- French costume -- Clocks on stockings of French peasant -- Pompons on sabots of French peasant -- Shoes: Sabots., Watermark, partially trimmed: Strasburg bend and lily, with initials L.V.G. below., and Imperfect; volume and plate numbering has been erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. April 1st, 1770, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Peasants, and Fans (Accessories)
An emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler (looking left) mounted on a pedestal on which is carved a relief showing a satyr whipping figures of Rebellion, Hypocrisy, and Ignorance dressed as puritans, while he drives a chariot drawn by Hudibras and Ralpho; in the foreground, on the rightt, a satyr holds up a volume of Butler's poem as a guide for the carver (a boy dressed only in an apron), and on the left a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia
Alternative Title:
Hudibras frontispiece and explanation
Description:
Title engraved below image., After Hogarth., Caption on either side of title: "The basso releivo, on the pedestal, represents the general design, of Mr. Butler, in his incomparable poem, of Hudibras. Viz. Butler's genious in a car lashing around Mount Parnassus in the persons of Hudibras & Ralpho, Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance the reigning vices of his time.", Copy in reverse of no. 504 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 82.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680, and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, History, Britannia (Symbolic character), Religion, Satyrs (Greek mythology), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Vice
