Plate lettered in the top center 'G': Reverse copies of details of five men and one woman conversing and drinking, after characters in the upper left corner of Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other plates in this series in the British Museum catalogue., Plates from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Plate lettered in the top center 'H': Reverse copies of details six figures from the center of Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each character is numbered; 1 and 2, two of the musicians (the woman violinist and the bass-viol player); 3, 4, and 5, three of the men sitting at the table conversing and drinking; 6. the portrait on the back wall
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue., and Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender.
Plate lettered in the top center 'I': Reverse copies of details of two men after characters on the center foreground in Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered; 1. A man pours gin into the cut on another (2) man's bare and wounded head scalp who holds a glass and a club. Above them is a flagover with the inscription "Give us our eleven days."
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue., and Plates from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Gin, Political elections, Taverns (Inns), and Wounds & injuries
A satire on gin drinking: In a cellar distillery with a large cask a group of male figures with the heads of monkeys and women with heads of cats are drinking heavily with some vomiting
Alternative Title:
Gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny ...
Description:
Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print., Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II., Reversed copy of a print published ca. 1730. Publication information for this later version based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766; see no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Publisher alternatively identified as John Bowles; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.29, Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: The gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny, are those, who in such manner use it, as if their study was t'abuse it ..., Plate numbered '8' in lower left corner. Plate number indicates that it may be one of a series of reissues of Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger's satires of people with animal heads, published in the 1760s., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 29 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 41.3 x 30.3 cm., and Printed on wove paper; hand-colored. Number '8' mostly erased from sheet.
A satire on gin drinking: In a cellar distillery with a large cask a group of male figures with the heads of monkeys and women with heads of cats are drinking heavily with some vomiting
Alternative Title:
Gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny ...
Description:
Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print., Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II., Reversed copy of a print published ca. 1730. Publication information for this later version based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766; see no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Publisher alternatively identified as John Bowles; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.29, Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: The gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny, are those, who in such manner use it, as if their study was t'abuse it ..., and Plate numbered '8' in lower left corner. Plate number indicates that it may be one of a series of reissues of Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger's satires of people with animal heads, published in the 1760s.
Plate lettered in the top center 'I': Reverse copies of details from figures from the lower left corner of Hogarth's "Gin Lane". Numbered 1: The figure of the drunken woman whose baby falls from her arms (only legs of the child are shown), 2. Skeletal figure from lower right, who clutches a gin bottle in a basket with the broadside titled "The downfall of Mmd. Gin"; 3. A woman feeding her child from a glass, from mid-scene right; 4) Figure also from mid-scene right forcing more drink down the throat of a man being carried in a wheelbarrel
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A confrontation in a bedchamber between a black woman in a nightgown in bed and four men who surround her canopy bed. One man holds a candle. The woman is slapping the one man to her right on the cheek while another pulls him away. A fourth man is pointing towards her shoulder
Description:
Title from ms. note. Date from curator., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above sheet: Gin-Drinkers. Spurious., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below sheet: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 429., and On page 154 in volume 2.
"The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr. Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a young chimney sweep, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink. In the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve depicted), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to the right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, imprint, artist, printmaker and state from Paulson., Sheet trimmed with plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: Aqua fortis proof. See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 299., and On page 149 in volume 2.
"The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr. Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a young chimney sweep, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink. In the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve depicted), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to the right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, imprint, artist, printmaker and state from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 150 in volume 2.
