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1. A cognocenti [sic] contemplating [the] beauties of [the] antique [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [11 February 1801]
- Call Number:
- 801.02.11.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sir William Hamilton, old and bent, inspects his antiques. He stands in profile to left, looking through spectacles held in his right hand and reversed. He wears a round hat, a spencer over his coat and spurred top-boots, a stick in his (gloved) left hand; an expressive glove issues from his coat pocket. The objects at which he gazes are on a cloth-covered table. In the centre is a bust of 'Lais', the head that of Lady Hamilton, with fashionably dressed hair, but with nose, mouth, and chin broken away. Next it is a nude and headless Bacchante holding up a bunch of grapes (this was one of his wife's famous attitudes). Behind is a term with the head of a bull inscribed 'APIS'. Other objects are a weeping Cupid with a broken arrow, a grotesque goblet, a cracked chamber-pot on which nude figures dance. Against the wall (right) stands a mummy-like figure of 'MIDAS', with ass's ears. Other grotesque and broken objects stand on the carpet. On the wall are four pictures (left to right): 'Cleopatra', Lady Hamilton, three-quarter length, indecently décolletée and holding a bottle of 'Gin'; 'Mark Antony', Nelson, three-quarter length, a sea-fight in the background; a volcano in eruption; 'Claudius', a profile half length of Hamilton turning his back on the other pictures, the frame decorated with a stag's head."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Cognocenti contemplating the beauties of the antique and Cognoscenti contemplating the beauties of the antique
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Antiques -- Literature reference: Hamilton, Sir William, 1730-1803: Observations on Mount Vesuvius., and Matted to 62 x 49 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 11th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803, Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1761?-1815, and Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiques and Antique stores
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A cognocenti [sic] contemplating [the] beauties of [the] antique [graphic]
2. A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully copied from nature : and humbly dedicated to all admirers of the grand and sublime
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1807]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 G41 807
- Image Count:
- 16
- Alternative Title:
- Attitudes faithfully copied from nature
- Description:
- Title page engraved., Attribution to James Gillray based on an inscription on the copy in The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University., Caricatures of Friedrich Rehberg's Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples (originally published 1794), with the figure of Emma Hamilton considerably enlarged., Plates printed on blue paper and mounted., BAC: British Art Center copy imperfect: title page wanting (title and imprint from British Museum Catalogue). Bound in full gilt-tooled long-grain morocco, with gilt edges. Bound by Rivere & Son. Armorial bookplates of Graham of Ardoch and Hampton of Anglesey. Has bound with it: Rehberg, F. Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples ([London?: S.W. Fores?] 1794). The caricatures in the present volume are juxtaposed (on facing pages) with the corresponding originals in Rehberg's work. Also has bound with it, as frontispiece: Dido in despair! (London: H. Humphrey, 1801) [George 9572]., Lewis Walpole Library copy: With original brown wrappers, detached. Inscription in the hand of James Gillray on title page: "Lt. Col. Birch from the Author." Caricatures of the obese Emma Hamilton are on coral-colored paper., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Published March 2nd 1807 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1761?-1815 and Rehberg, Friedrich, 1758-1835.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tableaux
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully copied from nature : and humbly dedicated to all admirers of the grand and sublime
3. Dido in despair! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 February 1801]
- Call Number:
- 801.02.06.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and lace-trimmed cap. Behind her in the shadowed depths of the bed the night-capped head of her elderly and (?) sleeping husband, rests on the pillow. She looks, weeping, towards an open sash-window through which is seen a fleet sailing towards the horizon. In the window (left) is a cushioned window seat on which (besides a stocking) is an open book: 'Studies of Academic Attitudes taken from the Life'; on one page is a nude woman lying in sensual abandonment. On the right against the curtains of the bed is a dressing-table on which, besides toilet-articles, are a flask of 'Maraschino', a 'Composing Draught', and a pot of 'Rouge à la Naples'. On the carpeted floor (right) are objects from Sir W. Hamilton's collection, with an open book: 'Antiquities of Herculaneum Naples Caprea &c. &c.'; on the right page is a satyr chasing a nymph. They include an oval gem, a figure of a squatting monster, headless, the base inscribed 'Pri[apus]', a laughing bust of 'Messalina', statues of a Venus and a Satyr, coins or medals, one inscribed 'Ovid', another 'Tibertius'. In front of Lady Hamilton are the slippers she has kicked off, and a garter inscribed 'The Hero of the Nile'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse, two on either side of title, etched below image: "Ah, where & ah where, is my gallant sailor gone? "He's gone to fight the Frenchmen, for George upon the throne. "He's gone to fight [the] Frenchmen, t' loose t' other arm & eye. "And left me with the old antiques, to lay me down & cry., "Dido" is a reference to a character from Virgil's Aeneid., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Bound with (as frontispiece): A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully copied from nature (London: H. Humphrey, 1807).
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil., Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1761?-1815, Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805, and Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803
- Subject (Topic):
- Parodies, imitations, etc, Antiques, Bedrooms, Interiors, Obesity, and Window seats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dido in despair! [graphic]
