Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of text below image: Chairman, a solicitor refusing to drink King George's health. He leaning on the chair is Jackey of York, an attorney his hackney fool ..., Temporary local subject terms: Nicknames: Jackey of York -- Ghosts: independent rump -- Imps carrying dust basket -- Containers: dust basket -- Jacobites -- Tools: butcher's steel -- Wine bottles -- Executioner's axe -- Lighting: candlestick -- Smoking: clay tobacco pipes -- Food: marrowbone -- Furniture: chair -- Executions: Kennington Common, July 30 1746 -- Trades: bill man -- Executioner -- Butchers -- Woolen draper -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Wine glasses with sign -- Clubs: Independent Electors of Westminster -- Law: rebel barrister -- Elections: Westminster -- Designs: design copied from 'The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver' by William Hogarth, 1697-1764 -- George Fletcher, d. 1746 -- Thomas de Viel, 1684-1746 -- John Smith 'Buckhorse', fl. 1732-1746 -- Mr. Charlton (butcher), fl. 1746., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord, 1688-1746, Henley, John, 1692-1756, Morgan, David Thomas, ca. 1695-1746, and Towneley, Francis, 1709-1746
"Satire on the election of April 1754; the elected candidates chaired to Guildhall; the first state without the results of the poll in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Some folks at Guild-Hall
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Earlier state, without "Ministers of propagation" inscribed below a group of clergymen in upper left background., Eight stanzas of verse in four columns below title: O! see my raree shew good folks, all you who love election jokes ..., Plate numbered 'No. 3' on lower right., and Temporary local subject terms: Lottery: allusion to profits from lottery -- Shows: allusion to raree show -- Bills: Jews Naturalization Bill, 1753 -- Societies: Propagation of the Gospel -- Silversmiths: B. Jiffles -- Buildings -- Trades: butchers -- Newspapers: The Public Advertiser -- City of London: contest for representation of the City -- Quackery -- Livery of London: address to the Livery of London by A. Freeport, Feb. 1754 -- Literature: Address to the Livery of London by Andrew Freeport, 1754 -- Elections: parliamentary elections, 1754 -- Bridges: allusion to the Blackfriars Bridge -- Armine Wodehouse, 5th bt., ca. 1714-1777
Publisher:
Sold by John Smith at Hogarths Head, opposite Wood Street, Cheapside
Title from item., Two lines of verse below image: How well the motion with the musick suits! So Orpheus tickled, and so danc'd the brutes., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2777., Temporary local subject terms: Musicians: flutist -- Musical instruments -- Musical scores -- Trades: laundress -- Cobbler -- Tailor -- Cook -- Cutlery: knife and fork -- Birds -- Tobacco: clay pipes -- Tobacco pouch -- Dishes: plates -- Glass: bottles -- Food: fowl on spit -- Headdress: male wig -- Dress: stockings -- Winged shoes -- Male dress: breeches -- Swords -- Wine glasses -- Pens -- Signs: rose., and Watermark: Fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
G. Bickham
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Weideman, Charles Frederick, -1782, and Henley, John, 1692-1756
Title from item., Plate numbered '43' in upper right corner., Fifteen lines of verse in rebus below image: No soon[er] came [I] un[to] [sticks] / [but] quite convinc'd of [all] our tricks ..., The following words within the quoted verse are represented by a rebus: 'er' in sooner by an ear, I by an eye, 'to' in unto by a toe, sticks by a bunch of sticks, but by a butt, all by an awl., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 17 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Novr. 4th, 1756, by Edwards & Darly facing Hungerford, Strand
Orator Henley christening a child, after an oil sketch by Hogarth; the cleric stands holding the infant over a large, empty baptismal font, with the mother beside him to left. To his right stand a man who holds his hat and a stout woman, while in front a child, wearing a plumed hat and standing on tiptoe, reaches into the font, tipping the shallow bowl and spilling the water
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue; printmaker Jane Ireland's full name etched in lower right, replacing her initials "J.I." on earlier state., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.) for note about a related work by Sympson, page 310.
Publisher:
Samuel Ireland?
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756
Subject (Topic):
Baptisms, Children, Clergy, Fonts, Infants, and Women
Orator Henley christening a child, after an oil sketch by Hogarth; the cleric stands holding the infant over a large, empty baptismal font, with the mother beside him to left. To his right stand a man who holds his hat and a stout woman, while in front a child, wearing a plumed hat and standing on tiptoe, reaches into the font, tipping the shallow bowl and spilling the water
Description:
Title engraved below image., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.) for note about a related work by Sympson, p. 310., and On page 217 in volume 3. Sheet: 20.5 x 13 cm.
Publisher:
Samuel Ireland
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756
Subject (Topic):
Baptisms, Children, Clergy, Fonts, Infants, and Women
Orator Henley christening a child, after an oil sketch by Hogarth; the cleric stands holding the infant over a large, empty baptismal font, with the mother beside him to left. To his right stand a man who holds his hat and a stout woman, while in front a child, wearing a plumed hat and standing on tiptoe, reaches into the font, tipping the shallow bowl and spilling the water
Description:
Title engraved below image., Also signed below image: Hogarth pinxt ; S. Ireland fecit 1785., Dedication etched below title: To Francis Grose Esq. F.A.S. an encourager & promoter of the arts, this etching from his favorite Hogarth is inscribed by his obliged friend & servant, Saml. Ireland., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For related work by Sympson see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), p. 310., See no. 2837 for original painting in reverse in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and On page 217 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to plate mark: 37.9 x 28.8 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1st 1786, by W. Dickenson, No. 158 New Bond St.
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756
Subject (Topic):
Baptisms, Children, Clergy, Fonts, Infants, and Women
"Satire on the Rev John Henley, in a chapel, preaching in a pulpit at left, above which a dog in Scots plaid holds a sign lettered 'Politicks & Divinity'; the clerk holds a club, as do other members of the congregation, who are variously animatedly arguing and exclaiming, one reading a newspaper; at right a pew lettered 'pews for ye Doctors Friends &c / Butcher Frenchman / Scot and Tory. / Join to rob Britain of its Glory.', in it several people wearing Scots plaid; above the pew, a coat of arms supported by a fox and wolf with the crest of an ass's head, with mottos 'Bray' and 'No Faith No King No Law', below it two inscriptions, 'Repaired and Beautifyd by O-t- H-y' [Orator Henley] and 'Subjects to night / ye. Battle of Dettengen & ye. Bishops'; at top centre, a placard: 'It is written my house shall be called ye. house of prayer but ye have made it a den of thieves'; a forgery purporting to be by or after Hogarth."--British Museum catalogue., Title etched above image., Publisher and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of page: Seven forgeries -- all published by Samuel Ireland; in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath print: £6.0.0., Extensive ms. note on separate sheet to right, in ink in Steevens's hand., and On page 233 in volume 3.
Orator Henley christening a child, after an oil sketch by Hogarth; the cleric stands holding the infant over a large, empty baptismal font, with the mother beside him to left. To his right stand a man who holds his hat and a stout woman, while in front a child, wearing a plumed hat and standing on tiptoe, reaches into the font, tipping the shallow bowl and spilling the water
Description:
Title engraved below image. and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.) for note about a related work by Sympson, p. 310.
Publisher:
Samuel Ireland
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756
Subject (Topic):
Baptisms, Children, Clergy, Fonts, Infants, and Women
Orator Henley christening a child, after an oil sketch by Hogarth; the cleric stands holding the infant over a large, empty baptismal font, with the mother beside him to left. To his right stand a man who holds his hat and a stout woman, while in front a child, wearing a plumed hat and standing on tiptoe, reaches into the font, tipping the shallow bowl and spilling the water
Description:
Title engraved below image., Also signed below image: Hogarth pinxt ; S. Ireland fecit 1785., Dedication etched below title: To Francis Grose Esq. F.A.S. an encourager & promoter of the arts, this etching from his favorite Hogarth is inscribed by his obliged friend & servant, Saml. Ireland., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For related work by Sympson see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), p. 310., and See no. 2837 for original painting in reverse in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1st 1786, by W. Dickenson, No. 158 New Bond St.
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756
Subject (Topic):
Baptisms, Children, Clergy, Fonts, Infants, and Women