Hogarth's shop card presenting him as an engraver both of prints and decorative metalwork; frame with a figure in classical dress on either side (on the left a woman, on the right a man drawing) and, above, putti holding a print and a vase; lettered in the centre 'W. Hogarth Engraver'. In an oval cartouche in the lower frame, "Aprill [the] 23 1720."
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth, engraver and Hogarth's shop card
Description:
Title etched within image., Date engraved in cartouche centered in lower frame., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Center is cut out and ms. inscription added “W: Hogarth Engraver” on mount below showing through., and On page 3 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley" with an arrangement of Scottish and English weapons (swords, musket, canon, halberd, pickaxe, scimitar, pistol, broad-sward, haversadk, Lochaber axe, etc.), musical instruments (trumpet, drum, kettledrum, fife and bagpipes), and flags; in the center a pair of scissors excises the Scottish lion from the royal coat-of-arms
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Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley"
Description:
Title, printmaker, publisher, and date from Paulson., Lettered with subscription receipt: "Recd. [blank] of [blank] 7s:6d: being the whole payment for a print pepresenting a March to Finchly [sic] in the year 1746 which I promise to deliver when finish'd on sight hereof. N.B. Each print will be half a guinea after the subscription is over.", Ms. note: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 284., Subscription ticket is filled in: April 10 1750 and illegible name. A scrap of paper attached at lower right with Hogarth's signature, 3 shillings, and Hogarth's wax seal., and On page 127 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 18.1 x 23 cm.
Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley" with an arrangement of Scottish and English weapons (swords, musket, canon, halberd, pickaxe, scimitar, pistol, broad-sward, haversadk, Lochaber axe, etc.), musical instruments (trumpet, drum, kettledrum, fife and bagpipes), and flags; in the center a pair of scissors excises the Scottish lion from the royal coat-of-arms
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Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley"
Description:
Title, printmaker, publisher, and date from Paulson., Lettered with subscription receipt: "Recd. [blank] of [blank] 7s:6d: being the whole payment for a print pepresenting a March to Finchly [sic] in the year 1746 which I promise to deliver when finish'd on sight hereof. N.B. Each print will be half a guinea after the subscription is over.", and Sheet trimmed to 193 x 231 mm and annotated in Hogarth's hand(?): Aprl 2 1750, Robt. Thomson Esqr., N534. Also signed: "Wm. H[ogarth]".
Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley" with an arrangement of Scottish and English weapons (swords, musket, canon, halberd, pickaxe, scimitar, pistol, broad-sward, haversadk, Lochaber axe, etc.), musical instruments (trumpet, drum, kettledrum, fife and bagpipes), and flags; in the center a pair of scissors excises the Scottish lion from the royal coat-of-arms
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Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley"
Description:
Title, printmaker, publisher, and date from Paulson., Lettered with subscription receipt: "Recd. [blank] of [blank] 7s:6d: being the whole payment for a print pepresenting a March to Finchly [sic] in the year 1746 which I promise to deliver when finish'd on sight hereof. N.B. Each print will be half a guinea after the subscription is over.", and Sheet 266 x 273 mm and annotated in Hogarth's hand(?): April 28 1750, Ja. Theoball Esqr., N1249. Also signed: "Wm. H[ogarth] 3 shilllings". With his wax seal.
Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley" with an arrangement of Scottish and English weapons (swords, musket, canon, halberd, pickaxe, scimitar, pistol, broad-sward, haversadk, Lochaber axe, etc.), musical instruments (trumpet, drum, kettledrum, fife and bagpipes), and flags; in the center a pair of scissors excises the Scottish lion from the royal coat-of-arms
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Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley"
Description:
Title, printmaker, publisher, and date from Paulson. and Lettered with subscription receipt: "Recd. [blank] of [blank] 7s:6d: being the whole payment for a print pepresenting a March to Finchly [sic] in the year 1746 which I promise to deliver when finish'd on sight hereof. N.B. Each print will be half a guinea after the subscription is over."
Subscription ticket for "A harlot's progress" with three naked putti, one painting, one engraving, and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Verse in Latin from Horace's Ars poetica below image: " ... necesse est. Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, dabiturque Licentia sumpta pudenter. Hor.", Lettered below the verse with subscription receipt: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] a half a guinea being [the] first payment for two six prints of a Harlot's progress which I promise to deliver when finish'd, on one half guinea more.", Pencilled notes in Steevens' hand. Above a group of three: Boys Peeping at Nature, a Receipt for the Harlot's Progress. See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d Edit. p. 188. 319. On mount sheet, below print: Very scarce,, and On page 57 in volume 1. Plate cropped below design to: 103 x 125 mm, mounted to 139 x 140 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Art, Painting, and Putti
Subscription ticket for "A harlot's progress" with three naked putti, one painting, one engraving, and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Verse in Latin from Horace's Ars poetica below image: " ... necesse est. Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, dabiturque Licentia sumpta pudenter. Hor.", Lettered below the verse with subscription receipt: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] a half a guinea being [the] first payment for two six prints of a Harlot's progress which I promise to deliver when finish'd, on one half guinea more.", and With ms. annotations in William Hogarth's hand indicating the receipt of a half guinea from Ebenezer Forrest, with Hogarth's signature and seal. Mounted on a sheet with a fragment of a letter from Giles Hussey addressed to "Frs. [Francis] Webb Esqr. at Sir Isaac Heard's, College of Arms, London" and stamped with a redirect to Shaftsbury. The letter can be dated to the period 1786-1788, after Isaac Heard was knighted (in 1786) and before Hussey died (in 1788).
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Art, Painting, and Putti
The subscription ticket for "Marriage A-la-Mode". A group of heads drawn in a naturalistic style seen in profile; below, five compartments with heads after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons (i.e."characters") and caricatures after Ghezzi, Raphael Urbin, Annibale Carracci, and Leonardo da Vinci
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3 characters. 4 caricaturas and Three characters. Four caricaturas
Description:
Title from Paulson: Characters and caricaturas., Title etched below image: 3 characters. 4 caricaturas : for a farthar explanation of the difference betwixt character & caricatura see [the] preface to Joh. Andrews., Date and state from Paulson., The receipt is engraved below the caption: Rec'd [blankl] of [blank] Half a guinea being the first payment for six prints called Marriage a la mode which I promise to deliver when finish'd on receiving half a guinea more. N.B. The price will be one guinea and an half after the time of subscribing., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand to right of print: See Nichols's bok, 3d. edit. p. 262., Blanks filled in ms. to show receipt from Mr. Stephen Abbort, dated 12 May 1743 and signed by Hogarth., and On page 108 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides: 27.4 x 20.4.
The subscription ticket for "Marriage A-la-Mode". A group of heads drawn in a naturalistic style seen in profile; below, five compartments with heads after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons (i.e."characters") and caricatures after Ghezzi, Raphael Urbin, Annibale Carracci, and Leonardo da Vinci
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3 characters. 4 caricaturas and Three characters. Four caricaturas
Description:
Title from Paulson: Characters and caricaturas., Title etched below image: 3 characters. 4 caricaturas : for a farthar explanation of the difference betwixt character & caricatura see [the] preface to Joh. Andrews., Date and state from Paulson., The receipt is engraved below the caption: Rec'd [blankl] of [blank] Half a guinea being the first payment for six prints called Marriage a la mode which I promise to deliver when finish'd on receiving half a guinea more. N.B. The price will be one guinea and an half after the time of subscribing., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
A subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty", based on Leonardo's Last Supper, depicts Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. A dog peeps over the edge of the table in the foreground; the cutlery is pushed off to one side
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Title, publisher, and state from Paulson., Text engraved below image: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] five shillings being the first payment for a short tract in quarto call'd the Analysis of Beauty; wherein forms are consider'd in a new light, to which will be added two explanatory prints serious and comical, engraved on large copper plates fit to frame for furniture." N.B. The price will be rais'd after the subscription is over.", A subscription ticket for Analysis of beauty., With the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p., and Trimmed to the image; mounted on verso of title page in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty.