Caricatured portrait of William Hogarth. An ugly boy wearinga fool's cap and bells and dressed in a girl's clothes is seated in a chair painting Hogarth's portrait of John Wilkes. He is seated before an easel in mid-stroke painting the image of John Wilkes holding the Cap of Liberty; he holds a paint brush and palette in his hands as he turns to talk to a gentleman leaning against the artist's chair (right foreground). Under the chair is Hogarth's dog Trump. In the background is a caricature of Hogarth's "Sigismunda" being a grotesque skiethc of Mrs. Hogarth and with an indecent suggestion
Alternative Title:
Wm. Hogarth Esqr and William Hogarth Esquire
Description:
Title engraved above image., Note below image: Drawn from the life & etch'd in aqua-fortis., Original drawing has been ascribed to Paul Sandby., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Pridden in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Hogarth, Jane Thornhill, 1709?-1789
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Dogs, Painters (Artists), Liberty cap, and Legislators
"Interior of the House of Commons; the Speaker Arthur Onslow seated to the left of center, speaking with Sir Robert Walpole on his left; to his right seated with pen and ink and open book is Edward Stables, the Clerk of the House of Commons; other figures from the administration portrayed behind central figures, all wearing wigs and hats, including Sydney Godolphin, Sir Joseph Jekyl, Colonel Onslow, Sir James Thornhilll, and Mr. Aiskew (clerk assistant); just visible to the left of the Speaker are Sir Thomas Cotton and Sir William Wyndham."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
To the RIght Honorable Earl Onslow and House of Commons in Sir Robert Walpole's administration
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Walpole, Honble. Onslow, Godolphin, Jekyl, Col. Onslow, Stables Esqr., Thornhill, and Aiskew identified below image.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1803 by E. Harding, No. 100, Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, Earl of, 1645-1712,, Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734,, Stables, Edward,, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,, Onslow, George Onslow, Earl of, 1731-1814,, and Onslow, Arthur, 1691-1768,