Three animals in coats and hats with feathers mounted on donkeys gather on a road with a house and walled garden in the distance. Text below the image: Welcome Brother, view us well, And which you most resentble tell. Seven we together make, Count us, and don't mistake. Our looks relationship betray, So you may either Grin or Bray
Description:
Title etched below image, centered between two columns of verse. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his print and map warehouse, No. 69 in St. Paul's Churchyard, London
A lady walking along a high orchard wall has her enormous headdress, trimmed wtih lace and ribbons, pulled from her head by a monkey perched atop the wall. She clasps her hand to her bare head, a look of surprise on her face. A man perched on a ladder picking apples in the orchard looks over the wall in amusement at the scene. A butcher's boy with a large tray stands in the street equally amused by the scene
Alternative Title:
Sleight of hand by a monkey and Lady's head unloaded
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from Horace Walpole's impression in the New York Public Library., and Plate numbered '344' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Apple orchards, Hairdressing, Butchers, Clothing & dress, and Monkeys
A lady walking along a high orchard wall has her enormous headdress, trimmed wtih lace and ribbons, pulled from her head by a monkey perched atop the wall. She clasps her hand to her bare head, a look of surprise on her face. A man perched on a ladder picking apples in the orchard looks over the wall in amusement at the scene
Alternative Title:
Sleight of hand by a monkey, or, The ladys head unloaded and Ladys head unloaded
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., Numbered '23' in upper right corner., Probably a copy of a mezzotint with the same title that was published in 1776 by Carington Bowles. Cf. No. 4546 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Apple orchards, Clothing & dress, Hairdressing, Monkeys, and Wigs
A copy of Hogarth's design and C. Grignion's print, first version: Tailpiece to the catalogue of pictures exhibited in Spring Gardens. A monkey dressed as a connoisseur waters with a watering can three withered and sapless trees in pots. A banner under the pots is labelled 'EXOTICKS'. In his right hand he holds a magnifying glass to his eye. The trees are labelled 'OBIT 1502', 'OBIT 1600' and '[O]BIT 1604'.
Description:
Title etched below image., "Page 99"--Above image, right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3809., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 237., and On page 188 in volume 2.
Copy of Hogarth's tailpiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited in spring garden 1761. A monkey dressed as a connoisseur waters with a watering can three withered and sapless trees in pots. A banner under the pots is labelled 'EXOTICKS'. In his right hand he holds a magnifying glass to his eye. The trees are labelled 'OBIT 1502', 'OBIT 1600' and '[O]BIT [1]604'
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate from: Trusler, J. Complete works of William Hogarth in a series of one hundred and fifty superb steel engravings. London and New York : London Printing and Publishing Company, [18--]., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of subtitle. Subtitle supplied from a more perfect impression bound in LWL Quarto 75 H67 876, p. 248., and Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3809.
"An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: See Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 259., and On page 105 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 20.9 x 27.2 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
Copy: an expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Copy of: No. 2563 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: Copy., and On page 105 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
"An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., and Hogarth's signature erased from this impression.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
"An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Sheet trimmed to: 213 x 278 mm., and Ms. annotation in ink, lower right corner: '6'.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
