A drinking and smoking scene with men and women around a table, musicians playing instruments and maps and painted portraits hung on the wall behind. Design based on William Hogarth's third plate in the series Rake's Progress
Description:
Title etched below image. and On page 69 in volume 1. Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above: A Tobacco Paper.
A group of cats look at book opened to a musical score, on the right and images of mice on the left. Some of the cats are singing while one plays a trumpet; one of the cats wears spectacles. In the foreground are a violin and loose sheets of music. The book is propped against a birdhouse from which emerges a mouse; a cloth has been draped over the birdhouse
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., After a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1855,0609.487., Two similar prints, with slight variations in the image, were published by Ackermann in July 1817 with the title "Concert of cats". See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 817.07.00.01., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Mice, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singers
Plate [189] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions of Purcell, Croft, Blow, Arne and Boyce on a decorative plaque surmounted by a lyre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [189] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695,, Croft, William, 1678-1727,, Blow, John, -1708,, Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778,, and Boyce, William, 1711-1779,
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 8th, 1756.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 55K(b) Box 215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Outside an English country inn, over whose door a sign reads "Duke of Cumberland Roast and boil'd every day", a group of soldiers and sailors laugh at a large caricature of Louis XV on the tavern wall. They sit with two attractive young women around a table on which sits a large pie, a tankard, and a broadsheet with the verses of "Rule Britannia." In the lower left a soldier leans against a drum as he plays his flute; the music sheet in front of him is "God save Great George our King". To the right, a short well-fed man smiles as he stands on tip-toe to reach the height required by the recruiting sergeant. In the distance, soldiers are drilling in an orderly fashion; beyond them, on a hill is a large country house
Alternative Title:
Invasion, Pl. 2. England
Description:
Title etched above image. The two Ns in England etched backwards., Added title from Paulson: The invasion, Pl. 2. England., State and publisher from Paulson., Companion print: France. Plate 1st., Four columns of verse below image: See John the soldier, Jack the tar with sword & pistol arm'd for war. Should mounsir dare come here?! The hungry slaves have smelt our food, they long to taste our flesh and blood, Old England's beef and beer! Britons to arms! and let 'em come! Be you but Britons still. Strike home, and lion-like attack 'em; no power can stand the deadly stroke that's given from hands & hearts of oak with liberty to back em., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Eating & drinking, Musicians, Signs (Notices), Soldiers, Taverns (Inns), War, and Women
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
1751.
Call Number:
Print00688
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., In lower margin center: According to Act of Parliament 1751., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
A Flemish or Dutch drawing of a female saint in a Poor Clare habit and with a crown of thorns (probably Catherine of Siena) kneeling before a crucifix, arms crossed over her chest, as she resists the temptation of riches, power, and pleasure. Riches are represented by three well-dressed men on the left offering her treasure, including an open chest filled with coins and valuables. Power is represented by a crown suspended in the cloud above, while pleasure represented on the right by two female musicians, one playing a flute and another a lute, while a third woman offers a bouquet of flowers. Above and behind the figures on the left is the ruin of a building. In the clouds on the right above the musicians, the triumph of faith over temptation is represented as the grim reaper with a scythe cutting down three kings whose crowns topple from their heads
Alternative Title:
Female saint worshipping a crucifix
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of the drawing is questionable. Possibly a much later drawing, 17th-century?, On verso, in unknown (possibly W.S. Lewis's) hand: "A Flemish drawing of a female saint worshipping a crucifix.", On verso: "Probably not Horace Walpole's. W.S. Lewis 7 Feb. '73.", On verso: "'Late 15th or early 16th century. Probably Dutch. Anne-Marie Logan, BAC, Sept. 30, 1996.", Lower right corner of image, ownership stamp initial 'D' encircled., Numbered on mount in upper right corner in ink '83' and in a different hand in pencil '63'., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Drawings collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380
Subject (Topic):
In art, Grim Reaper (Symbolic character), Crucifixes, Musicians, Prayer, Saints, Temptation, and Wealth
Scene in a crowded room lit by a few guttering candles, 'far exceeding in profligacy and dissipation' anything depicted by R obert Cruikshank in St. Giles. Men and women fight, drink, and smoke. An old soldier fiddles, a woman beats a drum for dancers who are almost hidden but apparently naked. Cruikshank stands on a table, pouring gin from a large tankard inscribed 'R.C' into raised glasses. One prostitute squirts liquid from her mouth at another, a third pulls on her stockings, incidents taken from Hogarth's 'Rake's Progress' (plate iii). 'Blackmantle' watches the fight, smoking a long pipe. On the walls are placards: 'No trust' and 'Pig and Whistle: Rules of the Club." British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Buff Club, at the Pig and Whistle, Avon Street, Bath
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15232 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 2, Page 386.
Publisher:
Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
A scene outside the Ram Inn (with a ram above the sign "Dealer in foreigh wintes"), part of whose front forms a background. Yokels are crowded in a wagons with banners, fiddlers, and trumpeter, all wearing favors, and accompanied by many pedestrians (including women and children with dogs) and one or two mounted men. They are witnesses, &c., in a lawsuit on the claim of the vicar of Berkeley, Mr. Carrington, to the great tithes of Gloucester; on a verdict against the vicar they are about to go in procession to Berkeley for a celebration near the vicarage, with a roasted ox, firing of small cannon, &c.
Description:
Title and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15225 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Page 334, Vol. 2.
Watercolor depicting a man, shown full-length, playing a violin and wearing a jacket trimmed with gold tassels. On the right a young lady dances to the tune. The dancer, with blue ribbon tied around her waist, discreetly lifts up her skirt to performing the dancing steps while turning her head towards the musician
Alternative Title:
Country dance
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Date and artist suggested by curator based on costume and style.
