Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Local note no catalog card from R. Paulson: Not Hogarth. Possibly Highmore., and Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand above group of four prints: Sketches taken by Hogarth at Lord Lovat's trial.
Publisher:
Published Augt. 1, 1791, by W. Birch, Hampstead Heath
Title etched below image., Text following title: The scale of the drawing is that of plates the 1st, 2nd & 3rd., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Local note no catalog card from R. Paulson: Not Hogarth. Possibly Highmore., Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand in image, lower edge, centered: Sketches of Lord Lovat's trial, by Hogarth., and Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand above group of four prints: Sketches taken by Hogarth at Lord Lovat's trial.
Publisher:
Published Augt. 1, 1791, by W. Birch, Hampstead Heath
Two plates on one sheet: top plate is an engraved title page with text. The plate below is a reduced copy of Hogarth's designfor the arms of the Foundling Hospital: on the shield, a naked and reclining infant raising its right arm. Supporters, dexter, a terminal figure of 'Nature', many-breasted; sinister, 'Britannia', holding a cap of Liberty on a staff, and her shield. Crest 'a Lamb'; motto 'Help'.
Alternative Title:
Arms of the Foundling Hospital
Description:
Title from Paulson., Date based on earliest edition of this collection of psalms., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 230., and On page 101 in volume 2.
Pug the Painter (the Idea Box of a Connoisseur) is a monkey seated on a table that is decorated with the carved face of a judge on the side. He paints a canvas supported on an easel and holds paint brushes and palette in his right hand. From a speech bubble he says: " A marvellous effect by G-d." At the left an owl is perched on a stack of books and holds a sheet of paper in his claw with the words "Catalogue of some capital pictures lately consigned from abroad" and from his mouth a speech bubble: "I think Mr. Pug you may keep down your sky a little more."
Description:
Title etched above image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby now at the British Museum. See Registration number: 1985,0223.8. Etching also attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue., Text etched below image: To the despisers of all pretended connoiseurs & all imitators (but those of nature) this plate is most humbly dedicated., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 155., and On page 292 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 28.6 x 21.2 cm.
Pug the Painter (the Idea Box of a Connoisseur) is a monkey seated on a table that is decorated with the carved face of a judge on the side. He paints a canvas supported on an easel and holds paint brushes and palette in his right hand. From a speech bubble he says: " A marvellous effect by G-d." At the left an owl is perched on a stack of books and holds a sheet of paper in his claw with the words "Catalogue of some capital pictures lately consigned from abroad" and from his mouth a speech bubble: "I think Mr. Pug you may keep down your sky a little more."
Description:
Title etched above image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby now at the British Museum. See Registration number: 1985,0223.8. Etching also attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue., Text etched below image: To the despisers of all pretended connoiseurs & all imitators (but those of nature) this plate is most humbly dedicated., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 155.
Title from item. and Mounted; ms. note on mount: "Wilkes, Hogarth, Ch. Churchil." Additional ms. note: "Alludes to the quarrel between Wilkes & Hogarth. Wilkes replied to Hogarth's satirical portrait of Wilkes by the North Briton XVII which is very bitter in tone. There is little doubt that this quarrel shortened Hogarth's life."
Publisher:
Sold by E. Sumpter, in Fleet Street, publish'd according to act of Parliament
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764., and Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764.
publish'd according to act of Parliamet [sic] 1753-4.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Pug's graces etched from his original daubing
Description:
Title etched below image., A satire on Hogarth by Paul Sandby., The number '3' in the imprint is etched backwards., Eleven lines of verse in two columns separated by a vignette below title: Behold a wretch who nature form'd in spight ..., Without letterpress on verso., Later state, with the key at the bottom containing eleven items. Cf. No. 3242 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and On page 289 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 23.1 x 22.7 cm.
publish'd according to act of Parliamet [sic] 1753-4.
Call Number:
754.00.00.02.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Pug's graces etched from his original daubing
Description:
Title etched below image., A satire on Hogarth by Paul Sandby., The number '3' in the imprint is etched backwards., Eleven lines of verse in two columns separated by a vignette below title: Behold a wretch who nature form'd in spight ..., Without letterpress on verso., Later state, with the key at the bottom containing eleven items. Cf. No. 3242 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Window mounted to 39 x 29 cm.
A tracing by George Steevens of a print by William Hogarth: A confrontation in a bedchamber between a black woman in a nightgown in bed and four men who surround her canopy bed. One man holds a candle. The woman is slapping the one man while another pulls him away. A fourth man is pointing towards her shoulder
Alternative Title:
Discovery
Description:
Title from item., Date based on publication of the original print on which this tracing is based., Lengthy pencil note in William Windham's hand above the drawing: These two pieces viz. the one marked Qui Color albus erat and The Charmers of the age? are not prints but copies taken with a pen by Mr. Steevens, and given to me, together with many others, not copies, in return for those mentioned in his collection as given by me to him. [Signed] W.W. March 22d 1800., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 155., Tracing of a published print. Cf. See British Museum. Catalogue of political and personal Satires, v. 3, no. 2600., and On page 100 in volume 1.
