Three elephant folio volumes containing 705 prints and tracings: 469 prints by Hogarth; 236 additional satires after Hogarth's prints by contemporary artists George Bickham, Samuel Ireland, and Paul Sandby. Also included are rare trade cards and coats...
Three elephant folio volumes containing 705 prints and tracings: 469 prints by Hogarth; 236 additional satires after Hogarth's prints by contemporary artists George Bickham, Samuel Ireland, and Paul Sandby. Also included are rare trade cards and coats...
A tracing by George Steevens of a print by Willaim Hogarth: Theatre stage with two dancers; on the left a woman (La Barbarina) jumps with her legs apart and on the right a man (George Desnoyer) stands with his legs together; on either side a chorus, ...
Alternative Title:
Charmers of the age
Description:
Title from item.
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
Subject (Topic):
Dancers, German, Italian, and Theatrical productions
A tracing of William Hogarth's print: A porter carrying a large number of chamber pockets towards a house on the right, walking ahead of a sedan chair, with guards on the steps and others holding back crowds and several figures climbing over a high br...
Alternative Title:
Peter Necessary with choice of chamber pots
Description:
Title traced below image.
Subject (Topic):
Chamber pots, Courtyards, Crowds, Sedan chairs, and Soldiers
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 p...
A tracing of a 1731 print after Hogarth: Satire on Orator Henley and his followers. A view of his Oratory in Clare Market with Henley preaching from an open-air platform in front of the building, one cloven hoof protruding from beneath his robe. A mon...
Description:
Title from text in image.
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756 and Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
A pen and ink tracing of a published print, in reverse. Night scene, a couple interrupted in flagrante by the night watch, she lying on the ground at left with dishevelled clothing, he held back on the right, with his breeches undone; a censorious old...
Description:
Title, statement of responsibility, and publication traced from print: Mr. Hogarth invt. T. Fielding sculp. Augst. 17, 1746 publish'd according to act of Parlmet. Price 6d.
A scene in London, possibly near St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, shows a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street; a pregnant ballad-seller chants while her baby cries and a parrot above her head on the lamp post squawks...
Description:
Title from published state of the print.
Subject (Topic):
Blocks (Toys), Cats, Children, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Musical instruments, Musicians, Noises, Occupations, Parrots, Street vendors, and Urination
Self-portrait of William Hogarth in a fur cap, looking right; a bust in an oval canvas resting on volumes of Shakespeare's works; with his dog Trump on the right. In the lower right, an artist's palette engraved with the words: "The line of beauty and...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published June 4, 1795 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Self-portrait of William Hogarth in a fur cap, looking right; a bust in an oval canvas resting on volumes of Shakespeare's works; with his dog Trump on the right. In the lower right, an artist's palette engraved with the words: "The line of beauty and...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published June 4, 1795 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall