A pyramid-shaped monument with a caricatured portrait in profile of Wolfe; the plinth engraved with the text: 'Set honour in one eye and death in tother and I will look on both indifferent and let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honour more than I fear death.' At the foot of the monument lies a dead lion with the words 'Here lies honour' engraved on its hind leg. A dog with a collar labelled 'Minden' (an allusion Lord George Sackville's disgrace at the Battle of Minden) turns back and barks at the image: 'Honours a jest & all things show it. I thought so once but now I know it." He steps with his paws on a laurel wreath
Description:
Title etched beneath image., Formerly attributed to William Hogarth., One line of text above image: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Cf. Ecclesiastes ix.4., Reference to John Gay's quote on his tomb: Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once; but now I know it., and Sheet trimmed to 346 x 248 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785 and Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
Title etched below image., "Page 147."--Upper right corner., Plate from the first edition of: Ireland, J. Hogarth illustrated, vol. iii, p. 147., Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand above print: The Vase. Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand below print: See Mr. John Ireland's Hogarth illustrated, p. 147., and On page 231 in volume 3.
"Singerie copy of Hogarth's painting, 'A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen'; a pregnant young woman with the face of a cat standing to right, swearing on a book before a monkey-faced magistrate who sits at a bench to left, that the child is by an old man who raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence; his cat-faced wife shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man with a monkey's face, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, two animal-faced children play."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., After William Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On page 11 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Courtrooms, Couples, Monkeys, and Pregnancy
An etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
Alternative Title:
M-n-st-l Monster address'd to the friends of Old England' by Sybilla Prophecy and Ministrial monster address'd to the friends of Old England' by Sybilla Prophecy
Description:
Title from text etched at top of second plate. and On page 295 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint: 18.8 x 25.2 cm.
An etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
Alternative Title:
M-n-st-l Monster address'd to the friends of Old England' by Sybilla Prophecy and Ministrial monster address'd to the friends of Old England' by Sybilla Prophecy
Tracing of a benefit ticket for William Milward, for his performance of Colonel Feignwell, in Centlivre's 'A Bold Stroke for a Wife' at Lincoln's Inn in 1728; illustrated with a scene from Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' with Lockit, Lucy, Macheath, and Polly Peachum in a jail cell
Alternative Title:
Benefit ticket for Milward
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly a tracing by Ireland., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 112., Ms. note in pencil lower right corner of print: 66. Ms. notes in pencil above: See Nichol's Book, 3d Edit, p. 423. Ms. note in pencil below: sold for £7.7.0., and On page 6 in volume 1.
Subject (Name):
Milward, William, 1702-1742. and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Benefit ticket for William Milward, for his performance of Colonel Feignwell, in Centlivre's 'A Bold Stroke for a Wife' at Lincoln's Inn in 1728; illustrated with a scene from Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' with Lockit, Lucy, Macheath, and Polly Peachum in a jail cell; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799).
Alternative Title:
Benefit ticket for Milward
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : R. Faulder and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, p. 98., Reissued plate with imprint burnished out., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 113.
Publisher:
Faulder and Egerton
Subject (Name):
Milward, William, 1702-1742. and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Benefit ticket for William Milward, for his performance of Colonel Feignwell, in Centlivre's 'A Bold Stroke for a Wife' at Lincoln's Inn in 1728; illustrated with a scene from Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' with Lockit, Lucy, Macheath, and Polly Peachum in a jail cell; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799).
Alternative Title:
Benefit ticket for Milward
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : R. Faulder and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, p. 98., Reissued plate with imprint burnished out., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 113., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Copy by S. Ireland., Ms. note in pencil "Pen and ink", applies to the drawing also on this page., Printmaker's statement erased from this impression: S.I. ft. erased., and On page 6 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed to: 15.3 x 11.6 mm.
Publisher:
Faulder and Egerton
Subject (Name):
Milward, William, 1702-1742. and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
