Hudibras with his hat in hand approaches a lawyer who sits in an elaborately carved chair on a rise. In front of the lawyer are his two clerks at a low table, at his side, shelves of books and papers. On the right in the foreground is a carved figure ...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Philip Overton and John Cooper
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, History, Clerks, Dogs, Justice, Law offices, Lawyers, and Women
Hudibras with his hat in hand approaches a lawyer who sits in an elaborately carved chair on a rise. In front of the lawyer are his two clerks at a low table, at his side, shelves of books and papers. On the right in the foreground is a carved figure ...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Philip Overton and John Cooper
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, History, Clerks, Dogs, Justice, Law offices, Lawyers, and Women
"Satire on Mary Toft, the "rabbit breeder" and those who were duped by her fraud. The interior of a large room, presumably intended as Lacy's bagnio in Leicester Fields, in the centre of which Toft reclines on a chair attended by a doctor, John Howard...
Description:
Title etched below image, between two columns of verse.
Publisher:
Sold by Jon. Clark, engraver & printsellr. in Grays-Inn
In an auditorium with seats around the perimeter, a stout college dignitary holding out a piece of paper stands on the right observing a scuffle between students on the left. The only word left on the torn piece of paper is "terrae".
"An exterior scene set among ruins; to left the naked buttocks of Gulliver to whom an enema is being administered by a crowd of Lilliputians; to right their prime minister, carried in a thimble, supervises operations while beyond a rat carries off a c...
"An emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler mounted on a pedestal on which is carved a relief showing a satyr whipping figures of Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance dressed as puritans, while he drives a chariot drawn by Hudibras and R...
Alternative Title:
Hudibras frontispiece
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by P. Overton near St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet & I. Cooper in James Street Convent Garden
Subject (Geographic):
England., Great Britain, and Parnassus, Mount (Greece)
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680 and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, History, Britannia (Symbolic character), Religion, Satyrs (Greek mythology), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Vice
"Hudibras and Ralpho are in the stocks, the knight's boots, sword and pistols taking the place of the fiddle; a sympathetic widow, accompanied by her maid, addresses Hudibras while villagers gather round to mock, and a small boy urinates on Ralpho's f...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Philip Overton and John Cooper
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, History, Children, Peasants, Servants, Stocks (Punishment), Urination, and Widows
"Design in two rows of eight sections, with 15 figures demonstrating a salute with the half-pike; at top, the title in an oval decorated with arms, and figures numbered 1-7, below, figures numbered 1-8 ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson.
Publisher:
John Blackwell
Subject (Name):
England and Wales. Army. Honourable Artillery Company of London.
"Design in two rows of six sections, with 11 figures demonstrating an exercise for the halberd, fortifications in the background, at lower right three halberds, a pike and flag tied together ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson.
Publisher:
John Blackwell
Subject (Name):
England and Wales. Army. Honourable Artillery Company of London.
Subject (Topic):
Arms & armament, Forts & fortifications, Saluting, Soldiers, and British
A riot in the street beside Temple Bar, the western boundary of the City of London, with the mob hanging and burning effigies of the members of the Rump Parliament; an effigy of Hudibras is carried in from the right on a pole by a man who carries in h...
Alternative Title:
Burning the rumps at Temple-barr
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Philip Overton and John Cooper
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680. and Temple Bar (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, Crowds, Effigies, Executions in effigy, Fires, Riots, Signs (Notices), and History
A lady (a Muse?), with a cello and open book with musical notations at her feet, addresses, on behalf of Leveridge's songs, Venus and Bacchus, shown in clouds above; Cupid stands at his mother's side presumably helping to persuade her
Description:
Title, printmaker and artist, state, and date from Paulson
A patriarchal cap or tiara in the shape of an imperial crown, based on the crown 'of Methodios, an ancient Patriarch of Constantinople, brought thence to Rome". See v. 1, p. 72.
In Smyrna with a city in the distance, a group of women and girls perform a folk dance in a wooded landscape. The figure labelled '1' is identified in the text as 'one of the Chief Woman in Smyrna'' and '7' is her daughter; both wear Turkish headdress...
Satire in the form of a mock admission ticket; a masquerade consisting of debauched looking characters in costume; at left, 'A', 'a sacrifice to Priapus', an altar to Priapus decorated with ram's heads and antlers, in front of which the figure of Time...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748,
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Animals, Goddesses, Gods, Erotica, Masquerades, and Sacrifices
"Minerva and Apollo seated on a bank of clouds, Minerva reaching down to guide by the wrist a female personification of Music, who approaches at left, holding an open book of sheet music, towards Apollo, who holds out his hand; in foreground right, a ...
Alternative Title:
Musick introduced to Apollo by Minerva and Music introduced to Apollo by Minerva
Description:
Title etched within image.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Clark engraver & printseller in Greys Inn
Portrait of the celebrated pugilist, half-length, looking into the distance over right shoulder, in a feigned oval, bald, with an open shirt and jacket buttoned at the waist
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Sold by Faber at the Green Door in [the] great Piazza Covent Garden and Sold by H. Overton & I. Hoole at the White Horse without Newgate London
A lady (a Muse?), with a cello and open book with musical notations at her feet, addresses, on behalf of Leveridge's songs, Venus and Bacchus, shown in clouds above; Cupid stands at his mother's side presumably helping to persuade her
Description:
Title, printmaker and artist, state, and date from Paulson
King Henry VIII leads Anne Boleyn towards the throne. A melancholy Cardinal Wolsey leans his head in his hand as he glances sideways toward the couple. In the background Katherine of Aragon sitting in another throne, turns away from the couple to conv...
Alternative Title:
Here struts old pious Harry, once the great reformer of the English church and state ...
Description:
Title from Paulson: King Henry the Eighth and Anne Bullen.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547., Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., and Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Cardinals, Castles & palaces, Ceremonial rooms, Children, Couples, Kings, Nobility, Queens, Reception rooms, and Thrones
