Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley" with an arrangement of Scottish and English weapons (swords, musket, canon, halberd, pickaxe, scimitar, pistol, broad-sward, haversadk, Lochaber axe, etc.), musical instruments (trumpet, drum, kettledrum, fife and bagpipes), and flags; in the center a pair of scissors excises the Scottish lion from the royal coat-of-arms
Alternative Title:
Subscription ticket for the "March to Finchley"
Description:
Title, printmaker, publisher, and date from Paulson. and Lettered with subscription receipt: "Recd. [blank] of [blank] 7s:6d: being the whole payment for a print pepresenting a March to Finchly [sic] in the year 1746 which I promise to deliver when finish'd on sight hereof. N.B. Each print will be half a guinea after the subscription is over."
A scene with a traditional Sami home, clothing, and customs. Figures are numbered; the key is provided in the text (see v. 2, p. 282-98). The house (no. 1) is a tent with a door through which you can see a woman cooking over a fire. To left of the tent is a small house in a tree used for drying fish (no. 4); a woman carries a baby in a traditional carrier (no. 5); in the back ground on the right is a 'magic' drum (no. 9); other figures demonstrate sleds drawn by reindeer, skis, milking, etc
Alternative Title:
Lapland hut
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Added title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's Travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., "XXXVIII."--Upper left corner., "T. II."--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; plate and volume erased from this impression., and On page 20 in volume 1.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Geographic):
Sápmi. and 12680778
Subject (Name):
La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
Subject (Topic):
Sami (European people), Cookery, Dogs, Drums, Houses, Infants, Milking, Mothers, Reindeer, Skiing, and Sleds & sleighs
A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen, after Hogarth; a pregnant young woman standing to right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book labelled 'Law of Bastadry [sic]' in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs
Alternative Title:
Denunciation
Description:
Title from Paulson and British Museum catalogue. Alternative title from Paulson: The denunciation., Twelve lines of verse describing the scene etched below image: 'Here Justice triumphs in his Elbow Chair, And makes his Market of the trading Fair; His Office Shelves with Parsh Laws are grac'd, But Spelling Books and Guides between 'em plac'd. Here pregnant Madam screens the real Sire, And Sally swears her Bastard Child for Hire Upon a Rich old Letcher, who denies The Fact, and vows the naughty Hussif [sic] lies; His Wife enrag'd, exclaims against her Spouse, And Swears she'l be reveng'd upon his Brows; The Jade, the Justice and Church Ward'ns agree, And force him to provide Security'., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and See reference in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 309.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Sympson engraver and print-seller at the Dove in Russell Court, Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Courtrooms, Dogs, and Pregnant women
A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen, after Hogarth; a pregnant young woman standing to right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book labelled 'Law of Bastadry [sic]' in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs
Alternative Title:
Denunciation
Description:
Title from Paulson and British Museum catalogue. Alternative title from Paulson: The denunciation., Twelve lines of verse describing the scene etched below image: 'Here Justice triumphs in his Elbow Chair, And makes his Market of the trading Fair; His Office Shelves with Parsh Laws are grac'd, But Spelling Books and Guides between 'em plac'd. Here pregnant Madam screens the real Sire, And Sally swears her Bastard Child for Hire Upon a Rich old Letcher, who denies The Fact, and vows the naughty Hussif [sic] lies; His Wife enrag'd, exclaims against her Spouse, And Swears she'l be reveng'd upon his Brows; The Jade, the Justice and Church Ward'ns agree, And force him to provide Security'., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See reference in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 309., and On page 11 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed to: 29.5 x 33.7 cm
Publisher:
Sold by J. Sympson engraver and print-seller at the Dove in Russell Court, Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Courtrooms, Dogs, and Pregnant women
Following the seduction, the young man pulls up his breeches while the young woman clings to his arm with an adoring, pleading look on her face. On the wall are two pictures one entitled "Before" and the other "After"; in the first Cupid is lighting a firework, in the second he is pointing to a spent firework. The dresser is turned over, the mirror and chamber pot broken; the curtain rod around the bed has been pulled down. The dog is curled asleep under the chair on which her corset sits. The woman's head is framed by the shell on the head
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., "Pursuant to an act of parliament. Price two shillings & 6 pence.", Companion print to Hogarth's Before, published on the same date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The man is said to have been modeled on Sir John Willes. See Paulson., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 41 x 32.8 cm, on sheet 56 x 45 cm., and Leaf 27 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761
Subject (Topic):
Boudoirs, Canopy beds, Chamber pots, Couples, Cupids, Dogs, Fireworks, Seduction, Sex, and Women
Following the seduction, the young man pulls up his breeches while the young woman clings to his arm with an adoring, pleading look on her face. On the wall are two pictures one entitled "Before" and the other "After"; in the first Cupid is lighting a firework, in the second he is pointing to a spent firework. The dresser is turned over, the mirror and chamber pot broken; the curtain rod around the bed has been pulled down. The dog is curled asleep under the chair on which her corset sits. The woman's head is framed by the shell on the head
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., "Pursuant to an act of parliament. Price two shillings & 6 pence.", Companion print to Hogarth's Before, published on the same date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The man is said to have been modeled on Sir John Willes. See Paulson., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761
Subject (Topic):
Boudoirs, Canopy beds, Chamber pots, Couples, Cupids, Dogs, Fireworks, Seduction, Sex, and Women
Following the seduction, the young man pulls up his breeches while the young woman clings to his arm with an adoring, pleading look on her face. On the wall are two pictures one entitled "Before" and the other "After"; in the first Cupid is lighting a firework, in the second he is pointing to a spent firework. The dresser is turned over, the mirror and chamber pot broken; the curtain rod around the bed has been pulled down. The dog is curled asleep under the chair on which her corset sits. The woman's head is framed by the shell on the head
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., "Pursuant to an act of parliament. Price two shillings & 6 pence.", Companion print to Hogarth's Before, published on the same date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The man is said to have been modeled on Sir John Willes. See Paulson., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On page 80 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed to: 394 x 315 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761
Subject (Topic):
Boudoirs, Canopy beds, Chamber pots, Couples, Cupids, Dogs, Fireworks, Seduction, Sex, and Women
Obelisk on plinth lettered 'Laponia', decorated with four coins or medals of the Swedish monarchs Gustav Adolf, Christina, Karl Gustav and Karl XI; on either side of the obelisk are two Sami with dead stags at their feet and various weapons and tools, including a canoe, skis and bow and arrow. At the top are the North star and constellations seen in the Northern sky illustrated as big and little bears (Ursa Major and Ursa Minor) and dragon (Draco). At the top left, hanging from the plinth, and below, six numbered details of medals. The monument is described as a Runnar or Runsteenar Stone, North of Hedwick Wall in Sweden in Voyages and travels of A. De La Motraye
Alternative Title:
Laponia
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Added title, publisher, state, and imprint from Paulson., One of five plates formerly (but no longer, see Paulson 3rd ed.) thought to have been partially the work of Hogarth and engraved for: A. de La Motraye's Travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., "T. II."--Upper left corner., "XXXVII."--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; some loss of characters in volume numbering., and On page 19 in volume 1.
An emerald carved in the shape of a dish, said to have been a present from the Queen of Sheba to Solomon, and/or used by Christ at the Last Supper (Travels, vol. I, page 60).
Alternative Title:
Vas mirabile ex integro Smaragdo, Genoae in sacrario ecclesiae cathedralis asservatum: prototypi accuratissima mensura ex Museo Iohannis Talman
Description:
Title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., and Numbered "5" in upper left corner.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Name):
La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743., San Lorenzo (Cathedral : Genoa, Italy), and Talman, John, 1677-1726
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Chalices, Lapidary work, and Drinking vessels
An emerald carved in the shape of a dish, said to have been a present from the Queen of Sheba to Solomon, and/or used by Christ at the Last Supper (Travels, vol. I, page 60).
Alternative Title:
Vas mirabile ex integro Smaragdo, Genoae in sacrario ecclesiae cathedralis asservatum: prototypi accuratissima mensura ex Museo Iohannis Talman
Description:
Title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., Numbered "5" in upper left corner., and On page 13 in volume 1. Plate mark 12 x 39.1 cm, on sheet 14.7 x 40.5 cm.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Name):
La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743., San Lorenzo (Cathedral : Genoa, Italy), and Talman, John, 1677-1726
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Chalices, Lapidary work, and Drinking vessels
