To the memory of George Taylor whose skill and courage in the manual combat ...
Description:
Title devised by curator., Probably by Richard Livesay., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 412., and On page 216 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1, 1782 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarth's Leicester Fields London
The third print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set at Sadler's Wells. "A dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River; the wife holds a fan with a design of Aphrodite and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds; behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman; to the right is a tavern with the sign of Sir Hugh Middleton's Head, two women and a man are in the tavern garden, other figures are visible through the window, and a grape vine is climbing up towards the roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, imprint, and series from Paulson and finished states. Third print in a series: Four times a day and Strolling actresses dressing in a barn., "Price 5 shillings"--Following printmaker's name., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print: See Mr Nichols's book, 3d edit p. 250. This 3rd Plate of the set, was engraved by Baron, the figure of the girl excepted, which being an afterthought, was added by Hogarth's coarser burin., and On page 93 in volume 1. Sheet 498 x 373 mm.
"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., One of two folding plates to John Blackwell's A compendium of military discipline., Companion print to: Manual for saluting with the half-pike., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print: Captain Grose asserts, that in this book only, the exercises of the Halberd is displayed. Nichols's Biographical anecdotes &c, third edit, p. 439., and On page 45 in volume 1.
Publisher:
John Blackwell
Subject (Name):
England and Wales. Army. Honourable Artillery Company of London.
Subject (Topic):
Arms & armament, Forts & fortifications, Saluting, Soldiers, and British
Title from Dobson., Finished state appears opposite p. 78 in S. Ireland's Graphic illustrations, v. 2., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at bottom of sheet beneath image: Given me by Mr. Rider, the engraver of it., and On page 228 in volume 3.
Plate showing the crowning of the Sultan Achmet in the Mosque of Yup
Description:
Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., "Tom. I. No. XXI"--Upper right corner., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 16 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 25.6 x 18 cm.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Geographic):
Turkey and Istanbul.
Subject (Name):
Ahmed III, Sultan of the Turks, 1673-1736. and La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
Plate showing the crowning of the Sultan Achmet in the Mosque of Yup
Description:
Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., "Tom. I. No. XXI"--Upper right corner., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Geographic):
Turkey and Istanbul.
Subject (Name):
Ahmed III, Sultan of the Turks, 1673-1736. and La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
A map of the Caspian Sea with figures below, keyed with the letters 'e' through 'i' and who are not Moscovites but a Circassian (g), Circassian maidens (f), which he is offering to sell to the Persian (h). The figure keyed 'i' is a Nogharian Tartar
Alternative Title:
Voresta Moscovitica ...
Description:
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., "C."--Upper left corner., "T. II."--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 19 in volume 1.
A detail showing figures keyed with the letters 'e' through 'i' and who are not Moscovites but a Circassian (g), Circassian maidens (f), which he is offering to sell to the Persian (h). The figure keyed 'i' is a Nogharian Tartar. Original formerly thought to have been the work of William Hogarth
Alternative Title:
5 standing Muscovites
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger based on original as described in Paulson., A copy of a plate from: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), no. 268. Rejected as the work of Hogarth in 3rd ed., On page 19 in volume 1., and Ms. note at top in Steevens's hand: Copy.
Title devised by curator., Note below image: "Mr. Walpole in his Anecdotes of Painting &c. Vol. IV, p. 22, speaking of the Cartoons at Hampton Court, observes that Sir James Thornhill "having made copious studies of the heads, hands and feet intended to publish an exact account of the whole, for the use of students: but this work has never appeared." As the present plate was found amoung others belonging to the late Mr. Hogarth, it is not impossible but that it might have been engraved by him for his father-in-law Sr. James's intended publication., Formerly attributed to Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 206 in volume 3., and Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: (See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d edit, p. 437).
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs May 14, 1781 by Mrs. Hogarth, at the Golden Head, Leicester Field