"View across a cornfield to Hogarth's house at Chiswick and neighbouring houses among trees; in the foreground, to left, a man holding a staff is seated beside a tree with a dog at his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Paulson., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue, viewed October 2023., Published state with imprint: "Publish'd as the Act directs by Jane Hogarth at the Golden-head Leicester Fields 1st May 1781.", Formerly attributed to William Hogarth and dated ca. 1750. See curator's comments in the British Museum catalogue., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Ranby's house., and On page 154 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 10 x 14.9 cm.
Publisher:
Jane Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Chiswick (London, England), England, and Chiswick.
"View across a cornfield to Hogarth's house at Chiswick and neighbouring houses among trees; in the foreground, to left, a man holding a staff is seated beside a tree with a dog at his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Paulson., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue, viewed October 2023., Published state with imprint: "Publish'd as the Act directs by Jane Hogarth at the Golden-head Leicester Fields 1st May 1781.", and Formerly attributed to William Hogarth and dated ca. 1750. See curator's comments in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Jane Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Chiswick (London, England), England, and Chiswick.
Two soldiers shown full-length engaged in a fight. The bayonet of the solder on the left is pierced through the chest of the soldier on the right whose sword is drawn over his head and ready to strike
Description:
Title devised by curator., Ms. note in pencil on sheet above plate mark: Not in Nichols's book., and Formerly on page 108 in volume 2. Removed from Steevens volume by LWL conservator in 2012.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr.1, 1791 by W. Birch, Hampstead Heath from a drawing by Hogarth
Copy of the frontispiece to Laurence Sterne's 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', 2nd ed. (R and J Dodsley: London, 1760), vol. 1 (illustrating an episode in vol. 2); Corporal Trim stands at right, reading a sermon on Conscience, seen from behind and illustrating the passage in which his posture is described with 'his knee bent, but that not violently - but so as to fall within the limits of the line of beauty'; at left Dr Slop, asleep in a chair by the fire; behind, Walter Shandy and Uncle Toby sitting and smoking, Toby's map of the fortifications at Namur above on the wall; state with grandfather clock in the corner and tricorne hat on the floor
Description:
Title from original print on which this reversed copy is based. See Paulson., "Vol. I, page 214"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 233., and On page 186 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Jany. 14th 1780 by W. Strahan, T. Cadell, J. Dodsley, G. Robinson, & J. Murray, &c. &c.
Title from Paulson. Questionable attribution to Hogarth in 2nd ed.; rejected attribution in 3rd edition., Alternative title from text in image., "T. I".Upper left corner., "B".Upper right corner., Plate from: A. de la Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), no. 270., and On page 17 in volume 1.
Entering from the left, Walter Shandy, having had trouble pulling on his pants, arrives too late to prevent the curate from baptizing his newborn son with the hated name of Tristram
Description:
Title from Paulson., From Paulson: The plate ... appeared in the second edition published May 21, 1761., Location in volume lacking in this second plate., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand on page near grouping: For these plates to Tristram Shandy, see Mr. Nichols's book 3rd edition, p. 372 & 374, 375., and On page 186 in volume 2.
Entering from the left, Walter Shandy, having had trouble pulling on his pants, arrives too late to prevent the curate from baptizing his newborn son with the hated name of Tristram
Description:
Title from Paulson., From Paulson: The plate ... appeared in the first edition published January 28, 1761., "Vol. 4 Page 112"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand on page near grouping: For these plates to Tristram Shandy, see Mr. Nichols's book 3rd edition, p. 372 & 374, 375., and On page 186 in volume 2.
Subscription ticket for "Sigismonda" with a figure of Time as an old winged man sitting on a broken statue, blowing pipe-smoke at a dark landscape painting on the easel in front of him and which he has pierced with his scythe; at the top of the frame of the painting is a Greek quote, and ending with its identification: "See Spectator Vol. II: Page 83." On the floor to the left is a large jar labeled "Varnish".
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Lettered within image in this state, the name "Crates" added to the top left of the picture frame. Lower right of image inscribed with quote: "-As statues moulder into Worth. P.W." Below a couplet, "To Nature and your Self appeal, Nor learn of others, what to feel. Anon:"., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of subscription receipt., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: ibidem., and On page 187 in volume 2.