Four fragments pasted around the inset of Jacob and Laban's flock, from a tankard belonging to the Clare Market Club. (See Paulson no. 25). The four fragments are probably impressions from a large silver platter and show Juno, Neptune, Tellus, and Vulcan
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to Horneck's Happy ascetick and Master of the vineyard
Description:
Title, questionable attribution, and date from Paulson., An unique impression., Sheets trimmed to design., Ms. note mounted below: The Four Elements, represented in Four Compartments, under the figures of Vulcan, Juno, Tellus, & Neptune. These are impressions from some large Piece of Plate, very probably an oblong silver Tea-Table. The smallest is merely the center of the Tankard. See p. 3. Where I found it I have left it., Ms. note in pencil at bottom of sheet: Sold at Gulston's Auction, for £4.14.6f the Tankard. See p. 3. Where I found it I have left it., and On page 6 in volume 1.
Night scene, a couple interrupted in flagrante by the night watch, she lying on the ground at right with dishevelled clothing, he held back on the left, with his breeches undone; a censorious old woman on the far left; a watchman on the right holding up a lantern, illuminating the pillory behind
Description:
Title and date from Paulson, Questionable attribution to Hogarth, but Paulson is inclined to accept as an early work by Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 245., According to Samuel Ireland in his Graphic illustrations of Hogarth (v.1 , p. 9-10) Hogarth executed this design when he was under twenty on the lid of a tobacco box for a Captain Johnson., Trimmed sheet., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Original., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of print: Impression from the top of Captain Johnson's tobacco., Ms. note at bottom: Given me by the Right Honble William Windham., and On page 180 in volume 2.
Title, place of publication and printmaker from ms. note by George Steevens in his collections of Hogarth prints., Steevens's note mounted below: "Inside of an Opera-House. This plate (which in manner is strongly Hogarthian, and might have suggested to him an idea of the scenery we meet with in "Booth, Wilks and Cibber contriving a pantomime") was sold as a performance of our Artist, at Mr. Gulston's Auction, for two pounds four shillings. It was, however, engraved in Holland, with the following inscription at the bottom of it, which had been craftily effaced by some print-dealer for the purposes of deception.--P. Marot fecit, avec Privilege des Etats generaux des provinces unis et d'Holland. W.F.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 22 in volume 1.
Title, place of publication and printmaker from ms. note by George Steevens in his collections of Hogarth prints., Steevens's note mounted below: "Inside of an Opera-House. This plate (which in manner is strongly Hogarthian, and might have suggested to him an idea of the scenery we meet with in "Booth, Wilks and Cibber contriving a pantomime") was sold as a performance of our Artist, at Mr. Gulston's Auction, for two pounds four shillings. It was, however, engraved in Holland, with the following inscription at the bottom of it, which had been craftily effaced by some print-dealer for the purposes of deception.--P. Marot fecit, avec Privilege des Etats generaux des provinces unis et d'Holland. W.F.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 22 in volume 1.
Title from Paulson., Questionable attribution to Hogarth by Paulson. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, p. 199, no. 250., On page 4 in volume 1., Mss in ink on bottom of print: Only twenty five Impressins taken off this plate before it was cutt to pieces. Richard Morrison No. 10., Ms. in pencil: See Mr. Nichols's Biographical anecdotes of Hogarth, 3rd edit. Page 422., and Ms. in pencil: Arms of Sir Gregory Page br/in reverse.
A shop card with the figure of the vendor at the right in the style of Callot. An example of Hogarth's early work
Alternative Title:
William Hardy, goldsmith and jeweller in Ratcliff Highway near Sun Tavern Fields and Hardy's shop card
Description:
Title etched in image., Text engraved below image mostly burnished out: "Etch'd by Saml. Ireland from an engraving in his possession by Hogarth, suppos'd to be unique. Gamble was the name of the person with whom he served his apprenticeship.", and On page 3 in volume 1.
Hogarth's shop card presenting him as an engraver both of prints and decorative metalwork; frame with a figure in classical dress on either side (on the left a woman, on the right a man drawing) and, above, putti holding a print and a vase; lettered in the centre 'W. Hogarth Engraver'. In an oval cartouche in the lower frame, "Aprill [the] 23 1720."
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth, engraver and Hogarth's shop card
Description:
Title etched within image., Date engraved in cartouche centered in lower frame., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Center is cut out and ms. inscription added “W: Hogarth Engraver” on mount below showing through., and On page 3 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
"Funeral ticket, with a scene of a funeral procession arrived at a church, the pall being drawn back, the parish clerk on the steps at left, a clergyman reading the exordium of the burial service at the head of the procession; the mourners following the coffin, a crowd of onlookers behind, one man clinging to a pillar to see above the others"--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson., Receipt text below image: You are desired to accompany [the] corps of [blank] from h[his/her] late dwelling in [blank] to [blank] on [blank] next at [blank] of the clock in the evening. Perform'd by Humphrey Drew, undertaker, in King-Street, Westminster., This impression has been cut, with loss of receipt area., Ms. note in Steevens's hand on page above print: Original. Note on mount below print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. P. 419 / Sold at Mr. Gulston's auction for £5.7.6., and On page 46 in volume 1. Plate mounted on sheet: 15.3 x 20.5 cm.
Publisher:
Humphrey Drew
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):
Funerals, Undertakers and undertaking, Crowds, and Funeral processions
"Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson. imprint from 3rd state., Verses below image: See here [the] causes why in London, so many men are made, & undone .... Guess at the rest you find out more., Price erased in state 6 and new publication line added in state 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 8 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Financial crises and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
"Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson. imprint from 3rd state., Verses below image: See here [the] causes why in London, so many men are made, & undone .... Guess at the rest you find out more., "Price 1 shilling."--Lower right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss to text at bottom margin., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: South-Sea. In pencil below: See Nichol's book, 3d edit. p. 122., and On page 8 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Mrs. Chilcot and R. Caldwell?
Subject (Geographic):
Financial crises and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
