A raggedly dressed, cross-eyed old woman stands in front of St. James's Palace. She poses with her right hand raised, fingers crossed and with her left hand held down, making a sign with her forefinger and thumb. Her tongue hangs out over her lips
Alternative Title:
Upon Granny in her native poverty
Description:
Title engraved at top of the image., Text engraved at bottom of image: Upon Granny in her native poverty., Engraved by T.S. after M. Laroon; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Printmaker attibution to John Savage from unverified data in local catalog record., Later state, with previous title "Granny" and statements of responsibility "Laroon pinx." and "TS [monogram] ex." replaced in lower margin with verses; new title and additional verses also added at top of image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0308.308., Date range for publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1887,1216.3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns beneath title: That fools have fortune we may now aver, since Granny laughs at them [that] laught at her ..., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: The scene is alter'd Granny's glory, coach and fortune's all a story ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Insanity., Window mounted to 29 x 20 cm; mounted to 34 x 23 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Poverty, Mental illness, Poor persons, and Mentally ill persons
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Title continues: ... Whoy zir, I dun no what they means to do, but they have done Plaguey little as yet!, and One in a series of at least 13 prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
Plate 14. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 14. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"A room in the Fleet Prison (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); Tom sits at a table, to right, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Happy the man whose constant thought (tho' in the school of hardship taught,) can send remembrance back to fetch and A rake's progress
Description:
State 4 with added crosshatching: the wings on top of the bedstead, Sarah's dress, the ribbon on the cap of the woman slapping Sarah's hand, Rakewell's right shoe and sleeve, his old wife's shoulder, the lower part of the warder's coat, the bundle in the lower right corner, and the whole of the floor ... See Paulson for fuller description., Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first lines of verses below image., "Plate 7"--Bottom left., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.1 x 40.7 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 14 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Debt, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, and Unmarried mothers
Plate 14. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 14. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"A room in the Fleet Prison (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); Tom sits at a table, to right, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Happy the man whose constant thought (tho' in the school of hardship taught,) can send remembrance back to fetch and A rake's progress
Description:
State 4 with added crosshatching: the wings on top of the bedstead, Sarah's dress, the ribbon on the cap of the woman slapping Sarah's hand, Rakewell's right shoe and sleeve, his old wife's shoulder, the lower part of the warder's coat, the bundle in the lower right corner, and the whole of the floor ... See Paulson for fuller description., Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first lines of verses below image., "Plate 7"--Bottom left., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 40.6 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 14 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Debt, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, and Unmarried mothers
Plate 14. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 14. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"A room in the Fleet Prison (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); Tom sits at a table, to right, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Happy the man whose constant thought (tho' in the school of hardship taught,) can send remembrance back to fetch and A rake's progress
Description:
State 4 with added crosshatching: the wings on top of the bedstead, Sarah's dress, the ribbon on the cap of the woman slapping Sarah's hand, Rakewell's right shoe and sleeve, his old wife's shoulder, the lower part of the warder's coat, the bundle in the lower right corner, and the whole of the floor ... See Paulson for fuller description., Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first lines of verses below image., "Plate 7"--Bottom left., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 75 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Debt, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, and Unmarried mothers
"A room in the Fleet Prison (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); Tom sits at a table, to right, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Happy the man whose constant thought (tho' in the school of hardship taught,) can send remembrance back to fetch and A rake's progress
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., "Plate 7"--Added at the bottom left., Added title from first lines of verses below image., and Sheet torn at lower right edge with loss of some text and date in imprint.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Debt, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, and Unmarried mothers
"A room in the Fleet Prison (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); Tom sits at a table, to right, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Happy the man whose constant thought (tho' in the school of hardship taught,) can send remembrance back to fetch and A rake's progress
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., "Plate 7"--Added at the bottom left., Added title from first lines of verses below image., and On page 75 in volume 1. Trimmed within plate 346 x 394 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Debt, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, and Unmarried mothers
"A room in the Fleet Prison (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); Tom sits at a table, to right, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Happy the man whose constant thought (tho' in the school of hardship taught,) can send remembrance back to fetch and A rake's progress
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., "Plate 7"--Added at the bottom left., and Added title from first lines of verses below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Debt, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, and Unmarried mothers
"A room in the Fleet Prison (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); Tom sits at a table, to right, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Happy the man whose constant thought (tho' in the school of hardship taught,) can send remembrance back to fetch and A rake's progress
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., "Plate 7"--Added at the bottom left., Added title from first lines of verses below image., and On page 76 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 34.3 x 39 cm; with loss to upper right corner, repaired.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Debt, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, and Unmarried mothers
A soldier, worried look upon his face, leads his pregnant lady by the arm through a rural scene
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on uniform., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Poverty, Pregnant women, and Soldiers
