A loose plagiary (reversed) after Hogarth's first plate in the Rake's Progress series; the interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a bag of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; to the right a table with the papers related to the estate and coins; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods; an upholsterer attaching fabric to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out
Description:
Title from verses below image. Verses (in four columns, each with six lines) continue: " ... And thou hast left graceless son to wast thy fund of ill got stores .... plate, gloves and hoarded cash descend.", See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2259-2272., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 132., and Mounted to 358 x 435 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Corruption, Interiors, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out., Temporary local subject terms: Debts: Prince of Wales's debts -- Jews -- Miniatures: miniature portraits as jewelry -- Ink-pots., and Collector's stamp on verso: half-length raised figure of fox with initials MW below.
Publisher:
Pub. August 20, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Original work created: 1823-1828., Place of publication derived from Boilly's place of residence., Copy after Boilly., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life.
Copy in reverse of William Hogarth's "Woman swearing a child to a grave citizen. A pregnant young woman standing to left, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to right, 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 right, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed with loss of companion prints: Le baptême domestique and Convoi funèbre des Anglois., A reverse copy after J.V. Schley's print made for: Picart, B. Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde. Amsterdam : Chez J. F. Bernard, 1723, between pages 90 and 91?, After William Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., See reference to Schely print in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 309., and On page 11 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Paternity, Courtrooms, Couples, Judges, Law & legal affairs, Pregnancy, and Pregnant women
A strip design showing eight couples who contemplate marriage as the captions engraved above each couple explain
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate originally published by T. Walker in Hibernian magazine, ii, p. 193., Removed from extra-illustrated copy of History of the Fleet marriages., and Mounted on secondary support.
Publisher:
T. Walker
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, Marriage, Obesity, and Pregnant women
A very pregnant sits slouched in a chair, her left arm around a distaff and a spindle in her right hand. Above her is a picture of a young girl looking down at the broken pitcher at her feet. To the right an old woman in a shawl and wearing spectacles holds a letter in her hand, as she leans towards the younger woman with an expression of concern. Between them stands a young man who stands mostly with his back to the viewer but is slightly turned to the younger woman as he subtly points to the painting over her head
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 14, 1793, by T. Prattent, 46 Cloth Fair, London
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication from item., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pieter Schenk
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint and Elizabeth (Mother of John the Baptist), Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Visitation, Pregnant women, Pregnancy, and Visiting
"A gouty old magistrate sits at a table in a parlour in an armchair with its back to the fire (right); his clerk writes. A parish beadle with his staff stands just inside the door, behind a ragged dustman or labourer, who scratches his head while a pregnant woman (who is swearing a child to the latter) holds her apron to her eye."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Attributed to Henry Heath in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 4, 1825, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly, London
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Judges, Pregnant women, Fireplaces, Cats, and Dogs
Copy in reverse of the first state of Plate 1 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 132): the Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father with Tom at left being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out.--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 1 and E'er in the grave the miser's corps is cold ...
Description:
Title from text engraved above image., A reissue, with a new publication line and with ornamental borders added, of the first of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., The ornamental borders along the left and right edges are printed from a separate plate (images 25 x 2.8 cm, on plate mark 25.7 x 36.5 cm)., Original publication line: Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell according to Act of Parliament July 1735., and Ornamental borders partially obscure image on the right. A small hole below last line in the first column of the verses below the image.
Publisher:
Publish'd wth. [the] consent of Mrs. Hogarth, by Henry Parker, at No. 82 in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Debt, Interiors, Lawyers, Memorial rites & ceremonies, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Robberies, Servants, and Tailors
