"An etching of Hogarth seated at a table, holding in one hand a port-crayon, in the other his print of "John Wilkes E", to which satire this is a rejoinder. Tied to Hogarth's right elbow, as if it were an impediment or guide in the use of his skill, is a bag marked "300£ per ann for distorting features"; he has a pug nose, and an impudent, hard look; his feet are cloven like a satyr's; one of his legs is that of a satyr, and it tramples on the cap and spear of Liberty. His dog 'Trump' squats under the table, on which is a paint-pot containing "Colours to blacken fair carachters [sic]". A palette and sheaf of brushes hang off the collar of the Hogarth's dog; on the palette is the "Line of Beauty". The bag refers to Hogarth's appointment as Serjeant-Painter to the King. Behind Hogarth, an ape appears in the act of drawing or measuring a "Line of Beauty" on a canvas set on an easel. Likewise behind on the left, an ugly, skeletal, old, one-eyed woman in a fontange, her lean bust much exposed, holds a mirror and a fan. The woman may be a reference to Mrs. Hogarth. An owl is drawn on the back of Hogarth's chair
Alternative Title:
Answer to the print of John Wilkes Esqr. by William Hogarth
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date from British Museum catalogue., "Price 6 pence"--Following imprint., and Mounted on sheet: 36.2 x 23.2 cm.
Publisher:
Sold in Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797., Hogarth, Jane Thornhill, 1709?-1789, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764., and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., The first state of this plate; in the second state the title changed to 'The Burlesquer burlesqued'. See Bindman, D. Hogarth and his times., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 290 in volume 3.
Title from item., Title etched below image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy of No. 4030 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Wilkes's house -- Personifications: Fame -- Busts: bust of Lord Bute -- Reference to excise -- Reference to William Hogarth's The times, Plate I -- British Lion -- Newspapers: Auditor ; North Briton -- Reference to Magna Charta -- King's Messengers., and On page 296 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 11.3 x 15.4 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Tower of London (London, England)
Title from item., Title etched below image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy of No. 4030 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Wilkes's house -- Personifications: Fame -- Busts: bust of Lord Bute -- Reference to excise -- Reference to William Hogarth's The times, Plate I -- British Lion -- Newspapers: Auditor ; North Briton -- Reference to Magna Charta -- King's Messengers., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Tower of London (London, England)
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., Restrike. Cf. No. 3957 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Bellows -- Devil -- Mouth of Hell -- Emblems: jack boots for Lord Bute -- Reference to the satire by Sandby, The fire of faction -- Journals: The Briton -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Mottoes: nemo me impune lacessit -- Reference to the Earl of Bute.
Self-portrait after the painting in the Tate; the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin, and palette. On the palette is engraved the title "The line of beauty."
Description:
Title engraved below image., State and publisher from Paulson., Earlier state of this plate was used as the frontispiece to Hogarth's Folios., 1 print : engraving with etching on laid paper ; plate mark 37.8 x 28.4 cm, on sheet 43.7 x 33.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 1 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Self-portrait after the painting in the Tate; the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin, and palette. On the palette is engraved the title "The line of beauty."
Description:
Title engraved below image., State and publisher from Paulson., Earlier state of this plate was used as the frontispiece to Hogarth's Folios., and Imperfect impression; all but date erased. Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Self-portrait after the painting in the Tate; the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin, and palette. On the palette is engraved the title "The line of beauty."
Description:
Title engraved below image., State and publisher from Paulson., Earlier state of this plate was used as the frontispiece to Hogarth's Folios., and On page 1 in volume 1, used as bookplate. Sheet 380 x 285 mm.
