In his meager attic lodgings, a man dresses as his land lady looks on. On the wall is a poster with a portrait of Thomas Paine and a partially torn sign with the words "Buggs distroy'd", the art amplifying the subject
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published 28th Novr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Landlord & tenant relations, Mirrors, Poverty, and Shaving equipment
"The interior of a loft stacked with sacks, an angry countryman ferociously prods one with a pitchfork, while a handsome young woman tries to stop him, clutching his hair and arm, and attempting to trip him up. From the sack, inscribed 'Hemp Seed', pr...
Alternative Title:
Rogue in grain
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 16, 1807, by R. Ackermann, No., 101 Strand
"The interior of a loft stacked with sacks, an angry countryman ferociously prods one with a pitchfork, while a handsome young woman tries to stop him, clutching his hair and arm, and attempting to trip him up. From the sack, inscribed 'Hemp Seed', pr...
Alternative Title:
Rogue in grain
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 16, 1807, by R. Ackermann, No., 101 Strand
"The Knave of Clubs, 'Pam', sits in state in a ramshackle attic, one foot resting regally on a footstool. He is faint-hearted and melancholy and turns to a dapper little man (Sir Walter Stirling) at his right hand, who is supported by the Devil. He sa...
Alternative Title:
Pam be civil
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published September 1812 by Y.Z. & sold by Clinch, Princes Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Stirling, Walter, 1758-1832 and Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Interiors, Attics, Fireplaces, Medicines, Alcoholic beverages, Bottles, Lawyers, Wills, and Law & legal affairs
The thin, half-dressed man is scolded by his fat wife who has caught him in the garret bedroom with their young female servant. A bundle of his clothes in her arms, the servant scratches her head at the door. Pasted on the walls and ceilings of the ro...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Methodists, Adultery, Attics, Couples, Bedrooms, Servants' quarters, and Women domestics
In an attic, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes. He is seated on a chair; behind him his bed is folded up in his sparsely furnished garret. Beside him is a ink well and a candle in a bottle. He rests his left elbow on a pile of b...
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Wonderful magazine?
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Poverty
Plate 29. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 29. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Riches a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and he...
Plate 29. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 29. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Riches a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and he...
Plate 29. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 29. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Riches a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and he...
