"A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and lace-trimmed cap. Behind her in the shadowed depths of the bed the night-capped head of her elderly and (?) sleeping husband, rests on the pillow. She looks, weeping, towards an open sash-window through which is seen a fleet sailing towards the horizon. In the window (left) is a cushioned window seat on which (besides a stocking) is an open book: 'Studies of Academic Attitudes taken from the Life'; on one page is a nude woman lying in sensual abandonment. On the right against the curtains of the bed is a dressing-table on which, besides toilet-articles, are a flask of 'Maraschino', a 'Composing Draught', and a pot of 'Rouge à la Naples'. On the carpeted floor (right) are objects from Sir W. Hamilton's collection, with an open book: 'Antiquities of Herculaneum Naples Caprea &c. &c.'; on the right page is a satyr chasing a nymph. They include an oval gem, a figure of a squatting monster, headless, the base inscribed 'Pri[apus]', a laughing bust of 'Messalina', statues of a Venus and a Satyr, coins or medals, one inscribed 'Ovid', another 'Tibertius'. In front of Lady Hamilton are the slippers she has kicked off, and a garter inscribed 'The Hero of the Nile'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse, two on either side of title, etched below image: "Ah, where & ah where, is my gallant sailor gone? "He's gone to fight the Frenchmen, for George upon the throne. "He's gone to fight [the] Frenchmen, t' loose t' other arm & eye. "And left me with the old antiques, to lay me down & cry., "Dido" is a reference to a character from Virgil's Aeneid., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Bound with (as frontispiece): A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully copied from nature (London: H. Humphrey, 1807).
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James Street, London
A German copy of Hogarth's "The Discovery" (1743?): a scene in a bedoom where four gentlemen stand beside a curtained bed in which a black woman reclines; she reaches out to touch the chin of one of the men who has evidently just pulled back the curtain. The scene is thought to record a practical joke carried out on the lothario John Highmore by his friends: having arranged an assignation with an attractive young woman, they replaced her with a black prostitute. When he discovered the swap, on climbing into bed, they appeared from hiding. See Paulson
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker's name below image, right, most erased from this impression, After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 155., Date based on publication date of the Samuel Ireland copy of this Hogarth image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of text below title: Ein Personalcaricatur! Ein gewisser Highmore, der im Spiel und mit Mädchen sein Vermögen durchgebracht hatte ..., Plate numbered "30" in upper right margin., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal, v. 3, no. 2600., and Sheet laid on board.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Highmore, John, 1694-1759,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Actors, British, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Practical jokes, Prostitutes, and Women
"Bedroom scene. A powerfully built man in greatcoat and top-boots throws a dandified youth out of a window, with stern concentration. The houses opposite, lit by a full moon, show that the ground is far below. The victim's head and shoulders are outside; he desperately clutches sash and sill, kicking violently. A terrified woman stands by the bed. Her huge bonnet hangs on the wall. In the struggle the dressing-table glass has been thrown to the floor, where it lies, with lighted candle and watch and seals. Stick, hat, and gloves are on the floor, the victim's hat and coat on a chair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption above and below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue. Cf. No. 14591 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.
In an elegant sitting room, a Hogarthian young dandy lounging on a sofa with a young woman by his side, both holding wine glasses, as she lays one hand on his knee. She rests her elbow on a round side table on which there sits a bottle of Madeira and a bottle of claret along with a dish of peaches and a knife; through the open door in the background to right is a canopy bed
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: With women & wine I defy ev'ry care., From a set of four 'times of day' after Dighton., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 18 June 1795 by Haines & Son, No. 19 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Couples, Dandies, British, Intoxication, and Parlors
"A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. It is inscribed 'Tis expected every' and (round her neck) 'will do his duty'. She watches a servant holding a foppish and elderly naval officer, while he flourishes a cudgel. Bellows lie on the ground. The servant had discovered Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, had fetched the object of her affections and compelled him to marry her."--British Museum online catalogue. On the wall is a painting of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
Alternative Title:
Miraculous recovery of the unfortunate Miss Baily
Description:
Title etched below image., Later printing, not before 1812., Possibly also the work of Isaac's son George., One line of text immediately below title: A ballad by W.J. Donne., Five numbered stanzas of verse arranged in two columns in lower portion of print: A lady fair in deep despair, who pleas'd the beaux in singing, From off the tester of her bed, one morning she was singing..., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls, plate numbered: 456., and Watermark: [Turke]y Mill 1812?
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1807 by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
Drawing showing the interior of the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill. A canopy bed is centered against the back wall, flanked on either side by two chairs and two hanging paintings. At right is the chimney-piece of Portland stone and gilt designed by Horace Walpole from the tomb of W. Dudley, Bishop of Durham, in Westminster Abbey; a firescreen and two red china bottles are seen sitting in front of the fireplace, while the large picture of Henry 8th and his children is seen hanging above. On the wall at left are two bow windows, the arched tops of which are painted with coats of arms. Between the windows hangs a large mirror, above which hangs a painting and below which sits a table with three vases on it. A clock hangs above another chair on the extreme right. The walls are covered in crimson Norwich damask; two crimson rugs cover the floor, one beneath the bed and the other in the center of the room. The celing is decorated with a geometric pattern in gold
Alternative Title:
Great North Bedchamber
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 204 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Chimneypieces, Chairs, Clocks, and Windows
Having been released from Bridewell Prison, the harlot is shown in a squalid bed-chamber, wrapped in a long sheet and seated in a chair by the fire, her head resting against a pillow in a swoon. Her dismayed attendant turns for help from the two doctors who are quarreling about the benefit of their nostrums, the one standing in anger, in the process turning over a table and chair. A second attendant is rummaging through the harlot's trunk on the right. Sitting on the floor near the harlot's chair is a young boy, scratching his head as he roasts meat on a stick, heedless of the dramas in the room
Alternative Title:
In a high salivation and at the point of death
Description:
Title from caption above image., Printer's statement from Plate I of the series., Engraved below image, three columns, six lines each, beginning: From Bridewell fredd she quickly gains, The French disease and all its pains ..., No. 5 of a series of 6 pirated copies of Hogarth's engravings of "A harlot's progress". Imprint varies from the Bowles copy described as no. 2036, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Written in contemporary hand below text: Margery. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Iohn Bowles at Mercer's Hall in Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Bedrooms, Physicians, Prostitutes, Servants, and Sick persons
"A middle-aged man holding a candle and a cudgel reveals a young couple embracing in a curtained bed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Jealousy
Description:
Title and series number engraved above image., Artist and printmaker from similar prints in the same series., Four lines of text below image: Mons. Le Brun, in his delineation of the passions, makes a man jealous without assigning a cause why or wherefore. If the connoisseur will give himself the trouble to look behind the curtain in the above sketch, he will find sufficient reason for the excitement of the passion., "No. 19.", Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., plate number erased from sheet., and 1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.1 x 22.1 cm, on sheet 29 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
publish'd according to act of Parliament, May 1st, 1769.
Call Number:
769.05.01.01+
Collection Title:
Page 64. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Print shows an interior view of a room; a duke has arrived home drunk at 5 a.m. (as shown on the longcase clock beside the door) accompanied by two attendants and watchman only to find his bedchamber occupied by another man. Through the open curtains around the bed can be seen a bare-breasted duchess. On the floor near the bed is an open book, "Memoirs of a woman of pleasure" (a reference to John Cleland's Fanny Hill ...) beside the chamber pot. As the duke with sword drawn, staggers forward, his rival climbs through a window in the background, leaving his clothes behind on a chair. A monkey dashes onto the table near the window on the heels of the husband's rival but pulls down the tablecloth causing the items on the table to be strewn across the floor in the foreground; a book opened to pages “Chastity in the nobility a farce. Dedicated to their Graces the Duke & Dutchess xxx”, breaking a broken mirror, and sending the bottles and jars onto the floor. The bottles have labels "Viper drops" and "Surfeit water" and the jar is labeled "Lip salve".
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text preceding publication statement: A recent transaction., "Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of the Court Miscellany."--Following imprint., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: Persons in exalted station, Should patterns be of imitation; But if a duke must have his punk, And from the bagnio ride home drunk. What wonder if her wanton grace, Invites another in his place? He draws his sword raps out his oaths, But what redress? his rival's cloaths., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., The reference to the duke is probably Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, 1745-90., and Probably a 19th century impression, based on the quality of the paper.