A young man sits on a bench under a tree as he holds the hand of a pretty young maid. A piece of paper in her pocket has the words "Let us Polly do so to". At her side (right) a little boy plays gentle with a nest filled with eggs. A magpie sits on ...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Boys, Cats, Couples, Dovecotes, Magpies, and Nests
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...
Alternative Title:
[Rake's progress]. [Plate 1] and E'er in the grave the miser's corps is cold ...
Description:
Title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Debt, Interiors, Lawyers, Memorial rites & ceremonies, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Robberies, Servants, and Tailors
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 ...
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.
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
Copy of a theatre ticket: a stage scene with six performers, a dog and a cat, and in the background two tightrope walkers accompanied by an ape; within a frame, a satyr on either side; a copy of a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a per...
Description:
Title from caption at top of image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Aerialists, Cats, Dogs, Satyrs (Greek mythology) in art, Theatrical productions, Tickets, and Ephemera
An austere-looking man with a shaved head and ragged clothes, kneels in prayer before his simple meal, unaware that as he recites his blessing, his cat is drinking from his bowl. On the table is a book on which lay his spectacles; his hat hangs off th...