Musicians in a church, with vocalists singing from books in upper level and instrumentalists below, the latter labeled to indicate their nationalities, Prussia, Ger., Ital, Swiss, and on the far right Engl., possibly corresponding to caricature portra...
Description:
Title and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787. and Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778.
Subject (Topic):
Church musicians, Church music, Musicians, Churches, and Interiors
A view of a church, maybe the parish church of Saint Giles in Stoke Poges, also known as the Stoke Poges Church, seen in the middle distance, beyond a low picket fence and surrounded by trees
A view of a church, probably in Glouchestershire, including the churchyard with gravestones, as scene over a wall with a gate. Outside the wall, two pigs and a saddeld horse feed or drink as a dog sits on the wall looking in.
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the characters Matilda and Theodore shown at center talking in a church, one on either side of the statue marking the tomb of Alphonso; Theodore wears full armor and Matilda wears ...
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Interiors, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Homicides
On a street in front of a church (right), possibly referencing the one built by George Whitfield in Tottenham Court Road and a tavern (left)with a sign identifying it as "The Old Goat New Revived", a make follower of Whitefield dressed in a quasi-Puri...
Description:
Title and date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Robt. Sayer & Jno. Smith
Subject (Name):
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Temptation, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
Illustration to one of the episodes added by Gildon: Young Fantasio (Apuleius's Lucian) enters an Italian church where corrupt priests and gallants are celebrating the feast of St. Theresa
Illustration to one of the episodes added by Gildon: Young Fantasio (Apuleius's Lucian) enters an Italian church where corrupt priests and gallants are celebrating the feast of St. Theresa
"A man on horseback in a street with his arms around two women, one of whom is crying at right, an old lady sat in profile in the foreground holding a bunch of flowers and a dog drinking from a fountain behind, a man watching the farewell with crossed...
Volume 1, page 33. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man on horseback in a street with his arms around two women, one of whom is crying at right, an old lady sat in profile in the foreground holding a bunch of flowers and a dog drinking from a fountain behind, a man watching the farewell with crossed...
Description:
Title from text on later state.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 28th, 1781, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Structural drawing of the church and chancel at Croome, in black in with scale and some additions in purple ink. Square section in upper left corner cut out
"Frontispiece to Joshua Kirby, Dr Brooke Taylor's Method of Perspective made easy; a rural scene with a number of absurdities caused by perspectival errors, for instance, an angler in the foreground catches a fish in the middle distance, an inn sign i...
Alternative Title:
Whoever makes a design without the knowledge of perspective will be liable to such absurdities as are shown in this frontispiece
"Frontispiece to Joshua Kirby, Dr Brooke Taylor's Method of Perspective made easy; a rural scene with a number of absurdities caused by perspectival errors, for instance, an angler in the foreground catches a fish in the middle distance, an inn sign i...
Alternative Title:
Whoever makes a design without the knowledge of perspective will be liable to such absurdities as are shown in this frontispiece
"Frontispiece to Joshua Kirby, Dr Brooke Taylor's Method of Perspective made easy; a rural scene with a number of absurdities caused by perspectival errors, for instance, an angler in the foreground catches a fish in the middle distance, an inn sign i...
Alternative Title:
Whoever makes a design without the knowledge of perspective will be liable to such absurdities as are shown in this frontispiece
"Frontispiece to Joshua Kirby, Dr Brooke Taylor's Method of Perspective made easy; a rural scene with a number of absurdities caused by perspectival errors, for instance, an angler in the foreground catches a fish in the middle distance, an inn sign i...
Alternative Title:
Whoever makes a design without the knowledge of perspective will be liable to such absurdities as are shown in this frontispiece
The scene in the church after Manfred has stabbed his daughter Mathilda. She lies on a cot as Theodore holds her head in his hands; a monk with a crucifix in his hand also attends her. Behind the monk, Manfred with arms crossed against his chest look...
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Homicides, Monks, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Plate lettered in the top center 'E': Reverse copies of six details from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism: a medley". Each item is numbered; 1. "Scale of vociferation"; 2, 3. A cleric with a distraught man in prayer; 4. A Jew with a ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Churches, Clegy, Praying, Scales, Singing, and Thermometers
Plate lettered in the top center 'D': Reverse copies of details from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism: a medley". Each item is numbered; 1. The clerk surrounded by angel heads (2,3). The clerk holds an opened book which rests on a pul...
Plate lettered in the top center 'C': Reverse copies of details from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism: a medley". Each item is numbered; 1, 2. The embracing couple; 5 [i.e. 3]. A thermometer measuring emotions resting on two books, in...
Plate lettered in the top center 'A': Reverse copies of details from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism: a medley". Each item is numbered; 1. The preacher with his wig flying off and his jester's shirt exposed under his robe. One sheet ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Angels, Churches, Clegy, Demons, Preachers, Putti, and Witches
Huntsmen and hounds with mounted members of the hunt are in an enclosure flanked by corn-stacks and resembling a farmyard, except for a boiling-house with a tall chimney and joints of meat hanging from the gable-end of a building. The artist (Robert C...
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Tom Nero, now a highwayman, has been arrested for the murder. He stands in the churchyard over the body of his pregnant lover, Ann Gill, whose throat and wrist are severed. One from the group of men who have apprehended Tom show him the knife as the o...
Description:
Title, state, and series title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Invd. & publish'd by Wm. Hogarth and John and Josiah Boydell
Subject (Topic):
Cemeteries, Criminals, Churches, Homicides, Pregnant women, and Rake's progress
Tom Nero, now a highwayman, has been arrested for the murder. He stands in the churchyard over the body of his pregnant lover, Ann Gill, whose throat and wrist are severed. One from the group of men who have apprehended Tom show him the knife as the o...
Description:
Title, state, and series title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Invd. & publish'd by Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Cemeteries, Criminals, Churches, Homicides, Pregnant women, and Rake's progress
