Design divided into four compartments, each individually titled in French and English, showing a figure constructed from the tools and equipment or wares of their respective trades: a hatter, a cooper, a blacksmith and a joiner
Alternative Title:
Chapelier
Description:
Title from captions below images, in French and English.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Blacksmiths, Carpenters, Coopers, and Hats
"Stylised representation of the Lord Mayor's procession, framing a blank space in the centre of the sheet; two rows of figures at the top, 7 groups one above the other to either side, and the City Counsel on foot, the Aldermen and Lord Mayor on horseback forming the bottom of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., "No. 79"--Lower right corner., The 35 numbered sections of the procession zigzag doen the sheet beginning with the 1) Armourers, 2) Leathersellers, 3) Pioneers, 4) Granadiers [sic], [4] Artillery, 5-6) 2d Division, 7-8) 3d Division, 9-10) Salters, 11-12) Salters, 13-14) Slaters, 15-16) Coopers, 17-18) Coopers, 19-20) Band of Petitionsers, 21-22) Kings Trumpets &c., 23-24) Coopers, 25-26) Coopers, 27-28) City Musick, 29-30) Officers, 31-32) Officers, 33-34) City Counsel, Aldermen, Lord Mayor., and Blank space at center of print has been filled in with manuscript poetry given the heading 'Christmas' at top and signed and dated by "John Lewis, 1742" at bottom. The first of the three sections of verse is taken from the second and third cantos of Waller's Of divine love; the other quotations are from the Fourth Eclogue of John Ogilby's seventeenth-century translation of Virgil.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament Novemr. the 4th, 1742, and sold by James Cole engraver in Great Kirby Street, Hatton Garden
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Willimott, Robert, Sir.
Subject (Topic):
Officials and employees, City council members, Coopers, Mayors, Municipal officials, Musicians, Occupations, Parades & processions, Soldiers, and British
Plate lettered in the top center 'F': Reverse copies of details from figures from the lower left corner of Hogarth's "Beer Street". Numbered 1: The fat butcher sits laughing (lower right) with a tankard of ale barely visible in his right hand. Standing above and behind him is the cooper or blacksmith wearing a cap and an apron with a pair of tongs at his waist. In his left hand he holds a large tankard of ale with a large head of foam.
Alternative Title:
Beer Street.
Description:
Maggs; December 1963; Acquisitions no.: 963-12-3., Mounted with one other print. To view other title, search by call number: Hogarth 787.00.00.46, Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., and Title devised by cataloger.