Plate lettered in the top center 'M': Reverse copies of details of the upper bodies of four figures in the first plate of Hogarth's Election Entertainment. Each figure is numbered: 1. The tailor's wife; 2. The tailor; 3. The man trying to bribe him; 4. The tailor's child, showing his toes poking through his shoes
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date from other prints in the series in the British Museum online catalogue., and Plates from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Children, Families, Political elections, Spouses, Tailors, and Taverns (Inns)
In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, an obese clergyman with his equally large, bespectacled wife sit at a dining table with their three children; on the back wall hangs a portrait of the clergyman. He raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
Description:
Title from pencil inscription on verso., Date of production based on date of published mezzotint after this design., The daughter's face has been redrawn on a small piece of paper that has been pasted over the original sheet., and For a mezzotint engraving of this design, see no. 3753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Titles and translations supplied by curator. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Smallpox, Vaccination, Families, Play (Recreation)., and Sick persons
Titles and translations supplied by curator. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Smallpox, Vaccination, Families, Play (Recreation)., and Sick persons
Title, date, and edition supplied by curator., Below image on left: Max Klinger Rad. Op. II. I. Th. No. 9., Plate 9 from cycle Vom Tode, Erster Teil, Singer 179/V., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Families and Family Life., and Vom Tode Erster.
Publisher:
Druck v. Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig
Subject (Topic):
Tuberculosis, Poverty, Terminally ill parents, Death (Personification), Families, Sick persons, Gravedigging, and Skeletons
Title supplied by curator., Artist's initials and star on plate at lower left., In red ink lower right margin: stamp of Gustave Pellet., Edition of 50., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., In pencil lower right margin: Louis Legrande., and In pencil lower right margin: no. 49/50.
Publisher:
Gustave Pellet
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Families, Cows, Kissing, and Breast feeding
A young girl begs for change as she holds out a hat to a couple heading toward the crowd around the tents at Epsom Derby. Her father (?) half kneels while playing a violin, and a woman (her mother?) clutches a baby to her breast
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on unverified data in local card catalog record., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Epsom Derby, England (Horse race), Beggars, Crowds, and Families
Title from pencil note bottom center margin: Besuch im Krankenhaus., Title in English from National Galley of Art website., In pencil bottom right margin: Käthe Kollwitz., Date provided by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Interior.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Poverty, Diseases, Worry, Families, Spouses, Children, Hospital wards, and Handbags
The twelfth drawing in a series of twelve that follow a tradition of producing a series on modern morals, a tradition established earlier in the 18th century by artists such as William Hogarth. In this series, twin brothers are bestowed an equal fortune. One brother, Edward, husbands his wealth and on his death, passes on his fortune; whilst the other brother, Charles, squanders his, leaving his family destitute and In this twelfth drawing, Charles is in a coffin in his parlor. His wife cries into her handkerchief as two men with looks of pity point to the long sheet of paper with his list of debts. Her two children cling to her with fear and sadness. Two other men go about the room putting tags on the urns and other furnishings in preparation for their sale. The pistol on the sofa suggests Charles's suicide
Description:
Title from pencil notation below title., Signed "Dodd" in lower left and numbered '12' in ink in the upper right., Date range based on artist's active dates., and For further information, consult library staff.
