"A fat vicar with pipe and glass standing in a doorway, regarding a nervous thin clerk, who holds another glass and a lantern; scene illustrating the tale of 'the vicar and Moses', in which the clerk came to fetch the vicar to bury an infant but stayed to drink with him till past midnight, when both staggered out to go to the church; verses to the song below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered '(Plate I)' in lower right below image., First of two plates illustrating a popular song under the same title., Thirty-two lines of verse (first half of the song) printed in two columns below title: At the sign of the horse, old Spintext of course, ..., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published July 17th, 1795, by I. Coard, No. 11 Lisson Street, Edgware Road
A copy after Hogarth's print "Gin Lane" that first issued in 1751, with seven lines of text in letterpress below image warning of the evils of drinking gin: "The sin of drunkenness expels reason, drowns memory, distempers the body, defaces beauty ... the root of all evil is drunkenness!
Alternative Title:
Gin Lane
Description:
Title from letterpress text above image., Title engraved below image: Gin Lane. "Hogarth" engraved above image., Imprint engraved below image., "Price one penny plain, two-pence coloured."--Bottom of letterpress sheet., Marks was active at this Smithfield address from 1832 until his death in 1855. See British Museum online catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by J.L. Marks, 91 Long Lane, Smithfield
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Gin, and Intoxication
In the center of the image a woman, dressed in a short shift, angrily pulls a bottle from the hand of a drunken man. The man sits at an oval drop-leaf table with his right fist raised and a cigar hanging from his mouth as smoke billows around his head. He holds onto a bottle with his left hand, a glass and pile of cigars at his elbow. The woman standing over the table on the left angrily points with her left hand to a clock on the wall which shows the time as 5:05. In the background on the left, a dark-faced, cloaked figure stands before the curtained doorway on the left; the double doors on the right are shut. Also on the table is a lit candle in a glass globe; an overturned pitcher pours onto the floor in the foreground
Description:
Title engraved below image., Place of publication precedes statement of responsibility, below image on the left., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to on sheet 31 x 40 cm.
The fishwives stalls are in the foreground with the masts of ship vessels behind, and among them one tall smoking funnel. The market buildings are on the right. The foreground is more crowded than in other Billingsgate prints. The chief feature is an irate woman seated on an upturned tub beside her stall, berating a lady in a riding-habit who holds a huge fish's head. Beside the latter is another lady, disconcerted. Two liveried servants are among the crowd. Lady Caroline Lamb and a young marchioness, both 'in disguise', go to the market to hear the traditional language of the fishwives, this Lady Caroline provokes by disparaging a fish. On the left is a fashionably dressed young man, resembling Robert Cruikshank. On the left, a drunken woman sits with her glass raised. From British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Visit to Billingsgate
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 14941 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Page 342, vol. 1. Watermark: Warranted not bleached.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Billingsgate Ward (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856 and Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Fishmongers, Intoxication, Riding habits, Servants, Ships, and Street vendors
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1834?]
Call Number:
Print01172
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed in lower left corner with C.J. Grant's initials., Possibly an illustration from Every body's album & caricature magazine, a series published in 1834 by J. Kendrick., Sheet trimmed with possible loss of title and imprint., This 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: Gin shops.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick?
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking facilities, Gin, Intoxication, Alcoholism, Poor persons, and Children
Plate lettered in the top center 'G': Reverse copies of details of five men and one woman conversing and drinking, after characters in the upper left corner of Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other plates in this series in the British Museum catalogue., Plates from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Plate lettered in the top center 'H': Reverse copies of details six figures from the center of Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each character is numbered; 1 and 2, two of the musicians (the woman violinist and the bass-viol player); 3, 4, and 5, three of the men sitting at the table conversing and drinking; 6. the portrait on the back wall
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue., and Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender.
Description from Steevens's note mounted to the right of the print: A procession of painters to the shrine of Bacchus, a slight but spirited etching. The jolly god appears crowned with a jordan. His altar is a Hogshead. Among the trophies carried along, is a helmet which has a punch bowl & ladle for its crest, and a standard displaying pipies and bottles. A figure, probably designed for old Leveridge the singer, in the character of a priest of Bacchus, is seen in the rear of the cavalcade. The chief characters in this plate are copied & introduced, without the slightest propriety, into a wretched print erroneously attributed to Hogarth, and called The oratory. See. As it is not for a certainity known that this procession was the work of Hogarth*, let the collector who wishes to form his judgment of it from the style in which it is etched, compare it with the festoon of laurel, the subscription ticket for Garrick in King Richard III. *Perhaps it represents part of a Bacchanalian procession painted by Lagueree on the walls of a tavern in Drury-Lane where a club of virtuosi met. See Mr. Walpole's account of Laguerre
Description:
Title from Steevens., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Paulson in his second edition of Hogarth's graphic works (no. 280) is given tentative attribution to Hogarth but this attribution is dismissed in the 3rd edition based on stylistic grounds., On page 12 in volume 1., and Also ms. note (from Ireland, Hogarth Illus. p. 61-62) is inscribed on separate sheet below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity) and Leveridge, Richard, 1670 or 1671-1758
Subject (Topic):
Intoxication, Painters (Artists), and Parades & processions
"A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, another spits a stream of gin across the table to the amusement of a young black woman standing in the background, another woman drinks from the punchbowl, another is removing her clothes in order to perform "postures"; to right., a harpist and a door through which enter a man holding a large dish and a candle, and a pregnant ballad singer holding a sheet lettered "Black Joke"; on the walls hang a map of the world to which a young woman holds a candle and framed prints of Roman emperors, all (except that of Nero) damaged."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
O vanity of youthfull blood, so by misuse to poison good! Woman form'd for social love, fairest gift of powers above ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first lines of verse engraved below image., Caption in five columns below image., and "Plate 3."--Lower right.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Fighting, Harps, Interiors, Intoxication, Musicians, Rake's progress, Prostitutes, Robberies, Street entertainers, Taverns (Inns), and Vandalism
