Title from item., Date and place of publication 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.
"Copy of a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table, to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 7
Description:
Title from text engraved above image., Verses, attributed to John Hoadly, below image in three columns, four lines each: His hours of joy are fled with rapid speed, And scenes of anguish in a jail succeed ... Can his person from restraint enlarge., The seventh of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., and "Plate 7."--Lower right below design.
Publisher:
Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell
Copy (reversed) of the first state of Plate 7 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 138): A room in the Fleet Prison (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); Tom sits at a table, to right, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 7 and His hours of joy are fled with rapid speed
Description:
Title from text engraved above image., "Plate 7"--Lower right below design., Verses below image in three columns, four lines each: His hours of joy are fled with rapid speed, ..., The ornamental borders along the left and right edges are printed from a separate plate (images 25 x 2.8 cm, on plate mark 25.7 x 36.5 cm)., A reissue, with a new publication line and with ornamental borders added, of the seventh of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., Original publication line: Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell according to Act of Parliament July 1735., and Ornamental borders partially obscure image and text on right.
Publisher:
Publish'd wth. [the] consent of Mrs. Hogarth, by Henry Parker, at No. 82 in Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Fleet Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Children, Debt, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, and Unmarried mothers
Elizabeth Jeffryes and John Swan condemned at Chelmsford-Assizes
Description:
"John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffryes in their cell at Chelmsford prison; he is wearing shackles, standing to front, with head turned to look to left, hands clasped; she is seated to left with her right elbow on a table, on which lie open book, bottle and glass, supporting her face; probably frontispiece to the sitter's Life and Trial"--British Museum online catalogue., Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Two columns of verse below title: Behold two wretches here replete with guilt! Lamenting sorely for the blood they spilt ...
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parlt., 1752, & sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Swan, John, -1752. and Jeffryes, Elizabeth, -1752.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1841]
Call Number:
841.00.00.37+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left, poor emaciated laborers are chained to the ground while above them dangle bread, meat and beer just out of their reach. Behind them a building inscribed 'Poor Law Union'. The ground is inscribed 'Land of the free'. A crowd of people enter a tunnel that above has a sign that reads, 'County Gaol.' In contrast, on the right fat Members of Parliament sit and listen to a speech against Poor Law Reform made by possibly Melborne (William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne) who has a paper inscribed with '£70 000 Per Annum'.
Description:
Title from text below image., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Part of a new series of The political drama that was begun in 1841. See pages 12-13 in: C.J. Grant's political drama: a radical satirist rediscovered. London : University College, c1998., "Price 1d. plain."--Upper right corner., and Wood engraving with letterpress text.
Publisher:
Printed and published by B.D. Cousins, 18, Duke-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848
Subject (Topic):
Poor persons, Laborers, Chains, Bread, Meat, Beer, Tunnels, Jails, Politicians, and Public speaking
Benefit Ticket for Spiller: the comedian stands in the center under a set of scales; he supports a burning taper; at his feet is a pile of tickets for his benefit performance labelled 'Pit', 'Gallery', and 'Box'. He offers the tickets to people on the left who put their payment on that side of the balance, while a bailiff on the right taps him on the shoulder, holding out a 'Writ' and creditors add their bills for 'Tripe', 'Gin', Tobacco', 'Snuff', 'Ale', 'Beer' and "The Taylor's bill" to the other side of the balance. A scroll looped over the top of the scales is a banner labelled 'For the Benefit of Spiller', its ends reaching a window of a tavern on the left and the window of a debtor's prison on the right--See description in the British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ticket for the benefit of Spiller
Description:
Title etched within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 2.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st 1788, by Molton & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Spiller, James, 1692-1729.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Bailiffs, Jails, City & town life, and Scales
"Benefit ticket for Spiller: the comedian stands in the center under a set of scales; he supports a burning taper; at his feet is a pile of tickets for his benefit performance labelled 'Pit', 'Gallery', and 'Box'. He offers the tickets to people on the left who put their payment on that side of the balance, while a bailiff on the right taps him on the shoulder, holding out a 'Writ' and creditors add their bills for 'Tripe', 'Gin', Tobacco', 'Snuff', 'Ale', 'Beer' and "The Taylor's bill" to the other side of the balance. A scroll looped over the top of the scales is a banner labelled 'For the Benefit of Spiller', its ends reaching a window of a tavern on the left and the window of a debtor's prison on the right ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ticket for the benefit of Spiller
Description:
Title etched within image., See description of original print. No. 1815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 2.
Publisher:
Samuel Ireland
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Spiller, James, 1692-1729.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Bailiffs, Jails, City & town life, and Scales
Benefit Ticket for Spiller: the comedian stands in the center under a set of scales; he supports a burning taper; at his feet is a pile of tickets for his benefit performance labelled 'Pit', 'Gallery', and 'Box'. He offers the tickets to people on the left who put their payment on that side of the balance, while a bailiff on the right taps him on the shoulder, holding out a 'Writ' and creditors add their bills for 'Tripe', 'Gin', Tobacco', 'Snuff', 'Ale', 'Beer' and "The Taylor's bill" to the other side of the balance. A scroll looped over the top of the scales is a banner labelled 'For the Benefit of Spiller', its ends reaching a window of a tavern on the left and the window of a debtor's prison on the right--See description in the British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no 1815., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 2., Title and date supplied by curator., Ms. note above in Steevens's hand: Spiller's Ticket. His ms. note in pencil above: See Nichol's Book, 3d edit. p.44 p. 444. His ms. note in pencil below: Sold for £5.5.0., and On page 86 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Spiller, James, 1692-1729.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Bailiffs, Jails, City & town life, and Scales
Simon Fraser, eleventh Lord Lovat (1667/8-1747), Jacobite conspirator, army officer, and outlaw is shown sitting on a chair in a jail cell (The Tower of London?), his gouty foot raised on a small stool. He has a pen in his hand and on the table beside him rests an open journal and a box with two ink pots
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate date of publication from dealer's description., Six numbered stanzas of verse below title: I. When first the proud Scotchmen rebell'd ..., Text at bottom of plate: Tis conjectur'd by some that this rhetorical apology of old nurses will meet with the desired effect ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Date and place of publication 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 (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England). and Bridewell Hospital.
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospitals, Jails, Architecture, Buildings, and Hospitals
