A fashionable interior (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician at a harpsichord (with a list of presents given by aristoc...
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 2, Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ..., and Surrounded by artists and professors
Description:
Title and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
An album compiled by Sir Henry Edward Bunbury containing character studies and humorous depictions of coaching, hunting, military, domestic scenes, dogs, and people (mostly caricatures) from a variety of social stations, drawn by him or his father in ...
Description:
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Edward Bunbury (1778-1860), a professional military officer and later, member of Parliament and published historian, was also a caricaturist whose work is very similar to that of his father, Henry William Bunbury (1750-181...
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Clegy, Carriages & coaches, Country life, Couples, Dogs, Hunting, Judges, and Servants
Copy in reverse of the first state of Plate 2 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 133): a fashionable interior with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician (with a li...
Alternative Title:
[Rake's progress]. Plate 2d and To recompense the Sire's continu'd Fast, ...
Description:
Title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Copy in reverse of the first state of Plate 1 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 132). "The Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father with Tom at left being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant...
Alternative Title:
[Rake's progress]. [Plate 1] and E'er in the grave the miser's corps is cold ...
Description:
Title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Debt, Interiors, Lawyers, Memorial rites & ceremonies, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Robberies, Servants, and Tailors
publish'd February 5, 1752 according to act of Parliament.
Call Number:
Paulson 752.02.05.03.2++ Impression 4
Collection Title:
Leaf 36. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The child Moses is being delivered up by his mother Jochebed (who has been acting as wet nurse) to Thermuthis, the daughter of Pharaoh (Exodus, ii.10; after the painting in the Foundling Museum); to right, the mother/nurse is handed coins by a steward...
Alternative Title:
Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt
Subject (Name):
Moses (Biblical leader), and Thermuthis (Biblical figure),
"A grand bedroom with the countess holding a morning levée attended by her hairdresser while the lawyer, Silvertongue, arranges to meet her at a masquerade; others in the room include a female friend and effeminate men who pay rapt attention to a cas...
Alternative Title:
Toilette
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1798, by J. & J. Boydell, N. 90, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 January 1796]
Call Number:
796.01.20.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Design in a circle. Two elderly men watch a small boy seated at a small round table, devouring a plum-pudding, with a countrified footman standing sourly behind his chair, hand in pocket. The admiring grandfather points to the child, turning to his f...
Alternative Title:
Grand-papa's darling
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 20th, 1796 by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Grandparents, Mirrors, Plum puddings, and Servants
In the upper left a group of three musicians play instruments as a black man in livery dances at the center of a well-dressed group revelers in a servants' hall decorated for the Christmas holidays. The masters of the house and their guests look on. T...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Tregear 136 Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Christmas decorations, Couples, Cupboards, Dance, Kissing, Longcase clocks, Musicians, Playing cards, Servants, and Servants' quarters
Plate lettered in the top center 'F': Reverse copies of the upper bodies of six figures in the sixth plate of William Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode. Each of the figures is numbered; 1. The dying countess; 2. Her child, kissing her; 3. The old woman; 4....
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Children, Death, Merchants, Mothers, Pharmacists, and Servants
A satire against Wray for his proposals to abolish Chelsea Hospital and to tax maidservants and for his desertion of Fox, for which he was called Judas. In the center of the image Sir Cecil Wray is cudgeled by two Chelsea pensioners as another man app...
Alternative Title:
Plumpers for Sir Judas, Chealsea pensioners revenge, and Chelsea pensioners revenge
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805 and Chelsea Hospital for Women (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Fighting, People with disabilities, Servants, and Taxation
A very plump young woman in a bonnet stands in a park leaning forward into the wind ; her skirt is blown tightly around her backside and above her knees. Two foppish looking men eye her with amusement, the one using an eyeglass, the other holding his ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septemr. 1816 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, Parks, Servants, and Umbrellas
"Two chairmen carry (left to right) a lady in a sedan chair. The roof is raised and through it projects an enormous ostrich feather, rising from an aigrette and curls, which also extend above the roof. To the second chairman's back is strapped the bas...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 13th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Topic):
Fans (Accessories), Headdresses, Sedan chairs, Servants, and Umbrellas
A fashionably dressed woman sits (left) in profile, in an upright chair, while a carriage waits for her as seen through the window of the well-appointed sitting room. Her loose dress, high to the neck, has two embroidered slits to reveal the breasts. ...
Alternative Title:
Convenience of modern dress
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 15th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Breast feeding, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Coach drivers, Hats, Infants, Jewelry, Interiors, Mothers, Parlors, Rugs, and Servants
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 May 1797]
Call Number:
797.05.26.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two images on one plate. The top image represents a master glowering at his terrified footman; the bottom image shows a mistress scowling at a frightened maid
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 26, 1797, by G.M. Woodward, Berners Street
A manservant and a maidservant on the extreme left peer through a half-opened door at two men seated at a round table covered with a white cloth on which are plates of peas, a decanter, and wineglasses. A waiter (left) is leaning towards them checking...
A scene from Tristram Shandy in which Susannah stands holdings her nose with her lefthand while in her right she holds a candle over the cradle where the swandled infant Tristram lies with a plaster on his nose. She addressed the doctor with obvious f...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, and Servants
"The King sits impassively in his badly damaged state coach, which is being assailed by a mob; facing him sit two courtiers in abject terror. Pitt (right), dressed as the coachman, drives furiously, lashing the horses, the hind legs only of the wheele...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804
Subject (Topic):
Assassination attempts, Britannia (Symbolic character), Carriages & coaches, Cats, Coach drivers, Crowds, Riots, Sansculottes, and Servants
A party of two well-dressed couples, the women holding umbrellas, are caught in a wind and rain storm as they travel in a open carriage. A coachman and footman attend the party
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published August 8th, 1826 by T. Gillard, 40 Strand
"Midshipmen at table in a confined space, with a low roof, lit by a candle stuck in a bottle, which casts heavy shadows. They drink grog from tea-cups with a blue interior rim. Eight midshipmen sit at the table, bare except for a jug and bottle; of th...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Sailors, British, Interiors, Intoxication, Ships, and Servants
Poll, the widow of William, stands at her cottage door in a village near the sea, a ship in full-sail in the distance, as Jack delivers the sad news of the death of her husband. In the verses engraved below recount the "jovial" life of a sailor to the...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd 17th June 1793 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Group portrait of nine men seated around a table set with fruit and decanters; they are served by a black page. Boswell is on the left, with Johnson to his right talking to Edmund Burke; Reynolds is seated across from Johnson and listens with a trumpe...
Description:
Title from later state in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Published July 1st 1848 by the proprietors Wm. Walker, 64 Margaret St., Cavendish Sqre., & Owen Bailey, 128 Seymour St. Euston Sqre
"A drunken orgy by the members of a convivial club, grouped round an oblong table in a dignified room, which suggests a fashionable society. The chairman (left) with raised hammer gives a toast which is drunk sitting. Most are jovial, three are vomiti...
"A series of eight violent quarrels arranged in two rows, the words (not transcribed in full) etched above the heads of the speakers. [1] An old parson threatens his footman: "If you ever dare to say I am in a passion again I'll break every bone in yo...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackvill [sic] Street
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Anger, Aggression, Animal welfare, Marriage, Spouses, Fighting, Quarreling, Dogs, Staffs (Sticks), Clergy, Servants, Tea services, and Boys
A fashionably dressed woman sits (right) in profile, in an upright chair, while a carriage waits for her as seen through the window of the well-appointed sitting room. Her loose dress, high to the neck, has two embroidered slits to reveal the breasts....
Alternative Title:
Convenience of modern dress
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Breast feeding, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Coach drivers, Hats, Infants, Jewelry, Interiors, Mothers, Parlors, Rugs, and Servants
"An enthusiastic young man practising fencing at a target on a door, accidentally having pierced the door and struck a servant behind it, whose tea tray falls to the floor; another young man playing a flute at a table looks over in surprise; a fencing...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Fencing, Daggers & swords, Servants, and Accidents
A scene with two men in a sitting room decorated with a rug, curtains, and a wall full of framed sporting prints: The one gentleman sits at a table playing a flute. The other gentleman is practicing fencing moves, a manual on the floor beside him. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Fencing, Daggers & swords, Servants, and Flutes
Wash drawing depicting Laurence Shirley, Earl of Ferrers in the act of shooting his steward Mr. Johnson. The Earl is standing in profile facing the right aiming a pistol at his kneeling steward who has his hands clasped in front begging for mercy
A view of the interior of busy French barracks shows a more domestic atmosphere than military although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at h...
Description:
Title from engraving based on this drawing, published by S.W. Fores 12 August 1791.
Drawings B87 no. 30 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 5
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke app...
Design consists of twenty-one individually-captioned panels arranged in three horizonal rows illustrating Johnny's arrival in Jamaica, his contracting Yellow Fever, his illness and temporary recovery, his brief participation in Jamaican society, his r...
Alternative Title:
Johnny Newcome in the island of Jamaica
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubbished [sic] by Willm. Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Jamaica
Subject (Topic):
Social conditions, Black people, Pulse, Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Diseases, Relapse, Medicines, Bedrooms, Cemeteries, Clergy, Servants, Lawyers, Coffins, Couples, Death, Interiors, Physicians, Vomiting, Yellow fever, and Hunting
"A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke ap...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Dogs, Servants, and Pictures
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his Ieft hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman a...
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Accidents, Eating & drinking, Servants, Women domestics, Birdcages, Cats, and Dogs
Plate 42. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Scene in a country town with two newly-elected members of parliament (one a representation of George Bubb Doddington, the other visible only as a shadow on a distant wall) carried shoulder-high along the street, led by a blind and ragged fiddler and ...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Bears, Black people, Chimney sweeps, Donkeys, Fighting, Monkeys, Peg legs, Political elections, Riots, Servants, Street musicians, and Swine
Plate 36. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Pharaoh's daughter (Thermuthis) greets Moses who stands grasping the belt of his birth mother (Jochebed) as a man fills her hand with coins. Behind them in the distance is a sphinx and pseudo-Egyptian buildings. Behind the pharaoh's daugther a black s...
Alternative Title:
And the child grew, & she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, & he became her son. And she called his name Moses
Description:
After Hogarth's 1746 painting: Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter. One of a set of four paintings for the Council Room of the Foundling Hospital.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Moses (Biblical leader) and Thermuthis (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Biblical events, Blacks, Children, Mothers, and Servants
Plate 23. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 23. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The second print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set outside St Giles's-in-the-Fields. On the right an elegant crowd leaves the French Huguenot church; they are dressed in the height of French fashion. Two women kiss on the far right in the c...
Alternative Title:
Four times a day. Noon
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Huguenots, Irish, Blacks, Children, City & town life, Churches, Couples, Crowds, Crying, Kissing, Servants, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Women
"A lady (left) darts forward in profile to the right, bending low, both arms extended towards a coal-scuttle which a footman in livery is bringing in. He looks at her with irritated dismay. She says: "O You pretty creature! - bless the dear baby, how ...
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...
Alternative Title:
Visit to Billingsgate
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
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
A dinner party given by the rich and vulgar 'cit'. Liston, seated full-face, is beset by three children, one of whom shows him a print of Paul Pry. The hostess, laughing, points out the impassive Liston to a little boy who stands beside her. A fat nur...
Alternative Title:
Citizen's dinner party
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Dinner parties, Chandeliers, Couples, Families, and Servants
publish'd according to act of Parliament Sepbr. 30 1747.
Call Number:
Sotheby 49 Box 100
Collection Title:
Plate 49. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The apprentice Francis Goodchild leans out the window to pay the leader of a band of drummers; with the band are two butchers playing 'rough music' with bones and cleavers. His bride, his former master's daughter can be seen in the room behind him sip...
Alternative Title:
Industrious apprentice out of his time & married to his master's daughter and Industrious apprentice out of his time and married to his master's daughter
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Apprentices, Beggars, Butchers, Charity, Dogs, Drums (Musical instruments), Marriage, Monuments & memorials, Musical instruments, People with disabilities, Rake's progress, Servants, Signs (Notices), and Street musicians
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Sepbr. 30, 1747.
Call Number:
Sotheby 51 Box 100
Collection Title:
Plate 51. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Goodchild and his wife are seated in the place of honour in a large banquet hall. In the foreground, greedy liverymen are waited on by a young black man, while a boorish beadle stops a crowd of petitioners at the door, one of whom has handed him a let...
Alternative Title:
Industrious apprentice grown rich and Sheriff of London
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Banquets, Banquet halls, Business people, Eating & drinking, Gluttony, Servants, Sheriffs, and Rake's progress
Plate 23. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 23. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The second print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set outside St Giles's-in-the-Fields. On the right an elegant crowd leaves the French Huguenot church; they are dressed in the height of French fashion. Two women kiss on the far right in the c...
Alternative Title:
Four times a day. Noon
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Huguenots, Irish, Blacks, Children, City & town life, Churches, Couples, Crowds, Crying, Kissing, Servants, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Women
The young couple are seen in a large, well-furnished room that is in a state of disorder after a night's entertainment; the Viscount is collapsed in a chair having just arrived, the clock showing 1:20 a.m. His sword lies at his feet, broken, and a bon...
The first print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is a scene in Covent Garden. In the center, a middle-aged woman walks from the left towards St. Paul's church; the clock on the tower showing 6:55. She is followed by a servant boy carrying her pra...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Covent Garden (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Children, City & town life, Couples, Crowds, Fighting, Food vendors, Kissing, Prostitutes, Quacks, Servants, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Women
