publish'd according to act of Parliamt., March 3d, 1764.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 84. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The figure of Time reclines against a broken column surrounded by symbols of destruction: a collapsing church tower, dead trees, a bankrupcy notice served on Nature, a tombstone, a clock without hands, Phaeton falling from his chariot, a will, a shop-sign for "The World's End", a gallows, a burning impression of Hogarth's print "The Times" and broken objects, including an artist's palette, hour-glass, crown, rifle, bell, bottle, and broom. Two medallions on either side of the caption and their surrounding text concern the Line of Beauty. Three more columns of text between the medallions include quotes in Latin from Tactius and Maximus of Tyre, with an English translation
Alternative Title:
Bathos, or, Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures and Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures
Description:
Title, state, and publisher from Paulson., Title engraved above image: Tail piece. The Bathos., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 31.8 x 33.6 cm, on sheet 42 x 58 cm., and Plate 84 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Aesthetics, Death, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), Signs (Notices), Time, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., March 3d, 1764.
Call Number:
Hogarth 764.03.03.02+ Box 200
Collection Title:
Plate 84. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The figure of Time reclines against a broken column surrounded by symbols of destruction: a collapsing church tower, dead trees, a bankrupcy notice served on Nature, a tombstone, a clock without hands, Phaeton falling from his chariot, a will, a shop-sign for "The World's End", a gallows, a burning impression of Hogarth's print "The Times" and broken objects, including an artist's palette, hour-glass, crown, rifle, bell, bottle, and broom. Two medallions on either side of the caption and their surrounding text concern the Line of Beauty. Three more columns of text between the medallions include quotes in Latin from Tactius and Maximus of Tyre, with an English translation
Alternative Title:
Bathos, or, Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures and Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures
Description:
Title, state, and publisher from Paulson., Title engraved above image: Tail piece. The Bathos., and 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 319 x 335 mm, on sheet 394 x 558 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Aesthetics, Death, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), Signs (Notices), Time, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., March 3d, 1764.
Call Number:
Sotheby 81+ Box 205
Collection Title:
Plate 84. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The figure of Time reclines against a broken column surrounded by symbols of destruction: a collapsing church tower, dead trees, a bankrupcy notice served on Nature, a tombstone, a clock without hands, Phaeton falling from his chariot, a will, a shop-sign for "The World's End", a gallows, a burning impression of Hogarth's print "The Times" and broken objects, including an artist's palette, hour-glass, crown, rifle, bell, bottle, and broom. Two medallions on either side of the caption and their surrounding text concern the Line of Beauty. Three more columns of text between the medallions include quotes in Latin from Tactius and Maximus of Tyre, with an English translation
Alternative Title:
Bathos, or, Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures and Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures
Description:
Title, state, and publisher from Paulson. and Title engraved above image: Tail piece. The Bathos.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Aesthetics, Death, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), Signs (Notices), Time, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., March 3d, 1764.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 84. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The figure of Time reclines against a broken column surrounded by symbols of destruction: a collapsing church tower, dead trees, a bankrupcy notice served on Nature, a tombstone, a clock without hands, Phaeton falling from his chariot, a will, a shop-sign for "The World's End", a gallows, a burning impression of Hogarth's print "The Times" and broken objects, including an artist's palette, hour-glass, crown, rifle, bell, bottle, and broom. Two medallions on either side of the caption and their surrounding text concern the Line of Beauty. Three more columns of text between the medallions include quotes in Latin from Tactius and Maximus of Tyre, with an English translation
Alternative Title:
Bathos, or, Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures and Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures
Description:
Title, state, and publisher from Paulson., Title engraved above image: Tail piece. The Bathos., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand to right of print: See Mr. Nicholls's Book, 3d edit. p. 402., and On page 199 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 31.6 x 33.4 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Aesthetics, Death, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), Signs (Notices), Time, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., March 3d, 1764.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 85K(a) Box 225
Collection Title:
Plate 84. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The figure of Time reclines against a broken column surrounded by symbols of destruction: a collapsing church tower, dead trees, a bankrupcy notice served on Nature, a tombstone, a clock without hands, Phaeton falling from his chariot, a will, a shop-sign for "The World's End", a gallows, a burning impression of Hogarth's print "The Times" and broken objects, including an artist's palette, hour-glass, crown, rifle, bell, bottle, and broom. Two medallions on either side of the caption and their surrounding text concern the Line of Beauty. Three more columns of text between the medallions include quotes in Latin from Tactius and Maximus of Tyre, with an English translation
Alternative Title:
Bathos, or, Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures and Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures
Description:
Title, state, and publisher from Paulson., Title engraved above image: Tail piece. The Bathos., and 1 print : etching and engraving, on laid paper ; plate mark 320 x 338 mm, on sheet 394 x 558 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Aesthetics, Death, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), Signs (Notices), Time, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 January 1785]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Pages 139, 141, 143. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text on reissued state, published by J. Harris on 1 March 1799; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 799.03.01.01., For a slightly later state, with the date following printmaker's name changed from "Jany." to "March", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 785.03.25.01., A single design on three plates., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on pages 139, 141, and 143 of: Bunbury album., and Individual plates of the design are mounted on separate pages, instead of being joined at their ends to create a single image.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 March 1785]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 27. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text on reissued state, published by J. Harris on 1 March 1799; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 799.03.01.01., For a slightly earlier state, before the date following printmaker's name was changed from "Jany." to "March", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770., A single design on three plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on page 27 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 3 prints forming 1 image : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheets 52 x 47 cm or smaller., and Sheet trimmed within plate marks.
Volume 1, page 10b. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A grinning man with a long queue stands facing right, holding a pair of shears in his left hand. He holds wooden box that serves as a stool in his right hand, and under his right arm is a struggling dog. Behind him, in the upper left, hangs a sign with three fleur-de-lis that is lettered "LA VENGEANCE De crotteur royal Tond des CHIENS Proprement".
Description:
Title, printmaker, and publication date supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For a version of this design in reverse, published 25 April 1771 by M. Darly, see no. 4668 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted on page 10b in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
On a street in front of a church (right), possibly referencing the one built by George Whitfield in Tottenham Court Road and a tavern (left)with a sign identifying it as "The Old Goat New Revived", a make follower of Whitefield dressed in a quasi-Puritan dress, is assailed by two women. On the right an old woman touches his arm and points to the church with a volume, unlabeled in this working proof but later lettering "Whitefield's Hymns". On the left, a pretty, young woman lures him toward the public house. He eyes the young woman as he holds up his one hand deprecatingly toward the older woman
Description:
Title and date from British Museum catalogue., Finished print lettered with title and inscriptions: "J. Collet pinxt. / J. Goldar sculpt. / London, Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street & Jno. Smith No. 35, Cheapside, as the Act directs Jan. 1. 1773.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 52 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Robt. Sayer & Jno. Smith
Subject (Name):
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Temptation, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
