Title from item., Date derived from clothing styles., Publisher 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:
Department of Education
Subject (Topic):
Public health, Medicine, Preventive, Health literacy, School children, Health and hygiene, Health education, Sleeping customs, Children, Sleep, Sleeping, Bedrooms, and Clocks & watches
A series of twelve plates following the careers of two apprentice weavers, one who through industry rises to become Mayor of London while the other through his idleness ends up hanged at Tyburn
Alternative Title:
Fellow apprentices at their looms
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Series title engraved above image; plate numbering below image., State and publisher from Paulson., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 1, after page xxxvi. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Samuel Johnson is shown full-length on the left, facing right and apparently asleep standing up; his knees are bent, his eyes are closed, and his head rests on his left hand. A second man stands on the right, hands in his coat pockets, looking over at Johnson; this figure may be Sir John Hawkins
Alternative Title:
Scene from Boswell's 'Tour'
Description:
Title and date supplied by curator., Alternative title from description of original drawing in: Riely, J. The age of Horace Walpole in caricature. New Haven : Yale University Library, 1973, no. 48., After a drawing that is probably the work of Samuel Collings., Printmaker attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 38 x 27 cm., and Bound in after page xxxvi (leaf numbered '41' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 and Hawkins, John, 1719-1789
Opposite page 128. Catalogue of engravers, who have been born or resided in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A sea monster lounges on the reed-covered shore next to the ocean, playing a pan flute. A second figure sleeps in the background on the left, the remnants of a meal (oyster shells and fish bones) in front of them
Alternative Title:
After-dinner music
Description:
Title from that of another print after the same design., Another version, probably a copy, of a print engraved and published by John Hamilton Mortimer after his own design. For the likely earlier version published 8 December 1778 with the title "Musical monster", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.3297., Former attribution to Bernard Lens from local card catalog record. Lewis Walpole Library impression is mounted in a volume opposite biographical information about Bernard Lens., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 23 x 18 cm., and Bound in opposite page 128 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Catalogue of engravers, who have been born or resided in England. Strawberry-Hill, printed in the year MDCCLXV [1765].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Supernatural beings, Panpipes, Reeds (Plants), Eating & drinking, and Sleeping
An angel with a crown of flowers on her head holds two sleeping babies in her arms as she flies to the left. The sky is drawn with a crescent moon, clouds, stars, two bats, and an owl. Below her, a rural scene with cows sleeping to right and a boy (a shepherd?) to the left, who also sleeps, his arms resting against a rock out-cropping. In the background, a man and woman walk toward a cottage, the man holding a torch to light the way. In the distance on a hill is a walled city, with smoke pouring from the building on the right
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Watermark: Pro patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Angels, Bats, Cattle, Infants, Owls, Rural life, and Sleeping
An elderly woman in spectacles sleeps in a chair, a jug and glass on a table beside her. Under the table, sits a cat; a book lies open on the floor at her feet. A pair of scissors hangs from a chain on her lap. Behind the high backed chair, a man embraces a young woman who has her finger to her lips to quiet the spectator
Description:
Title provided in manuscript; artist name lacking. and Plate from: Rules for drawing caricaturas / by F. Grose. London : Printed by A. Grant, 1788.
A three-quarters length portrait of a man in a hat, sleeping
Description:
Title from ms. not in Steevens's hand on an impression in the Lewis Walpole Library., Note in Paulson's Hogarth's graphic works (1962): not by Hogarth., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print mark: one of Hogarth's club., and On page 235 in volume 3.
Title from item., Date derived from clothing styles., Publisher 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:
Department of Education
Subject (Topic):
Public health, Medicine, Preventive, Health literacy, School children, Health and hygiene, Health education, Sleeping customs, Children, Sleep, Men, Sleeping, Bedrooms, and Clocks & watches
Title from item., Date derived from clothing styles., Publisher 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:
Department of Education
Subject (Topic):
Public health, Medicine, Preventive, Health literacy, School children, Health and hygiene, Health education, Sleeping customs, Children, Sleep, Sleeping, and Bedrooms
"Death (left) poises his javelin, about to strike an old man in bed, reading a book by the light of a candle held in his left hand. The room is heaped with his treasures (armour, &c.). Rats scamper, chased by a cat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue; the assigned title for each plate from The English dance of death is the heading to the opposite printed page., Early (proof?) state, before aquatint added. For a later state, see no. 12412 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Publisher and date of publication from imprint on later state: London, Pub. 1 April 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with possible loss of text below image., Later state issued in: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 320., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death., and Ink verse notation on verso, perhaps in Rowlandson's hand; additional pencil notation on verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Wills, Skeletons, Spears, Beds, Sleeping, Cats, Rats, Armor, Musical instruments, Books, Candles, Artists' materials, Urns, and Sculpture