publish'd according to act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 82. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior of the Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and forty male spectators ranging from a sow-gelder, a butcher, a black footman, coachmen and a sweep to the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (in the centre); on the wall to right, a framed picture of a stout woman, lettered "Nan Rawlings", seated with a cock on her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pit ticket
Description:
Title from Paulson., Title engraved below image, on either side of an image of a rooster wtih the words 'Royal' and 'Sport' etched on either side: Pit ticket., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 31.6 x 38.2 cm, on sheet 42 x 57 cm., and Plate 82 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bertie, Albemarle, Sir, ca. 1720-1765 and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Social life and customs, Blacks, Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Gambling, Nobility, Sports spectators, and Servants
publish'd according to act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 56K(b) Box 215
Collection Title:
Plate 82. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior of the Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and forty male spectators ranging from a sow-gelder, a butcher, a black footman, coachmen and a sweep to the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (in the centre); on the wall to right, a framed picture of a stout woman, lettered "Nan Rawlings", seated with a cock on her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pit ticket
Description:
Title from Paulson., Title engraved below image, on either side of an image of a rooster wtih the words 'Royal' and 'Sport' etched on either side: Pit ticket., and Sheet trimmed to 319 x 387 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bertie, Albemarle, Sir, ca. 1720-1765 and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Social life and customs, Blacks, Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Gambling, Nobility, Sports spectators, and Servants
publish'd according to act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Call Number:
Hogarth 759.11.05.01++ Box 305
Collection Title:
Plate 82. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior of the Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and forty male spectators ranging from a sow-gelder, a butcher, a black footman, coachmen and a sweep to the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (in the centre); on the wall to right, a framed picture of a stout woman, lettered "Nan Rawlings", seated with a cock on her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pit ticket
Description:
Title from Paulson., Title engraved below image, on either side of an image of a rooster wtih the words 'Royal' and 'Sport' etched on either side: Pit ticket., 1 print : etching & engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 315 x 385 mm, on sheet 415 x 585 mm., and Matted to 558 x 710 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bertie, Albemarle, Sir, ca. 1720-1765 and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Social life and customs, Blacks, Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Gambling, Nobility, Sports spectators, and Servants
Three playing cards, or transformation cards, drawn in pen and ink by an unidentified artist, showing caricatured figures using the shape of the pip, only hearts or diamonds (red watercolor) in this incomplete set. One of the cards (two hearts) features two gentlemen meeting. The other two cards (three of diamonds) feature a lady with a fan and two gentleman in one card; the other incomplete, has a lady with a fan and only one gentleman
Description:
In English., Title from dealer's description., and Cards appear to have been removed from an album; remains of paper and glue are present on verso of each card.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs
A set of playing cards, or transformation cards, drawn by an unidentified artist, showing caricatured figures; each vignette incorporates the formation of hearts or diamonds into the scene. Some of the cards are numbered or annotated on the backs while others show drafts of other sketches. The set contains only the red suits, cards numbered from one to ten in each, although some numbers are missing and there are multiples of some numbers. Illustrations are also duplicated while others appear not to have been finished. There are no cards with clubs and spades. A number of the cards center on Shakespearean themes, social history, and street scenes (such as courtroom drama, musicians performing, a man in the stocks and, in a few, card playing itself). Some of the scenes depicted on these cards show more ribald, drawing from Macbeth’s Weird Sisters, Twelfth Night, King John, and The Merry Wives of Windsor; several are annotated on the reverse with lines from the plays. Falstaff is featured on several cards. Many of the cards reflect the mores of the period and the contrast between ruling passions and rules of conduct. In one, two men cast judgment upon a pregnant woman; it is annotated on the reverse with a dialogue between a Constable and a Judge. In "Village School" a schoolteacher manages to simultaneously hold a book and pinch a child's ear (nine of hearts). Other subjects include a game of chess (five of diamonds); drinking and smoking in a pub (seven of diamonds); and "Bunbury’s Country Club" (six of diamonds) in which the artist has kept elements from the print (published circa 1788). On the ten of diamonds the artist depicts a game of whist (annotated on the reverse "Can you one?").
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., Some cards annotated and numbered on the verso., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs
Manuscript copies of letters from Denison to her friend "Mary" in Bath, describing the last stages of an extended Continental tour. The first volume begins with the author's description of her family's three month tour of Switzerland, including their encounter with Lady Bute and a visit to the "English Gardens" at Arlesheim. It continues with letters detailing the journey to Naples, via Milan, Florence and Rome. The second volume concerns the Dennison's three months in Naples and their return to England via Mont Cenis and Paris and Throughout her letters, Denison includes information on galleries, churches, and works of art she has viewed. She also discusses the events of daily life; servants; the manners and conversation of other travelers and new acquaintances; social gatherings, balls, and conversazioni; and such matters as the reported outbreak of plague at Noja, a destructive fire at the San Carlo Opera, and the Duke of Wellington's ball at Versailles
Description:
Binding: half morocco with marbled boards.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Italy, Naples (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Denison, Harriet.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Women travelers, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social conditions, and Social life and customs
Manuscript copies of letters from Denison to her friend "Mary" in Bath, describing the last stages of an extended Continental tour. The first volume begins with the author's description of her family's three month tour of Switzerland, including their encounter with Lady Bute and a visit to the "English Gardens" at Arlesheim. It continues with letters detailing the journey to Naples, via Milan, Florence and Rome. The second volume concerns the Dennison's three months in Naples and their return to England via Mont Cenis and Paris and Throughout her letters, Denison includes information on galleries, churches, and works of art she has viewed. She also discusses the events of daily life; servants; the manners and conversation of other travelers and new acquaintances; social gatherings, balls, and conversazioni; and such matters as the reported outbreak of plague at Noja, a destructive fire at the San Carlo Opera, and the Duke of Wellington's ball at Versailles
Description:
Binding: half morocco with marbled boards.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Italy, Naples (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Denison, Harriet.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Women travelers, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social conditions, and Social life and customs
Autograph diary of a six-month visit in Rome with "Charlotte and Papa." The author comments on art and architecture, gardens and fountains, and ancient monuments. The author, probably a woman, is interested in Catholic ceremonies and practices and describes the final profession ceremony of a nun, the lying in state and funeral of Cardinal Freschi, the celebration of the Festival of the Conception, Christmas services at St. Peter's, the Roman Carnival, and Papal processions and The author also details social encounters with such figures as Cardinal Antonelli, Sir Charles and Lady Lyell and the sculptor Benjamin Spence
Description:
Binding: contemporary half red morocco with marbled boards and endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Italy, and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Antonelli, Giacomo, 1806-1876., Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875., Lyell, Mary., Spence, Benjamin., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Customs and practices, Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Women travelers, Description and travel, Festivals, etc, and Social life and customs
Manuscripts, in numerous hands, of a collection of notes on art. The collection includes numerous lists of works Reynolds saw while visiting Italian museums, houses, and private collections; a pencil drawing of a country house; and an undated letter regarding "the beautiful Episode of Abradatas and Panthea": of this episode, he writes, "it occurred to me that this Story might furnish to the pencil a Suite of Subjects." Other items include a note on Raphael's "School of Athens"; an "Ode, Inscribed to Sir Abraham Hume, on his painting two beautiful Pictures of Views near his seat at Wormley Herts"; and an anonymous criticism of Reynolds' last Discourse on painting and poetry which he had "delivered to the students of the Royal Academy."
Description:
In English. and Collection includes a two-page note, dated 1968, regarding some of the items in the collection.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Italy., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Hume, Abraham, Sir, bart., 1749-1838., Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792., and Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Subject (Topic):
Art, English poetry, Memorandums, Odes, Painting, and Social life and customs
Manuscript, in a multiple hands, of a collection of newspaper articles, prints, drawings, letters, and autobiographical text, primarily relating to Grimstone's published writing. The volume includes "my first prose [which] was the following letter inserted in the Polemical Inquirer. The Editors letter to me is on the oppposite side," numerous pieces of prose and verse which appeared in "The Ladies Monthly Museum" and "The Theatrical Inquisitor," and printed musical scores, of which she notes, "Part of my engagement with the proprietors of the Ladies Monthly museum, was to supply new words to the Irish melodies and other airs," as well as numerous business correspondence with editors and personal letters. The volume is prefaced by an introduction in which Grimstone gives an account of her recent "nervous disorder" during which she destroyed much of her writing. She declares, "My Own Scrap Book in which i mean to be as egotistical as I can and talk of nothing but myself, or what relates to myself. If I live to see the hundred and odd years, I am promised; I & this book shall like to converse together when perhaps few others will care to give me companionship. If I die early, then this book will be still a part of me remaining and speaking to those that loved me."
Description:
In English., Laid in at end: letters and scraps of paper with printed poems., Laid in at beginning: typed list of works attributed to Grimstone in the British Museum Catalogue., and Binding: half calf.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Grimstone, Mary Leman (Rede)
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, Letters, Music, Women authors, Women, Conduct of life, Periodicals, and Social life and customs
