The Reverend Mr. Edward Hitchin, B.D

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A half-length portrait of The Reverend Mr. Edward Hitchin, dissenting minister at Spitalfields, looking forward, with body turned to the left, in wig and bands; a curtain behind, open on the left to reveal two shelves of book with only one spine title legible, “Bible”; oval frame.

  • Title: The Reverend Mr. Edward Hitchin, B.D. [graphic].
  • Published: [London] : Printed for Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London published as the act directs 20 April 1774

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Portraits H675 no. 1

Acquired April 2013

Sancho’s feast

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Sancho sits beside his physician Pedro Rezzio who stays his hand that is posed with a fork full of meat. Two platters have already been placed on the table, and two more (one with a rabbit and the other with clams) are brought to the table by two young servant boys. On the right two ladies stand behind Sancho’s chair, one pointing to him. On the left a larger group of men, one woman, and a black man laugh at the scene around the table. In the upper left on a balcony, three musicians play for the guests below. From the lower right, a dog looks at a platter of food. A reversed copy of the original engraving by Hogarth.

  • Printmaker: Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779-1856, printmaker.
  • Title: Sancho’s feast [graphic] / drawn by W. Hogarth ; engraved by F.C. Lewis 1830.
  • Edition: [Open-letter proof].
  • Published: London : Published for the proprietor by Messrs. Colnaghi, Son & Co. Jany. 15, 1830.

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Hogarth 830.01.15.01+

Acquired April 2013

4 logger heads, or B-e triumphant

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Receipt for White’s “Sketches of Characters … illustrative of the counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Middlesex”, showing three figures carrying a fourth on their backs, lettered below with ‘4 Logger heads or / B – e Triumphant’.

  • Printmaker: White, William Johnstone, printmaker.
  • Title: 4 logger heads, or B-e triumphant [graphic] / W. Hogarth delt. ; W.J. White sct.
  • Published: [London?] : Pubd. by W.J. White, April 1, 1818.

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818.04.01.02

Acquired April 2013

William Hogarth

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Self-portrait of William Hogarth in a fur cap, looking right; a bust in an oval canvas resting on volumes of Shakespeare’s works; with his dog Trump on the right. In the lower right, an artist’s palette engraved with the words: “The line of beauty and grace. WH 1745”.

  • Printmaker: Smith, Benjamin, -1833, printmaker.
  • Title: William Hogarth [graphic] : from the original picture in the collection of John & Josiah Boydell / painted by W. Hogarth ; engraved by Benj. Smith.
  • Published: [London] : Published June 4, 1795 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall, [4 June 1795]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Hogarth 795.06.04.01+ Box 2

Acquired April 2013

A domestic scene in a garden

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Mounted with three other prints in the series. To view other prints search by call number 799.05.01.01.

  • Printmaker: Ryder, Thomas, 1746-1810, printmaker.
  • Title: [A domestic scene in a garden] [graphic] / Hogarth pinxt. ; T. Ryder sculpt.
  • Published: [London] : Pub. for S. Ireland, May 1, 1799.

Catalog Record & Digital Record

Hogarth 799.05.01.01+ Box

Acquired April 2013

Sigismunda

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The Drawing was made by Mr Edwd Edwards Associate of the Royal Academy & finished in April 1764 under the inspection of Mr Hogarth from whose pencil it received its last finishing touches about six Months before his death. From this Drawing Mr Basire the Engraver began a Print but the death of Mr Hogarth prevented its being finished.”

The princess leaning forward and to the left, resting her elbow on a casket on top of an ornate table, and her chin on her hand, weeping, pressing to her breast the heart of her lover Guiscardo, which his murderers have sent to her in a goblet; after Hogarth; scratched-letter state.

  • Printmaker: Dunkarton, Robert, 1746 -, printmaker.
  • Title: Sigismunda [graphic] / Hogarth pinxt. ; Dunkarton sculpt.
  • Edition: [Scratched, open letter proof].
  • Published: London : Published Feb. 1st, 1793 by T.B. Freeman & Co., Strand & sold by Dickenson New Bond Street & Walker Cornhill, [1 February 1793]

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Hogarth 793.02.01.01+

Acquired April 2013

The sleepy congregation

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A view of the interior of a church where the congregation (right) sleeps as the clergyman in his pulpit reads from the gospel; he uses a magnifying glass to read the text; an hour glass extends from the side of the pulpit. Below the clergyman sits the clerk who holds his eyeglasses in his hand and eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the left rather than the volume before him. The young woman’s holds in her hands a fan and book open to the word “matrimony”. Above the stained-glass windows a cupid hovers with his bow.

  • Title: The sleepy congregation [graphic] = La congregation tout endormi / W. Hogarth pinxt. et sculpt.
  • Created: [Paris?] : [s.n.], [1790s?]

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Hogarth 790.00.00.02

Acquired April 2013

A falling man

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A stout, bald man fallen on his back, supports himself with his one hand and one arm on the ground; one foot raised.

  • Printmaker: Livesay, Richard, 1750-1826, printmaker.
  • Title: [A falling man] [graphic] / Hogarth delint. ; Livesay fecit.
  • Published: [London] : Published Octr. 1788 by Thos. King, New Broad Street [October 1788]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Hogarth 788.10.00.01

Acquired April 2013

The seamstress

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A print after Romney’s portrait of Amy Lyon, mistress of The Honorable Charles Greville who, wanting a portrait of her, introduced her to Romney. She later became Emma, Lady Hamilton and still later, the mistress of Admiral Lord Nelson. She is shown in profile, in a bonnet with a blue ribbon, seated on a chair outdoors under a tree, head bent over her sewing. On the left in the distance, two sheep rest peacefully on the hillside.

  • Printmaker: Cheesman, Thomas, 1760-, printmaker.
  • Title: The seamstress [graphic] / G. Romney pinxit ; T. Cheesman sculpsit, pupil of F. Bartolozzi, R.A.
  • Created: [London] : [s.n.], [ca. 1787]

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Portraits H217a no.1

Acquired April 2013

A hint to the blind & foolish, or The Bourbon dynasty in danger!

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  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker.
  • Title: A hint to the blind & foolish, or The Bourbon dynasty in danger! [graphic] / G. Cruikshank fect.
  • Published: [London] : Pubd. March 10th 1823 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, London, [10 March 1823]

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823.03.10.01+

Acquired April 2013