- Title: The Corsican dissected [graphic].
- Publication: London : Pubd. Aug. 14, 1803, by W. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, Pall Mall, [14 August 1803]
803.08.14.01+
Acquired January 2021
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Tag Archives: Lewis Walpole Library January 2021
The frontispiece and its explanation
A copy of the Hogarth’s Frontispiece and its explanation for Samuel Butler’s poem Hudibras with the title engraved above the image and the text below in a single sentence below. Plate one is an emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler mounted on a pedestal on which is carved a relief showing a satyr whipping figures of Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance dressed as puritans, while he drives a chariot drawn by Hudibras and Ralpho; in the foreground, on the left, a satyr holds up a volume of Butler’s poem as a guide for the carver (a boy dressed only in an apron), and on the right a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia.
- Title: The frontispiece and its explanation [graphic].
- Publication: [London] : Printed and sold by Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street, [between 1760 and 1777?]
Folio 75 H67 768B
Acquired January 2021
Thomas Hewerdine, oil and colour-man
Includes a printed list of paints and oils, as well as other chandlery goods including preserved goods, grocery stores and other materials of use on board.
- Title: Thomas Hewerdine, oil and colour-man, at the sign of the Colour-Grinder, the corner of Barnaby-Street, in Tooley Street, Southwark, London; Sells all sorts of colours ready prepared (at the lowest prices) for house or ship painting; that any gentlemen builders, &c. may set their servants to work, at an easy expence, by the help of a printed direction, he gives with his colours.
- Publication: [Southwark, London] : [Thomas Hewerdine], [1765]
File 66 765 T454
Acquired January 2021
Hudibras and Sidrophel
“Episode from Butler’s ‘Hudibras’, after Hogarth; four men around table in interior, one in rich clothes sitting beneath canopy and writing document, gesticulating at the three others, who look shocked; globe and papers in centre at base of table.”–British Museum online catalogue.
- Printmaker: Gaugain, Thomas, -1810?, printmaker.
- Title: Hudibras and Sidrophel [graphic] : from an original in the possession of Mr. Vincent / painted by Wm. Hogarth ; engraved by Thom. Gaugain.
- Publication: [London] : Pubd. Oct. 1, 1782, by T. Gaugain, No. 4 Little Compton Street, London, [1 October 1782]
Hogarth 782.10.01.01+
Acquired January 2021
Consultation of physicians
A group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. A version of the print also published with lettering “The company of undertakers”. The three named quacks occupy the top, twelve other ‘doctors’ are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal while another holds it.
- Title: Consultation of physicians [graphic] / Wm. Hogarth invt.
- Publication: [London] : Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, [ca. 1817]
Hogarth 817.00.00.24
Acquired January 2021