Subscription ticket for "Moses brought to Pharaoh's Daughter" and "St Paul before Felix" with three naked boys, one painting, one engraving and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of a many-breasted Diana of Ephesus.
Subscription ticket for "Moses brought to Pharaoh's Daughter" and "St Paul before Felix" with three naked boys, one painting, one engraving and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of a many-breasted Diana of Ephesus.
Subscription ticket for "Marriage A-la-Mode" with a group of naturalistic heads in profile and, below, five compartments with heads after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons (i.e. "characters") and caricatures after Ghezzi, Annibale Carracci and Leonardo.
Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known.
Interior of a chapel with an impassioned preacher inspiring his listeners. Reworked from an earlier state known as "Enthusiasm Delineated." (Paulson 210),
Subscription ticket for "An Election Entertainment" with the royal crown as a sun casting its rays on coronets, mitres and other symbols of power, as well as on a copy of "Hogarth's" Act of 1735.
Subscription ticket for "An Election Entertainment" with the royal crown as a sun casting its rays on coronets, mitres and other symbols of power, as well as on a copy of "Hogarth's" Act of 1735.
A suburban or country churchyard where Tom Nero has been arrested for the murder; the body of his lover, Ann Gill, its throat cut, lies on the ground with the bundle of plate she has stolen from her mistress at Nero's request.
One of six illustrations for a projected Spanish language edition of Don Quixote that Hogarth and other illustrators were asked to submit by Tonson, the publisher of the work. Chance directs Don Quixote and Sancho to a goatherd during their travels.
Interior of a chapel with an impassioned preacher inspiring his listeners who include a woman swooning on the floor and a young couple embracing. Original by Hogarth never published and the plate was reworked as "Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism." (Paulson 211)
Scene at Sadler's Wells Theater with a dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River. The wife holds a fan with a design of Venus and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds. Behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman.
Scene at Sadler's Wells Theater with a dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River. The wife holds a fan with a design of Venus and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds. Behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman.