John D Merriam Collection

The interior of a bare, poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof. Pitt and Dundas, as watchmen, batter down the upper timbers of a door (right) which has been strongly bolted, locked, and barricaded. Both hav More

Scene near Charing Cross with le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I in the background and celebrations of the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II (29 May, known as "Oak Apple Day"). In the foregrou More

Print shows Fortune, Honesty, and Honor being mutilated and beaten amid a crowd of unfortunate investors in the South Sea investment scandal. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

This Hogarth engraved in the manner of Rembrandt was used as a subscription ticket "Paul before Felix." It proved so popular that he had to set a price on it and sell impressions separately. Courtesy of Boston More

Paul before Felix, showing St. Paul on trial before Felix, governor of Caesarea. Paul to left with arms raised, Felix sitting with his wife Drusilla and two priests on a dais at center, one sitting with his chi More

This print was designed by Hogarth as a tailpiece to an artist's catalogue. It shows a monkey watering dead exotics of past ages, the implication being that too many works of art are thought to be "good" merely More

This print was designed by Hogarth as a satire on the government of his time. Royalty, episcopy and law appear on the three thrones. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

This print was designed by William Hogarth as an emblematic representation of the chances of fate or fortune. The engraved postscript explains the figures. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Satire on Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Burlington" in which he praises Lord Burlington's architectural taste. The gate of Burlington House, Piccadilly, surmounted by statues of William Kent, Raphael and Michela More

A drinking scene with eleven men in a paneled room around a table on which is a punch-bowl decorated with Chinese figures; wine bottles on the floor and mantelpiece and an overflowing chamber pot at lower right More

The heavy judge in the center has been identified as Sir John Willes (1685-1761). The thin, long-nosed sleeper was identified as Henry, afterwards Earl, Bathurst (1714-94). The other two judges were identified More

This print, which was Hogarth's last, was planned to "serve as a Tail-piece to all the Author's engraved works," and was much celebrated as his farewell. Hogarth introduced into his print everything that could More

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th cent More

Design in an oval. A burlesque of Reynolds's painting of Mrs. Sheridan as 'St. Cecilia.' Lady Cecilia Johnston [1727-1817] sits at the organ in profile to the right, on a low stool, her face lit by rays which d More

Four men, their feet cut off by the lower margin, play whist at a rectangular table. Each has one card in his hand and is about to play the last trick, the tricks piled on the table show that each side has six More

The water used to put out the fire in The Times, pl. 1 is turned to peaceful uses and the firefighters are transformed into gardeners. This print is based on the ancient metaphor of the king as Fountain of Hono More

The heads and shoulders of the King and Queen (left) and of Dundas (right) face each other. Dundas holds a letter with a broken seal postmarked Bristol. He leans forward with a satisfied and cunning smile. He w More

Pitt, very thin, stands rigidly erect in profile to the right. Mrs. Hobart, immensely fat, completely fills a globe which stands on a rectangular platform on castors, and whose circumference rests against Pitt' More

An enormously fat lady stands in profile to the left, holding a bowl (resembling a punch-bowl), her left hand on her hip, holding up the frilled apron which drapes her quilted petticoat. She wears ringlets with More

Three people sit at a round table playing push-pin. The Duke of Queensberry (right) leans on the table, pushing the pin. In his right hand is a double lorgnette over which he leers at his vis-à-vis, a very corp More

Three grotesque and ill-matched soldiers charge rapidly and fiercely down the pavement. Their bayonets threaten three women who flee in terror, only legs, petticoats, and an upraised arm being visible on the ex More

John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is a yokel with wrinkled gaiters, with a tattered More

An ugly man (left) kneels (on a spotted handkerchief) at the feet of a plain old maid seated on an upright chair. He holds her left hand, his right is on his breast. She holds up her fan in a way more encouragi More

A French hussar on a sorry horse flees before a well-mounted Mameluke, with a sabre in each hand, who rides him down. The Frenchman (left) turns in his saddle to hold out defensively a sabre whose blade is insc More

A tall handsome lady walks diagonally forwards from left to right, her left hand on the arm of a much shorter companion with a larger head, perhaps a young girl. The latter, though her dress is simple, has a gr More

A couple dance in an assembly-room. The man, active and disheveled, smaller than his immensely fat partner, holds the ends of a large spotted handkerchief, since it is impossible to grasp her waist. In the back More

The bulky Lord Cholmondeley (1749-1827) stands in profile to the left. He wears a small round hat with long powdered hair tied back, and a whisker; a double-breasted coat over a double-breasted waistcoat, strip More

Three brothers, with similar but identical profiles, sit squeezed together in a small rustic phaeton drawn (left to right) by three prancing goats, two being wheelers. The driver is nearest the spectator. All h More

Five Germans seated at a round table, gormandize savagely on cabbage and sausages. Three are grossly fat and coarse-featured and plebeian; one of these (r.) has tucked the table-cloth round his neck. A lean mil More

After the title: 'Vide. The Diplomatique's late Journey through Paris.' Count Starhemberg (left), Austrian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to England, drives in a post-chaise drawn by two gallo More

A violent disturbance in a luxuriously furnished breakfast parlour. The only lady present has risen from her chair to pull a bell-pull. The frantic efforts of five elderly men to stop her have produced a sequen More

A pretty young woman and a fashionably dressed man sing together seated on upright chairs. She (r.) plays the harp, her head thrown back to look over her shoulder at the music-book which he holds open. On a rou More

Fox and Lord Henry Petty stand at the door of a ramshackle tenement house. A distressed family look down at them from an open casement window over the door. Petty's hand is on the knocker. He holds a large open More

George III (l.), just risen from the throne, kicks Grenville from the presence, holding him by the pigtail, and raising the sceptre to smite. Other members of the Ministry flee in confusion, their gestures show More

While crossing a ford the horse of a man with a lady seated behind him rears and snorts and prepares to gallop after the hunt. Huntsmen follow a pack in full cry on the opposite hill (r.). The lady is very fat More

Napoleon, advancing down a gently sloping causeway of rock which traverses water and flames, is halted by 'Leo Britannicus' who bounds savagely towards him. He drops a short chain attached to the nose of the 'R More

This series of bitter satirical prints against the grand radical of the day are parodies on the autobiographical sketch in his own Register, published during this year. They need little further explanation than More

This series of bitter satirical prints against the grand radical of the day are parodies on the autobiographical sketch in his own Register, published during this year. They need little further explanation than More

The cabinet of an antiquarian, richly filled with supposititious relics of the past. The chief features of the collection are a gathering of Egyptian deities and some magnificent sarcophagi. The satire, in some More

A non-political laugh, where the pretensions of new-rich townees were a frequent source of humor. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

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A caricature of three dandies playing on musical instruments. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Jolly Ned is hoisting a glass as he hugs the amiable cook, nearly falling off the kitchen table in the process. In this delightful scene below stairs the servants are mightily enjoying the spectacle. Courtesy o More

Skeffington skips forward (left to right). His sharp-featured profile emerges, grinning, from a sharp-pointed collar and swathed cravat. His hair is swept forward in careful disarray, which, with his heavy whis More

Woman in mid-century dress, standing with arms up. A seated man in a suit watches her. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

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Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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