All Saint's Church, Lowell. - Public domain dedication image
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Red - dark, Flemish - dark, blue - dark
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#1. The Annunciation and the boy in the Temple
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Merrick Thread Co., Best Six Cord, 8.
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Jesus at the home of Mary and Martha (Mary hath chosen that good part)...
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Brookline Mass. clerestory, All Saints Church
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Be still and know that I am God, o come let us sing unto the Lord, Uni...
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Design for windows on St. William's Church. Emblems for right window.
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The Blessed Virgin, Christ the king. Marblehead, Star of the Sea Churc...
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I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. John, who bore record ...
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Wesley Church, Worcester, aisle. Motherhood, childhood, fatherhood
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Sketch - cartoon for the enrichment of an oblong window-space
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Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton Advertising - Vintage American Trade Car...
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Andreas Dippel / Opera singer / Aime Dupont atelier
Photograph of a man in a costume resembling a 16th-century courtier style. He is wearing a hat with a feather. On his torso, he is wearing a short cape and doublet with intricate embroidery. He has leather glov... More
Andreas Dippel / Opera singer / Aime Dupont atelier
Photograph of a man in a costume resembling a 16th-century courtier style. He is wearing a hat with a feather. On his torso, he is wearing a short cape and doublet with intricate embroidery. He has leather glov... More
A smoking club, James Gillray - Engraving, Public domain image
Pitt and Dundas, Fox and Sheridan face each other across a long narrow table, smoking long pipes and puffing clouds of smoke in each other's faces. The gallery of the House of Commons is indicated in the backgr... More
From an original, late in the Collection of Charles Frederick Abel Esq...
Landscape with figures binding a bundle of wood at right, cattle and sheep resting at left, hills beyond. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th c... More
Amusement for John Bull & his cousin Paddy, or, the gambols of the Ame...
A large basket of loaves and fishes lies upset in the street, probably due to the grinning American buffalo, which looks on. Ministers and would-be ministers scramble for the fallen food. Courtesy of Boston pu... More
Country characters no. 9: Exciseman, Thomas Rowlandson
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The colonies reduced ; Its companion
Two cartoons. The upper cartoon, "The colonies reduced," shows Britannia seated with arms and legs (labeled Pennsyl, New York, New Eng, and Virg) cut off. The lower cartoon, "Its companion," shows France defend... More
Luxury, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain drawing
Public domain image, 17th-18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known fo... More
The able doctor, or American swallowing the bitter draught
The fair Indian damsel America held down by Lord Mansfield while Lord North forces tea down her throat. Boston is cannonaded in the background. Published the day after the Boston Port Bill closed Boston's port ... More
Search night - or - state watchmen mistaking honest men for conspirato...
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
The times, anno 1783, James Gillray
Figures personifying England, France, Spain, and Holland represent the international situation. England (right), a John Bull, stout and plainly dressed, holds up his hands, with a melancholy expression. By his ... More
Simon & Iphigenia, Thomas Rowlandson
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The Scotch butchery, Boston, 1775
Print shows Lords Bute and Mansfield conferring, to their right stands Simon Fraser and Lord Wedderburn, "Deputies" to the aforenamed. On the far right are soldiers wearing Highland dress (of the 71st Regiment ... More
Horrors of the Irish-union. Botheration of poor Pat - or - a whisper a...
Britannia, buxom and beneficent, sits on one side of the "Irish Channel." On a smaller piece of ground stands Pat, his hands deep in his coat pockets, looking sideways towards Britannia. She sits with her shiel... More
Cries of London, No. 8 : Hot cross bunns, two a penny bunns
A decent woman, wearing a white apron, and with a cloth over her basket, is supplying a patroness with a plateful of hot cross buns. A pretty woman, in a neat morning dress, is buying buns, and her children by ... More
Alecto and her train at the gate of Pandoemonium - or - the recruiting...
Alecto, a fantastic hag, stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holdi... More
Evidence to character - being, a portrait of a traitor by his friends ...
Depicted is the trial of O'Connor, who confesses to making an Irish-French alliance, before the presiding judge Buller. Testifying to the character of O'Connor are various members of the opposition. Starting at... More
Traffic, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain portrait drawing
Two Jewish clothesmen are securing a parcel of cast-off garments at the door of a highly respectable mansion, whereat a buxom housemaid is disposing of her master's old apparel. In the street beyond is shown th... More
The rival candidates, Thomas Rowlandson
The three candidates who were contesting the great fight for the representation of Westminster are represented according to their supposititious characteristics. Fox, with his hand on his heart, and his arm hel... More
The political cartoon, for the year 1775
Mansfield drives an open coach carrying George III and North toward a cliff. North looks on with approval -- only Chatham and Camden try to stop the coach. Across the waters America burns. Courtesy of Boston Pu... More
The Irish baronet and his nurse!, Thomas Rowlandson
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From an original late in the Collection of Charles Frederick Abel Esq'...
Landscape with figures collecting wood beside a gnarled tree, cows grazing in the fields at left. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries... More
View on the French coast, Thomas Rowlandson
Partially dismantled ships of war, canted for caulking. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures... More
Grotesque borders for rooms & halls, Thomas Rowlandson
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Post house, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain scan / drawing
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The new country dance, as dance at C****. July the 30th, 1766
Satire on George III's court (the king plays the fiddler). Wilkes is carried off by a witch as he relieves himself on Lord Bute. Pitt talks with a half-naked Indian representing America and the devil dances wit... More
Procession of a country corporation, Thomas Rowlandson
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The Whitehall pump - A drawing of a group of people standing around a ...
Lord North pumps water into the mouth of Britannia, nearly drowning her, while her Indian daughter America lies underneath her. The pump head is shaped like George III. Fox smiles on from a window in the backgr... More
Dumourier dining in State at St. James's on the 15 May, 1793
Dumouriez (right) sits in a gothic chair (reminiscent of the Coronation chair), at the royal dinner-table. Three cooks advance towards him, wearing bonnets-rouges with tricolour cockades, aprons, and over-sleev... More
William Hogarth - Simon Francois - The pool of Bethesda
Scene from John 5. The central protagonist is the man unable to reach the pool to be healed on account of a chronic ulcerous wound on his leg. He is then healed by Jesus. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Evening - Engraving, Public domain image
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 ... More
William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 6
A dilapidated room with Moll's friends, mostly prostitutes, gathered around her open coffin. To left, a clergyman gropes beneath a woman's skirt, to right, the undertaker pays court to another who picks a handk... More
Quixote being cared for by the innkeeper's wife and daughter
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. The innkeeper's wife and daughter ... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 7
A room in the Fleet Prison. Tom sits at a table while his wife clenches her fists and the jailer asks for garnish money. To left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman wh... More
William Hogarth - Strolling actresses dressing in a barn
Nine actresses and four child actors dressed as classical deities preparing for a performance; among props and costumes are kittens playing with an orb and lyre, a monkey urinating in a helmet and a baby being ... More
William Hogarth - A midnight modern conversation
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
William Hogarth - Night - Engraving, Public domain image
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
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 1
The Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Analysis of beauty, pl. 2
One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty." A ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border a... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 7
A room in the Fleet Prison. Tom sits at a table while his wife clenches her fists and the jailer asks for garnish money. To left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman wh... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 5
Interior of the dilapidated church of St. Marylebone where Tom is marrying a one-eyed, wealthy old woman. In the background Sarah Young attempts to enter with her child. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Hogarth painting the cosmic muse
Self-portrait of Hogarth painting the Comic Muse. The artist is seated looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat, he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife while a pot of oil is on the floor ... More
William Hogarth - Cruelty in perfection
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... More
William Hogarth - The South Sea scheme
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
William Hogarth - Evening - Engraving, Public domain image
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 ... More
Paul before Felix, burlesqued - Public domain scan / engraving
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
William Hogarth - The funeral of Chrysostom
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. This print illustrates the scene w... More
William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 2
A lavishly furnished bedroom. Moll distracts her wealthy protector by exposing a breast and at the same time tipping over a tea-table so that her lover can slip quietly out of the room. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Pl. 4. Chairing the members
Scene in a country town with two newly-elected members of parliament (one a representation of George Bubb Dodington, the other visible only as a shadow on a distant wall) carried shoulder-high along the street,... More
Hogarth painting the cosmic muse
Self-portrait of Hogarth painting the Comic Muse. The artist is seated looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat, he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife while a pot of oil is on the floor ... More
Benjamin Smith - William Hogarth
A self portrait of the artist with his pug, Trump. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Credulity, superstition, and fanaticism
Interior of a chapel with an impassioned preacher inspiring his listeners. Reworked from an earlier state known as "Enthusiasm Delineated." (Paulson 210), Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Pl. 11. The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn
The place of execution. In the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - The times, pl. 1
A city on fire, emblematic of the Seven Years War and George III's efforts to bring about peace. In the center, a fire-engine on which stands a man with a badge lettered "GR" aiming his hose at a shop-sign of t... More
William Hogarth - Sullivan's Paul before Felix
Paul before Felix, showing St. Paul on trial before Felix, governor of Caesarea. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 5
A squalid room where Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies. Her serving-woman calls for attention for the invalid, another wom... More
William Hogarth - Analysis of beauty, pl. 2
One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty." A ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border a... More
William Hogarth - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 3
Shown is the interior of a dispensary where the viscount has brought his child-mistress to visit M. de la Pillule whose remedy has not cured her venereal disease; a large, well-dressed woman (perhaps a procures... More
William Hogarth - Freeing of the galley slaves
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. Don Quixote is freeing convicts in... More
William Hogarth - Moses brought to Pharaoh's daughter
The child Moses given up by his mother (who has been acting as wet nurse) to the daughter of Pharaoh. To right, the mother/nurse is being paid by a steward. To left, two female attendants, one black and one whi... More
Don Quixote and the Knight of the Rock
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 San... More
William Hogarth - The adventures of Mambrino's helmet
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. Don Quixote is shown at the moment... More
William Hogarth - Scholars at a lecture
Oxford scholars, portrayed as an assemblage of heads wearing square-topped, round cloth and felt hats and expressing varieties of boredom, listening to a reader in a lectern at lower right. Courtesy of Boston P... More
William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 1
A scene outside the Bell Inn; a country girl, Moll Hackabout, just arrived on the York Wagon, meets an extravagantly dressed bawd (Mother Needham). A clergyman on horseback fails to notice the encounter, but a ... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 3
A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane. To left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Tailpiece to the catalogue
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
William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 3
A shabby room in Drury Lane. Moll is rising late, attended by a serving-woman who has lost part of her nose to syphilis in the background, the magistrate, John Gonson, enters quietly with officers to arrest her... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 3
A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane. To left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - The invasion, pl. 2: England
A scene outside an English country inn (the "Duke of Cumberland") with soldiers and sailors preparing for a French invasion. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Night - Engraving, Public domain image
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
Southwark Fair (or the humours of a fair)
Fairground with attractions including theatrical booths (Ciber [sic] and Bullock's collapsing on the left, and Lee and Harper's in the center), china shop, rope dancer and rope-flyer, quack doctor, peep show, c... More
William Hogarth - Crowns, mitres, maces, etc
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. Courtesy of Bo... More
Pl. 6. The industrious 'Prentice out of his time and married to his ma...
A wedding celebrations in Fish Street Hill with a legless ballad seller and drummers and butchers playing 'rough music' with bones and cleavers outside the house of Francis Goodchild and his bride. Courtesy of ... More
Caricature, William Hogarth - The cockpit, public domain cartoon image
Interior of the Royal Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and spectators watching. The print pretends to be a ticket of admission to one of the fights. Courtesy of Bo... More
William Hogarth - Noon - Engraving, Public domain image
Scene in St Giles's-in-the-Fields with an elegant crowd leaving the French Huguenot church contrasted with rowdy Londoners outside a tavern with the sign of the Good Woman (one without a head). In the foregroun... More
William Hogarth - Taste in high life
This print is satirizing the clothes and behavior of fashionable society in the early 1740s. On the left is a woman with her servant, a young boy she has dressed up in a feathered turban. The woman on the right... More
William Hogarth - Pl. 2. Canvassing for votes
A rural scene with three inns: "The Portobello" (celebrating the naval victory of 1739 in contrast with the recent loss of Minorca), outside which two veterans sit reminiscing; "The Excise Office" (the Whig str... More
William Hogarth - Night - Engraving, Public domain image
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
William Hogarth - The enraged musician
A scene in London, possibly near St Martin's-in-the-Fields, with a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street. A ballad-seller chants while her baby cries and a milkmaid and oth... More
William Hogarth - Noon - Engraving, Public domain image
Scene in St Giles's-in-the-Fields with an elegant crowd leaving the French Huguenot church contrasted with rowdy Londoners outside a tavern with the sign of the Good Woman (one without a head). In the foregroun... More
William Hogarth - Columbus breaking the egg
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. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Paul before Felix
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
Pl. 3. The idle 'prentice at play in the church yard
A churchyard with Tom Idle sprawled on a tomb playing hustle-cap with a one-eyed man wearing a striped cap and a ragged boot-black. A younger boy scratches his head in puzzlement as he watches the play, and a b... More
William Hogarth - Paul before Felix
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
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 4
A scene in St James's Street with Tom emerging from a sedan-chair to be arrested for debt. Sarah Young drops her seamstress's box as she offers a purse of money to reprieve her former lover. Courtesy of Boston ... More
William Hogarth - The times, pl. 2
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