Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1697 - 1764
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Robert Leslie sketchbook, circa 1820-1859
Item — Box: Vol. 1
Call Number: MSS 15, Series I
Scope and Contents:
Inscribed at front: "C.R. Leslie. No. 8 Buckingham Place, Fitzroy Sq., London, Jany. 1815." The album includes a mixture of texts and drawings. Texts include: "Extracts from Grose's Antiquities, continued from my sketch book dated July 9th, 1813"; "Extracts descriptive of the festivities of May Day"; and various notes on Hall, Browne (his Britannius pastorals), Borlose, Brand (his ...
Dates:
circa 1820-1859
Lewis Walpole Library Collection of Prints after William Hogarth
Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 42
Scope and Contents:
The Lewis Walpole Library Collection of Prints after William Hogarth contains more than 500 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century etchings and engravings that reproduce the works of William Hogarth (1697-1764), the influential British painter and printmaker. Hogarth and his art have been a long-standing focus of debates about copying and copyright dating from his lifetime to the present day. The commercial success of his work made his images a target for both legitimate or authorized copies and...
Dates:
1749-1875, bulk 1793-1870
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1857 mid-July
Item — Box: 1, Folder: H.76
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin gives Heaton some advice on what to see at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, praising works by Paul Veroneses, Joshua Reynolds, William Hogarth, Anthony van Dyck and Thomas Gainsborough. Ruskin thanks Heaton for "all [her] notes.". [Date provided by Surtees: Mid-July 1857]
Dates:
1857 mid-July
Charles Robert Leslie Collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 15
Overview:
The collection comprises sketchbooks, writings, and correspondence by Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) and his family.
Dates:
circa 1812-1900
Letter, apparently to John Thomas Smith., 1821 July 30
Item — Box: 2-228
Call Number: MSS 10
Scope and Contents:
About portraits of Dr. Misaubin. Also mentions a gentleman who lived on gin for many years and who was the model for Hogarth's Quack Doctor in the Marriage-a-la-Mode.
Dates:
1821 July 30
Letter to John Thomas Smith., 1828 September 5
Item — Box: 2-179
Call Number: MSS 10
Scope and Contents:
About one of the paintings in Hogarth's Marriage a-la-mode: "The late Mr. Locke of Portman Square hinted to Hogarth that the third print...was not sufficiently understood. Mr. Hogarth seemed aware of the correctness of the suggestion...".
Dates:
1828 September 5
Letter to John Thomas Smith., 1826 July 4
Item — Box: 2-198
Call Number: MSS 10
Scope and Contents:
About a sale catalogue of Hogarth prints given to the press on Wednesday, hoping that Smith will have it in time for a meeting.
Dates:
1826 July 4
Letter to John Thomas Smith., 1827 August 10
Item — Box: 2-214
Call Number: MSS 10
Scope and Contents:
About Lord Farnborough's letter.
Dates:
1827 August 10
References to the figures in Hogarth's Enthusiasm Delineated. A. After Raphael. B. After Rubens. C. After Rembrandt. D.E.F.G.H. Are imitations of other painters. *From sketches by Hogarth on the margins of the original prints. Published by John Ireland No. 3 Poets Corner Palace Yard Westminster. March 16 1796., 1796 March 15
Item — Box: 1-249
Call Number: MSS 10
Dates:
1796 March 15
William Hogarth from an original picture painted by himself. Engraved by S. Freeman. Jones & Co. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, London., undated
Item — Box: 1-180
Call Number: MSS 10
Scope and Contents:
Portrait of William Hogarth.
Dates:
undated