Accession number
PML 145850.220
Published
London : Printed for & sold by Geo: Foster at the White Horse opposite the North gate in St. Pauls Church Yard, [ca. 1735
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
"Price 6d".
Title text has the words "club" and "calve's head" represented by small rebus illustrations of a trefoil (i.e. club), calf, and man's head.
Twelve lines of engraved verse in two columns below image: Strange Times! when Noble Peers secure from Riot ... And made a Calves head feast for Worms & Devils.
The Calves' Head Club was said to be a group of republicans who met to commemorate the execution of Charles I. Cf. BM online catalog.
Print sometimes attributed to Gerard van der Gucht after a drawing by Hogarth. Cf. Stephens.
Inserted as item 221 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
"Price 6d".
Title text has the words "club" and "calve's head" represented by small rebus illustrations of a trefoil (i.e. club), calf, and man's head.
Twelve lines of engraved verse in two columns below image: Strange Times! when Noble Peers secure from Riot ... And made a Calves head feast for Worms & Devils.
The Calves' Head Club was said to be a group of republicans who met to commemorate the execution of Charles I. Cf. BM online catalog.
Print sometimes attributed to Gerard van der Gucht after a drawing by Hogarth. Cf. Stephens.
Inserted as item 221 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 156 x 184 mm; plate mark: 237 x 194 mm; sheet: 312 x 264 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the interior of a tavern with seven young gentlemen drinking at a table on which is a calf's head with a moustache and a nightcap; one of the party holds an axe; an eighth gentleman looks out of the window at a bonfire in the street below; on the wall is a picture of the execution of Charles I.
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