Suppressed Plates, Wood-engravings, &c.: Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto; Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the CollectorLayard, George Somes
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Suppressed Plates, Wood-engravings, &c.: Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto; Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector
Layard, George Somes
Engraving; Engraving -- Collectors and collecting
“A Financial Survey of Cumberland or the Beggar’s Petition.” (_From
the only known uncoloured impression of the plate_) . . . _Between
pages_ 64 _and_ 65
“A Financial Survey of Cumberland or the Beggar’s Petition.” (_From
a coloured impression of the plate, with the figure of the valet
obliterated with lamp-black_) . . . _Between pages_ 64 _and_ 65
“Enthusiasm Delineated. (Humbly dedicated to his Grace the Arch Bishop
of Canterbury by his Graces most obedient humble Servant _Wm.
Hogarth_”) . . . _Between pages_ 88 _and_ 89
“Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism. A Medley” . . . _Between
pages_ 88 _and_ 89
Portrait of Hogarth with his Dog Trump . . . _Facing page_ 112
_The plate reversed and in its last state, now entitled_ “The Bruiser”
. . . _Facing page_ 112
The Cancelled Cartoon. (_By Charles Keene_) . . . _Facing page_ 128
The Cancelled “Social.” (_By Charles Keene_) . . . _Facing page_ 136
Suggestion by Joseph Crawhall for the Cancelled “Social” . . . _Facing
page_ 136
“The Painted Chamber.” (From _Antiquities of Westminster_, 1807)
. . . _Facing page_ 150
The suppressed portrait of “John Jorrocks, Esq., M.F.H., etc.” (_By
Henry Alken, the younger_) . . . _Facing page_ 160
The suppressed frontispiece for “Omar Khayyam.” (_By Edwin Edwards_)
. . . _Facing page_ 188
“L’Europe alarmée pour le Fils d’un Meunier.” (_The plate in its first
state_) . . . _Between pages_ 204 _and_ 205
_The plate in its second state, now entitled_ “La Cour de Paix
solitaire, entre les Roses piquantes et les Lis” . . . _Between
pages_ 204 _and_ 205
Queen Anne presiding over the House of Lords. (_The plate in its first
state_) . . . _Between pages_ 236 _and_ 237
_The plate in its second state, now representing_ George I. presiding
over the House of Lords . . . _Between pages_ 236 _and_ 237
“The Races of the Europeans, with their Keys.” (_The plate in its
first state_) . . . _Between pages_ 238 _and_ 239
“A Skit on Britain.” (_The plate in its second state_) . . . _Between
pages_ 238 _and_ 239
The Headless Horseman. (_The plate with the head burnished out_)
. . . _Facing page_ 240
The plate with Cromwell’s head . . . _Between pages_ 242 _and_ 243
The plate with Charles I.’s head . . . _Between pages_ 242 _and_ 243
Undescribed palimpsest plate. (_First state and second state_)
. . . _Facing page_ 244
Undescribed palimpsest plate. (_First state and second state_)
. . . _Facing page_ 246
_Printed in the Text_
1. The Suppressed Portrait of the Marquis of Steyne . . . 15
2. The Battle of Life. “Leech’s Grave Mistake” . . . 35
3. Rose Maylie and Oliver at Agnes’s Tomb. (_The substituted plate in
two states_) . . . 51
4. The Strange Gentleman . . . 55
5. “A Trifling Mistake”—Corrected— . . . 71
6. Philoprogenitiveness . . . 77
7. “Drop it!” . . . 79
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