Iconographic Sources

Pictures in the Anthology

XVIIth century

Frontispiece of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, third edition (1628)

Frontispiece of 1647 edition of Thomas Hobbes, Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning Government and Society.

Frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651).

Antoine Masson, Nell Gwyn and her two sons (c.1677-80).

Sir Godfrey Kneller, James II (1684).

Jan van Cleve, Portrait of Henry Oldenburg (1688)

Robert Hooke, The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields (c. 1700)

XVIIIth century

William Hogarth, The Kit Kat Club (n.d.). Toasting glasses  (1703), (1703), (b. 1719).

Frontispiece of The fourth part of Vulgus Britannicus (1710).

‘The Coffeehous Mob’ , frontispiece to The Fourth Part of Vulgus Britannicus (c. 1710)

Anon., A satire of women's social discourse in the Queen Anne period showing six women taking tea in a parlor. Circa 1710.

The first issue of The Spectator (1711).

Frontispiece of The Spectator Volume the First (London: J & R Tonson & S Draper, 1747),  no. 10 (12 March 1711), no. 11 (13 March 1711), no. 49 (26 April  1711), no. 68 (18 May 1711), no. 69 (19 May 1711), no. 454 (11 August 11 1712),  no. 383 (20 May 1712), no. 433. Also in 1788 edition.

Frontispiece from Anthony Ashley Cooper, Characteristicks, of men, manners, opinions, times, &c. In three volumes.  (1711).

Sir Godfrey Kneller, Joseph Addison (c. 1712).

Frontispiece to the second edition of John Gay, Trivia: Or the Art of Walking the Streets (1716).

Toastmaster's glass containing a small silver coin (c. 1725).

Frontispiece of The Gentleman's Magazine, no. 58 (11 February 1731), no. 155 (25 September 1731), II, n°18 (June 1732).

William Hogarth,   A Rake's Progress series(1697–1764), "In The Madhouse" (c. 1732-1735).

William Hogarth, Midnight Modern Conversation (1733).

George Bickham, The Moorfields congregation with George Whitefield (1739). 

William Hogarth, Characters and Caricaturas (1743).

Joseph Highmore, Conversation piece (c. 1744).

Joseph Highmore, The Harlowe Family, from Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa" (btw. 1745 and 1747).

Joseph Highmore, Samuel Richardson (c. 1747).

Jan Huber, Voltaire on the theatre scene (1750-1775).

John Bowles, Ranelagh Rotunda (1751).

Samuel Wale, A General Prospect of Vaux Hall Gardens (1751).

John Bowles, St. James's Square, London (circa 1752).

Pierre-Louis Dumesnil, Interior with Card Players (1752).

Thomas Bowles, The Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea (1754).

Wooden and carved doll in an 18th century costume (1755-1760).

Anon., The Scheming Triumvirate (1760).

Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1760).

William Hoare, Richard ('Beau') Nash (c. 1761)

William Hogarth, Tailpiece, or The Bathos (3 March 1764).

Frontispiece "Roxana in her Turkish habit", The Life and adventures of Roxana (1765).

Anon., The Tea-Table (1766).

Frontispiece of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Wit a-la-mode (1778). See 139 (10 January 1765) and  161 (26 August 1766).

Charles White, The Frenchman in London (1770).

Paul Sandby, Jonathan Wild (c. 1770).

Joseph Nickolls, St James's Park and The Mall (1771).

Jean Huber, Le repas des philosophes (1772-73).

Frontispiece of The New Bath Guide (1776).

James Gilray, Politeness (1779).

Joshua Reynolds, Walpole's nieces at Strawberry Hill (1781).

Thomas Rowlandson, [A posting inn] (1781).

 Charles Loraine Smith, A Sunday concert (1782).

Thomas Rowlandson, Vauxhall Gardens (c. 1784).

Anon., A D[evonshir]e rout or Reynard in his element (1784).

Joshua Reynolds,  Portrait of James Boswell of Auchinleck (1785).

Anon., “The Two Friends” (1786).

Thomas Rowlandson, Tea (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First) (1786).

Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1787)

Thomas Rowlandson, The Hypochondriac (1788).

Mounted fan-leaf, with a plan of the King's Theatre (1788).

Isaac Cruikshank, Les sacrifices forcés (1789).

James Gillray, A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July, by the - Revolution Society (1791).

Anon., Ecclesiastic opinions concerning the Devil!! (1791).

James Gillray, Anti-saccharites, -or- John Bull and his family leaving off the use of sugar (1792).

Anon., Promenade in St. James's Park (London, 1793).

Thomas Rowlandson, The Wedding of Lismahago and Tabitha (1793).

Frontispiece of The Connoisseur. By Mr. Town, Critic and Censor-general (1793).

James Gillray, Smoking club (1793).

Henry Bone, Joseph Farington (1794).

James Gillray, Copenhagen house (1795) and trial.

Isaac Cruikshank, Debating Society (1795).

Anon., A lock'd jaw for John Bull (1795).

James Gilray, High-change in Bond Street,-ou -la politesse du grande monde (1796).

Thomas Rowlandson, Drunken Lovers (1798).

Isaac Cruikshank, English improvement on French nation (1799).

James Gillray, "A little music - or - the delights of harmony" (n.d.). See Musical evenings 1, 2, 3, 4.

XIXth century

James Gillray, Anacreontick's in full song (1801).

S.T. Coleridge, Sketch map & notes of the Lake District from Notebook (Vol II)(1802).

James Northcote, William Godwin (1802).

James Gillray, L'Assemblée Nationale (1804).

C. Lamb after G. M. Woodward, ‘A Sudden Thought’ (1804).

Thomas Rowlandson, Miseries of London (1807).

Thomas Rowlandson, The Exhibition Room at Somerset House (1808).

James Tilly Matthews's 'Air Loom'  (1810).

Thomas Rowlandson, 'John Bull at the Italian Opera' (1811) (1).

Thomas Rowlandson, 'John Bull at the Italian Opera' (1811) (2).

Thomas Rowlandson, Breaking Up of the Blue Stocking Club (1815): Montagu and More.

Robert Wilkinson, Proscenium of the English Opera House in the Strand (1817).

Anon., "Nine Tailors making a man!-or foreign habits for a native prince!" (1819).

C. Williams, Equipt for a Northern Visit (1822).

Thomas Rowlandson, White Lion Inn, Ponder's End, Middlesex (1822).

Henry William Pickersgill, Hannah More (1822).

Couché fils, Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni (1826).

Henry Adlard, Mary Berry; Agnes Berry (c. 1830-1860)

Edward Henry Dixon, Old White Conduit House (1831).

George Richmond, William Wilberforce (1833).

John Burnet, Fictitious portrait of Robert Burns (c. 1838).

D. George Thompson, A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds's (1851).

Anon., "Charles II. introducing Lady Castlemaine at Court". Illustration from John Cassell's Illustrated History of England (W Kent, 1857/1858).

Anon. A Christmas Tree at St Luke’s Asylum, London (1861).

Anon., Old inns in Southwark (1878).

Otto von Corvin and Wilhelm Held, Weltgeschichte Fur Das Volk (Verlag und Druck von Otto Spamer, 1880).

J. Quartley., Royal Society, Crane Court, off Fleet Street, London: a meeting in progress, with Isaac Newton in the chair (1883).

Anon.,  Beau Brummell (1886).

Eyre Crowe, Doctor Johnson Receiving Boswell in the Library  (1899).

Undated

John Smith, Three Arcadians (n.d., c. 1683-1729).

Jean-François de Troy, Lecture dans un salon, dit La Lecture de Molière (n.d.).

Jean-Louis Baptiste Oudry, Le Singe et le léopard (n.d.).

Laurent Guyot, Jardin anglais de Mr le Comte de M. (n.d.)

John Kay, Parliament Close and Public Characters of Edinburgh 50 years since (n.d.).

N. Lafrensen, L'Assemblée au Salon (n.d.).

Sabatier and Durin, The Gallery of French Fashions and Costumes (n.d.).

Anon., Voltaire et Emilie du Châtelet (n.d.).