The true effigies of the members of the Calve's Head Club [graphic] : held on [the] 30th of January 1734 at [the] Golden Eagle in Suffolk Street in [the] County of Middlesex

Published/Created:

[London?]
[publisher not identified]
[1735]

Physical Description:

1 print : engraving ; plate mark 20.8 x 19.1 cm, on sheet 27 x 22 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2141
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), no. 281e

Notes:

Title engraved above image.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Formerly attributed to Hogarth, now thought to be by Van der Gucht. See British Museum online catalogue.
"Price 6d."--Lower right corner.
Five lines of text below image: The healths. To the pious memory of Oliver Cromwell, damnation to the race of the Stuarts To the glorious year, 1648. To the man in the mask, &c. &c. &c.
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-1-129.
Truman Sale 1906.
Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 34 x 45 cm.

Abstract:

"Satire on young Whig supporters and their supposedly republican tendencies: 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."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Calf's Head Club

Associated Names:

Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Attributed name]

Topics:

Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Steevens, George, 1736-1800

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1735
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1735

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

735.01.30.01+

Orbis Record:

8862477

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr00942

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10700218

PID:

digcoll:549767