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Charles William Bell, 1798. Canvas, 64 cm x 77 cm R.F. 1952-14
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Charles William Bell, 1798. Canvas, 64 cm x 77 cm R.F. 1952-14

The Orgy aka The Rake at the Rose-Tavern (A Rake's Progress) 1735 The Tavern Scene shows the Rake amusing himself in a notorious brothel, the Rose Tavern in Covent Garden, after an evening of drinking and hooliganism. Next to the Rake on the floor are the lantern and staff he has captured of a watchman earlier in the night (another sign that he has been in a fight is that his sword is unsheathed). The picture is full of sordid details: on the far left the contents of a chamberpot are spilled over a dish of roast chicken, one of the prostitutes at the table spits at another one (who is holding a knife), a stripper in the foreground is undressing herself for an obscene show which she will perform on a silver plate (which her pimp is holding together with a candle that she will extinguish in her vagina after the dance)and a street singer by the door on the left is singing 'The Black Joke', a notoriously obscene song. The prostitutes, who are stealing the Rake's watch, have pockmarks on their face (a sign that they have caught syphilis), while the pills on the floor next to the Rake suggest that he has caught the disease too. Oil on canvas; 62,5 x 75 cm
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The Orgy aka The Rake at the Rose-Tavern (A Rake's Progress) 1735 The Taver...

The Rake's Levee (A Rake's Progress) 1735 A levee is a reception held by a monarch or other high-ranking person on arising from bed. Tom is spending his inheritance on suppliers of expensive (and in particular unnecessary) services who try to encourage him to ape the aristocracy. The pictures on the wall, however, show his lack of taste, scenes from classical mythology hang next to pictures of game-cocks. The characters in the picture would readily have been identified by Hogarth's contemporaries as real life London citizens. They include a paid bodyguard who lookes like a criminal, a jockey (kneeling in the front), a dancing-master with a kit-violin (a small three-stringed violin), a huntsman (blowing a horn), a music master, a French fencing master, a quarterstaff (a wooden staff used as a weapon) instructor, a landscape gardener (behind the Rake, with a drawn plan), a poet, and a tailor. Oil on canvas; 62,5 x 75 cm
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The Rake's Levee (A Rake's Progress) 1735 A levee is a reception held by a...

A Midnight Modern Conversation 1730 Oil on canvas
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A Midnight Modern Conversation 1730 Oil on canvas

A Scene from "The Beggar's Opera" VI 1731 This is among the first paintings ever made of an English stage performance. It depicts a climactic scene from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, first performed at the Lincoln’s Inn Theatre in 1728. Oil on canvas support: 572 x 762 mm frame: 820 x 900 x 90 mm N02437
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A Scene from "The Beggar's Opera" VI 1731 This is among the first paintings...

May day 1812 Canvas
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May day 1812 Canvas

Marriage A-la-Mode: 4. The Toilette 1743 "Marriage A-la-Mode" was the first of Hogarth's satirical moralising series of engravings about the upper echelons of society. The paintings were models from which the engravings would be made. The engravings reverse the compositions. about 1743 Oil on canvas; 70,5 x 90,8 cm NG116
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Marriage A-la-Mode: 4. The Toilette 1743 "Marriage A-la-Mode" was the first o...

A Laundry Maid Ironing circa 1765-82 Oil on canvas; 743 x 616 mm frame: 942 x 817 x 92 mm N01403
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A Laundry Maid Ironing circa 1765-82 Oil on canvas; 743 x 616 mm frame: 942...

April Love 1855-6 Oil on canvas; 889 x 495 mm N02476
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April Love 1855-6 Oil on canvas; 889 x 495 mm N02476

Seated woman in purple stockings Sitzende Frau mit violetten Strümpfen Gouache and black crayon. Signed and dated, lower right, 1917. 29,6cm x 44,2cm
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Seated woman in purple stockings Sitzende Frau mit violetten Strümpfen Gouache...

Seated Woman with Green Stockings Sitzende Frau mit grünen Strümpfen Gouache, watercolour and black crayon. Signed and dated, lower center, 1918. 46cm x 30cm
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Seated Woman with Green Stockings Sitzende Frau mit grünen Strümpfen Gouache,...

Rene Descartes/Peint par Mignard. 1647, and on the ring round the globe: maius, iunius (falsely inscribed). On the basis of the inscription this painting has in the past been considered to be a portrait of the philosopher Descartes (1596-1650) by Pierre Mignard. However, there is no relation to the authenticated likenesses of Descartes, nor is this painting by Mignard. A recent attribution for this painting to the portraitist Gabriel Revel seems probable. The costume accords with a date of about 1670. Canvas; 110.9 x 95.3 cm. NG2929
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Rene Descartes/Peint par Mignard. 1647, and on the ring round the globe: maius,...