LEGEND TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE PRINT BELOW
Print Specifics:
  • Type of print: Lithograph - Original French antique print.
  • Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1888
  • Publisher: Albert Racinet, Imp. Firmin Didot
  • Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair).
  • Dimensions: 7 x 8.5 inches (18 x 21 cm) including blank margins around the image.
  • Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
  • Reverse side: Blank
  • Notes:  (1) Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. (2) The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print.
Legend:

TOP: William Hogarth's "Illustrations for Samuel Butler's 'Hudibras' Plate 10 The Committee": This scene deals with the 'Burning of the Rumps'. The Rump Parliament was the nickname given to the remnant of the Long Parliament after 1648, the date of Pride's Purge. Colonel Pride entered Parliament on December sixth and 'purged' all members not willing to condemn King Charles I. He imprisoned sixty members, drove another one hundred and sixty into the streets and left remaining only sixty -- the 'Rump'

BOTTOM:
A machine translation of an excerpt from the original French description:
To complete the physiognomy of our neighbors, we have borrowed from a print of 1766 , a family scene where the big merchant appears in his inviolable home. This engraving, composed and engraved by a gentleman named Miller, almost unknown in our country, is certainly far from the level of Hogarth far from the level of Hogarth; but it is not without charms, and its graceful naivety expresses a kind of truth that softens the harshness of the satire.

There is a whole family and powerful life here. Morning tea is taken in a large room on the ground floor room on the first floor, lined with that printed paper which is called painted, and which was pandait then. On the wall of the sovereign of the seas, a large geographical map is unrolled, and the top of the and the top of the door is decorated with the cartouche of the trafficker's coat of arms, a coat of arms which is perhaps only a trademark, barrels accompanying a helical chevron. A painting, representing Actéon punished for his curiosity, says the spirit of the whole house, filled with the charm of the pretty misses, the play of the little children who have trouble with the dogs, of the solicitude of the grandmothers, of discreet and well-bred young people, of men of more or less marked age men of a more or less marked age, of good agreement, among whom the master of the house who is going for the hunt, as shown by the dogs coupled at his feet.



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