Ravenet, Simon Francois, 1706-1774

By: Ravenet, Simon Francois, 1706-1774; Cotes, Francis, 1726-1770

Reference: A-098-020

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Admiral Hawke, shown in tondo frame Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 107 x 98 mm (platemark)

Date: 1772

By: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764; Ravenet, Simon Francois, 1706-1774; Delatre, Jean-Marie, 1746-1840; Boydell, John, 1719-1804

Reference: C-048-005

Description: A man pouring balm from a small bottle on the wounds of robbed man in a bush landscape. A dog is on the left, a horse on the right. Three other men are in the background From a very large painting completed in 1737 by Hogarth, in situ, in the stairwell at St Batholomew's Hospital, London, a companion-piece to The pool at Bethesda. The story is based on a parable in St Luke's Gospel, Chapter 10, verse 30. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 481 x 561 mm (platemark) on cream wove paper, 493 x 652 mm

Date: 1745

From: Hogarth, William 1697-1764 :The original works of William Hogarth. London, sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790

By: Ravenet, Simon Francois, 1706-1774

Reference: D-020-050

Description: The scene is a room at the Turk's Head bagnio. The Earl has discovered the lovers' hideout and fights a duel to defend his `honour'. The astonished landlord and watchman enter to the left while Silvertongue retreats through an open window in his night shirt. Squanderfield slumps in death from the wound to his heart and the Countess tearfully kneels before him to beg foregiveness. The flames of a fire shine on a mask, a set of stays, and a hooped petticoat. The masquerade costumes of a nun and friar lie crumpled on the floor. A quivering sword, piercing the floorboards, has been dropped by Squanderfield while the other lies nearby. A portrait of a prostitute with a squirrel in her hand hangs on the wall behind and a painting of St Luke above the door. Squanderfield's awkward pose mimics a Deposition scene in which a repentent Magdalen (the Countess) kneels before `Christ'. Other - The engraver, given on the print as R F Ravenet, is known to be S F Ravenet, the elder. Source of descriptive information - Uglow, Jenny. Hogarth, a life and a world. London, 1997; and other sources Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 385 x 466 mm, on sheet 485 x 652 mm

Date: 1745

From: Hogarth, William 1697-1764 :The original works of William Hogarth. London, sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790

By: Ravenet, Simon Francois, 1706-1774

Reference: D-020-049

Description: Countess Squanderfield is seated before her dressing table in her boudoir flirting with the lawyer Silvertongue and receiving guests. The coronets over her canopied bed and over her gilt mirror declare that her husband is now an Earl; the little rattle hanging from her chair tells us she has a child. Neither change has had a sobering effect. She tosses a cloth across her shoulders to protect her gown while the French valet curls her hair. An Italian castrato sings to the music of a flautist. Cards on the floor invite the Countess to routs at the home of Lady Hairbrain, Lady Heathen, etc. A fop in curl-papers points his toe and sips his chocolate. A rapturous woman spreads her arms as she listens to the castrato. Behind her a black servant, smiling, hovers with her cup, while her country-squire husband yawns in the corner next to a fan-holding man-about-town. On the left in the foreground the little slave in Moorish dress, grins and points at the antler horns of Actaeon, changed into a stag. Behind him the Countess's lover, Silvertongue, gestures towards the screen with its picture of a masquerade: the tickets are already in his hands. Behind in Caravaggio's painting Lot's daughters intoxicate their father in order to seduce him, while Correggio's Jupiter & Io show Io's rape by Zeus who takes the form of a cloud. Hanging on the right is a portrait of Silvertongue. The male castrato is probably Senesino, the flautist Weidemann. The dandy in haircurlers is Herr Michel, the Prussian envoy. The lady in raptures is Mrs Fox Lane, Lady Bingley. Source of descriptive information - Uglow, Jenny. Hogarth, a life and a world. London, 1997; and other sources Other Titles - The Toilette Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 385 x 466 mm, on sheet 485 x 652 mm

Date: 1772

By: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764; Ravenet, Simon Francois, 1706-1774; Picot, Victor Marie, 1744-1802

Reference: C-048-004

Description: Jesus at the pool of Bethesda, surrounded by the sick and the recovering. He is blessing a man seated on the ground Christ at the Pool of Bethesda was painted as a very large work for the stairwell of St Batholomew's Hospital, London. It shows a scene from St John's Gospel, in which Christ heals a man who has been unable to walk for 38 years. The pool, in Jerusalem, was famed for its healing properties. It is believed that Hogarth used patients from St Batholomews as models for the crowd of sick and injured people gathered around. A pair with Hogarth's The good Samaritan. The Library has a copy of the engraving at C-048-005 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 480 x 562 mm (platemark) on cream wove paper 489 x 652 mm