[Groups from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism". D] [graphic].

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Title: [Groups from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism". D] [graphic].
Creator: Riepenhausen, Ernst Ludwig, 1765-1840
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1787]
Publication Place: Göttingen
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Plate lettered in the top center 'D': Reverse copies of details from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism: a medley". Each item is numbered; 1. The clerk surrounded by angel heads (2,3). The clerk holds an opened book which rests on a pulpit from which hangs a sign lettered "Only love to us be gev'n Lord we ask no other Heav'n. Hymn by G. Whitfield [sic] page 130."; 4. Another two figures below. The one on the left weeps into a cloth; the other looks up as a demon whispers in his ear
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue.
Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender.
Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Maggs; December 1963;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10.0 x 5.8 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) Germany 1787
Etchings Germany 1787
Material: etching ;
Subject (Name): Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic): Angels
Churches
Clegy
Demons
Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Angels
Churches
Clegy
Demons
Germany > 1787

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