[Boys peeping at nature] [graphic].

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Description

Title
[Boys peeping at nature] [graphic].
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist, publisher
Published / Created
[March 1730, that is, 1731]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Wm. Hogarth
Abstract

Subscription ticket for "A harlot's progress" with three naked putti, one painting, one engraving, and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus

Description
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson.
Verse in Latin from Horace's Ars poetica below image: " ... necesse est. Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, dabiturque Licentia sumpta pudenter. Hor."
Lettered below the verse with subscription receipt: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] a half a guinea being [the] first payment for two six prints of a Harlot's progress which I promise to deliver when finish'd, on one half guinea more."
With ms. annotations in William Hogarth's hand indicating the receipt of a half guinea from Ebenezer Forrest, with Hogarth's signature and seal. Mounted on a sheet with a fragment of a letter from Giles Hussey addressed to "Frs. [Francis] Webb Esqr. at Sir Isaac Heard's, College of Arms, London" and stamped with a redirect to Shaftsbury. The letter can be dated to the period 1786-1788, after Isaac Heard was knighted (in 1786) and before Hussey died (in 1788).
Provenance
Lieut. Col. R. Solly sale, Sotheby's lot 286, 23 July 1962 to Pickering & Chatto for W.S. Lewis; August 1962;
Extent
1 print : plate mark 148 x 126 mm, on sheet 205 x 164 mm
Edition
[State 2].
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Hogarth 731.00.00.02 Box 100

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Tickets
Etchings England London 1731
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Seals 18th century
Material
engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic)
Satyrs (Greek mythology)
Art
Painting
Putti
Subjects
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Satyrs (Greek mythology)
Diana (Roman deity)
Art
Painting
Putti
England > London > 1731
18th century
Forrest, Ebenezer, fl. 1774 > Ownership
Heard, Isaac, Sir, 1730-1822 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 > Autograph
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 > Ms. annotations
Hussey, Giles, 1709-1788 > Autograph
Webb, Francis, 1735-1815 > Correspondent

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
11317498
Object ID (OID)
16034708

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