William Hogarth Esqr [graphic].

Description

Title: William Hogarth Esqr [graphic].
Contributor: Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [1749?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
Abstract: A portrait of Hogarth in profile, looking left, with a pencil in his right hand poised above an open book in his left hand. He wears a cocked hat on his head. Adapted from his self-portrait in "The Gate of Calais."
Description: Title from engraved text above image.
Date based on similar print published by R. Sayer. See no. 3066 in the Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3.
Verses engraved below image begin: "In solemn scenes great Kneller's pencil wrought, and kings and heroes fill'd his lab'ring thought. Hogarth more humble, yet as justly draws the lines of nature, and pursues her laws ..."
Provenance: Suckling; July 1957.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 173 x 107 mm, on sheet 260 x 184 mm
Language: English

Genre: Engravings England London 1749
Material: engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
Subject (Topic): Artists
Portrait prints
Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Artists
Portrait prints
England > London > 1749

Access: Public
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